Chilli
High Treason Prevention Officer
I just finished reading the trilogy. Not bad. I would have loved if we would have gotten to know David Sheridan a little better, here or in a TV movie or something. It nicely ties in to the future we saw and makes sense most of the times.
But one thing i noticed what is not necesseraly a mistake of the writer but Delenn not being as good a quick thinker as usual but:
When Sheridan is replaced by the Sheridan from 2260:
1) He asks her if there is anything he can do to stop this future from happening. She says there isn't. What is true. They DID drive away the shadows, etc. and the fate Centauri Prime paid could not have been avoided BUT one thing could have been avoided. Why does she not tell him that in a few years, Londo will be giving them an urn and that he should see to it that that urn is destroyed? At this point of the book, she doesn't know that David will turn out ok. It looked like she and Jonnyboy where screwed totally too, by the way. And, the presence of none of these 3 really had any neccesity for the situation to turn out for the good.
2) After talking to Londo on the way to the ship when John is being pulled back in time, her instinkts take over and tell him not to go to z'ha'dum. He had told here in his goodbye message before he went to Z'ha'dum that he had seen the future and she had warned him not to go to Z'ha'dum. He thought that maybe this future happened because he had listened to her warning and didn't go to Z'ha'dum. She KNEW that just telling him not to go to Z'ha'dum wouldn't change Jack, in the contrary, it would give him a reason to go. So, why did she not either not tell him at all not to go or tell him "Do not go to Z'ha'dum. Going won't avoid anything!" or something around those lines.
Also, this led me to think: What would have happened if he had not gone to Z'ha'dum?
My guess is that they would have lost the Shadow war. Without the understanding he gained by the shadows and by Lorien he would not have been able to talk the shadows and the vorlons into getting the hell out of the galaxy, without the messiac possition he gained by coming back from the dead he would not have been able to pull the races together the way he did. Either way it would have been worse then the future that happened..i guess.
As it said in the book when she told John not to go she was not in controll of herself.
See ya later
But one thing i noticed what is not necesseraly a mistake of the writer but Delenn not being as good a quick thinker as usual but:
When Sheridan is replaced by the Sheridan from 2260:
1) He asks her if there is anything he can do to stop this future from happening. She says there isn't. What is true. They DID drive away the shadows, etc. and the fate Centauri Prime paid could not have been avoided BUT one thing could have been avoided. Why does she not tell him that in a few years, Londo will be giving them an urn and that he should see to it that that urn is destroyed? At this point of the book, she doesn't know that David will turn out ok. It looked like she and Jonnyboy where screwed totally too, by the way. And, the presence of none of these 3 really had any neccesity for the situation to turn out for the good.
2) After talking to Londo on the way to the ship when John is being pulled back in time, her instinkts take over and tell him not to go to z'ha'dum. He had told here in his goodbye message before he went to Z'ha'dum that he had seen the future and she had warned him not to go to Z'ha'dum. He thought that maybe this future happened because he had listened to her warning and didn't go to Z'ha'dum. She KNEW that just telling him not to go to Z'ha'dum wouldn't change Jack, in the contrary, it would give him a reason to go. So, why did she not either not tell him at all not to go or tell him "Do not go to Z'ha'dum. Going won't avoid anything!" or something around those lines.
Also, this led me to think: What would have happened if he had not gone to Z'ha'dum?
My guess is that they would have lost the Shadow war. Without the understanding he gained by the shadows and by Lorien he would not have been able to talk the shadows and the vorlons into getting the hell out of the galaxy, without the messiac possition he gained by coming back from the dead he would not have been able to pull the races together the way he did. Either way it would have been worse then the future that happened..i guess.
As it said in the book when she told John not to go she was not in controll of herself.
See ya later