"Severed Dreams!" This episode. Oh, god, this episode. ♥♥♥ I love love love love love love love love love love love love love Delenn coming down on the Grey Council like a ton of bricks, invoking Dukhat's name and their bond and his blood on her hands, and putting the fear of all that's holy into them before breaking the council because by god they don't deserve it anymore, and then riding to the rescue here, it just... no matter how many times I watch that scene, I get shivers. Hell, just thinking about it I get shivers. She's so awesome and bad-ass and amazing!
And... okay, I am the biggest fricking soppy spaz in the universe for saying this, but I kind of love that he kisses her hand. It's just a thing. I am a dork, and JMS's dorkiness and mine just happens to share dork-space right there. I go unbelievably wobbly every time I see that. Just like Sheridan, it's stupid, but charming.
(Although there are times later when the memory of this whole episode will make me want to strange Sheridan - how in the name of all that's holy can he forget that Delenn is not some pampered helpless princess when she does this? And I know he doesn't even know the half of what she does in this episode, but... even the part that he does know!)
Come to think of it, does Minbar have a government anymore?
I get the impression at a few points later in the season that the caste and clan leaderships step in to try to fill the gap left by the Council, and don't do a very good job. We're coming up on stuff later that deals with the problems caused by the council being broken, and what that means for everyone involved.
Totally agree with you on both G'Kar's awesome and the total lameness of Sheridan's conversation with his daddy. I think you hit the nail on the head for why we have that conversation here, regarding stuff later in the season, but... dear god it's tedious.
I am still not entirely certain why this episode was supposed to have a higher personal cost to Delenn than the one where she gets kicked off the Council.
I understood it as that when she was kicked off the council they were just stripping her of her own personal rank and status as Satai, but this time she's gone right ahead and destroyed something that's been a major part of her culture for 1,000 years. As much as they needed a kick in the pants, that's a big deal, and it's not something she wanted to do. Before, even after she left, she could believe that the Council would continue on and keep doing what they've always done. Now she's done something that will irrevocably change the way Minbari society works.
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Date: 2010-08-08 09:38 pm (UTC)And... okay, I am the biggest fricking soppy spaz in the universe for saying this, but I kind of love that he kisses her hand. It's just a thing. I am a dork, and JMS's dorkiness and mine just happens to share dork-space right there. I go unbelievably wobbly every time I see that. Just like Sheridan, it's stupid, but charming.
(Although there are times later when the memory of this whole episode will make me want to strange Sheridan - how in the name of all that's holy can he forget that Delenn is not some pampered helpless princess when she does this? And I know he doesn't even know the half of what she does in this episode, but... even the part that he does know!)
Come to think of it, does Minbar have a government anymore?
I get the impression at a few points later in the season that the caste and clan leaderships step in to try to fill the gap left by the Council, and don't do a very good job. We're coming up on stuff later that deals with the problems caused by the council being broken, and what that means for everyone involved.
Totally agree with you on both G'Kar's awesome and the total lameness of Sheridan's conversation with his daddy. I think you hit the nail on the head for why we have that conversation here, regarding stuff later in the season, but... dear god it's tedious.
I am still not entirely certain why this episode was supposed to have a higher personal cost to Delenn than the one where she gets kicked off the Council.
I understood it as that when she was kicked off the council they were just stripping her of her own personal rank and status as Satai, but this time she's gone right ahead and destroyed something that's been a major part of her culture for 1,000 years. As much as they needed a kick in the pants, that's a big deal, and it's not something she wanted to do. Before, even after she left, she could believe that the Council would continue on and keep doing what they've always done. Now she's done something that will irrevocably change the way Minbari society works.