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Up to Sic Transit Vir.
Mar. 31st, 2021 01:21 am( Read more... )
I have found that I am not the only one to refer to Vir as a marshmallow with a core of steel. Londo should respect him more.
On the Earth-front, things are as bad as they are at this point in the series. I've been thinking about the short story, A Sound of Thunder, pretty much continuously since 2016. What Ray Bradbury doesn't seem to have realized when he wrote it is that if the race is between the fascist and somebody else, even if the fascist loses, things have already gone very badly wrong. You can't blame the butterflies for that!
And so it is on B5 as it is in real life. The Shadows didn't make the Centauri invade people on twelve fronts, and they didn't make most of the Earth military and the population support Clark, albeit with varying degrees of genuine enthusiasm, no more than they've made any of the real-world coups and conquests happen. No, they just made it easier for those seeds to grow.
But it's easier to blame the Shadows.
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I have found that I am not the only one to refer to Vir as a marshmallow with a core of steel. Londo should respect him more.
On the Earth-front, things are as bad as they are at this point in the series. I've been thinking about the short story, A Sound of Thunder, pretty much continuously since 2016. What Ray Bradbury doesn't seem to have realized when he wrote it is that if the race is between the fascist and somebody else, even if the fascist loses, things have already gone very badly wrong. You can't blame the butterflies for that!
And so it is on B5 as it is in real life. The Shadows didn't make the Centauri invade people on twelve fronts, and they didn't make most of the Earth military and the population support Clark, albeit with varying degrees of genuine enthusiasm, no more than they've made any of the real-world coups and conquests happen. No, they just made it easier for those seeds to grow.
But it's easier to blame the Shadows.
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