It's a low-key, lovely, and visible progression from the ambassadors signing their names on separate pages.
Yes! And I love that even though all we see of them throughout this run of episodes is an occasional snapshot here and there, you can sense the progression anyway: from working together for a purpose on the League deal (now relaxed enough around each other to, for example, hand off the dialogue between them when they're explaining to Delenn - the Narn and Centauri representatives are still at their usual opposite ends of the negotiating table, though), to casual chat and bickering while waiting for the shuttle, to actively choosing to sit next to each other with no one in between them (but still for a purpose) at the press conference, to finally hanging out voluntarily at the end of 4x21 with absolutely no other end except just spending time together, but still with that slight frisson of plausible deniability because there literally is no one else to be coming down from the post-wedding high with except a lot of Minbari. (I also get the sense that Londo's extroversion is the primary driver of their push towards friendship at this point - he's just not letting G'Kar *not* be friends, but G'Kar clearly does reciprocate, both in the sense of willingly spending time with him and also the same ten-year-old-boy sense of humor.)
(Londo looks so happy to be able to present anyone with a political accomplishment that is not a crime against multiple forms of humanity.)
He isssss. Londo, you did good! He's visibly following through on what he said a few episodes earlier about wanting to do better by his friends. (The humans in general, and B5 - but also Delenn, who looks not just touched and delighted by the whole thing, but by Londo specifically.) And he's also *finally* using that quality that was evident in season one, where he's a people person and charmer who is pretty good at getting past interspecies differences. The humans might be the glue that holds the alliance together, but Londo is not bad at it himself.
In general I love how Londo in the back half of season four is visibly more like he was in season one and early season two, more relaxed and extroverted and less closed off compared to how he's been the last season or so - but also more settled and serious, without the rampant hedonism (well, not quite so much of it). He's grown up a bit. But he's also visibly happier and more himself now that he's got something less destructive to turn his energy to.
I WAS NOT ALL RIGHT. I WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ALL RIGHT WITH LOSING IVANOVA. WELL PLAYED SHOW I STILL HATE IT.
I don't know why it came as such a shock, because the show has very evidently been willing to kill characters before, but I was absolutely not expecting it in either case!
These last few episodes are all bangers, but this one seems to collect all the emotional connective tissue missing from so many stretches of this season and it's great.
Yes, and I'm glad the show gave everyone enough time to breathe afterwards. Including follow-through on some storylines that I absolutely did not expect to get closure on in this season, like Bester and Carolyn (the way he goes visibly a little limp when Sheridan tells him she wasn't on the ships - he very much did think they'd gotten her killed), or Lise's fate on Mars after her husband's death.
Slightly buzzed and covered in glitter is a great look for both of them.
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Yes! And I love that even though all we see of them throughout this run of episodes is an occasional snapshot here and there, you can sense the progression anyway: from working together for a purpose on the League deal (now relaxed enough around each other to, for example, hand off the dialogue between them when they're explaining to Delenn - the Narn and Centauri representatives are still at their usual opposite ends of the negotiating table, though), to casual chat and bickering while waiting for the shuttle, to actively choosing to sit next to each other with no one in between them (but still for a purpose) at the press conference, to finally hanging out voluntarily at the end of 4x21 with absolutely no other end except just spending time together, but still with that slight frisson of plausible deniability because there literally is no one else to be coming down from the post-wedding high with except a lot of Minbari. (I also get the sense that Londo's extroversion is the primary driver of their push towards friendship at this point - he's just not letting G'Kar *not* be friends, but G'Kar clearly does reciprocate, both in the sense of willingly spending time with him and also the same ten-year-old-boy sense of humor.)
(Londo looks so happy to be able to present anyone with a political accomplishment that is not a crime against multiple forms of humanity.)
He isssss. Londo, you did good! He's visibly following through on what he said a few episodes earlier about wanting to do better by his friends. (The humans in general, and B5 - but also Delenn, who looks not just touched and delighted by the whole thing, but by Londo specifically.) And he's also *finally* using that quality that was evident in season one, where he's a people person and charmer who is pretty good at getting past interspecies differences. The humans might be the glue that holds the alliance together, but Londo is not bad at it himself.
In general I love how Londo in the back half of season four is visibly more like he was in season one and early season two, more relaxed and extroverted and less closed off compared to how he's been the last season or so - but also more settled and serious, without the rampant hedonism (well, not quite so much of it). He's grown up a bit. But he's also visibly happier and more himself now that he's got something less destructive to turn his energy to.
I WAS NOT ALL RIGHT. I WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ALL RIGHT WITH LOSING IVANOVA. WELL PLAYED SHOW I STILL HATE IT.
I don't know why it came as such a shock, because the show has very evidently been willing to kill characters before, but I was absolutely not expecting it in either case!
These last few episodes are all bangers, but this one seems to collect all the emotional connective tissue missing from so many stretches of this season and it's great.
Yes, and I'm glad the show gave everyone enough time to breathe afterwards. Including follow-through on some storylines that I absolutely did not expect to get closure on in this season, like Bester and Carolyn (the way he goes visibly a little limp when Sheridan tells him she wasn't on the ships - he very much did think they'd gotten her killed), or Lise's fate on Mars after her husband's death.
Slightly buzzed and covered in glitter is a great look for both of them.
And I am thoroughly delighted we got to see it!