Recap and Discussion: 1 X 05-Parliament of Dreams

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Season One, Episode 5
Parliament of Dreams

In which we meet many soon-to-be-familiar faces, party hearty with the Centauri, learn about death blossoms and the Assassin's Guild, eat red fruit and pig's heads and get EVEN MORE previews of coming attractions.

So many fishies, left in the sea. So many fishies, but no one for me! I'm thinking of thinking of hooking a love...soon after supper is done.

One story is All About Narn Revenge.

Narns who wear glasses and kill people. And sleepy Narns dreaming of human girls. And Narns who love their job.



One story is all about Centauri Gods.

Val-too! I wanted to find a Last Supper reference but failed.



Li and Morgoth and Venzen, oh my! Count the tentacles!
And has anyone ever seen Susan/Londo fic? Cause they are cute!

    

One story is all about Minbari.

I confess. I volunteered for this one cause it introduces LENNIER, who used to be my main man and whose innocent wisdom still gives me a pang.



‘I cannot have an aide who cannot look up. You will be forever walking into things.’

'Understanding is not required. Only obediance.' My poor lamb.

One story is about doomed love. And Tennyson. And rebirth and red fruit.



And then there's some commentary about religion.



Here are some points and questions (before the signs and portents).

The party scene where Vir gleefully tells of his people's genocide of the Xon race is disturbing to me. You?
I never got the Londo/G'Kar subtext my first (few) watch thrus. But really, Sinclair is almost pushing it here. 'I didn't think Londo was his type.'
Are Delenn and Sinclair hitched in her mind?
What do you think the aliens thought of the humans not having a dominant belief system? Quaint? Immature?

Signs and Portents:

Tu'Pari: 'Cry out!'
G'Kar: 'I would die before giving you the satisfaction.'

Delenn: 'Will you follow me into fire, into storm, into darkness, into death?' Also:
'And so it begins.'

Catherine brings flarn to Sinclair. *boggles* I'm beginning to think flarn is a Minbari aphrodisiac...You all knew that already, didn't you?

Lastly, deleted scenes from the scriptbooks:

In one, Sinclair invites Kosh to the demonstration of beliefs. Kosh tells him ‘We have no rituals. We have no interest in the rituals of others.’ Kosh is watching scenes from Earth on a viewer. He tells Sinclair he is 'studying'.

In another, Sinclair and Ivanova watch the Drazi set off fireworks outside the station; the fireworks symbolize ‘life force energy pulses, uniting the galaxy and the individual in perfect peace, love and harmony.' I'm pretty sure the Drazi believe in the Force.
They also comment on the attack on Kosh and how it shouldn't have worked, what is under that encounter suit, and how Dr. Kyle and Lyta Alexander are the only ones with inside information on the Vorlon and how they were both transferred back to Earth after the incident.