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Halfway through season 4 and darn it's good.

I had some issues with the anti-climax of the shadow war, it works but the exectution was a bit sloppy.

The war for Earth is shaping up well.

The Garabaldi plot could be fantastic, if it wasn't for the mind-control aspect. I think it works as his natural choices.

I enjoyed this series back in the day - the CGI space battles and those shadow aliens were pretty cool. The politics weren't so bad and that one fat alien ambassador guy with the crazy hairstyle was a fun character.

I also had a thing for Captain Ivonnova (spelling).

Time to google some pics...mwhaha

Stoopid Hong Kong grey market disk just skipped 4 episodes and showed me how the battle for Earth ends!

Great ending.

Now I have to go see the build up.

Well I finished S4 and started season 5.

Great, great ending to Season 4. Maybe the best series wrap-up I've seen.

If you've not seen it around mid Season 4 they didn't know if there would a season 5 so they shot the final episode. Then they got picked up by another network. So they hastily created a finale for season 4, it starts 50 years in the future and goes ahead from there.

Very touching.

Seaon 5 doesn't exist nah nah nah

That bad huh?

I thought the opener was a bit disappointing.

KK, as you said, the problem was that they didn't know there'd be a Season 5. Personally, I think Season 4 was supposed to just be the Shadow War, and Season 5 was supposed to be the war with Earth. Instead, it's like they crammed Season 5 into about 3 episodes (iirc) near the end of Season 4. Season 5 isn't bad, but I think Seasons 2 and 3 were the best of the series. I don't blame the creator, because he was trying to wrap up the story, but Season 4 did feel rushed.

Well I'm like a 1/3 of the way through and there's still no sign of a focus or a plot. The episodes have been fun but it's like an epilogue, not a season.

Oh and Byron must die.

In a fire.

A long slow fire.

I really didn't think they could come up with a more obvious Mary Sue than Marcus...

Indeed. Having the axe hang over the show at the end season 4 was a killer. It meant a really rushed season 4 and a directionless season 5. I often wonder what may have been had MJS known all along that he was going to get season 5.

Still the best SF show of the 90's mind you.

Yay! the psyker died! AND in a fire!

starting new thread, never mind