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Posted By: fanuilh May 29, 2001 - 05:12 pm

No matter how many times I see this episode, it still takes my breath away. The torment Sheridan and his staff suffer when they realize the civil war has come to them and they must decide *now* what they are going to do. The knowledge that they can never go back and things will never be the same; all they can hope for is survival.

Delenn shatters the Grey Council after reading them the riot act about their decision to do nothing, even knowing what is coming, because they choose not to believe.

I'm always especially affected by the scene in Brown sector during the boarding. I think, what would it be like for someone on the station if someone you *knew* was in that boarding party? Those were their colleagues, their brothers in arms, taking up arms against them.

Didn't this episode win a Hugo? If not, it should have.

Posted By: Bmat May 29, 2001 - 06:06 pm

http://members.aol.com/B5DS9/b5awards.html

1997:

The Hugo Award for "Best Dramatic Presentation" awarded to the episode "Severed Dreams".

Yes it was a powerful episode! I had the same feeling about the boarding party- it brought the fighting down to the personal level as opposed to watching a bunch of ships exploding. Besides that it contained one of Delenn's most memorable monologues- the one about "Be elsewhere."

Posted By: ZimNova May 29, 2001 - 06:30 pm

Hey there Fan, welcome to SV.
That's right, Severed Dreams was one hell of an episode.
You can recall that at the time of the original broadcast over at the "SciFiSites" web site the impact that this ep. had on we viewers.
The emotions as acted by the cast was considered of the highest quality, as well as the script written by JMS carrying on the story arc and of course the use of the hugh SFX/CGI space battles which are all still without equal.
This is epic TV.
Again you are correct, SD did win the Hugo that year for dramatic presentation in a sci-fi series.
If I remember, Babylonian beat out some big names to win the honor that year.
A feat those making the Trek franchise can only dream about.

Posted By: Iznardi May 31, 2001 - 05:21 am

I'm always struck by how many Narns died defending the station. Always thought the future alliance owed the narns a lot more than they ever gave them.

There's also a great shot in this episode of the camera zooming in and then back from Sheridan's face at the moment he realizes that everything has come crashing down and he has to make his stand. I think it's when they announce the bombing of Mars. I'm sure the technique is borrowed from the movie Jaws where Spielberg used it to rush in on the face of Chief Brody when the shark suddenly took its second victim, his worst fear. And I think Spielberg borrowed it from another film he liked.

Posted By: Azziz Jun 03, 2001 - 03:07 pm

I think you are right Iz, the alliance and Sheridan owed the Narns more than they really got.

Hell, I think Vir is the only one who really *tried* to make up for all the Narns went thru.

Severed Dreams is a very powerful ep and one of the best in B5.