Babylon 5 Rewatch: “Walkabout”

Franklin wanders around downbelow and gets laid, while Sheridan tests the notion that Shadows are vulnerable to telepaths. Plus: Garibaldi gets not one, but two crowning moments of awesome, one each with Mollari and G’Kar. The Babylon 5 Rewatch goes “Walkabout.”

An excerpt:

After watching the episode with my wife, I remarked to her that it’s amazing that, even when he’s not being a doctor, Franklin makes bad medical decisions. That’s not entirely fair—James’ behavior pretty much screams “addict looking for a fix,” so it’s not a huge leap for him to think that, even though it’s so totally wrong. I like James’ wanting to spend her remaining days bringing joy to people who don’t have much of that, and no one ever went wrong letting Gimpel just sing and be awesome, but Biggs’ limitations and Franklin’s general incompetence make it hard to get one’s arms around this particular plotline.