life and art

[ironymaiden]

the Babylon 5 rewatch continues. i'm glad we started after January 6, it would have been too much for me earlier. getting into season 3 with the rise of Nightwatch, the declaration of martial law, attacks on Mars, and B5 declaring independence...the creeping fascism erupting into civil war certainly feels like something that nearly happened here. it's making these episodes much more emotional and difficult to watch.

while it's definitely not how i'm responding to it, i can also see how QAnon-types would see themselves in the narrative of fighting the Shadows, and feel like they've lost to Clark and been cancelled by the Nightwatch.

we are always the hero in our own stories.