Delenn ships Londo/G'Kar, I'm telling you. The whole representatives of enemy races thing worked for her and Sheridan!
I'd buy it! She probably had input into the seating arrangements for the new Alliance advisory council, too ...
I did notice the Gaiman credit on the episode, which, yeah, retrospective case of the Oh Noes, but it's certainly true that this was definitely by far the most human Lochley has felt in the entire season; hers and Garibaldi's were my favorites of the visitation scenes. (Although, I wonder if the different writer is why Londo and G'Kar felt a little out of step to me in that episode compared to the overall consistency of the rest of the season, to an extent - not in a way that I could really put my finger on specifically, more like both of them felt a little like a throwback to their somewhat less developed characterization to me. I didn't connect it to the writer, I just thought that every show has slightly inconsistent episodes; but also, I didn't realize that JMS has been writing literally *all* of them, and I could see those two, who both have incredibly specific character voices, being hard to capture.)
Anyway, I had simply assumed that the choice of dead visitor was based on actor availability, so the carte blanche thing is interesting to know! TBH I do feel like Adira is perhaps the *least* interesting possibility for Londo, particularly Adira as portrayed in the episode, who didn't really seem to have the edges or complexity that she had when we last saw her; she's really just there to be supportive and give him closure about her death. But at the same time, she's probably the only one of his many dead who could have given him a positive experience - well, maybe Urza as well - and it was nice to see him simply have a pleasant night in contrast to all expectations.
It's also interesting that the choice of dead visitor is not based even slightly on what they wanted or expected to happen, considering that those who had expectations (Londo, and possibly Lennier) definitely did not get whatever they had in mind.
And thank you so much for the vid rec, I will watch it! <3 I've been missing being able to interact with fanworks, especially with vids, but there's simply no way without finding out way too much. (The one relatively low-spoiler vid I had watched a couple of times turned out to be too revealing once I got deeper into the series and knew enough about the clips I was seeing to put them in context ...)
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I'd buy it! She probably had input into the seating arrangements for the new Alliance advisory council, too ...
I did notice the Gaiman credit on the episode, which, yeah, retrospective case of the Oh Noes, but it's certainly true that this was definitely by far the most human Lochley has felt in the entire season; hers and Garibaldi's were my favorites of the visitation scenes. (Although, I wonder if the different writer is why Londo and G'Kar felt a little out of step to me in that episode compared to the overall consistency of the rest of the season, to an extent - not in a way that I could really put my finger on specifically, more like both of them felt a little like a throwback to their somewhat less developed characterization to me. I didn't connect it to the writer, I just thought that every show has slightly inconsistent episodes; but also, I didn't realize that JMS has been writing literally *all* of them, and I could see those two, who both have incredibly specific character voices, being hard to capture.)
Anyway, I had simply assumed that the choice of dead visitor was based on actor availability, so the carte blanche thing is interesting to know! TBH I do feel like Adira is perhaps the *least* interesting possibility for Londo, particularly Adira as portrayed in the episode, who didn't really seem to have the edges or complexity that she had when we last saw her; she's really just there to be supportive and give him closure about her death. But at the same time, she's probably the only one of his many dead who could have given him a positive experience - well, maybe Urza as well - and it was nice to see him simply have a pleasant night in contrast to all expectations.
It's also interesting that the choice of dead visitor is not based even slightly on what they wanted or expected to happen, considering that those who had expectations (Londo, and possibly Lennier) definitely did not get whatever they had in mind.
And thank you so much for the vid rec, I will watch it! <3 I've been missing being able to interact with fanworks, especially with vids, but there's simply no way without finding out way too much. (The one relatively low-spoiler vid I had watched a couple of times turned out to be too revealing once I got deeper into the series and knew enough about the clips I was seeing to put them in context ...)