"The Fall of Centauri Prime" discussion
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b5_revisitedThis is the discussion post for the episode 5x18, "The Fall of Centauri Prime". Spoilers for the whole of the series, including the spin-offs and tie-ins, are allowed here so newbies beware.
Summary:
Alliance ships bomb Centauri Prime, and Londo accepts a Drakh keeper and becomes the Emperor to protect his people.
Extra reading:
The article for "The Fall of Centauri Prime" at The Lurker's Guide.
Summary:
Alliance ships bomb Centauri Prime, and Londo accepts a Drakh keeper and becomes the Emperor to protect his people.
Extra reading:
The article for "The Fall of Centauri Prime" at The Lurker's Guide.
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Date: 2011-09-07 05:18 am (UTC)How can people have problems with this episode? I don't understand. Then again, being a rabid Londo fangirl, it's been over an hour and I can't stop crying hysterically.
Light depression out of the way first, Lennier's confession on its own would have been enough to reduce me to tears. Stop toying with his heart, Delenn! Ahh....well, it's ok, I still love you and there's not much else you could have done but still, why not be an adult and explain why you can't love him? Or, y'know, just tell him to wait 20 years...
ONTO THE IMPORTANT BITS!
Like I said, after over an hour of sobbing over Londo its hard to remember every detail like you did. But watching him drive away everyone one by one until he was alone (horrible flashback to him telling Morden that he wanted to "Be left alone" aside) was enough to leave me a wreck. All I could think when he was talking to the Regent was "RUN, RUN!! Explain everything to the people on B5, there's still hope! They'll help you!"
But in the end, Londo's stubborn streak of nobility won out and he had to save his people rather than only himself. I had echoes of your fic about the Centauri telepaths analyzing his inner soul playing in my head, that selfishness mixed with impossible bravery. Watching the Keeper crawl up him, with horrible flashbacks of "War without End" also playing my head *sob*. Seriously, I thought I cried hard when I saw him at the end of his life, forced to drink himself to death just to save his friends, with his time constantly running out. Clearly I had not yet seen this episode or I would have really known what tears were.
Umm...really, I can't stop crying. This is kind of embarrassing, I haven't sobbed this hard in years.
Also, POOR VIR indeed!
*goes back to crying as well*