"And now, Episode 6, in which Sheridan steals an EarthForce cruiser and heads to Minbar to confront everybody personally!" No.
Yes, this is exactly how Sheridan would have reacted. Awwww. He's so... uncomplicated. ♥
So I suppose it's a combination of Minbari canonically all going a little insane with grief (as Neroon also does in this episode - dude, you cannot start a war by yourself here), the knowledge that she can make Neroon back down before anything bad happens and it doesn't have to involve any kind of agreement or negotiation, and whatever existing dynamic is in place between Neroon and Delenn, because presumably there's some kind of history there.
Yup! It's pretty clear in the episode that she's having a bit of an epic pissing match with Neroon over which of them has the greater claim to grief and fury over Branmer's death, and if I were to assume she actually had a plan the whole time and wasn't just reacting in irrational grief as we know Minbari do, I would say her plan might have been exactly to poke Neroon where it hurt, and keep doing it until he snapped (not very much poking required, there...) so that she would have a legitimate opportunity to take him down several very painful pegs. The fact that she got to do what she wanted with Branmer's body could almost be read as a bonus, in that interpretation - the real agenda was showing Neroon who was boss. ...Of course, I have my own agenda behind that interpretation, due to decisions about that wonderful, wonderful implied history that you remarked on. XD
Her mother was a telepath, and she's so adamant about being scanned that she's prepared to hand in her resignation over it despite how much her career clearly means to her, and Sinclair (and later Sheridan) doesn't for a second suspect it?
I think we're meant to infer that it would just be too shocking for her to have escaped notice by this point, but... yeah. It's a bit of a huge gaping plothole, I agree.
Just for that moment, he's not fooled or in denial at all; he knows. And he does it anyway. Oh, Londo.
That's kind of Londo in a nutshell, though, isn't it? He always knows. On some level it seems like he's always aware exactly what stupid, horrible things he's doing, but for whatever reason he just cannot bring himself to not do the thing. It makes his decisions all the sadder, because at least if he didn't know we could all say "Oh, poor, stupid Londo, walking innocently into that trap!" Whereas as it is... we're just kind of stuck knowing that he knows and did it anyway.
(Holy crap, I have so much missed having these conversations. You should start re-watching B5 every day!)
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Date: 2013-02-22 05:06 am (UTC)Yes, this is exactly how Sheridan would have reacted. Awwww. He's so... uncomplicated. ♥
So I suppose it's a combination of Minbari canonically all going a little insane with grief (as Neroon also does in this episode - dude, you cannot start a war by yourself here), the knowledge that she can make Neroon back down before anything bad happens and it doesn't have to involve any kind of agreement or negotiation, and whatever existing dynamic is in place between Neroon and Delenn, because presumably there's some kind of history there.
Yup! It's pretty clear in the episode that she's having a bit of an epic pissing match with Neroon over which of them has the greater claim to grief and fury over Branmer's death, and if I were to assume she actually had a plan the whole time and wasn't just reacting in irrational grief as we know Minbari do, I would say her plan might have been exactly to poke Neroon where it hurt, and keep doing it until he snapped (not very much poking required, there...) so that she would have a legitimate opportunity to take him down several very painful pegs. The fact that she got to do what she wanted with Branmer's body could almost be read as a bonus, in that interpretation - the real agenda was showing Neroon who was boss. ...Of course, I have my own agenda behind that interpretation, due to decisions about that wonderful, wonderful implied history that you remarked on. XD
Her mother was a telepath, and she's so adamant about being scanned that she's prepared to hand in her resignation over it despite how much her career clearly means to her, and Sinclair (and later Sheridan) doesn't for a second suspect it?
I think we're meant to infer that it would just be too shocking for her to have escaped notice by this point, but... yeah. It's a bit of a huge gaping plothole, I agree.
Just for that moment, he's not fooled or in denial at all; he knows. And he does it anyway. Oh, Londo.
That's kind of Londo in a nutshell, though, isn't it? He always knows. On some level it seems like he's always aware exactly what stupid, horrible things he's doing, but for whatever reason he just cannot bring himself to not do the thing. It makes his decisions all the sadder, because at least if he didn't know we could all say "Oh, poor, stupid Londo, walking innocently into that trap!" Whereas as it is... we're just kind of stuck knowing that he knows and did it anyway.
(Holy crap, I have so much missed having these conversations. You should start re-watching B5 every day!)