{"id":39953,"date":"2013-12-09T17:35:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T00:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/09\/b5-rewatch-s1e14-tko.html"},"modified":"2014-05-30T08:47:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T14:47:12","slug":"b5-rewatch-s1e14-tko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/09\/b5-rewatch-s1e14-tko.html","title":{"rendered":"B5 Rewatch: 1&#215;14 &quot;TKO&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Sigh. After the cosmic goodness of &quot;Signs and Portents,&quot; we get an episode that&#39;s &#8230; eminently missable. \u00a0No, I mean it &#8212; I rewatched it myself just to make sure it was as vapid as I remembered, and have been convinced it is.<\/p>\n<p>A-plot has an old boxing buddy of Garibaldi, framed out of the official leagues when he refused to take a fall, comes to B5 to fight in the Mutai, a mystical alien mixed martial arts fight club that&#39;s supposedly super-brutal. \u00a0Ho-hum. Cue the &quot;Rocky&quot; music and some really mixed-quality martial arts.<\/p>\n<p>The B-plot is slightly more interesting, as Ivanova is forced to confront the emotional reality of her father&#39;s death. There&#39;s some nice character bits here, not just for Ivanova but for her relationship with Sinclair. But it&#39;s definitely secondary to the main story, which is just so darned pedestrian where not just plain silly that it&#39;s the one B5 episode I&#39;ll skip sharing with my daughter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Most Dramatic Moment:<\/b> Ivanova breaks down at the end of sitting shiva.<br \/><b>Most Amusing Moment:<\/b> Small beer here, but probably when Ivanova and her Uncle, Rabbi Koslov, whether some Centauri food is kosher.<br \/><b>Most Arc-ish Moment:<\/b> Garibaldi&#39;s friend Walker tells him repeatedly to watch his back. Heh.\u00a0<br \/><b>Overall Rating:<\/b> 2.0 \/ 5 &#8211; Your life will not be poorer for missing it, but the Ivanova bits make it just tolerable. Make it 1.5 for the A-plot, 2.5 for the B-plot.<\/p>\n<p>Midwinter Guide: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwinter.com\/lurk\/countries\/us\/guide\/014.html\" class=\"ot-anchor\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.midwinter.com\/lurk\/countries\/us\/guide\/014.html<\/a><br \/>Babylon Project: <a href=\"http:\/\/babylon5.wikia.com\/wiki\/TKO\" class=\"ot-anchor\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/babylon5.wikia.com\/wiki\/TKO<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23babylon5\">#babylon5<\/a> \u00a0 <a class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23b5\">#b5<\/a> \u00a0\ufeff<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-z0eNKxPnJOc\/UqZhakshvWI\/AAAAAAAAh1M\/uywOxWqKrA4\/Doug%2527s_Dugout%255B1%255D.png?imgmax=1600' border='0' style='max-width:100%;' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/E4aV7PpQohz' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh. After the cosmic goodness of &quot;Signs and Portents,&quot; we get an episode that&#39;s &#8230; eminently missable. \u00a0No, I mean it &#8212; I rewatched it myself just to make sure it was as vapid as I remembered, and have been convinced it is. A-plot has an old boxing buddy of Garibaldi, framed out of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/09\/b5-rewatch-s1e14-tko.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;B5 Rewatch: 1&#215;14 &quot;TKO&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,362],"tags":[503,429],"class_list":["post-39953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-tv-babylon-5","tag-b5","tag-babylon5"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43621,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/16\/b5-rewatch-3x08-messages-from-earth.html","url_meta":{"origin":39953,"position":0},"title":"B5 Rewatch: 3&#215;08 &quot;Messages from Earth&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 16-Jul-14 11:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So far, the B5 team have just been quiet conspirators regarding the problems back on Earth. 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