Rewatch: "And a Sky Full of Stars"

[ruuger]

And so we begin the rewatch, with a jump straight into the deep end of the mythology pool.

I think we can assume that everyone participating has already watched the whole show, so no need to worry about spoilers. Also, if you have any fanworks that you've created about this episode (or want to rec some), feel free to link to them.

Anon comments are on, so those of you who wander here from Tumblr or don't have an LJ-account for some other reason are also welcome to join the discussion (you can also comment using Google+ or Twitter).

Bonus reading:

Analysis on Lurker's Guide
Discussion at B5_revisited

Comments

[vjs2259.livejournal.com]

Everybody lies. Everybody has something to hide.

[alexcat.livejournal.com]

I can remember watching it the first time - my friend actually sent me copied videos of the show and photocopied paged from the guidebooks. I think season one was signs and portents/ It all so mysterious and so amazing as it unfolds throughout all of Season 1 and this episode really raises way more questions than it answers.

Sinclair was awfully dashing, wasn't he?

[vjs2259.livejournal.com]

I also found myself eyeing Garibaldi's second, the one who shoots him at the end of the season...when Sinclair tells Garibaldi everybody has something to hide I kept wanting to say 'Pay attention! This is important!'

The whole season is like that in retrospect especially; signs and portents indeed.

[vjs2259.livejournal.com]

Because who cares if I am late to work. Again.

From the scriptbooks:

This episode is deliberately filmed as a theatrical piece, as are several others (Z'ha'dum's Sheridan&Lorien sequences, Intersections, etc.) because Joe likes two person talkie scenes.

The dreams sequences were supposed to have been filmed with a special lens called a 'mesmerizer' but when filming day came it was out on loan to someone else. So those scenes were filmed through a plastic bowl from the munchie table that had been filled with pretzels.

Walter Koenig was originally meant to be Knight Two but suffered a coronary prior to filming. His consolation prize was the role of Alfred Bester (!)

Originally 'And the Sky' was meant to air before 'Mind War' (see above casting difficulties).