My favorite part of this episode is reprogrammed Sheridan's Hitler-esque execution of the aliens at +500 years. I know he was "reprogrammed" but it sure was nice to see the goody-two-shoes bit fall away and to give Bruce a chance to demonstrate that he has Bad Guy acting muscles.
In the scene with old Delenn, it does seem a bit like we're supposed to believe Sheridan was perfect as a president, never did anything wrong, was an absolutely wonderful man all the time, and it's a bit much to swallow. The guy who says Sheridan was a megalomaniac kind of had a point. But I DO buy it that at +1,000, the monks would be rebuilding the history of the Alliance and talking about Sheridan and Delenn and Ivanova the way they were. If Humanity has bombed itself back to the stoneage, then it's the outside forces, the other races, who would be restoring the presence of the Rangers, keeping in contact with them, helping them to rebuild. And for the other races, the cornerstone of what they know about Humanity is that Sheridan, a Human, was an all right guy who pulled them all together to fight a war and then he founded the Interstellar Alliance, which might well still be in existence. They might not have any earlier Human history to feed to Earth's inhabitants, because at thet time of the Shadow War Humans really hadn't been space-faring that long. It's entirely possible that they'd use Sheridan and the others as a jumping off point and then build around that, because it's what they know of us.
The guy at the end, the one who's been watching all of this history -- I've always thought him to be a Human-Minbari hybrid (soul-merging and whatnot.) But maybe that's just me.
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Date: 2010-10-04 08:01 pm (UTC)In the scene with old Delenn, it does seem a bit like we're supposed to believe Sheridan was perfect as a president, never did anything wrong, was an absolutely wonderful man all the time, and it's a bit much to swallow. The guy who says Sheridan was a megalomaniac kind of had a point. But I DO buy it that at +1,000, the monks would be rebuilding the history of the Alliance and talking about Sheridan and Delenn and Ivanova the way they were. If Humanity has bombed itself back to the stoneage, then it's the outside forces, the other races, who would be restoring the presence of the Rangers, keeping in contact with them, helping them to rebuild. And for the other races, the cornerstone of what they know about Humanity is that Sheridan, a Human, was an all right guy who pulled them all together to fight a war and then he founded the Interstellar Alliance, which might well still be in existence. They might not have any earlier Human history to feed to Earth's inhabitants, because at thet time of the Shadow War Humans really hadn't been space-faring that long. It's entirely possible that they'd use Sheridan and the others as a jumping off point and then build around that, because it's what they know of us.
The guy at the end, the one who's been watching all of this history -- I've always thought him to be a Human-Minbari hybrid (soul-merging and whatnot.) But maybe that's just me.