#thirdspace

A contrast of humor and tragedy, with music visualizer effects. Combining the episode Atonement with the weird movie Thirdspace. (Delenn spoilers, mild flashing light warning)

Not convinced by the name. Sounds like an engineering-themed summer camp for teenagers.

"Just to let you know," Sheridan says, "in the middle of all the disasters there were some disasters we didn't even tell you about."

Ivanova is in this! Excellent!

Everything is better with Ivanova in it. Starting a petition to have her inserted into all TV shows. Ivanova in the TARDIS. Ivanova on Coronation Street.

I'm enjoying all the practical details on how to avoid getting lost, widening the jump gates etc.

"Delenn and I agreed..." - Sheridan doesn't really get that being the president of a league of worlds involves consultation, does he? You're not King of All Aliens, buddy.

"We have no archaeologists, no experts on alien technology" - you have 250,000 people, are you sure there's no one who could help? I live in a city that's smaller than that and I'm pretty sure I could rustle up a local archaeologist if I needed one.

"It is mine," says Sheridan, but I'm pretty sure that by rights it's Ivanova's.

Once again it REALLY sucks to be a telepath.

"A pack of Aborigines playing with a Starfury" - that was surely astonishingly racist even for the 90s?!

Please don't hit on a woman in a stuck lift, Zack.

I mean, he would have been better than Byron, but there's a time and a place.

And a bit of noticing that she hasn't said a single word might help.

"We do have this little thing called due process" - yeah, I guess you do, since Garibaldi's not currently here.

A mysterious beacon blasts light into the sky, and then people mindlessly turn and walk towards it? Did the Skyrim people watch this before they wrote the Miraak storyline?

Oh, they're screaming and having fights as well. That's worse.

Do all the Babylon 5 ladies sleep in little silk nightgowns? Not a single cosy pyjama girlie among them?

Why does no one on Babylon 5 ever work sensible hours and get a decent amount of sleep? No one can do good work on 2 hours of sleep in 36.

"You are a notable archaeologist so let me just give you a quick rundown of the history of space travel technology, just in case any viewers are listening."

Does Dr Trent have any evidence for her claims about Thirdspace? I mean, any, at all?

Poor Zack. He's not having the best time.

Ivanova remains the smartest person here.

They're going straight to destroying the artefact? Not even dragging it further from the station or anything?

This'll be the one and only time that the Vorlons acknowledge the dangerous impact of their pride, then.

Ooh, it's a Stargate.

You'd think the Vorlons would have left, like, a memo or something about this. I mean, if Lyta had moved to Mars or something and hadn't helpfully been on Babylon 5 at this point then all life in the universe would be fucked.

I hope someone helps Lyta redecorate her room after this.

Ivanova really ought to be allowed to say "fuck". This is not a situation that calls for "nuts".

"This isn't a problem that's ever likely to happen again" - I'd want to be really confident about that one, Sheridan.

Digital Sketchbook / Works on paper

All oil on paper | 42 x 30 cm

Shari Belafonte as Elizabeth Trent in BABYLON 5: THIRDSPACE – 1998

IPX: Let's open this Cthulhu looking nightmare ship.

Telepaths: Burn it with fire!

Mind’s eye... I’ve been thinking about the Thirdspace and how one’s studio can be anywhere. I spend a lot of time during the week indoors behind a computer and on the weekends when I have free time, I’m torn between my studio and the outside. I realize now the outside has become an extension of my studio and the ocean/beach my Thirdspace. Much of my inspiration, idea generation, and thought processing happens there now. The other day I thought about this as I walked along the low tide between Pacheco and Judah after my morning run... all that open space allows for much generative thinking and I know the mental work I do there is important.