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lizbeesuburbannoir and I are into the fourth season of our B5 watch. It's pretty epic. Maybe I should have warned her that, in watching the sequence set on Centauri Prime, she is now spoiled for I, Claudius? Oh well. I always forget about Delenn's selective relationship with reality. It's like she spends the entire series smiling and being demure and quietly rearranging the universe to suit herself. The best bit is how I'm not even sure how aware she is of what she's doing. But if there wasn't that ambiguity and element of delusion, I probably wouldn't love her so much.
What I love is how
suburbannoir spotted that Lennier is in love with Delenn extremely early, and shortly afterwards figured out that he's a creepy nice guy. I mean, a lovely one. But a creeper. Granted, I may have biased her somewhat by introducing Lennier as the character most likely to be a serial killer, aside from all the other serial killers. But then, she wound up liking Talia even after I introduced her as "incredibly annoying"! So now she's waiting for the episode where Lennier snaps and goes on a killing spree that ends with him dancing through the Zocalo with Sheridan's head. Why didn't we get that episode? It would have been amazing! And also hilarious!
Anyway, Lennier: AMAZING. From early season 3 he has this epic run of understated "bitch, please" faces that he keeps for when Sheridan does something ... Sheridanish. Which is often. AND NO ONE NOTICES. I LOVE HIS LITTLE FACE SO VERY MUCH!
...even though I still don't get people who think he should have ended up with Delenn. I mean, firstly, whatever her family wants to think, she is not a prize they hand out for good behaviour (or even shiny white teeth), and secondly -- on learning that she gave the order to begin a genocidal war, he said, "That's totally okay! It was an accident!" THAT IS NOT THE FOUNDATION FOR A HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP! That ends with the universe in smoking ruins and Delenn's foot on the neck of the surviving races! Which, come to think of it, I dig. But no, Delenn/Lennier is exactly like Azula/Ty Lee for me -- the power imbalance is too great.
In conclusion, Dukhat may or may not have been the greatest of the Minbari, but he was surely the handsomest.
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Date: 2012-03-05 09:30 am (UTC)I also luuuuuuuuuuuuurve Delenn/Dukhat, but there the power imbalance becomes interesting because it's a temporary state.