There is another extremely suttle one I caught when watching Z'Ha'Dum. Before I mention it, most of you I hope realize that 'Who are you' = the Vorlon's question and a basis for their philosophy, while 'What do you want' was the Shadows question, and the basis of their philosophy. I don't remember the specific episode, but Sheridan gets pissed at Kosh, and asks him why he is so interested in him, and in an angry voice he asks Kosh 'What do you want?!?' a couple times. Kosh replies angrily 'Never ask that question,' although at the time you may not fully understand why. Later, it becomes clear that to ask What you want, without knowing who you are, can lead to Chaos. So when Sheridan was asking Kosh that question, Kosh was warning him not to go down the path of Chaos like that, and that knowing 'Who are you' first is more important.
Having set the stage, there was a similar scene in Z'Ha'Dum when Sheridan gets let into the room with Anna, Justin, and Morden. When he walks in he asks Justin: 'Who are you' a couple times. Justin replies 'Now, thats not really important' and then goes off to give his vague reply. At first I took it to mean that it wasnt important who Justin's name was, but then thinking about the Shadows view on that question, I believe JMS put that there as a suttle hint that, to the Shadows, knowing 'who you are' isnt important, that only 'what you want' is, without thinking of the consequences (at least thats the shadows view, and Justin represented that view).
That was something I missed the first couple times, but when I caught it I really thought it was a cool piece of dialogue.
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'I don't believe in the no-win scenario' - JTK
[This message has been edited by Recoil (edited January 15, 2002).]
