![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
vjs2259.livejournal.com posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
b5_revisitedWWE Part II
Season 3, Episode 17
The Non-Shippy Recap
FUTURE
“There’s the legacy of your war, the price we paid…” Re-write history much, Londo?
We open on Centauri Prime, in the future. Londo is whinging about the dismal fate of the Centauri as a result of backing the wrong horse.
PAST
Back on Babylon 4, we see our friends from Babylon Squared! They are wondering about the explosion outside the ship (which was the White Star blowing up the fusion bomb the Shadows launched at B4 in their attempt to change the past.) The commander, Major Krantz, asks them to watch for attempts to breach the hull. Too late, guys!
PRESENT
Susan and Marcus are looking for an access panel to mock up an accident to clear the area. Susan gets a little ahead and two security guys come at her from both sides. (She’s in her Army of Light outfit, remember, so can’t pretend she’s an Earth Force officer.) They hear a noise, Susan takes out one, Marcus drops from the ceiling and takes out another. He hits the wall with his pike and finds an open panel.
FUTURE
John is in his cell on Centauri Prime when he doubles over in pain.
PRESENT
Zathras is lugging up all the equipment they need for homing beacon, time travel, stabilization, etc., etc. He sees Sheridan materialize, drop a time stabilizer to the floor, then disappear.
Meanwhile Sinclair and Delenn are looking for a place to hide their beacon. Too many people are around, and they ask Susan and Marcus if they’re ready. Susan says almost, and Delenn shudders…” It’s as if someone had just walked over my grave.”
FUTURE
An older Delenn joins John in his cell, tells him she’s not afraid, their son is safe, and plants a big one on him.
And…. that’s all I can say, which is KILLING me.
PRESENT
Susan finishes hot-wiring the station and an alarm sounds. A hull breach is announced and everyone is directed to leave the area. Our teams converge and they go to get the equipment.
FUTURE
AAARRGH! This is so painful…
Back in his cell, John tells Delenn he is not supposed to be here, that that last thing he remembers was his time stabilizer being hit, on the White Star. Delenn realized what has happened and fills him in on some minor details.
“The war is never completely won. There are always new battles to be fought against the darkness. Only the names change.”
The guards take John and Delenn back to the throne room.
A gold cup falls from Londo’s gloved hand. He tells them has had considerable to drink, and that it is the only way they can be alone.
“We all have our Keepers, you see.”
He tells them he was acting for some unseen audience. He shows them a grey wrinkled parasite on his neck. When he drinks it is put to sleep and he is in charge of himself again. His plan is to allow them to escape, in return for them vowing to free Centauri Prime. They leave, following a guard to the escape ship.
Londo is left ‘alone’ in the throne room.
G’Kar enters, a bandage over one eye. Londo tells him that the Keeper will soon awaken and alert the others, putting an end to John and Delenn’s escape and his own hopes of redemption. “We have unfinished business between us, G’Kar. Let us make an end of it, quickly.” We have seen this all before, in Londo’s vision of his own death.
“I am as tired of my life as you are.”
G’Kar approaches and chokes Londo, the Keeper awakes and Londo attacks G’Kar. They are locked in mutual destruction.
John begins to feel the pain of transit as they hurry along the corridor. Delenn gives him a final message.
“Treasure the moments you have. Savor them as long as you can, for they will never come back again. And John, do not go to Z’ha’dum. Do you hear? Do not go to Z’ha’dum!”
G’Kar and Londo lie dead on the throne room floor. A figure enters, and picks up the emperor’s badge of office.
It is Vir, now to be Emperor after Londo, just as Lady Morella prophesized.
PRESENT
Zathras meanwhile is fixing up a spacesuit while Susan and Marcus schlep equipment. He thinks the power supply in the suit might stabilize Sheridan if he reappears in that corner of the station. The others scoff.
Susan asks Marcus about Valen, who appeared at about the same time as the last great war, and according to Lennier was Minbari not born of Minbari. She wonders if they’ll meet him. (In the corner the suit in inflating.) Marcus tells her Valen is one of the Minbari’s holiest figures, that he defeated the Shadows, formed the Grey Council…and then he glances over at the suit, which raises an arm.
“No one ever listens to Zathras. Quite mad, they say. It is good that Zathras does not mind. He has even grown to like it.”
Susan and Marcus take off the helmet and it is indeed Sheridan. Sinclair joins them, also in a space suit. They are ready to attach and activate the beacon. Sheridan follows Sinclair down the corridor, Delenn catches sight of him and rushes towards him.
