Firstly, behold the new icon. One of the greatest benefits of the talented saava having watched Babylon 5 is that she now creates stuff like this. Check out her newest masterpieces here!

Secondly, also for B5 fans: everyone who wanted a rant about Lyta Alexander will find one here. eye_of_a_cat says it all, and so I don't have to.

Speaking of rants, rozk beautifully demolishes Margaret Thatcher and her saviour-of-the-country myth.

Back to the ancient world: recently, Virgil had a kind of comeback on lj. artaxastra gave us some great stories tackling the Aeneid in a historically plausible way, and thassalia made the great observation that if Farscape was like the Odyssey, the new Battlestar Galactica is like the Aeneid. A civilisation has collapsed through a brutal war, and the few survivors are trying to find a new home. If you want to brush up on the Aeneid, check out this post of vaznetti's. Which offers some wonderful observations on Romans versus Greeks as well, such as:

First of all, only a Roman would rush back into a burning city full of his enemies to rescue his wife. Seriously, no Greek hero would ever do this (except Odysseus, probably), and even if he did, there's basically a 100% chance that his wife would end up trying to kill him. A Greek hero would do this for his boyfriend, but never his wife. The second thing that's very Roman is that Creusa ends up holding the rear. Again, Greek heroes don't tend to give their wives positions of responsibility; considering the frequency with which their wives try to kill them, that's probably sensible. Romans are much more likely to leave their wives in charge, while they're off doing something important. "Bye, honey! Look after the house and land while I'm off conquering Asia, OK? Oh, and it might be a few years, so here's a preliminary list of men I won't mind you having an affair with, if you get lonely. Have fun!" Seriously. That's how marriage in the Late Republic works.

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I forgot to mention that the third season of Six Feet Under has finished on German tv. (They showed the second and third in a row, but won't show the fourth for a while, so don't spoil me.) ( Scattered thoughts. )


I also watched some more Carnivale. ( And was suitably spooked. )