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May. 6th, 2004 01:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eye_of_a_catHe's not dead.
This isn't just denial. My favourite characters always die, to the point where my friends consider it a kind of spoiler warning - anyone I mention liking will die, get used to it. (I believe other people have this ability with goldfish or houseplants.) I've had a long time to get used to this, and if I really thought Lennier was dead, I'd be able to accept it with only minimal grumbling. I'm convinced he isn't, though.
Firstly, the toast to 'absent friends' in SiL, which everyone bar me seems to think means 'dead friends'. I know the others mentioned are canonically dead by this point, but 'absent' could just mean 'absent' in Lennier's case, which is what I assumed when I first saw SiL - Delenn just hadn't seen him since Objects at Rest.
Secondly, Morden's hints in Day of the Dead. It's Morden. I don't trust Morden.
Thirdly, the speculation for Crusade, in which both JMS and an abandoned script apparently imply Lennier dies during the Telepath War. It's not directly stated anywhere I can find, but it's implied pretty heavily. Well. Not only do I think this doesn't mean Lennier's dead by the time of Crusade, but I'm halfway convinced that it proves he's not.
I don't trust JMS either (a bit more than Morden, maybe), and I know that in the past he's been very, very secretive about future plot developments. (He's definitely lied about things on at least one occasion to distract people from guessing.) Even with Crusade being cancelled (and the Telepath War predates Crusade), it seems extremely unlike him to give away a plot point involving a character death so lightly. He's not given up working within the B5 universe, so why tell everyone about a plot point which hasn't happened yet? And if he did want to, for whatever reason, why not just say it outright rather than dance around it, all the time dropping hints which are much, much more obvious than all his normal ones? Something is suspicious here.
I think it suits JMS to have people assume Lennier's dead. Giving away future plot points doesn't usually suit JMS, but pointing people down a different route so they won't expect them does, and I think that's what he's doing here.
That's about 75% reasoning with reference to JMS's sneakiness in the past, and 25% clamping my hands over my ears while shouting very loudly "It's not true! It's not!" Which isn't a bad ratio, all things considered.
This isn't just denial. My favourite characters always die, to the point where my friends consider it a kind of spoiler warning - anyone I mention liking will die, get used to it. (I believe other people have this ability with goldfish or houseplants.) I've had a long time to get used to this, and if I really thought Lennier was dead, I'd be able to accept it with only minimal grumbling. I'm convinced he isn't, though.
Firstly, the toast to 'absent friends' in SiL, which everyone bar me seems to think means 'dead friends'. I know the others mentioned are canonically dead by this point, but 'absent' could just mean 'absent' in Lennier's case, which is what I assumed when I first saw SiL - Delenn just hadn't seen him since Objects at Rest.
Secondly, Morden's hints in Day of the Dead. It's Morden. I don't trust Morden.
Thirdly, the speculation for Crusade, in which both JMS and an abandoned script apparently imply Lennier dies during the Telepath War. It's not directly stated anywhere I can find, but it's implied pretty heavily. Well. Not only do I think this doesn't mean Lennier's dead by the time of Crusade, but I'm halfway convinced that it proves he's not.
I don't trust JMS either (a bit more than Morden, maybe), and I know that in the past he's been very, very secretive about future plot developments. (He's definitely lied about things on at least one occasion to distract people from guessing.) Even with Crusade being cancelled (and the Telepath War predates Crusade), it seems extremely unlike him to give away a plot point involving a character death so lightly. He's not given up working within the B5 universe, so why tell everyone about a plot point which hasn't happened yet? And if he did want to, for whatever reason, why not just say it outright rather than dance around it, all the time dropping hints which are much, much more obvious than all his normal ones? Something is suspicious here.
I think it suits JMS to have people assume Lennier's dead. Giving away future plot points doesn't usually suit JMS, but pointing people down a different route so they won't expect them does, and I think that's what he's doing here.
That's about 75% reasoning with reference to JMS's sneakiness in the past, and 25% clamping my hands over my ears while shouting very loudly "It's not true! It's not!" Which isn't a bad ratio, all things considered.
