"Born to the Purple" - Peter Jurasik really sold the the love story for me. There's an expressiveness in his acting that makes the viewer believe Londo is in love. Fabiana Udenio, who played Adira, contributes too.

It's interesting that, during the drama associated with Londo's plotline, Sinclair never loses sight of his diplomatic goal. So the ambassadors delegate to their aides, as a gesture of (in Londo's case) indifference or (in G'Kar's case) contempt? He can work with that. So Londo needs a favor? And G'Kar thinks he's gotten an advantage over the Centauri, with Londo's help? Sinclair can use that, too. He is going make those negotiations succeed, so help him.

It's also amusing to see that, in the 23rd century, Vir playing with his electronic game at the negotiations is one of the few hand-held electronic devices that are used on-station. No smartphones in this '90s show. :-)

Once the rewatch gets into S5, it would be interesting to do a look-back on Talia's interactions with the non-telepaths versus Lyta's, and how that reflects their different storylines.

I have a lot of feelings about the B-plot with Gold Channel, especially given the father-child relationships on the show. If you're going to go out begging your child's forgiveness, noting you respected but didn't love them is a better look than some of the other ways to ask for forgiveness. It also informs Ivanova's character to know that was the parental environment she was raised in.

"The Parliament of Dreams" - as a Young Thing it was easy to fall into the assumption that Delenn's confidence meant she was correct in assuming she had a great and important destiny to fulfill. It looks a little different now, especially reading your comments here. Delenn's attitude to prophecies at this point: I'll make them come true, starring me.

I wonder if part of Sinclair's choice in how do demonstrate the "dominant" religion of Earth was a wish to avoid diplomatic blow-back from groups that felt that, even if they didn't represent the largest religion, they represented the largest active religion, or the largest "real" religion, or... which is probably not the "display of diversity" feeling JMS was going for in that scene.

It's also interesting to note the differences in Sinclair's relationship with Catherine to Londo and Adira, since these episodes are back to back in the rewatch. Both are middle-aged romances, but Sinclair and Sakai have a lot of baggage. As cahn said, "let's try again though nothing's really changed" is, er, not a great way to restart a relationship. Arguably some external stuff has changed, or will change, by the end of S1, but if Sakai's Quantium-40 payday or Sinclair getting his head rattled about the Line are the things that make this relationship work... sounds like another breakup in the works to me. Also, the actors didn't sell the chemistry as well, though Julia Nickson got little help from the writing. The relationship monologue she had to deliver was very in line with the monologues JMS writes, that seem to be a struggle for actors to bring alive. Sheridan's monologue in "The Geometry of Shadows" is another example... which can be covered in S2.