I'm much more interested in how things are set up than invested in the current happenings which I know mostly don't lead into future plot -- eg Garibaldi Delenn popcorn scene establishes both characters great, but they don't usually hang out at home together
You know, that makes me wonder whether I'd feel different about the final scene (and the slight sense of artificiality in Garibaldi's WB cartoon fondness9 if it would have led to a Garibaldi/Delenn friendship. Very possible. And yes, they basically get no more scenes a deux together after that, only as parts of a larger ensemble.
Re: reincarnation in general, I've seen it argued the Valen thing proves it (in-universe), but to me, it's rather the opposite, since the person the device reacted to wasn't a reincarnated Valen but the one and only, in the flesh. So the glowy orbs aside, the rest of the show really is careful not to verify/deny anything else. Like the idea of the Centauri soul wanting to leave an unworthy body that Londo and Vir talk about at the end of "The very long night of Londo Mollari" in s5 - it could be one explanation of what happens in this episode, but a far more likely one is that all Londo has been repressing and not wanting to deal with psychologically came to the fore in his subconscious.
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Date: 2021-12-10 08:52 am (UTC)You know, that makes me wonder whether I'd feel different about the final scene (and the slight sense of artificiality in Garibaldi's WB cartoon fondness9 if it would have led to a Garibaldi/Delenn friendship. Very possible. And yes, they basically get no more scenes a deux together after that, only as parts of a larger ensemble.
Re: reincarnation in general, I've seen it argued the Valen thing proves it (in-universe), but to me, it's rather the opposite, since the person the device reacted to wasn't a reincarnated Valen but the one and only, in the flesh. So the glowy orbs aside, the rest of the show really is careful not to verify/deny anything else. Like the idea of the Centauri soul wanting to leave an unworthy body that Londo and Vir talk about at the end of "The very long night of Londo Mollari" in s5 - it could be one explanation of what happens in this episode, but a far more likely one is that all Londo has been repressing and not wanting to deal with psychologically came to the fore in his subconscious.