indigobluerose:

ladyyatexel:

indigobluerose:

ladyyatexel:

indigobluerose:

My level of Sinclair appreciation has gone way up this time through B5.

I’ve felt that even just on my rewatch with tinsnip, and I just finished the show two months ago, it’s so surreal.

The acting is not as painful as I remember it (she says, as though September was some far away time to remember from), and he seems slightly more defined or filled in as a character? I almost always find captains and commanders in space shows to be dull and boring, so I don’t think he (or Sheridan) is really that great a character, but my frustration and irritation is definitely less this time around. Really wild.

It’s interesting picking up the little threads of how the story would have gone differently if Michael O’Hare hadn’t had to leave the show.

But my affection for him hasn’t run this high since the first time.

I’ve been reading about all the stuff that was supposed to happen if he hadn’t left!  That it was supposed to be Katherine Sakai doing all that shit we see go down with Anna and the Shadows, and that since we knew her character, we would have had a proper horror reaction to seeing her taken over.  That seems like such a shame that we lost something there, I think that would have done well.  But he talked in the things I read about how when it came time for that to happen and he had no room to develop Anna, that all the emotional weight had to be on Sheridan’s character since we knew fuck all about Anna, so he really gave a lot of thought to it and cast the actor’s real life wife, and wow I loved reading about the threads that got cut short.  

This was the same article or articles or whatevers that talked about the Ambassador’s aides all being like trapdoor characters in case one of the actors for the ambassadors bailed out, so they could take on their Ambassador’s roles, and I’m just imagining some really fucking wild alternate future in which Lennier turns into butterfly grows hair and Na’Toth becomes Space Lizard Jesus and eventually never leaves VIR’s side, who also somehow makes TERRIBAD decisions??? Like, wow.  I mean, obviously, they didn’t expect all of those to fall through, but damn.  I can hardly fathom how those characters would have taken up the reins if needed.

That would have been weird.  Londo and G’Kar were both kind of morally ambiguous at the start, but Vir pretty much never was?  He was basically The Cuddliest Centauri Ever from beginning to end.  I almost wonder if it wouldn’t have gotten flipped, and Na’Toth wouldn’t have been the one making terribad decisions (for Revenge) while Vir ended up being her moral compass?  That might have been interesting too…

Oooooh, nice!   

I really wanted Na'Toth and Vir to turn out to be friends sort of against their Ambassador’s wishes or in spite of them or whatever.  I thought we were setting it all up for something like that when Londo and G'Kar left their aides to do the negotiating for them, even though that wasn’t even Na'Toth at that point, I just really thought that would have been excellent.  I loved Vir with Lennier, I would have loved to have seen him interact with Na'Toth too.  What a great thing if they’d all bonded without their …employers? bosses? knowing about it.  

But yeah, I think you’re right.  Vir is just so completely a good soul.  Plus, I’d have been devastated to see him take a Lennier In Season 5 downturn, that was some horrible shit.  I’d so rather he be left in his cinnamon roll state.  And ugh, how amazing to have a female character that could have gone through the majestic fucking arc we see Londo have???  I would have loved to see so much more of Na'Toth. I wanted to see her grow and do things right along with G'Kar, even, not to mention just being on her own.

(And now I’m just like “Would I have ended this series shipping Vir and Na'Toth then???”)

I keep thinking Londo was ridiculously lucky that he ended up with Vir over pretty much literally everyone else.  Like, was the decision there ‘Ugh, whatever, no one wants to go to this crap ass space station, we’ll send Mollari, no one likes him. Also that fucking flaily weirdo, yeah, the roundish one, that guy sucks at being Centauri, send him too, now we don’t have to look at them for a while except when they call to give us status reports on shit we don’t care about.’

like sending GIR along with Zim

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ladyyatexel:

indigobluerose:

My level of Sinclair appreciation has gone way up this time through B5.

I’ve felt that even just on my rewatch with tinsnip, and I just finished the show two months ago, it’s so surreal.

The acting is not as painful as I remember it (she says, as though September was some far away time to remember from), and he seems slightly more defined or filled in as a character? I almost always find captains and commanders in space shows to be dull and boring, so I don’t think he (or Sheridan) is really that great a character, but my frustration and irritation is definitely less this time around. Really wild.

It’s interesting picking up the little threads of how the story would have gone differently if Michael O’Hare hadn’t had to leave the show.

But my affection for him hasn’t run this high since the first time.

I’ve been reading about all the stuff that was supposed to happen if he hadn’t left!  That it was supposed to be Katherine Sakai doing all that shit we see go down with Anna and the Shadows, and that since we knew her character, we would have had a proper horror reaction to seeing her taken over.  That seems like such a shame that we lost something there, I think that would have done well.  But he talked in the things I read about how when it came time for that to happen and he had no room to develop Anna, that all the emotional weight had to be on Sheridan’s character since we knew fuck all about Anna, so he really gave a lot of thought to it and cast the actor’s real life wife, and wow I loved reading about the threads that got cut short.  

This was the same article or articles or whatevers that talked about the Ambassador’s aides all being like trapdoor characters in case one of the actors for the ambassadors bailed out, so they could take on their Ambassador’s roles, and I’m just imagining some really fucking wild alternate future in which Lennier turns into butterfly grows hair and Na'Toth becomes Space Lizard Jesus and eventually never leaves VIR’s side, who also somehow makes TERRIBAD decisions??? Like, wow.  I mean, obviously, they didn’t expect all of those to fall through, but damn.  I can hardly fathom how those characters would have taken up the reins if needed.

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I am text posts r us tonight, apparently.  

Feelings and having an abundance of them, etc etc etc

I guess related to that, my Skype name is the same as all my other names, in that I’m ladyyatexel (or possibly Lady Yate-xel) there too.  Add away, if you should desire, just tell me who you are on tumblr so I can make some kind of association and so I don’t think you’re a pornbot, and I can add you back.  That’s my name fucking everywhere, you can talk to me on almost everything using the same name.  i’m on fucking AIM with that, not that anyone still uses that.  BUT IT IS THERE.

My usual Crying Over Londo Mollari Parties are livestream events, and i have some things I want to draw/paint that I could use as the excuse for that, but mass chatting on Skype would also be an acceptable Crying Over Londo Mollari Party venue.

also why is it too late at night for me to make a proper rendition of the londo and g'kar piggyback running doodle?  because that is all I want to do now

I want to have another crying over Londo Mollari party soon, or to have some kind of mass chat with those of you who have finished the show because I want to be able to talk about all this shit for a while!  I feel like I’ve only been getting scraps of human interaction I actually want lately.  

Interaction with my coworkers was so bad I took a sick day to get away from them, but I want to talk to more of you guys.  Should I encourage you all to add me on Skype (and then fucking remember to turn mine on) or something similar?