Sheridan: Commander! Did you threaten to grab hold of this man by the collar and throw him out an airlock? |
This episode contains examples of:
- A Fate Worse Than Death: Sheridan would rather face the Vorlons and Shadows than reporters.
- Blatant Lies \ Malicious Slander: Practically everything Randall says on the air.
- Call Back: Randall calls attention to the updated defense grid that was installed two years ago which was used against the loyalist forces when they seceded, and insinuates there was a conspiracy behind it.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: A Hollywood-type producer being accused of using his medium to promote seditious and anti-Earth propaganda.
- Because Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped, all the surnames listed in this sequence are those of people ruined by HUAC.
- False Confession: The above mentioned producer. He's clearly being forced to make an admission and he looks like he been treated harshly, thin, ragged, with a dark look in his expression.
- Fascists' Bed Time: The ISN broadcast mentions that curfews are in effect all over the Earth Alliance.
- Idiot Ball: For people who have been warned that there will be a propaganda offensive against them, and who have been watching the Clark-controlled ISN for nearly a year now, the command staff and Sheridan in particular seem remarkably lacking in media savvy.
- Longing Look: During their joint interview, Sheridan spends most of the time he's not talking gazing at Delenn with the dopiest, most besotted expression ever seen on a sentient being's face.
- Manipulative Editing: But of course.
- Police State: We all know this is what Earth has become, but now we start to really delve into it.
- Culture Police: ISN would take this role.
- Propaganda Machine: This is what ISN has become.
- Red Button Interactive: Several times a red button appears which would allow ISN viewers to download the program. Could be a case of Technology Marches On as the series was produced before there was DVR.
- Show Within a Show
- Thrown Out the Airlock: Ivanova threatens a reporter with this. Sheridan scolds her quite thoroughly for not being specific - "...sorry, she meant to say, 'Stripped naked and thrown out an airlock. I apologize for any confusion this may have caused.'"