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B5: "The fall of Centauri Prime" rewatch
Jun. 29th, 2009 10:54 pmI should mention - I am not the crying type of person. Or, well, I am in real life sometimes, but fictional things like novels or films hardly ever draw a tear from me. Not that I'm unmoved by them, oh no - I get as choked-up as anyone by those good ol' tragic scenes. It's only that the tears fail to come, which is, in fact, more of a nuisance than one would imagine. I can hardly count the times I have sat in the theatre surrounded by a half-dozen friends, all blubbering like there was no tomorrow, while I'm sitting, dry-eyed, passing out handkerchiefs, and looking for all the world as if I'm made of stone. Believe me: it takes less to make you feel the odd one out.
[Embarrassing side-note: the one single movie I once cried for was 'Titanic', for reasons I still cannot and steadfastedly refuse to comprehend. And I might have shed a tear for 'Finding Neverland', which was nothing compared to the deluge my friends were causing in the meantime.]
As a consequence, I am probably the single person in the universe to never have cried over B5's written-to-kill 'Sleeping in Light', or the even more shattering (to me, at least) 'Fall of Centauri Prime'.
Incidentally, I re-watched just that episode, 'The fall of Centauri Prime', yesterday. Now that in itself would be less than remarkable, given that it's the episode I grab for every single time when I need another B5 (or, more specifically, Londo and G'Kar) fix. Well, every single time I feel like I can handle the tragedy, at least; when it's comfort food I'm yearning for, I tend to go for the early-S4 Cartagia arc... Which is in itself a choice worth analyzing, given the amount of sadism and torture involved - but Londo chewing scenery with Cartagia, oh hell, that makes me feel better every time!
Anyway, the special thing about this re-watch is that I was joined in it by my parents. Over the past months, I have been studiously converting them to B5-dom, even to the point where each phone conversation with them ended by "So, what's the latest thing happening on the station?" In this way, I learned that they were just about to watch the "ZOMG-Londo-and-G'Kar-are-going-to-hug-each-other-but-at-the-last-second-they-just-take-each-other's-freaking-arm" favorite ep of mine, and so I just - well - invited myself in. Which was how, for the first time in my life, I got to watch this episode in the company of an unspoiled pair of fans. And - oh, the nostalgia! Each frown, each head-shake, each puzzled look of theirs, I could practically remember making myself. And when, at the start of the final scene with G'Kar, I elbowed them and whispered "shhh!", I was rewarded by their absolute and reverent silence. Great Maker, that made me feel so glowy inside.
My parents are not great criers eather, certainly not over sci-fi, so it was hardly surprising that, just like my first time (and all subsequent ones) watching, I did not shed a tear. Which is horrible, now that I think of it, since there are so many moments in the story that deserve being sobbed, wailed and blubbered over... So, to make up for that, I decided to collect them in a post.
( Ten moments I wanted to cry during 'The Fall of Centauri Prime', but couldn't. )
[Embarrassing side-note: the one single movie I once cried for was 'Titanic', for reasons I still cannot and steadfastedly refuse to comprehend. And I might have shed a tear for 'Finding Neverland', which was nothing compared to the deluge my friends were causing in the meantime.]
As a consequence, I am probably the single person in the universe to never have cried over B5's written-to-kill 'Sleeping in Light', or the even more shattering (to me, at least) 'Fall of Centauri Prime'.
Incidentally, I re-watched just that episode, 'The fall of Centauri Prime', yesterday. Now that in itself would be less than remarkable, given that it's the episode I grab for every single time when I need another B5 (or, more specifically, Londo and G'Kar) fix. Well, every single time I feel like I can handle the tragedy, at least; when it's comfort food I'm yearning for, I tend to go for the early-S4 Cartagia arc... Which is in itself a choice worth analyzing, given the amount of sadism and torture involved - but Londo chewing scenery with Cartagia, oh hell, that makes me feel better every time!
Anyway, the special thing about this re-watch is that I was joined in it by my parents. Over the past months, I have been studiously converting them to B5-dom, even to the point where each phone conversation with them ended by "So, what's the latest thing happening on the station?" In this way, I learned that they were just about to watch the "ZOMG-Londo-and-G'Kar-are-going-to-hug-each-other-but-at-the-last-second-they-just-take-each-other's-freaking-arm" favorite ep of mine, and so I just - well - invited myself in. Which was how, for the first time in my life, I got to watch this episode in the company of an unspoiled pair of fans. And - oh, the nostalgia! Each frown, each head-shake, each puzzled look of theirs, I could practically remember making myself. And when, at the start of the final scene with G'Kar, I elbowed them and whispered "shhh!", I was rewarded by their absolute and reverent silence. Great Maker, that made me feel so glowy inside.
My parents are not great criers eather, certainly not over sci-fi, so it was hardly surprising that, just like my first time (and all subsequent ones) watching, I did not shed a tear. Which is horrible, now that I think of it, since there are so many moments in the story that deserve being sobbed, wailed and blubbered over... So, to make up for that, I decided to collect them in a post.
( Ten moments I wanted to cry during 'The Fall of Centauri Prime', but couldn't. )
