maybe she didn't have the influence over everyone she does by the time the series starts? That's how I'm fanwanking it, anyway.
Totally true - she would certainly not have been the same kind of force that she was later.
(And I think I kind of need to her to have repented once she saw how bad things were going for the humans, just for my own peace of mind...)
Heheheheh. I certainly think she would have regretted the decision later, when things really god bad - I don't think she's at all the sort to willingly commit actual genocide. I'm not even quite sure why I'm so resistant to the five-minutes-later repentance - I think it's because it sort of absolves her of responsibility. Oh, she didn't mean it, they just caught her right in the heat of the moment, and she regretted it right away! Which is possible, but at the same time, it... kind of doesn't fit how occasionally cold-blooded Delenn is about other situations. It makes it other Minbari who went mad with grief over Dukhat, and, really? Delenn was the one who was closest to him. Whatever variety of love she felt for him, I have no doubt from seeing those flashbacks in "Atonement" that she loved Dukhat with the same degree of emotion that Lennier feels for her, that same kind of dauntless, heedless, absolutely unthinking loyalty and devotion. I kind of love the idea that she was so overtaken with grief for him that she would do something as out of character for her normally as order all-out war and actually take a while - even just a few days - to really recover herself from it. It's scary as hell, but that's the kind of insane intensity of feeling that I see in the Minbari as a species, and our principle Minbari in particular. They have these wild passions that they just sort of vent and then forget about - no wonder they thought poor Marcus was repressed!
I like the idea of, say, being able to look up directions while I'm out driving (well, once I'd pulled into a parking lot) or look to see if it's going to rain, but am otherwise unsure where I'd actually use phone-based internet, especially considering how rarely I leave the house...
It's totally one of those things where I can see how it would make no sense at all for a lot of people. For me... I bus a lot. And after the umpteen-billionth time getting lost or having the buses do something unexpected or trying to meet up with someone but then they email me after I've already left and plans change or something crazy like that, or I wander around on a walk for too long and manage to lose my bus-stops and can't figure out where the heck I am, it's a really nice thing to have Google maps, the bus-schedules and trip-planner, and all that stuff right at my fingertips. Plus, I got sick of getting in situations where I'd only brought one book (or, god help me, forgotten a book) and then got stuck waiting an extra hour for my bus because there's a baseball game or something. So... it's a very frivolous thing, but since I don't spend money on a car (or the parking for one, which in my neighborhood is astronomical), I decided it was worth it.
Also, it encourages me to be more careful about actually having my phone CHARGED and ON, which I was always bad about with my old phone. :P
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Date: 2010-09-26 05:19 am (UTC)Totally true - she would certainly not have been the same kind of force that she was later.
(And I think I kind of need to her to have repented once she saw how bad things were going for the humans, just for my own peace of mind...)
Heheheheh. I certainly think she would have regretted the decision later, when things really god bad - I don't think she's at all the sort to willingly commit actual genocide. I'm not even quite sure why I'm so resistant to the five-minutes-later repentance - I think it's because it sort of absolves her of responsibility. Oh, she didn't mean it, they just caught her right in the heat of the moment, and she regretted it right away! Which is possible, but at the same time, it... kind of doesn't fit how occasionally cold-blooded Delenn is about other situations. It makes it other Minbari who went mad with grief over Dukhat, and, really? Delenn was the one who was closest to him. Whatever variety of love she felt for him, I have no doubt from seeing those flashbacks in "Atonement" that she loved Dukhat with the same degree of emotion that Lennier feels for her, that same kind of dauntless, heedless, absolutely unthinking loyalty and devotion. I kind of love the idea that she was so overtaken with grief for him that she would do something as out of character for her normally as order all-out war and actually take a while - even just a few days - to really recover herself from it. It's scary as hell, but that's the kind of insane intensity of feeling that I see in the Minbari as a species, and our principle Minbari in particular. They have these wild passions that they just sort of vent and then forget about - no wonder they thought poor Marcus was repressed!
I like the idea of, say, being able to look up directions while I'm out driving (well, once I'd pulled into a parking lot) or look to see if it's going to rain, but am otherwise unsure where I'd actually use phone-based internet, especially considering how rarely I leave the house...
It's totally one of those things where I can see how it would make no sense at all for a lot of people. For me... I bus a lot. And after the umpteen-billionth time getting lost or having the buses do something unexpected or trying to meet up with someone but then they email me after I've already left and plans change or something crazy like that, or I wander around on a walk for too long and manage to lose my bus-stops and can't figure out where the heck I am, it's a really nice thing to have Google maps, the bus-schedules and trip-planner, and all that stuff right at my fingertips. Plus, I got sick of getting in situations where I'd only brought one book (or, god help me, forgotten a book) and then got stuck waiting an extra hour for my bus because there's a baseball game or something. So... it's a very frivolous thing, but since I don't spend money on a car (or the parking for one, which in my neighborhood is astronomical), I decided it was worth it.
Also, it encourages me to be more careful about actually having my phone CHARGED and ON, which I was always bad about with my old phone. :P