The apartment near my brother has not called or emailed me back, I don’t understand why no one contacts me back, am I doing something wrong? Can they smell the dent that two years unemployment put on my credit? What is going ON?

Today is my supervisor’s last day and I’m more sad about this than I thought I’d be.

man thursday is always when i feel like just giving up for the week, ugh

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I really love deep space nine. They are on the front lines of the biggest war the federation has ever seen and they still find time to have a baseball game and rob a casino.

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“For a while now, I’ve been thinking, man, this show is great but just…”

Season 5 was only worth watching for Londo and G’Kar for me. And they are MAGNIFICENT so it’s wonderful and intense and some of their best, but there is so much human shit I don’t care about that I slogged through like 60% of it. More aliens please

Great Maker!  Not another season of this.  Unlike G’Kar, I would humiliate myself and gladly; cry ‘NOOOOOOO’ to the farthest stars on bended knee, if it would make this torture stop.   I’m this close to just finding summaries of the human plots.  For the fandom, I have tried to care about the human plot lines, tried and failed.  I have stared into the abyss of my soul and it looked back; betwixt the two of us, nary a fuck in sight.

I feel you.  I wanted so much to skip a bunch but I was afraid there’d be some sudden important plot coupon revealed in an episode of otherwise boring garbage, so I watched all of them.  I painted through the ones that were mostly PsiCorps and Mars.  

Season 5 I found particularly trying because of my Massive Lack of Give A Fuck about telepaths and PsiCorps. Possibly also Mars. I think there was some Garibaldi shit that I had just checked out on.  There are other things that made me find it trying, but that was the biggest, honestly.  

Don’t care about Mars, don’t care about telepaths, those were my biggest things.  

Londo and G’Kar pretty much held up the entire show for me after a while?  There was a point when I realized I no longer gave substantial shits (if any at all) about anyone else because they were either no longer there, had changed too much, were too new, were perfectly happy and ‘done’ story-wise, or had been given worthless drama in an attempt to make them not ‘done.’   But Londo and G’Kar remain amazing and strong the whole way through.  They seem almost disproportionately strong to me, even.  There were other things I should have been interested in, I guess, but if those things shared an episode with those two, I did not retain any of the other stuff.  They probably blew up whole planets without me internalizing it because Londo and G’Kar were the other plot for that episode.

I wish I could tell you which episodes were garbage and you could skip.  I could look over some summaries and recommend ones to bail on if you reach that point, haha.  I’ve been kind of pruning the ones I watch with Tinsnip because there were some Season 1 experiences I did not wish to have again.  There was one, at some point, about just PsiCorps, and the intro contains Bester saying, ‘Not everything is about Babylon 5′ and that should have been my cue to peace out, because, wow, fuck that, I kind of want that 40 minutes of my life back.

I’m so glad to hear it’s not just me being a whiney brat!  Unless the Mars, telepaths, Earth’s civil war plots somehow affect Londo, G’Kar, Vir, or the whole Centauri future problem situation I really, really don’t care.  Since the beginning, it’s been Londo and Vir that carried this show for me, and G’Kar, once he started getting enough screen time to show his personality.

I never liked the human plots, but somewhere along the way it finally started to grate on me and lately I’ve been a little upset by the sheer amount of heavy-handed socio-political allegory in those plots.  It’s what I came to tumblr and sci-fi fandom to occasionally get away from thinking about.  It’s like they thought they were writing this for people who were one flaky neuron short of a full lobotomy.  I’m watching this and I look out at the Universe and I’m like, Universe, isn’t it enough that I have to actually IRL live in a backward shithole full of heavily armed bigots and racists who still fly the Stars and Bars, where it’s a short walk to find every kind of corrupt official (much shorter, I expect, if you’re black), where ballots go missing, where our actual governor looks like actual Voldemort and is probably at least as much a criminal, and where the loud profession of a certain religion is virtually synonymous with hate, now you’re giving me a 44 minute lecture about how it’s my fault the police shoot black boys, the military tortures people, the NSA spies on everyone, and the CIA is using drones to blow the arms off little children in countries I’ll never see?  I know it’s my fault.  I know guilt-by-association.  I have swum in that river 24 hours a day since I was 11 years old.  I also know there’s next to fuck-all I can do about it.

So yeah, recs to skip would not go unappreciated.

Goodness, I forgot to include Vir. You can also count on Vir. He is just not as frequent as Londo and G'Kar. Delenn gets to do something nice occasionally, but usually it’s just her thing with Sheridan and I don’t care about that either. I’d rather she be out piloting ships like a badass. I get gayer every time Delenn gets righteously angry. … I kind of wish she would too.

The 90s scifi allegory time can be thick with this show at times, and then it can feel a bit relentless to get through. Season five telepaths felt like trying to run underwater with cement blocks on my feet, ugh.

I’ll look at some summaries and do some quick scanning to see if there’s anything I’m sure will just bore you and not be important. Because so much of the show has important stuff laced in, I’m not sure how much there will be, but I feel for your exhaustion with certain plots being amplified by your enthusiasm for others. At the least, I can try to give you a list of some you may just want to glance at a summary of if they have something important that only lasts for two minutes or something.

Like wow, I love this show on the whole, but some things I just don’t care about like I’m apparently supposed to. (I’m not doing anything with this show like you’re ‘supposed to’, who am I kidding.)

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