"And Now for a Word" discussion

[ruuger]

This is the discussion post for the episode 2X15, "And Now for a Word". Spoilers for the whole of the series, including the spin-offs and tie-ins, are allowed here so newbies beware.

Summary:
ISN Special Report about a regular day on Babylon 5.

Extra reading:
The article for "And Now for a Word" at Lurker's Guide.

Comments

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

Which I found embarrassing as a viewer, but realistic. She's new to human emotions; they're tough to deal with. And she still has that lame hairdo and it looks bad on TV. I'd cry too.

That, and over the season she's been kicked out of the Grey Council and lost most of her allies, regarded as an outcast by her own people and as a freak (at best) by humans. And hormonally, she's probably at a stage equivalent to that of a fourteen-year-old girl. Not to mention that she seemed to have a number of friends in season one, most of whom have vanished (except for Draal) now. She's basically down to spending her time with Lennier and Sheridan, and, um, I'd cry, too.

(This is how I justify a scene that doesn't quite work for me at all. At first I thought she was bunging it on, in the manner of Donna Noble at her abortive wedding reception, but that's not Delenn's style. And she still seems blotchy and distressed in the next scene. I don't know. I have trouble believing that she wouldn't have considered the human reception before, and I can't quite see the journalist as a Big Bad for asking about it.)