Amusements
May. 19th, 2009 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieAck. I wasted a good portion of the day at TVTropes.org. Bad me. I also managed to spoil myself for what was probably the one twist remaining in B5 that I didn't know about. Obviously I needed to just turn off the internets until I'd seen the whole show. *sigh*
(On the page for Chekhov's Armoury, the entry includes lots of detail--what kinds of "guns" and when they "go off"--for the other shows it mentions as representing the trope. And then the editors just list "Babylon 5," with no qualifiers, because to list them all would pretty much take over the page. It amused me. I'm easy.)
Because I am finally going to write the fic that the rest of fandom FAILED to write, or at any rate failed to archive, since I cannot find any dealing with it directly, I went back and rewatched parts of "Soul Mates" tonight. I can't believe I missed it the first time around, but I saw it tonight: Londo's wives are trying their damnedest to act out a sort of spousal version of the first couple scenes of King Lear (with Timov as Cordelia, of course), and Londo is having none of it whatsoever. Ha! If I remembered the play better, I might be able to make more connections--although I think Mariel might perhaps be closer to Regan than to Goneril, because as I recall, Regan plots to kill Lear at one point, although perhaps both of them were in on it.
(On the page for Chekhov's Armoury, the entry includes lots of detail--what kinds of "guns" and when they "go off"--for the other shows it mentions as representing the trope. And then the editors just list "Babylon 5," with no qualifiers, because to list them all would pretty much take over the page. It amused me. I'm easy.)
Because I am finally going to write the fic that the rest of fandom FAILED to write, or at any rate failed to archive, since I cannot find any dealing with it directly, I went back and rewatched parts of "Soul Mates" tonight. I can't believe I missed it the first time around, but I saw it tonight: Londo's wives are trying their damnedest to act out a sort of spousal version of the first couple scenes of King Lear (with Timov as Cordelia, of course), and Londo is having none of it whatsoever. Ha! If I remembered the play better, I might be able to make more connections--although I think Mariel might perhaps be closer to Regan than to Goneril, because as I recall, Regan plots to kill Lear at one point, although perhaps both of them were in on it.
