"The Parliament of Dreams" discussion [spoilers]

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This is the discussion post for the episode 1X05, "The Parliament of Dreams". Spoilers for the whole of the series, including the spin-offs and tie-ins, are allowed here so newbies beware.

Extra reading:

The article for "The Parliament of Dreams" at Lurker's Guide.

Comments

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- The Narn don’t seem to have organised a ceremony. Could be it already happened, or G’kar cancelled it so he could focus on avoiding assassins. Could just be the Narn religion is meant to be private – though G’kar seems pretty casual about lending the Book of G’Quan to Garibaldi later on. Could be the Narn aren’t generally religious – either G’kar’s somewhat unusual among Narn, or that they tend to consider their beliefs more philosophies than religions. We never really get a good idea of how common followers of G'Quan are among the greater Narn population - though there only seems to be a couple on station in "By Any Means Necessary", and Na'Toth isn't religious.

I think JMS mentioned that in his background for this, the followers of G'Quan and the followers of G'Lan couldn't agree on a presentation. On a production side it was probably because the Narn got a lot of focus in G'Kar's plot and there wasn't time in the episode. Still, it's good we got to see more later.