SKIPPING THIS PART TOO. UGH.
“It’s a long story. I’ll have to tell you later.”
Sinclair and Sheridan are outside, moving the time jump system into the power core, which will stabilize the station so it can be moved through time. Susan has rigged a false alert that will make it look like the fusion reactor is going to blow. It should make the crew evacuate.
Outside there is lightning, the crew of the station picks up a surge of tachyon particles and the station begins to shimmy and shiver in the time flux. Back on the White Star, Susan is upset and Zathras is working frantically. Sheridan fades out again. Zathras gets things under control and the station stops and comes into focus. The time stabilization device was activated prematurely. When are they?
PAST
Four years in the past, exactly when B4 appeared the last time! The station is surrounded by a tachyon distortion field. Sinclair tells them Sheridan is gone again, and they had better join him. There is a problem.
The reactor core instability is found, and the B4 crew decide to evacuate. There are 2000 workers on board. There is another tachyon burst.
FUTURE
This time Delenn has a time vision. Sheridan is asleep in bed, and she is there, in a largish bathrobe. She wanders his quarters, and picks up a snow globe containing a lighthouse. As she turns it over to watch the falling snow, the door opens, letting in light from the outside corridor. A figure is seen and a female voice says, “Hello.” Delenn stares at the figure in shock, dropping the globe which shatters.
PRESENT
Zathras tells her it was a time flash, due to the system’s instability. She has seen a vision of herself, either forward or backward in time.
Sinclair approaches. He is visibly older, his hair white. Going through the time distortion field again has aged him. This is what happened to the pilot, and why he didn’t want Garibaldi coming with them.
Susan wants it fixed. Zathras is doubtful it can be. Sinclair says they need to get Sheridan back and a time stabilizer on him (they didn’t bring any extras???) Zathras says he has parts but needs tools. Susan saw a work area before, and takes Zathras to see.
Sinclair is going back into the power core to see if he can stabilize things. Marcus is to go back to the White Star and tell him when it’s right. They have one last shot at this and need to make the best of it.
Zathras is rummaging through tool boxes. Susan says they are running out of time.
“Cannot run out of time. There is infinite time. You are finite. Zathras is finite. This is wrong tool.”
While Sinclair continues working on the station’s stabilization, Lennier reports seven ships are arriving. It is Sinclair, past Sinclair, and Garibaldi, coming to answer B4’s distress signal.
PAST
Garibaldi has hair! And they change the music back to Season One!
Zathras fixes the time stabilizer, but is caught in his rummaging by station security. Susan sees him being escorted out by guards.
They need two hours to finish what Sinclair’s doing, but Susan declares she can speed things up by adjusting the power from C&C, and tells Marcus she can get in there. During this conversation, Delenn is sitting in the command chair, looking distressed. She leaves abruptly, and coming up into the station, sees the space suit appear and collapse. She takes a deep breath, obviously coming to a decision.
We see the meeting of Zathras (second time) and Sinclair (first time). Not the One.
They evacuate the station, everyone leaves C&C and Susan enters.
Back to Zathras and the old story. The intercutting here is fabulous. It flows seamlessly. The spacesuit appears and an officer breaks in to tell the station commander “It’s back.” They all leave and Zathras announces “It is the One!”
PRESENT
Susan fires up power and Sinclair heads back inside.
PAST
The suit is fading in and out. Sinclair approaches it and reaches out his hand. It triggers an explosion which knocks Sinclair backwards. Zathras rushes forward, handing the suit the time stabilizer, saying it is fixed. Explosions erupt and Zathras tells the station crew, Sinclair and Garibaldi, that they must leave or risk being stuck there forever. “There is no more time.”
PRESENT
Marcus comes up through the rabbit hole and sees Sheridan sprawled in a corner.
He has a time stabilizer, not his own because there is no sign of damage. Marcus asks who’s in the suit then? Instead of the logical question of whose stabilizer is it then?
The evacuation proceeds, and Zathras is pinned under a falling beam. Past Sinclair tries to free him but Zathras tells him to go ahead. That he has a destiny. Present Sinclair, outside, watches the last ship go and tries to warn Past Garibaldi. “Watch your back, Michael. Watch your back.” He is out of range and the warning goes unheard.
Two episodes later (Season One later, not Season Three later) Michael is shot in the back…just sayin’.
PAST? PRESENT?
Zathras is approached by the suit, and tells it he knew it would not leave him. “Zathras trusts the One.”
