ATTN JMS: Sleeping In Light (and a heart-felt thank you)
Chris Huston
Naturally I've taped each episode, and have thoroughly enjoyed the
series. Yet I never watched the last episode, "Sleeping In Light." I
couldn't bring myself to watching it. I don't know if it was the
finality of it, or the fact that I'm a softie at heart and I knew I'd be
a wreck by time I got to the end of the first act.
Tonight, after a few weeks since that episode aired, I watched it.
And cried. And cried some more. In fact, I'm still getting over it, it's
been just over 20 minutes since I watched the end credits. This is the
most beautiful, most moving piece of television I have ever seen. It was
so wonderful to see all of the characters together, but so painful to
watch because they all gathered for a particular reason. I can't even
imagine what it must have been like to write this episode.
Seeing how this is already taking me nearly half an hour to type (damned
if I can't stop crying!) I'd just like to thank you for this incredible
series. It has touched me like no other. I'm very proud to call myself a
fan.
So again, thank you.
Sincerely,
Chris Huston
Tammy Smith
afterwards. I've never been affected like that with any episode of any
other series. I still cry when I watch SiL (I have it on video).
Ivanova's words at the end get me every time. It's an incredible
episode of television.
Tammy
Jms at B5
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Carlos Anguizola
I saw it this Year on Panama, and several tears went down my cheeks.
and after I saw it, I could not beleive it was over. I had been watching
that show for 5 years, it was the only show I religiously watched. Now there
is only Emptiness, a great void.
Darklighter
Chris Huston <hus...@autobahn.mb.ca> wrote in message
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Michael Bush
a great ending/conclusion of the B5 arc.
Now only if we could fill in the gaps between SiL and parts of In The
Beginning. :-)
Angela Hays
*months* since I last watched the episode. It brings all the emotions back
again just thinking about it. I watched it about 5 times in a one-month
period since it aired and I still couldn't get over it.
I'm still especially grateful to JMS for doing the ending right. The music
was incredible. The story was perfect. And the ending... well there's just
not words to describe it. Poetry on television, perhaps.
I was a Star Trek watcher for years (not a Spock-ears owning fan, just avid
watcher), and I was furious at Rick Berman and the rest of the keepers of
the Star Trek universe when they crash landed the Enterprise in Generations.
There was almost no respect paid to the ship that had carried us on this
journey for the past seven years. It was like, "Well, we're in the movies
now. Let's have a horrific crash, with incredible special effects. And
we'll get a new ship in the next movie. What's next on the agenda." No big
deal.
In Sleeping in Light, the fans were respected. We were given a proper way
to say goodbye -- not just to the characters we had grown fond of, but to
the station as well. I have never seen an explosion that looked beautiful,
until SiL.
I am still so incredibly grateful. Thanks Joe... you made the ride
worthwhile. Best television ever.
Angela
Shaz
Michael Bush wrote in message <80j975$fnv$1...@jetsam.uits.indiana.edu>...
>Would you like the music(mp3) to the ending, it is sooo moving. SiL was
such
>a great ending/conclusion of the B5 arc.
Better still, why not say thank you to Chris Franke by BUYING the music at
the Sonic images website? It's certainly worth it. Go to:
>Now only if we could fill in the gaps between SiL and parts of In The
>Beginning. :-)
Amen to that!!!! I WANT TO HEAR THE REST OF THE STORY!!
And it's not like I can't work some of it out based on what Joe's told us,
but I'd still like to see if I've got it right.
I'd also like to know whether Lennier's end (as briefly described by Joe)
allowed him to redeem himself in the eyes of J&D and, if so, HOW?! Until Joe
said otherwise I was convinced Lennier's end would be wrapped up in that
blasted keeper in the jar deal. Now I'm hopelessly lost.
Shaz
Sandra Bursey
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> Would you like the music(mp3) to the ending, it is sooo moving. SiL was
such
> a great ending/conclusion of the B5 arc.
Yes SiL was a great conclusion to the show I had only seen it a month ago
cause like Chris I live in Canada and watched on Space. From start to
finish it was a beautiful episode and I had never been moved so much by just
some music before than the end credits stuff so would love to have an MP3 of
it.
>
> Now only if we could fill in the gaps between SiL and parts of In The
> Beginning. :-)
Yes that would be nice wouldn't it. :)
Take Care,
Sandra
"Nothing happens in contradiction of nature only in contradiction to what we
know of it." - Scully, Herrenvolk
"But the heart does not recognize boundaries on a map, or wars, or political
policies. The heart does as the heart does." - Delenn, The Illusion of
Truth, Babylon 5