In the early part of the Z’ha’dum episode it seems to me that JMS ramped up Sheridan’s arrogance to the max. Sheridan assumes his knowledge about Anna is infallible. Delenn knew that if she did even suggest that Anna might be alive Sheridan would go to Z’ha’dum and he basically confirmed her worst fear. She apparently didn’t know that Sheridan had told Kosh of his intention to go to Z’ha’dum. But, when Sheridan launches on Delenn, he is on the verge of doing a Londo. Remember when Sheridan told Ivanova that without Anna nothing else mattered? Londo is willing to let the universe burn for the sake of revenge. At this point Sheridan isn’t thinking too clearly because his pride has been hurt. He revels in being the boss and won’t tolerate any challenges to the plans he had already made. He uses a pretty poor excuse to cover his desire for revenge. “I’m doing it for Centauri Prime.” Give me a break! (Like Franklin’s alter ego chastising him about “self-indulgent Foundationist crap.”) In the time flash Delenn tells him not to go to Z’ha’dum because he did and even Londo concurred that because he came back from the abyss and won the Shadow war Centauri Prime got the mess that was left over. His infallible logic should have made the connection. If the Centauri destruction occurred because he went to Z’ha’dum and he supposedly cares about Centauri Prime, then shazam – DON’T GO you idiot! We will never know what might have happened with a negative response to Anna. He knew the truth with the medical evidence of Shadow implants, but he was willing to cut off his nose to spite his face. If he had been thinking like an Eisenhower he would have seized the initiative from his recent success to launch an offensive against Z’ha’dum with all his coalition forces instead of acting like a Lone Ranger. Delenn’s counsel in WWE sounds more like wisdom all the time, but Sheridan ignoring good advice gives the story its tragic edge.
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