The suit removes its helmet, revealing…Delenn?!
DEFINITELY PRESENT
B4 disappears. Another suit, another reveal…. it’s Sinclair. He tried to warn them but it all happened, just the way I remember it.
He is talking to Delenn. (He was before, too, in Season One, although we just heard her voice then.)
“It’s time,” she says. And they leave for C&C. B4 is traveling through time. Susan has adjusted things so they can control the time shift from there. Sinclair tells everyone to head back to the White Star. He’ll set it off and join them. Marcus calls him out. The control isn’t fully automatic. Someone has to ride the station back in time, and it’s a one-way trip.
They all goggle at Sinclair, who is way old and they’ve already mentioned he’ll get older if he goes back forward in time. Duh, remember the StarFury pilot??
Marcus volunteers for the mission and is slapped down. Sinclair knows he went because he got a letter he wrote telling him he did. So did Delenn, get a letter, that is. He points out he’ll probably die if he goes back with them anyway. Susan is aggrieved. Marcus and Susan are sent to the kiddie table so the grown up Ones can talk.
Zathras gives his explanation of why he keeps calling everyone The One, and they say their good-byes. Confused explanation and many fraught looks.
Zathras announces he will be going back in time with Sinclair.
Back on the White Star, Marcus is unhappy and Susan is confused. Sheridan tells them it’s Sinclair’s decision and they have to accept it. He takes the ship out of the distortion field, and heads back home. The temporal rift that Draal and the Machine were holding open is closing.
Delenn gets cryptic and says ‘That door is closing. But it is not the only one.’ She reminds them that 1000 years ago Minbari souls began being born in human bodies, and mentions the Chrysalis and her transformation as part of evening the balance. Then she declares “If Babylon 4 had appeared under command of a human the Minbari would have never accepted it.”
Sheridan looks gobsmacked, and Marcus recites, eyes wide, “Good Lord. A Minbari not born of Minbari!”
ON THE WAY TO THE PAST
Sinclair adds the triluminary to the Chrysalis device and remembers.
The Soul Hunter: “Don’t you understand? They are using you! They’re using you!”
Delenn: “I knew you would come. We were right about you.”
Neroon: “You talk like a Minbari, Commander.”
And the tendrils of the cocoon surround Sinclair.
FAR PAST
Two Minbari warships, recognizable as Minbari but somewhat different, approach Babylon 4. Two Warrior caste Minbari enter, and are greeted by Zathras, who leads them to an interior chamber. He points…
To a Minbari in the robes of Entil’zha, flanked by two Vorlon encounter suits, while two Vorlons hover over the suits in their angelic splendor.
“I welcome you, and present this place to you as a gift. I am called Valen, and we have much work ahead of us.”
THE END…OR THE BEGINNING??
Discussion:
I think the whole Three-in-One idea was added to include Sheridan in the triad--that the One was originally just Sinclair. Your thoughts?
So was Sinclair the only one in the suit originally, before the plan for the series was re-written for Sheridan?
Delenn gives Sheridan her time stabilizer, and then gets the repaired one from Zathras. Does she drift in time beyond the one time flash we see? Where would you think she might go?
When does Sheridan tell Delenn what he saw in the future? Awkward!
How gutted is Garibaldi when they all come back except Sinclair?
What happened to the rescued crew of Babylon 4?
Do you see a parallel in Delenn’s warning John not to go to Z’ha’dum and Sinclair’s attempt to warn Michael about the coming attack on him? If you knew something bad was going to happen in the future, would you try to warn someone?
Season 3, Episode 17
The Non-Shippy Recap
FUTURE
“There’s the legacy of your war, the price we paid…” Re-write history much, Londo?
We open on Centauri Prime, in the future. Londo is whinging about the dismal fate of the Centauri as a result of backing the wrong horse.
PAST
Back on Babylon 4, we see our friends from Babylon Squared! They are wondering about the explosion outside the ship (which was the White Star blowing up the fusion bomb the Shadows launched at B4 in their attempt to change the past.) The commander, Major Krantz, asks them to watch for attempts to breach the hull. Too late, guys!
PRESENT
Susan and Marcus are looking for an access panel to mock up an accident to clear the area. Susan gets a little ahead and two security guys come at her from both sides. (She’s in her Army of Light outfit, remember, so can’t pretend she’s an Earth Force officer.) They hear a noise, Susan takes out one, Marcus drops from the ceiling and takes out another. He hits the wall with his pike and finds an open panel.
