I guess Kosh just decided to send some random symbols at Sheridan to get his attention.
Which is ic for Kosh. :) He doesn't pose as anyone's father until later in the relationship and when he really wants an epiphany to happen...
Random thought – it seems Delenn has never bothered to let anyone know that she consulted with Kosh before undergoing her transformation... you’d think that would carry some weight.
Good point, given the esteem the Vorlons are held in by the Minbari. Though you know, it does fit with Dukhat keeping the two Vorlons in his chamber to himself instead of bothering to inform the rest of the Council about them, or that they're supposed to investigate this new potential allies called humans. You can say Delenn comes by the secrecy and the not-explaining-anything-unless-forced-to honestly.
General Hague: Can’t help but feel the tone of the conversation would be a lot less dubious if Hague had been instead a senator or something – hell, they could have used Marie Crane, the opposition leader mentioned in “Midnight on the Firing Line.”
Yes, that's what I meant with the irony of Hague and Sheridan talking about a coup while planning for what sounds awfully like a coup, with no democratic legitimacy involved whatsoever.
Unfortunately there series is fairly consistent in portraying Earth’s entire political class as complicit in Clark’s regime.
Don't forget that for all the "Santiago knew that if something ever happened to him..." nostalgia, Santiago's regime from s1 is the one where already a lot of the later developments are shown to be in place - the treatment of Mars, rising xenophobia, and hey, the status of Psi Corps. I recall Lushenko from Rising Star in s4 making a good first impression as a non-military politician, and also the female President during the Earth/Minbari war presented as favourably in In the Beginning, but generally speaking, you're right; there isn't really a portrait of political resistance towards Clark; most politicians on the show exist first to threaten B5's existence for budget reasons, make mean demands and then to be complicit in a regime-going-fascist. Whereas most military personnel portrayed on the show is presented in a good light. I wonder whether it's due to the tv cliché of "all politicians are evil and/or useless"? (The West Wing being the obvious exception, as a show where politicians of both parties are shown to be by and large well-intentioned and dedicated to public service, just with conflicting ideas of how to go about it.)
...now that I think of it, there is Number One. Who starts out as a resistance fighter, true, but isn't military, and she does become a politician post- independence, while consistently being portrayed in a favourable light. Still, she's on Mars, not from Earth.
Of course, this kind of set-up makes the leading role of Sheridan in the Earth civil war possible, because if there had been resistance to Clark lead by someone like Marie Crane, or, say, some leading senators whom Clark removed from office per martial decree once he got the fascism really going, Sheridan would have to defer to this person or persons unless he'd want to look like a hypocrite. And as he was supposed to be Aragorn, not Faramir...
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Date: 2009-09-01 05:55 am (UTC)Which is ic for Kosh. :) He doesn't pose as anyone's father until later in the relationship and when he really wants an epiphany to happen...
Random thought – it seems Delenn has never bothered to let anyone know that she consulted with Kosh before undergoing her transformation... you’d think that would carry some weight.
Good point, given the esteem the Vorlons are held in by the Minbari. Though you know, it does fit with Dukhat keeping the two Vorlons in his chamber to himself instead of bothering to inform the rest of the Council about them, or that they're supposed to investigate this new potential allies called humans. You can say Delenn comes by the secrecy and the not-explaining-anything-unless-forced-to honestly.
General Hague: Can’t help but feel the tone of the conversation would be a lot less dubious if Hague had been instead a senator or something – hell, they could have used Marie Crane, the opposition leader mentioned in “Midnight on the Firing Line.”
Yes, that's what I meant with the irony of Hague and Sheridan talking about a coup while planning for what sounds awfully like a coup, with no democratic legitimacy involved whatsoever.
Unfortunately there series is fairly consistent in portraying Earth’s entire political class as complicit in Clark’s regime.
Don't forget that for all the "Santiago knew that if something ever happened to him..." nostalgia, Santiago's regime from s1 is the one where already a lot of the later developments are shown to be in place - the treatment of Mars, rising xenophobia, and hey, the status of Psi Corps. I recall Lushenko from Rising Star in s4 making a good first impression as a non-military politician, and also the female President during the Earth/Minbari war presented as favourably in In the Beginning, but generally speaking, you're right; there isn't really a portrait of political resistance towards Clark; most politicians on the show exist first to threaten B5's existence for budget reasons, make mean demands and then to be complicit in a regime-going-fascist. Whereas most military personnel portrayed on the show is presented in a good light. I wonder whether it's due to the tv cliché of "all politicians are evil and/or useless"? (The West Wing being the obvious exception, as a show where politicians of both parties are shown to be by and large well-intentioned and dedicated to public service, just with conflicting ideas of how to go about it.)
...now that I think of it, there is Number One. Who starts out as a resistance fighter, true, but isn't military, and she does become a politician post- independence, while consistently being portrayed in a favourable light. Still, she's on Mars, not from Earth.
Of course, this kind of set-up makes the leading role of Sheridan in the Earth civil war possible, because if there had been resistance to Clark lead by someone like Marie Crane, or, say, some leading senators whom Clark removed from office per martial decree once he got the fascism really going, Sheridan would have to defer to this person or persons unless he'd want to look like a hypocrite. And as he was supposed to be Aragorn, not Faramir...