Delenn's statement about how we are always in the right place at the right time conflicts pretty heavily with Vir's belief that we must catch the correct eddies and currents of fate.
I'm not really sure that it does. Not at all, actually. This is, after all, a pretty common dilemma in anyone's life. Which choice do you make? Is the one that looks like it will kill you the one that will make you stronger, or vice versa, or are things as they appear? We're always faced with these decisions, every day. And Vir doesn't actually say that we must catch the correct anything. He says that some are better than others, yes, but that doesn't mean one is correct and one isn't. Delenn's view is more fatalistic, really--that whatever we choose, we're where we're supposed to be. I see that as a much larger view.
Londo is the obvious example. Are Londo's choices good for him as an individual? Only occasionally, and that's often by accident. He definitely lands in those eddies that look good at the time but will kill him--and they ultimately do. But Londo's actions bring about larger influences and issues that impact everyone else, often in very positive ways (could Vir really grow into himself as the character we know and love were he not faced with Londo every day and forced to listen to his own judgment of the example Londo sets? Not likely. Much the same could be said for G'Kar, who becomes who he is as a reaction to Londo). In Vir's view, Londo destroys himself--no denying that--but per Delenn, Londo remains exactly where he is supposed to be at every moment whether that moment is good for him or not. It's not about him in particular; it's about how his actions impact others. And for the most part, Londo's downfall, in a rather ironic twist, destroys him while elevating those around him.
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Date: 2010-06-26 06:47 pm (UTC)I'm not really sure that it does. Not at all, actually. This is, after all, a pretty common dilemma in anyone's life. Which choice do you make? Is the one that looks like it will kill you the one that will make you stronger, or vice versa, or are things as they appear? We're always faced with these decisions, every day. And Vir doesn't actually say that we must catch the correct anything. He says that some are better than others, yes, but that doesn't mean one is correct and one isn't. Delenn's view is more fatalistic, really--that whatever we choose, we're where we're supposed to be. I see that as a much larger view.
Londo is the obvious example. Are Londo's choices good for him as an individual? Only occasionally, and that's often by accident. He definitely lands in those eddies that look good at the time but will kill him--and they ultimately do. But Londo's actions bring about larger influences and issues that impact everyone else, often in very positive ways (could Vir really grow into himself as the character we know and love were he not faced with Londo every day and forced to listen to his own judgment of the example Londo sets? Not likely. Much the same could be said for G'Kar, who becomes who he is as a reaction to Londo). In Vir's view, Londo destroys himself--no denying that--but per Delenn, Londo remains exactly where he is supposed to be at every moment whether that moment is good for him or not. It's not about him in particular; it's about how his actions impact others. And for the most part, Londo's downfall, in a rather ironic twist, destroys him while elevating those around him.