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| − | ''[[Babylon 5]]'': "Spider in the Web."[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_in_the_Web] Season 2, episode 6 (7 Dec. 1994), #28 running numbering | + | ''[[Babylon 5]]'': "Spider in the Web."[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_in_the_Web] Season 2, episode 6 (7 Dec. 1994), #28 running numbering;[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Babylon_5_episodes]; also "206" for second season, #6. Michael Beck and Adrienne Barbeau, featured guest stars. |
| − | The rogue agency, "Bureau 13," has come up with a way to produce a "cyberzombie": a controllable cyborg produced from a dying individual. Beck plays one programmed as an assassin with a prosthetic hands that kills by electrical discharge. See for a cyborg, mind-control by means of an implant, a deadly prosthetic hand (somewhat Terminator-like), and imagery of schemes within schemes in appropriate mise en scène: Beck's cyborg is a human with an implant controlled via computer by a woman surrounded by computer screens in the midst of a wasteland, while Beck's cyborg is on the space station ''Babylon 5''. Cf. and contrast the locus classicus for such ''nesting'', [[2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (film)]], plus [[ALIEN (film)]], for a killer humanoid robot on a large spacecraft. | + | The rogue agency, "Bureau 13," has come up with a way to produce a "cyberzombie": a controllable cyborg produced from a dying individual. Beck plays one programmed as an assassin with a prosthetic hands that kills by electrical discharge. See for a cyborg, mind-control by means of an implant, a deadly prosthetic hand (somewhat Terminator-like), and imagery of schemes within schemes in appropriate mise en scène: Beck's cyborg is a human with an implant controlled via computer by a woman surrounded by computer screens in the midst of a wasteland, while Beck's cyborg is on the space station ''Babylon 5''. Cf. and contrast the locus classicus for such ''nesting'', [[2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (film)]], plus [[ALIEN (film)]], for a killer humanoid robot on a large spacecraft. |
| − | (RDE, 24/04/95), RDE, Title, 26Aug19 | + | Covered briefly in Frank Garcia's "Babylon 5 Episode Guide," ''Cinefantastique'' 31.12/Vol. 32 No. 1 (June 2000): 54-55. See ''[[Babylon 5]]'' entry for link to locations on line where the relevant ''Cinefantastique'' issues are likely to be archived. |
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Revision as of 00:36, 17 August 2022
Babylon 5: "Spider in the Web."[1] Season 2, episode 6 (7 Dec. 1994), #28 running numbering;[2]; also "206" for second season, #6. Michael Beck and Adrienne Barbeau, featured guest stars.
The rogue agency, "Bureau 13," has come up with a way to produce a "cyberzombie": a controllable cyborg produced from a dying individual. Beck plays one programmed as an assassin with a prosthetic hands that kills by electrical discharge. See for a cyborg, mind-control by means of an implant, a deadly prosthetic hand (somewhat Terminator-like), and imagery of schemes within schemes in appropriate mise en scène: Beck's cyborg is a human with an implant controlled via computer by a woman surrounded by computer screens in the midst of a wasteland, while Beck's cyborg is on the space station Babylon 5. Cf. and contrast the locus classicus for such nesting, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (film), plus ALIEN (film), for a killer humanoid robot on a large spacecraft.
Covered briefly in Frank Garcia's "Babylon 5 Episode Guide," Cinefantastique 31.12/Vol. 32 No. 1 (June 2000): 54-55. See Babylon 5 entry for link to locations on line where the relevant Cinefantastique issues are likely to be archived.
(RDE, 24/04/95), RDE, Title, 26Aug19; finishing 16Aug22
