YMMV / Babylon Five S 02 E 03 The Geometry Of Shadows

• Anvilicious: Not since "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" has a science fiction show had an episode with such a heavy-handed Aesop about a Silly Reason for War. Claudia Christian might as well be looking at the camera when she complains about people killing each other over a piece of cloth.
• Fridge Brilliance: The Obvious Rule Patch to cover alien interference with the Green-Purple conflict hasn't come through, because in season 5 it's shown that in The Ragged Edge other species have come to live on their home world. Consider what it would be like to be a first generation immigrant, granted citizenship, and then told you can't vote. Maybe the bullet-headed idiots have some sense in their ranks after all..
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The canonical novel trilogy The Passing of the Techno-mages reveals that the Drazi tradition of dividing into two groups and going to war for no reason is a remnant of Shadow influence on their world.
  • It also reveals that the incident where three techno-mages blessed the rise of the first Centauri Emperor is not looked upon with pride by the techno-mage order at all, as the three in question were corrupt and power-hungry and later fell to a spectacular Mutual Kill. Elric thinks of the first emperor as a "butcher" as well, having presided over the extermination of the Xon.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • One of the worthless companies the virus invests Londo's money in is Fireflies Incorporated, which now comes off as a bit of a Take That! at the notoriously short-lived Firefly, and the minor Fandom Rivalry its fandom had with B5's for a while over which truly deserved to be called the better post-Star Trek sci-fi show. Although Firefly premiered four years after Babylon 5 ended.
  • The comment that the Obvious Rule Patch to cover alien interference with the Green-Purple conflict hasn't come through because it's caught up in committee is much funnier when it's revealed in a later season that the Drazi have been around other space-faring cultures for centuries. See Fridge Brilliance above for a counter-arguament.
  • Sheridan has never seen a Technomage before, and guesses he may never see one again. In A Call To Arms he meets Galen, and by The Lost Tales he laments that the technomages won't leave him alone, implying that Galen isn't the only one who calls on him and it's making his life hell.
  • While Ivanova is held captive by the Drazi she laments being stuck with a species that speaks in macros. With the rise of social media and the Image Macro Ivanova could just as easily be talking about humans.

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