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Babylon Five S02E18: "Confessions and Lamentations"

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  • Harsher in Hindsight: The parallels with the actions, reactions, and inactions to the COVID-19 pandemic make this episode a lot more uncomfortable to sit through than when it aired.
  • What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: JMS didn't take kindly to fans promoting this view.
    "I have enough just dealing with what's actually *in* my series; don't compound the problem by adding things that you saw only in your own head, and which exist nowhere in dialogue or in the story. You are adding the template of your own beliefs as an overlay, and seeing this story through it. That ain't my problem. If you see this disease as political, that's your lookout. This show says that ANY attempt to politicize a disease is species-dangerous thinking. Period."
  • What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?: Drafa plague is not intended as a stand-in for AIDS, despite the parallels: initially unknown etiology and vector of transmission, perception that it's punishment for immorality...

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