B5: Chatter, Recs, Ships (of both kinds!)

[icepixie]

I know you are all getting tired of my endless, endless B5-related chatter, so I am cutting for your reading convenience!

- Apparently this was the original five-year plan for B5. I...woooow. I'm really glad that never made it to the screen. WOW.

- Further things I'm glad never made it to the screen: apparently if Claudia Christian had stayed for S5, Ivanova was going to get involved with Byron. EW. There merest thought of that makes me nauseated.

- Poking around at the Lurker's Guide, I found that JMS is the same Meyers-Briggs type as I am (INTJ). This...doesn't surprise me in the least. If ever there were a textbook case of conceiving an idea and translating it to the real world, that would be it. (I often feel like a fraud of an INTJ, because I tend to fail at the "translating to the real world" part. I mean, I like to think about how my ideas would translate, but I'm too lazy to do it.)

- An unexpected consequence of watching "Sleeping in Light" is that I now ship Ivanova/Delenn like burning. And not necessarily just post-SiL, either, although it's certainly much easier at that point in the story. I...don't know? But if you know of (more) fic, I want to read it.

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Fic Recs:

Elements of Consolation by eye_of_a_cat - Delenn/Lennier, post-"Comes the Inquisitor." This beautiful piece is so perfectly Lennier, and utterly Delenn. If it ever happened, this is how.

What Seems Still by voleuse - A day in the life of Marcus Cole, who plans his days around Susan Ivanova. I've discovered that many Ivanova/Marcus fics are melodramatic and ridiculous; this is neither. It is instead a perfect representation of Marcus--devoted, patient, maybe a bit annoying, and sweet without being cloying.

Skuka, Holod i Granit by notjenny - This is the only way I can conceive of Ivanova/Marcus actually happening. Depressing--oh, yes, depressing, but Susan is Russian and she knows that Anna Karenina is as true a tale of love as exists in the world. (Her daydream is absolutely hilarious, too, in a darkly comic way.)

and finally a love poem, also by notjenny - Susan/Talia (S2) and Susan/Delenn (post-SiL). I love the contrasts between the two relationships presented here. Both are so real; both are so different.

Tangles by Aris Merquoni - Susan/Delenn friendship fic, set soon after SiL. Susan starts over. Delenn is there for her.

And finally, a vid rec: this video is a fan-made animation pitting ships from Star Trek, Star Wars, B5, and (old) BSG together in a big ol' firefight. Awesome.

Comments

[caffey.livejournal.com]

Apparently this was the original five-year plan for B5..

O.M.G. I stopped reading at Unclear exactly when this is revealed, but the secret behind Sinclair & the Battle of the Line is not that he becomes Valen (Valen is never mentioned in this outline), but that he is the person who has been prophesied to save the Minbari from dying off. In order to fulfill the prophesy, Delenn must transform to become human and mate with Sinclair. Their son will be some kind of chosen one who will save the Minbari race from extinction(???). Is it just me or does this, at least to some extent, sound like Frank Herbert's Dune?

Do I wanna continue reading?

Further things I'm glad never made it to the screen: apparently if Claudia Christian had stayed for S5, Ivanova was going to get involved with Byron.

Yuck. The thought is plain gross.

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

HAHA OMG. That original B5 thing is so awesomely cracktastic. JMS has said he thought it up in the shower once and really it is JUST THAT CRAZY.

Also: I TOLD YOU CATHERINE SAKAI WAS ANNA SHERIDAN. I would have freaking DIED. I would have sobbed and raged.

I love that it's like, "At the end of the series, the station blows up and everyone hates them and they're probably going to die."

The thing I hated MOST about B5 (yes, MOST) was the way that S5 basically laid the seeds for everyone's doom and then LEFT THEM THERE WITHOUT RESOLVING ANYTHING. Fucking sleepers. *hates* So in the original version, I would have hated it just as much.

Although, I must say, I have always had a bit of a desire for one of my shows to have a series finale in which all of the main characters die awesomely and heroically to bring about the resolution to their intergalactic arcs. Is that wrong of me? I either like my finales to be like Star Trek TNG where the idea is "everything will be like it always was and things are great!" or "EVERYTHING IS OVER AND NO ONE HAS TO SUFFER ANYMORE."

:)

[aris-tgd.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks for the rec! I've written more B5 stuff, though, uh, can't remember if any of it is stuff you 'ship.

It's all linked from the top of aris_writing, in any case. :)