The events of the
Season 3 finale are carried over into Season 4. It closes some doors that were opened in
Season 2 and opens some new doors that won't be shut until the final episode of
Season 5. I like to think of it as B5's
Dune season; expect political intrigue, religious motifs, betrayals, power hungry Emperors, plans within plans, assassinations, and wars on a planetary scale. Elsewhere, the season deals with love, loss, identity, the desire to change and the things we must sacrifice to gain the ability to carry out such change. The Man In-between is revealed. And there are some exciting space battles for those that like that sort of thing.
Londo and G’Kar continue to grow and to further complicate their already complex relationship. Both men are two of the finest small screen actors that I've ever seen in sci-fi. The penultimate episode gives Ivanova a chance to show that she really can act after all, she manages in five minutes what she never managed in four years previous: to make us care about her. I almost wept.
NOTE: Reportedly, JMS was told that he had to wrap-up everything because he wasn't getting a fifth season, so he did, he packed in two years of story and gave the series an ending that made sense and was bittersweet. Things move almost too fast because of it. Then the ass-hats told him that he had a fifth season after all, so he moved the bittersweet final episode to the very end of Season 5 instead, and in its place put something pointless to close Season 4 (
The Deconstruction of Falling Stars). I don't know how other
B5 fans feel about it, but I prefer to end a viewing of Season 4 after episode 21. (I said in my Season 2 post that we should suffer shit episodes for the greater good, but
Falling Stars is my one exception to that.)
22 episodes, approx 44 mins each.
4½ things that should not be used out of 5
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