S2-4 really didn't sell Sheridan/Delenn, at least to me (and I have been watching straight through). Partially, in retrospect, I feel like it came through that Delenn was "masking" some to be Human-attractive to Sheridan -- which means by definition she wasn't showing her true face to him. (Lennier, on the other hand, got to see her Minbari true self and share it with her -- which is why I felt the show sold that relationship very well, possibly better than it was intending.) This I think was intentional and really interesting.
The other part, of course, is that I kiiiiinda feel like JMS has no idea how to write a functional romantic relationship. Delenn has been hiding things and not telling him the whole truth about things ever since S3 (Anna Sheridan, random Minbari rituals that poor Sheridan finds out about on the spot, and that's not even to mention the huge elephant in the room of who started the war). I kind of feel like in S2-4 I was either seeing Delenn being dodgy or her masking her alienness to Sheridan, and so it was really hard to commit to the ship.
S5 has actually been a bit better for that in some ways, because we see them doing regular couple-y things, like having Rebo and Zooty over for dinner and such.
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S2-4 really didn't sell Sheridan/Delenn, at least to me (and I have been watching straight through). Partially, in retrospect, I feel like it came through that Delenn was "masking" some to be Human-attractive to Sheridan -- which means by definition she wasn't showing her true face to him. (Lennier, on the other hand, got to see her Minbari true self and share it with her -- which is why I felt the show sold that relationship very well, possibly better than it was intending.) This I think was intentional and really interesting.
The other part, of course, is that I kiiiiinda feel like JMS has no idea how to write a functional romantic relationship. Delenn has been hiding things and not telling him the whole truth about things ever since S3 (Anna Sheridan, random Minbari rituals that poor Sheridan finds out about on the spot, and that's not even to mention the huge elephant in the room of who started the war). I kind of feel like in S2-4 I was either seeing Delenn being dodgy or her masking her alienness to Sheridan, and so it was really hard to commit to the ship.
S5 has actually been a bit better for that in some ways, because we see them doing regular couple-y things, like having Rebo and Zooty over for dinner and such.