So, first, my response to the credits at the time: a) who is this guy narrating?? That's not Sinclair!
So say we all.:) This was long before I was online, otherwise I might have heard before the show was broadcast in Germany that there was a change of lead, but as it was, I was stunned. This had never happened to me before as a viewer.
But the military caste doesn't know this! (I think this is actually a) kind of dumb of the Grey Council b) consistent with what I know about them, so whatever)
Quite. Now granted, the Minbari pre Earth/Minbari war were pretty isolationist and there was consequently a lot of xenophobia undercover which became rampant through the war, and the belief that "we share souls with these guys, forget about winning the war, surrender at once!" would be a controversial argument wasn't unfounded. But the alternative - asking the military which had been on the front lines, had fought and died in the war and knew they were about to win to surrender without any explanation whatsoever was really bad, too, and here I'll quote what Lennier, in a way more light hearted context, tells Delenn when he first arrives on the station and she orders him not to address her as Satai, asking him whether he understands: "Understanding is not required, just obedience." If you have a hierarchical society like that, it's bound to bite at some point.
Hair: LOL, you're right, of course. Also, there's an upcoming episode where Delenn discovers the dubious joys of human hair. Though it's nice of the Chrysalis to not just fast grow it for her but perfectly coiffur it on that occasion. :)
BTW, have you watched Lost, and/or have you seen Mira Furlan (who played Danielle Rousseau on Lost) in something else before, now that Delenn looks more recognizably like her human self? She was - sob! she was the latest cast member to be hit by the B5 cast curse and died one and a half years ago! - a wonderful actress, and about a decade ago I watched her at the Munich Film Festival in a Serbian movie called Turneja/The Tour, see my review here, and was impressed all over again. (It was also the first time I heard her speak in her own language - Mira Furlan was Yugoslavian when she left for the US, and then Yugoslavia ceased to exist while she was there.)
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So say we all.:) This was long before I was online, otherwise I might have heard before the show was broadcast in Germany that there was a change of lead, but as it was, I was stunned. This had never happened to me before as a viewer.
But the military caste doesn't know this! (I think this is actually a) kind of dumb of the Grey Council b) consistent with what I know about them, so whatever)
Quite. Now granted, the Minbari pre Earth/Minbari war were pretty isolationist and there was consequently a lot of xenophobia undercover which became rampant through the war, and the belief that "we share souls with these guys, forget about winning the war, surrender at once!" would be a controversial argument wasn't unfounded. But the alternative - asking the military which had been on the front lines, had fought and died in the war and knew they were about to win to surrender without any explanation whatsoever was really bad, too, and here I'll quote what Lennier, in a way more light hearted context, tells Delenn when he first arrives on the station and she orders him not to address her as Satai, asking him whether he understands: "Understanding is not required, just obedience." If you have a hierarchical society like that, it's bound to bite at some point.
Hair: LOL, you're right, of course. Also, there's an upcoming episode where Delenn discovers the dubious joys of human hair. Though it's nice of the Chrysalis to not just fast grow it for her but perfectly coiffur it on that occasion. :)
BTW, have you watched Lost, and/or have you seen Mira Furlan (who played Danielle Rousseau on Lost) in something else before, now that Delenn looks more recognizably like her human self? She was - sob! she was the latest cast member to be hit by the B5 cast curse and died one and a half years ago! - a wonderful actress, and about a decade ago I watched her at the Munich Film Festival in a Serbian movie called Turneja/The Tour, see my review here, and was impressed all over again. (It was also the first time I heard her speak in her own language - Mira Furlan was Yugoslavian when she left for the US, and then Yugoslavia ceased to exist while she was there.)