GKarsEye
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This post is not really intended to be political (I know that stuff belongs in off-topic).
Last night was one of the many instances when something I watch in B5 hits me in a way that relates to life.
I'm going through the series with my sister, her first time. Last night, my dad, sis and I had given up on watching the ESPN Sunday night NFL game (the Patriots walloping on the Bills like they were bitches- GO PATS!) None of us were sleepy. My sister and I decide to finish up season 2 of B5. No one is around when we watch, but my Dad was just hanging around before going to sleep, so he saw (or at least heard) the first half of Comes the Inquisitor, the episode where Sebastian interrogates Delenn to "test" her worthiness of fighting the cause.
My father and I have had many a heated arguments about the Iraq war. He has made the point that the war is "the right war for the wrong reasons." I argue that no such thing is possible, and it is a source of ideological disagreement between us.
So I found in particularly compelling when Lennier was explaining to Sheridan that the Vorlons were testing Delenn because, to paraphrase, the right person has be at the right place at the right time, and that without that, the work becomes corrupted. I couldn't help feeling how compelling relevant that was, and that my dad just happened to be there.
(No, I didn't say anything to him and I'm sure he didn't make the connection, but that's beside the point).
Of course that's also the episode where we start to learn how freaky the Nightwatch truly is as well, and I'll just leave it at that.
Last night was one of the many instances when something I watch in B5 hits me in a way that relates to life.
I'm going through the series with my sister, her first time. Last night, my dad, sis and I had given up on watching the ESPN Sunday night NFL game (the Patriots walloping on the Bills like they were bitches- GO PATS!) None of us were sleepy. My sister and I decide to finish up season 2 of B5. No one is around when we watch, but my Dad was just hanging around before going to sleep, so he saw (or at least heard) the first half of Comes the Inquisitor, the episode where Sebastian interrogates Delenn to "test" her worthiness of fighting the cause.
My father and I have had many a heated arguments about the Iraq war. He has made the point that the war is "the right war for the wrong reasons." I argue that no such thing is possible, and it is a source of ideological disagreement between us.
So I found in particularly compelling when Lennier was explaining to Sheridan that the Vorlons were testing Delenn because, to paraphrase, the right person has be at the right place at the right time, and that without that, the work becomes corrupted. I couldn't help feeling how compelling relevant that was, and that my dad just happened to be there.
(No, I didn't say anything to him and I'm sure he didn't make the connection, but that's beside the point).
Of course that's also the episode where we start to learn how freaky the Nightwatch truly is as well, and I'll just leave it at that.
