He does head seriously off to assassinate him in "Midnight on the Firing Line"! Having already gotten into a dramatic public brawl where they were literally, ironically at one another's throats.
Ha. Right. I forgot about that. Actually, thinking about it, that's the most direct time but not the only time ... there's also trying to get G'Kar sent home to be executed, and he probably at least went into the Cartagia team-up with the idea that the risk of G'Kar dying was worth it. (Never quite over the stricken look on his face when G'Kar is presented to him in chains at the start of all of that, though - they aren't friends or even allies, but Londo didn't want that.)
Anyway, though, the turnaround from being fully willing to accept G'Kar's death as a side effect of his scheming, to throwing all other considerations aside to make sure he's safe, is really something.
It is a little of duellist Londo, fighter-pilot Londo, honestly: absolutely reckless in the face of danger. Paso leati.
That is so true! I love that side of him. (Fic will definitely be considered.)
You understand why I keep saying that encountering this show as my first real example of American long-form television screwed me up for life!
I can certainly see why! Especially at a time when very few other shows were doing anything similar to this. It's not completely alone, but it was rare, and I can't think of another example from that era's SFF genre TV; everything else I can think of were more on the serious drama or crime show end of things.
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Ha. Right. I forgot about that. Actually, thinking about it, that's the most direct time but not the only time ... there's also trying to get G'Kar sent home to be executed, and he probably at least went into the Cartagia team-up with the idea that the risk of G'Kar dying was worth it. (Never quite over the stricken look on his face when G'Kar is presented to him in chains at the start of all of that, though - they aren't friends or even allies, but Londo didn't want that.)
Anyway, though, the turnaround from being fully willing to accept G'Kar's death as a side effect of his scheming, to throwing all other considerations aside to make sure he's safe, is really something.
It is a little of duellist Londo, fighter-pilot Londo, honestly: absolutely reckless in the face of danger. Paso leati.
That is so true! I love that side of him. (Fic will definitely be considered.)
You understand why I keep saying that encountering this show as my first real example of American long-form television screwed me up for life!
I can certainly see why! Especially at a time when very few other shows were doing anything similar to this. It's not completely alone, but it was rare, and I can't think of another example from that era's SFF genre TV; everything else I can think of were more on the serious drama or crime show end of things.