.... 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!
Right! It's the kind of retcon I'm not even sure what it's doing in the show! Like, thank God it isn't used to spark a love triangle, I would have thrown a brick through my TV, but then it's not doing anything that I can detect. It's much more interesting that she was a loyalist in the recent civil war.
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.)
Yes! It's both tactical and caring, and Londo just rolling with being cared for is almost inexpressibly touching even when it goes by in a quick exchange because he spent so much of this show walling himself off and now he's visibly just not. And even with the inevitability of Emperor Mollari II now bearing down on him at ill-fated speed, there's nothing last-chance about it. He's just being himself with these people, which includes not even slightly protesting the assignment of a bodyguard and then being absolutely obstreperous about the aisle seat.
(Also this episode is where I realized that G'Kar and Londo have spent enough time with one another to start to share speech patterns: "Why I'm thanking you for it, I don't know, but there it is." My dudes, it would be less obvious if you were wearing each other's T-shirts.)
Ohhhh, that last one is such a good point, and actually explains a lot about Londo getting Adira instead of, say, Refa.
Yeah—there's nothing Londo needs from Refa or even to say to him.
(I do wonder who G'Kar would have ended up with, if he'd stuck it out.)
I don't know! It feels like there could be so many options! I waver in the direction of someone meaningful from his past—like Lochley's Zoe—whom we would never have had the chance to meet. He has so much past and so much of it is so different from the person he currently is.
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Right! It's the kind of retcon I'm not even sure what it's doing in the show! Like, thank God it isn't used to spark a love triangle, I would have thrown a brick through my TV, but then it's not doing anything that I can detect. It's much more interesting that she was a loyalist in the recent civil war.
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.)
Yes! It's both tactical and caring, and Londo just rolling with being cared for is almost inexpressibly touching even when it goes by in a quick exchange because he spent so much of this show walling himself off and now he's visibly just not. And even with the inevitability of Emperor Mollari II now bearing down on him at ill-fated speed, there's nothing last-chance about it. He's just being himself with these people, which includes not even slightly protesting the assignment of a bodyguard and then being absolutely obstreperous about the aisle seat.
(Also this episode is where I realized that G'Kar and Londo have spent enough time with one another to start to share speech patterns: "Why I'm thanking you for it, I don't know, but there it is." My dudes, it would be less obvious if you were wearing each other's T-shirts.)
Ohhhh, that last one is such a good point, and actually explains a lot about Londo getting Adira instead of, say, Refa.
Yeah—there's nothing Londo needs from Refa or even to say to him.
(I do wonder who G'Kar would have ended up with, if he'd stuck it out.)
I don't know! It feels like there could be so many options! I waver in the direction of someone meaningful from his past—like Lochley's Zoe—whom we would never have had the chance to meet. He has so much past and so much of it is so different from the person he currently is.