I keep forgetting that their ex-relationship is canon because it affects literally nothing!
.... That is such a good point. And probably one of the things making it feel totally superfluous to the season. If Sheridan had picked her strictly on the basis of her qualifications and never met her before, not a single thing would change!
"Did you try this line on G'Kar?" "I did." "And did it work?" "Completely." "Great Maker."
I LOVE THEM. I also love - and looking at the caps really underscores this aspect of the dynamic, where G'Kar and Delenn are grinning at each other and Londo simply looks somewhere between embarrassed and helplessly pleased - that he doesn't seem to actually mind in the slightest that Delenn and G'Kar are essentially conspiring between them to arrange his life for him. He just cheerfully goes along with it, barely even bothering with the performative complaining this time. I feel like this gets back to the aspect of his character that was more evident in season one and early season two, before it was swallowed by runaway ambition, where Londo will do just about anything for people he likes. (And in spite of the political exigencies of the situation, which he's also certainly aware of, it cannot have escaped his notice that they're conspiring behind his back to protect him at least partly because they're worried about him.)
I like self-awareness of the dead in this episode, as well as the implication that their return has something to do with what the living need rather than want
Ohhhh, that last one is such a good point, and actually explains a lot about Londo getting Adira instead of, say, Refa.
(I do wonder who G'Kar would have ended up with, if he'd stuck it out.)
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.... That is such a good point. And probably one of the things making it feel totally superfluous to the season. If Sheridan had picked her strictly on the basis of her qualifications and never met her before, not a single thing would change!
"Did you try this line on G'Kar?"
"I did."
"And did it work?"
"Completely."
"Great Maker."
I LOVE THEM. I also love - and looking at the caps really underscores this aspect of the dynamic, where G'Kar and Delenn are grinning at each other and Londo simply looks somewhere between embarrassed and helplessly pleased - that he doesn't seem to actually mind in the slightest that Delenn and G'Kar are essentially conspiring between them to arrange his life for him. He just cheerfully goes along with it, barely even bothering with the performative complaining this time. I feel like this gets back to the aspect of his character that was more evident in season one and early season two, before it was swallowed by runaway ambition, where Londo will do just about anything for people he likes. (And in spite of the political exigencies of the situation, which he's also certainly aware of, it cannot have escaped his notice that they're conspiring behind his back to protect him at least partly because they're worried about him.)
I like self-awareness of the dead in this episode, as well as the implication that their return has something to do with what the living need rather than want
Ohhhh, that last one is such a good point, and actually explains a lot about Londo getting Adira instead of, say, Refa.
(I do wonder who G'Kar would have ended up with, if he'd stuck it out.)