We're now midway through season 2 on B5 and the plot is heating up.

[conuly]

I just now remember that Delenn's hair is going to irritate me all the way until the end of the series. How is it even supposed to work!?

If Londo had listened to Vir's little digression on fate and how the thing you think will make you stronger is probably the thing that will destroy you, he would've ended the show in a better position. Alas for him, he's got a lot of character growth to do.

Jenn and Eva want to know if Londo will shape up. I said "Well... I can answer that, but it's gonna spoil the entire rest of the series, so...."

Also watched an episode of Teen Titans while waiting for Eva to finish beading so we could walk the dogs together. This was supposed to be a comedic episode, but Robin spends a lot of time berating himself for a tiny mistake. This is evidently not unusual. There is something deeply wrong with his mental health, and for this, I blame Bruce, 100%.

Comments

[smokingboot]

Yes, I never understood why they had to give her hair. It was just crassly humanising/girlifying.

[conuly]

Well... she was, at that point, part human.

[smokingboot]

Very thoughtful of the chrysalis to supply her with bangs.

[gwydion]

I loved her original androgynous make up too. Sigh.

[sabotabby]

I hated the hair. But then, I hated a lot of the hair, and I eventually learned to ignore it.

[conuly]

I had forgotten how irritating it is.

[cactuswatcher]

The combination of Delenn's hair growth pattern and exposed bone bothered me for about three minutes when I first got a good look at it, but I decided that of all the mysteries on that show, it was the least important to the fate of that universe, so, except for an occasional chuckle, I just ignored it from then on.

[conuly]

It goes under her crest but how how how how how!?

[brokenallbroken]

If Londo had listened to Vir at any point in the series he would have ended up in a much better position.

[conuly]

Seriously

[cellio]

This.

[pensnest]

I was just cross at how 'Women Stuff' was handled in that ep where her hair went insane. Though you make a good point! She might have had something that ended up as a comely fringe instead and did not grow below the bone. Eh.

Vir said many wonderful things.

[conuly]

I was thinking it might not start growing until after the bone, or else grow and crest over it the way hair will do.

[malinaldarose]

Yes! How exactly did Delenn's hair work? Was her bone-thingy suddenly on a hinge so that she could brush her hair neatly under it? It didn't make sense!

[greghousesgf]

I remember people at the time making jokes about Michael Jackson's plastic surgery.

[brokenallbroken]

Robin spends a lot of time berating himself for a tiny mistake

Is this Tim? I'm given to understand the Drakes were...poorly suited to childrearing and overly obsessed with image. So, not all Bruce. (n.b. I don't read comics, so everything I know I learned from fanfic ((but the Drake parental characterization is pretty consistent from writer to writer))

[conuly]

I'm not sure they're very clear on which Robin is TT Robin. Eva has talked my ear off about it but, alas, I didn't very much listen.