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.
Both true! Still feels qualitatively different to me from a hands-on murder attempt, which is why it's so interesting to me that he tried one.
That is so true! I love that side of him. (Fic will definitely be considered.)
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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.
spatch who has seen far more television than I have also points to crime shows when I ask him for comparable referents. We have now completed two seasons of Hill Street Blues (1981–87) and I can see why JMS kept referring to it in more than a pitch-room shorthand way. It doesn't have a series metaplot that I can detect, but it has multiple arcs within seasons and its characters are so far consistently evolving in ways that suggest they came with backstories pre-installed. Also if I persist with it, at some point its regular cast will develop a totally human Peter Jurasik and I will blow a few fuses and then probably be all right.
[edit] Human Peter Jurasik is instantly recognizable even through tinted shades and a Jersey accent that could be used as a crowbar and it is intensely confusing.
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Both true! Still feels qualitatively different to me from a hands-on murder attempt, which is why it's so interesting to me that he tried one.
That is so true! I love that side of him. (Fic will definitely be considered.)
(w00t!)
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.
[edit] Human Peter Jurasik is instantly recognizable even through tinted shades and a Jersey accent that could be used as a crowbar and it is intensely confusing.