FUTURE
John is in his cell on Centauri Prime when he doubles over in pain.
PRESENT
Zathras is lugging up all the equipment they need for homing beacon, time travel, stabilization, etc., etc. He sees Sheridan materialize, drop a time stabilizer to the floor, then disappear.
Meanwhile Sinclair and Delenn are looking for a place to hide their beacon. Too many people are around, and they ask Susan and Marcus if they’re ready. Susan says almost, and Delenn shudders…” It’s as if someone had just walked over my grave.”
FUTURE
An older Delenn joins John in his cell, tells him she’s not afraid, their son is safe, and plants a big one on him.
And…. that’s all I can say, which is KILLING me.
PRESENT
Susan finishes hot-wiring the station and an alarm sounds. A hull breach is announced and everyone is directed to leave the area. Our teams converge and they go to get the equipment.
FUTURE
AAARRGH! This is so painful…
Back in his cell, John tells Delenn he is not supposed to be here, that that last thing he remembers was his time stabilizer being hit, on the White Star. Delenn realized what has happened and fills him in on some minor details.
“The war is never completely won. There are always new battles to be fought against the darkness. Only the names change.”
The guards take John and Delenn back to the throne room.
A gold cup falls from Londo’s gloved hand. He tells them has had considerable to drink, and that it is the only way they can be alone.
“We all have our Keepers, you see.”
He tells them he was acting for some unseen audience. He shows them a grey wrinkled parasite on his neck. When he drinks it is put to sleep and he is in charge of himself again. His plan is to allow them to escape, in return for them vowing to free Centauri Prime. They leave, following a guard to the escape ship.
Londo is left ‘alone’ in the throne room.
G’Kar enters, a bandage over one eye. Londo tells him that the Keeper will soon awaken and alert the others, putting an end to John and Delenn’s escape and his own hopes of redemption. “We have unfinished business between us, G’Kar. Let us make an end of it, quickly.” We have seen this all before, in Londo’s vision of his own death.
“I am as tired of my life as you are.”
G’Kar approaches and chokes Londo, the Keeper awakes and Londo attacks G’Kar. They are locked in mutual destruction.
John begins to feel the pain of transit as they hurry along the corridor. Delenn gives him a final message.
“Treasure the moments you have. Savor them as long as you can, for they will never come back again. And John, do not go to Z’ha’dum. Do you hear? Do not go to Z’ha’dum!”
G’Kar and Londo lie dead on the throne room floor. A figure enters, and picks up the emperor’s badge of office.
It is Vir, now to be Emperor after Londo, just as Lady Morella prophesized.
PRESENT
Zathras meanwhile is fixing up a spacesuit while Susan and Marcus schlep equipment. He thinks the power supply in the suit might stabilize Sheridan if he reappears in that corner of the station. The others scoff.
Susan asks Marcus about Valen, who appeared at about the same time as the last great war, and according to Lennier was Minbari not born of Minbari. She wonders if they’ll meet him. (In the corner the suit in inflating.) Marcus tells her Valen is one of the Minbari’s holiest figures, that he defeated the Shadows, formed the Grey Council…and then he glances over at the suit, which raises an arm.
“No one ever listens to Zathras. Quite mad, they say. It is good that Zathras does not mind. He has even grown to like it.”
Susan and Marcus take off the helmet and it is indeed Sheridan. Sinclair joins them, also in a space suit. They are ready to attach and activate the beacon. Sheridan follows Sinclair down the corridor, Delenn catches sight of him and rushes towards him.
SKIPPING THIS PART TOO. UGH.
“It’s a long story. I’ll have to tell you later.”
Sinclair and Sheridan are outside, moving the time jump system into the power core, which will stabilize the station so it can be moved through time. Susan has rigged a false alert that will make it look like the fusion reactor is going to blow. It should make the crew evacuate.
Outside there is lightning, the crew of the station picks up a surge of tachyon particles and the station begins to shimmy and shiver in the time flux. Back on the White Star, Susan is upset and Zathras is working frantically. Sheridan fades out again. Zathras gets things under control and the station stops and comes into focus. The time stabilization device was activated prematurely. When are they?
PAST
Four years in the past, exactly when B4 appeared the last time! The station is surrounded by a tachyon distortion field. Sinclair tells them Sheridan is gone again, and they had better join him. There is a problem.
The reactor core instability is found, and the B4 crew decide to evacuate. There are 2000 workers on board. There is another tachyon burst.
