a species full of Klingon/Vulcan hybrids--a warrior race that got logic.
That's a good point - the Minbari plots occasionally remind me of the sorts of things that get written for the Romulans. Cold and calculating in the pursuit of their overwhelming passions, and bound by their own weird but very strict concepts of honor. They're so much more interesting than any of the three, though, at least IMHO.
I still don't get the significance of "one moment of perfect beauty."
I believe that would be "JMS is trying to look deep." Seriously, there's a bit somewhere in the guide (I can't remember where - I was just flipping aimlessly when I found it) where he's quoted giving this... totally pseudo-spiritual line that he says to write down and it'll make perfect sense at the end of the series. That must've been something he lost at a con or got sick and forgot or something, because, even after seeing the whole series, it makes exactly zero sense to me. He just kind of throws things out that sound deep until you think about them.
And I might be totally wrong, but my guess is that the constant confusion over Ivanova's age is a similar bit of confusion. No doubt each number made sense for him at the time, and he utterly forgot he'd already established something different.
Cynthia Torqueman is a jerk. (She makes Delenn cry! I mean, yes, Delenn's change, and her whole attitude toward the humans--"Look at all the trouble I went to! You should be grateful!"--is kind of patronizing, but still, that was mean.)
Yes! No matter how much I (gleefully) remark on how presumptuous, arrogant, brutal, and weirdly self-centered Delenn can be, nobody is allowed to make her cry.
Delenn's bit of "Yay humans and their community-building skillz!" at the end irked me, as the HUMANS R SPESHUL nods generally do, but eh. Whatever.
Every time someone says something about that, I just want to shake them. Or, better, JMS. Sooooo tedious.
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Date: 2010-07-12 08:59 pm (UTC)That's a good point - the Minbari plots occasionally remind me of the sorts of things that get written for the Romulans. Cold and calculating in the pursuit of their overwhelming passions, and bound by their own weird but very strict concepts of honor. They're so much more interesting than any of the three, though, at least IMHO.
I still don't get the significance of "one moment of perfect beauty."
I believe that would be "JMS is trying to look deep." Seriously, there's a bit somewhere in the guide (I can't remember where - I was just flipping aimlessly when I found it) where he's quoted giving this... totally pseudo-spiritual line that he says to write down and it'll make perfect sense at the end of the series. That must've been something he lost at a con or got sick and forgot or something, because, even after seeing the whole series, it makes exactly zero sense to me. He just kind of throws things out that sound deep until you think about them.
And I might be totally wrong, but my guess is that the constant confusion over Ivanova's age is a similar bit of confusion. No doubt each number made sense for him at the time, and he utterly forgot he'd already established something different.
Cynthia Torqueman is a jerk. (She makes Delenn cry! I mean, yes, Delenn's change, and her whole attitude toward the humans--"Look at all the trouble I went to! You should be grateful!"--is kind of patronizing, but still, that was mean.)
Yes! No matter how much I (gleefully) remark on how presumptuous, arrogant, brutal, and weirdly self-centered Delenn can be, nobody is allowed to make her cry.
Delenn's bit of "Yay humans and their community-building skillz!" at the end irked me, as the HUMANS R SPESHUL nods generally do, but eh. Whatever.
Every time someone says something about that, I just want to shake them. Or, better, JMS. Sooooo tedious.