Londo, when Vir comes to tell him about the emergency meeting:
The Council can go to hell! The emergency session can go to hell! And you? You can go to hell too. I wouldn't want you to feel left out!
Oh, Londo! You had such a way with words.
One of the things I loved about this show was how they gave the different races such distinct and interesting cultures/skills/qualities. It made them feel like real *people*, despite the fact that they had such odd physical features. It would've been so easy for this to fall into parody, with a bunch of funny looking aliens in weird costumes. But you really got to the point - and quite quickly - where you didn't even see the non-human differences much anymore. You just thought of them as the individual characters they were.
On this note, one thing really hit me this time around was how intriguing it was to have the Centauri people be able to see the circumstances of their own death. (I would never want such an ability!) Maybe such an idea had been presented on other shows or in books, but it was new to me. I found it fascinating, especially watching it play out. If you did have this knowledge, it would affect every aspect of your life - whether you were consciously thinking about it or not. It just goes, again, to how these different cultures were presented and how true to life they were. Human beings don't have that ability, but we do have things about us that affect all that we do, and how we interact with the world.
I also loved the way that wars here were always complicated. Sometimes that is portrayed so superficially in shows/movies. But here, you could feel with Londo why he was so angry. And you could feel with G'Kar, why he was so angry at the past wrongs done to them.
Yet, at the same time, it wasn't morally ambiguous. There was often a clear right or wrong, but you could also understand why people made the choices they did, even if you also had to acknowledge that what they were doing was morally wrong.
I'm not explaining it well. I'll blame it on this never ending head cold!
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The Council can go to hell! The emergency session can go to hell! And you? You can go to hell too. I wouldn't want you to feel left out!
Oh, Londo! You had such a way with words.
One of the things I loved about this show was how they gave the different races such distinct and interesting cultures/skills/qualities. It made them feel like real *people*, despite the fact that they had such odd physical features. It would've been so easy for this to fall into parody, with a bunch of funny looking aliens in weird costumes. But you really got to the point - and quite quickly - where you didn't even see the non-human differences much anymore. You just thought of them as the individual characters they were.
On this note, one thing really hit me this time around was how intriguing it was to have the Centauri people be able to see the circumstances of their own death. (I would never want such an ability!) Maybe such an idea had been presented on other shows or in books, but it was new to me. I found it fascinating, especially watching it play out. If you did have this knowledge, it would affect every aspect of your life - whether you were consciously thinking about it or not. It just goes, again, to how these different cultures were presented and how true to life they were. Human beings don't have that ability, but we do have things about us that affect all that we do, and how we interact with the world.
I also loved the way that wars here were always complicated. Sometimes that is portrayed so superficially in shows/movies. But here, you could feel with Londo why he was so angry. And you could feel with G'Kar, why he was so angry at the past wrongs done to them.
Yet, at the same time, it wasn't morally ambiguous. There was often a clear right or wrong, but you could also understand why people made the choices they did, even if you also had to acknowledge that what they were doing was morally wrong.
I'm not explaining it well. I'll blame it on this never ending head cold!