Incidentally, in addition to "white propaganda", i.e. those broadcasts Sheridan is referring to, in WWII the Allies also had "black propaganda", i.e. radio broadcasts claiming to be German - only not democratic resistance, but from, say, aggrieved monarchists or inter-Nazi-split groups - managed by a guy named Sefton Delmer, who created a "pirate broadaster" named "Gustav Siegfried 1" which was pretty successful. (It's even mentioned in Erich Kästner's war time diaries; Kästner believed it to be the genuine article, and he was by no means a gullible man plus of course one who despised the Nazis.) In a way the ancestor of twitter troll bots. The morality is questionable - since those broadcasts as opposed to the other ones did not spread true news but were designed to weaken enemy morale by any means and encourage dissent - and so I'm not surprised the gazillion pop culture WWII films, movies or avatars don't include it.
That was intentional, huh.
It was, and I can see what it was supposed to evoke - the Drakh being eerie and creepy and the kind of beings you could swear aren't there if you don't look very hard - but it doesn't really work, and so the show ditched the effect. Thankfully. There are some key dramatic scenes involving Drakh in s5 where you really don't need headache-inducing distractions.
YES! I really like Delenn when she's being her powerful-Minbari self -- where the secrecy and the layered motivations that annoy me in the romantic subplots are actually pluses! More of this please!
More to come. I really like the Minbari Civil War subplot. Mind you, when Delenn tells Sheridan "it pleases me that you care for what I have become, but never forget what I was, or what I can do", I did think of you and inwardly commented "well, you can't blame him for forgetting, since he doesn't really know what you were in the first place, what with you not telling him". :)
. And certainly I think Garibaldi should know better than to think he could be let loose in the station like that -- he wouldn't let someone else do that.
Oh, absolutely. If Zack had been the one to quit and had pulled a stunt like that, Garibaldi would have been incensed.
Anyway, I am glad you mentioned last week about how this was originally supposed to have Sinclair, because when I watch it through that lens it all makes a lot more sense emotionally.
Indeed. Garibaldi and Sheridan behaving way over the top in a "you betrayed me" manner like aggrieved exes in an escalating way would work for Garibaldi and Sinclair and would feel genuinely tragic since we know how much they care about each other in a way it doesn't quite with Garibaldi and Sheridan, even leaving aside the How Much Of Garibaldi's Behavior Is Himself question.
ETA: just in case you, like me, are missing the Centauri at this point, might I remind you that there's still my mid season story Knowing Love about Vir (ahnd Lennier, and Marcus, but mainly Vir) to help with that? :)
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Date: 2022-07-31 05:20 am (UTC)Incidentally, in addition to "white propaganda", i.e. those broadcasts Sheridan is referring to, in WWII the Allies also had "black propaganda", i.e. radio broadcasts claiming to be German - only not democratic resistance, but from, say, aggrieved monarchists or inter-Nazi-split groups - managed by a guy named Sefton Delmer, who created a "pirate broadaster" named "Gustav Siegfried 1" which was pretty successful. (It's even mentioned in Erich Kästner's war time diaries; Kästner believed it to be the genuine article, and he was by no means a gullible man plus of course one who despised the Nazis.) In a way the ancestor of twitter troll bots. The morality is questionable - since those broadcasts as opposed to the other ones did not spread true news but were designed to weaken enemy morale by any means and encourage dissent - and so I'm not surprised the gazillion pop culture WWII films, movies or avatars don't include it.
That was intentional, huh.
It was, and I can see what it was supposed to evoke - the Drakh being eerie and creepy and the kind of beings you could swear aren't there if you don't look very hard - but it doesn't really work, and so the show ditched the effect. Thankfully. There are some key dramatic scenes involving Drakh in s5 where you really don't need headache-inducing distractions.
YES! I really like Delenn when she's being her powerful-Minbari self -- where the secrecy and the layered motivations that annoy me in the romantic subplots are actually pluses! More of this please!
More to come. I really like the Minbari Civil War subplot. Mind you, when Delenn tells Sheridan "it pleases me that you care for what I have become, but never forget what I was, or what I can do", I did think of you and inwardly commented "well, you can't blame him for forgetting, since he doesn't really know what you were in the first place, what with you not telling him". :)
. And certainly I think Garibaldi should know better than to think he could be let loose in the station like that -- he wouldn't let someone else do that.
Oh, absolutely. If Zack had been the one to quit and had pulled a stunt like that, Garibaldi would have been incensed.
Anyway, I am glad you mentioned last week about how this was originally supposed to have Sinclair, because when I watch it through that lens it all makes a lot more sense emotionally.
Indeed. Garibaldi and Sheridan behaving way over the top in a "you betrayed me" manner like aggrieved exes in an escalating way would work for Garibaldi and Sinclair and would feel genuinely tragic since we know how much they care about each other in a way it doesn't quite with Garibaldi and Sheridan, even leaving aside the How Much Of Garibaldi's Behavior Is Himself question.
ETA: just in case you, like me, are missing the Centauri at this point, might I remind you that there's still my mid season story Knowing Love about Vir (ahnd Lennier, and Marcus, but mainly Vir) to help with that? :)