FUTURE
This time Delenn has a time vision. Sheridan is asleep in bed, and she is there, in a largish bathrobe. She wanders his quarters, and picks up a snow globe containing a lighthouse. As she turns it over to watch the falling snow, the door opens, letting in light from the outside corridor. A figure is seen and a female voice says, “Hello.” Delenn stares at the figure in shock, dropping the globe which shatters.
PRESENT
Zathras tells her it was a time flash, due to the system’s instability. She has seen a vision of herself, either forward or backward in time.
Sinclair approaches. He is visibly older, his hair white. Going through the time distortion field again has aged him. This is what happened to the pilot, and why he didn’t want Garibaldi coming with them.
Susan wants it fixed. Zathras is doubtful it can be. Sinclair says they need to get Sheridan back and a time stabilizer on him (they didn’t bring any extras???) Zathras says he has parts but needs tools. Susan saw a work area before, and takes Zathras to see.
Sinclair is going back into the power core to see if he can stabilize things. Marcus is to go back to the White Star and tell him when it’s right. They have one last shot at this and need to make the best of it.
Zathras is rummaging through tool boxes. Susan says they are running out of time.
“Cannot run out of time. There is infinite time. You are finite. Zathras is finite. This is wrong tool.”
While Sinclair continues working on the station’s stabilization, Lennier reports seven ships are arriving. It is Sinclair, past Sinclair, and Garibaldi, coming to answer B4’s distress signal.
PAST
Garibaldi has hair! And they change the music back to Season One!
Zathras fixes the time stabilizer, but is caught in his rummaging by station security. Susan sees him being escorted out by guards.
They need two hours to finish what Sinclair’s doing, but Susan declares she can speed things up by adjusting the power from C&C, and tells Marcus she can get in there. During this conversation, Delenn is sitting in the command chair, looking distressed. She leaves abruptly, and coming up into the station, sees the space suit appear and collapse. She takes a deep breath, obviously coming to a decision.
We see the meeting of Zathras (second time) and Sinclair (first time). Not the One.
They evacuate the station, everyone leaves C&C and Susan enters.
Back to Zathras and the old story. The intercutting here is fabulous. It flows seamlessly. The spacesuit appears and an officer breaks in to tell the station commander “It’s back.” They all leave and Zathras announces “It is the One!”
PRESENT
Susan fires up power and Sinclair heads back inside.
PAST
The suit is fading in and out. Sinclair approaches it and reaches out his hand. It triggers an explosion which knocks Sinclair backwards. Zathras rushes forward, handing the suit the time stabilizer, saying it is fixed. Explosions erupt and Zathras tells the station crew, Sinclair and Garibaldi, that they must leave or risk being stuck there forever. “There is no more time.”
PRESENT
Marcus comes up through the rabbit hole and sees Sheridan sprawled in a corner.
He has a time stabilizer, not his own because there is no sign of damage. Marcus asks who’s in the suit then? Instead of the logical question of whose stabilizer is it then?
The evacuation proceeds, and Zathras is pinned under a falling beam. Past Sinclair tries to free him but Zathras tells him to go ahead. That he has a destiny. Present Sinclair, outside, watches the last ship go and tries to warn Past Garibaldi. “Watch your back, Michael. Watch your back.” He is out of range and the warning goes unheard.
Two episodes later (Season One later, not Season Three later) Michael is shot in the back…just sayin’.
PAST? PRESENT?
Zathras is approached by the suit, and tells it he knew it would not leave him. “Zathras trusts the One.”
The suit removes its helmet, revealing…Delenn?!
DEFINITELY PRESENT
B4 disappears. Another suit, another reveal…. it’s Sinclair. He tried to warn them but it all happened, just the way I remember it.
He is talking to Delenn. (He was before, too, in Season One, although we just heard her voice then.)
“It’s time,” she says. And they leave for C&C. B4 is traveling through time. Susan has adjusted things so they can control the time shift from there. Sinclair tells everyone to head back to the White Star. He’ll set it off and join them. Marcus calls him out. The control isn’t fully automatic. Someone has to ride the station back in time, and it’s a one-way trip.
They all goggle at Sinclair, who is way old and they’ve already mentioned he’ll get older if he goes back forward in time. Duh, remember the StarFury pilot??
Marcus volunteers for the mission and is slapped down. Sinclair knows he went because he got a letter he wrote telling him he did. So did Delenn, get a letter, that is. He points out he’ll probably die if he goes back with them anyway. Susan is aggrieved. Marcus and Susan are sent to the kiddie table so the grown up Ones can talk.
