I forgot how fast season 4 moves.
Apr. 17th, 2021 02:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyWow, six episodes in and - yup, shadow war over! Of course, maybe they could've taken a few minutes to pack their things before they all left. I'm just saying.
Jenn and Eva apparently forgot Londo's prophecy literally the minute it was over. Naturally. Luckily, I was there to point out that Londo has already squandered two* out of three remaining checkpoints, and now he's only got one save left.
Not that I can figure out how he could possibly have saved G'Kar's eye by that point.
* None of this talk about how the second chance has to do with Sheridan. Since Londo never kills Sheridan, even metaphorically, Sheridan can't be the one who's already dead. That wouldn't make any narrative sense if we're told "Don't do these three things" and then he manages to avoid doing the second thing after all. It's gotta be Morden, and let's be real - 50% of Londo's motivation here was spite. Not that Morden, like Refa, didn't thoroughly deserve his fate, but still. Londo would've done it even if he'd known that the Vorlons would be recalled at the very last second. Anybody endorsing the Sheridan theory, up to and including JMS, is simply wrong.
Jenn and Eva apparently forgot Londo's prophecy literally the minute it was over. Naturally. Luckily, I was there to point out that Londo has already squandered two* out of three remaining checkpoints, and now he's only got one save left.
Not that I can figure out how he could possibly have saved G'Kar's eye by that point.
* None of this talk about how the second chance has to do with Sheridan. Since Londo never kills Sheridan, even metaphorically, Sheridan can't be the one who's already dead. That wouldn't make any narrative sense if we're told "Don't do these three things" and then he manages to avoid doing the second thing after all. It's gotta be Morden, and let's be real - 50% of Londo's motivation here was spite. Not that Morden, like Refa, didn't thoroughly deserve his fate, but still. Londo would've done it even if he'd known that the Vorlons would be recalled at the very last second. Anybody endorsing the Sheridan theory, up to and including JMS, is simply wrong.
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Date: 2021-04-19 01:55 am (UTC)Yeah, the pace of season 4 was frustrating. The network wouldn't tell JMS whether he had a fifth season until very late, so he crammed stuff in and then was left with too much space to fill in season 5 when he got it after all. I remember JMS saying somewhere (presumably on Usenet) that if he'd known he had season 5 in time, "Intersections in Real Time" would have been the end of season 4.
(Which still would have left him a lot of room for the telepath plotline in S5, and the less said about that part, the better.)