Zathras gives his explanation of why he keeps calling everyone The One, and they say their good-byes. Confused explanation and many fraught looks.
Zathras announces he will be going back in time with Sinclair.
Back on the White Star, Marcus is unhappy and Susan is confused. Sheridan tells them it’s Sinclair’s decision and they have to accept it. He takes the ship out of the distortion field, and heads back home. The temporal rift that Draal and the Machine were holding open is closing.
Delenn gets cryptic and says ‘That door is closing. But it is not the only one.’ She reminds them that 1000 years ago Minbari souls began being born in human bodies, and mentions the Chrysalis and her transformation as part of evening the balance. Then she declares “If Babylon 4 had appeared under command of a human the Minbari would have never accepted it.”
Sheridan looks gobsmacked, and Marcus recites, eyes wide, “Good Lord. A Minbari not born of Minbari!”
ON THE WAY TO THE PAST
Sinclair adds the triluminary to the Chrysalis device and remembers.
The Soul Hunter: “Don’t you understand? They are using you! They’re using you!”
Delenn: “I knew you would come. We were right about you.”
Neroon: “You talk like a Minbari, Commander.”
And the tendrils of the cocoon surround Sinclair.
FAR PAST
Two Minbari warships, recognizable as Minbari but somewhat different, approach Babylon 4. Two Warrior caste Minbari enter, and are greeted by Zathras, who leads them to an interior chamber. He points…
To a Minbari in the robes of Entil’zha, flanked by two Vorlon encounter suits, while two Vorlons hover over the suits in their angelic splendor.
“I welcome you, and present this place to you as a gift. I am called Valen, and we have much work ahead of us.”
THE END…OR THE BEGINNING??
Discussion:
I think the whole Three-in-One idea was added to include Sheridan in the triad--that the One was originally just Sinclair. Your thoughts?
So was Sinclair the only one in the suit originally, before the plan for the series was re-written for Sheridan?
Delenn gives Sheridan her time stabilizer, and then gets the repaired one from Zathras. Does she drift in time beyond the one time flash we see? Where would you think she might go?
When does Sheridan tell Delenn what he saw in the future? Awkward!
How gutted is Garibaldi when they all come back except Sinclair?
What happened to the rescued crew of Babylon 4?
Do you see a parallel in Delenn’s warning John not to go to Z’ha’dum and Sinclair’s attempt to warn Michael about the coming attack on him? If you knew something bad was going to happen in the future, would you try to warn someone?
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2017-02-20 10:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-02-21 06:41 am (UTC)...which does leave one either to conclude Sheridan is indifferent to the Centauri and their fate, and the consequences a Shadow--minions-controlled Centauri Prime has on the rest of the galaxy, or that he remembered only until Z'ha'dum, and Lorien resurrecting him/keeping him alive after that came with erasing parts of his memory, which I wouldn't put past a First One. It definitely makes more sense than "ah well, to hell with Londo and the Centauri, they deserve it".
no subject
Date: 2017-02-21 09:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-02-21 11:33 am (UTC)Londo is stubborn and can make wrong decisions (can he ever), but Centauri Prime is really the love of his life. If Sheridan tells him about a future where it's burning and occupied, Londo isn't like to go, eh, that Sheridan, what does he know?
Lastly: when Londo sees a Keeper for the first time when Virini dies and at last gets the explanation for the s5 goings on, it's clear that this is really something he has never heard of before that point. And remember, Londo through the second half of s5 is desperate to find an explanation for what the hell is going on with Centauri Prime. If Sheridan at any point had told him about this future, wouldn't he have suggested that this could be the set up for this future? Wouldn't he have jumped on that explanation?
no subject
Date: 2017-02-21 08:18 pm (UTC)Thanks for the elaboration! :)
no subject
Date: 2017-02-22 12:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-02-22 05:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-02-21 09:23 am (UTC)Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Sheridan and the places the story went with him. But part of me wishes we could have seen the original story with Sinclair, and have Sinclair live out those 20 years (instead of "suddenly aging", gah.) If he had been The One and the only "One" it would have made so much more sense. If the Sinclair/Delenn romance had been carried through and if she'd gone back with him.
It could have been amazing. Instead, we have pieces of the amazing brilliant plan, and a bit of a mess, but an equally incredible new story for Sheridan.
no subject
Date: 2017-03-29 08:56 pm (UTC)