Here, though, Sheridan's actions are not shown as a good and justifiable thing to do.
No, and I'm hard pressed to think of parallels in other shows. It's also a very contemporary topic. Because Morden is a certified villain, and not an innocent, but the episode makes it clear - both through Garibaldi and Ivanova - that this still doesn't mean Sheridan can can abuse his own power by going Guantanamo on him.
I loved how completely Sheridan was obsessed with Anna this early in the series.
When rewatching the show, I was struck by the "my wife and my career" line, because obviously these are the two things he has to abandon in the course of his personal arc. B5 is very much about change, and Sheridan has to leave the two things he used to define himself behind - the EarthForce career officer, and Anna's husband. Which is why I think his personal arc ends at Z'ha'dum, which is the culmination of these developments.
I wonder how much of her was left after that, though - if her body was still there, and all her memories were intact, wouldn't that make her a lot closer to being the same person she was before that Sheridan allows for after going to Z'ha'dum?
Here we get into "how much do memories define a person" territory, which two other favourite shows of mine have examined beautifully. On B5, you have the concept of the death of personality via memory wipe and the implant of a new one, which I always found deeply disturbing yet fascinating. In Passing through Gethsemane, Edward and Charles are clearly two distinct personalities, both real, and yet they share the same body, and Edward is an artificial creation made to atone for Charles' crimes. Carolyn in Ship of Tears seems to be the same person Bester fell in love with, despite the implants and the drive to merge with machines, but then Carolyn was never actually plugged in a Shadow vessel.
(Sheridan draws an interesting parallel between Anna and Carolyn, in one of the few post-Z'ha'Dum Anna references, when talking to Bester in Rising Star, when he says he knows what it is to love someone and to lose her only to find her again and lose her once more. He does not make the distinction of this not having really been Anna then, but of course he's arguing with someone and pressed for time.)
Seeing Morden get annoyed was a nice change, too. He actually looks shocked for a second when Sheridan pushes him back into his chair and says he's not leaving, and he is clearly not happy when Vir tells him what he wants.
I think the only other time whe see Morden lose his cool - but then spectacularly - is when Londo blows up the island Selini.
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Same here, for much the same reasons.
Here, though, Sheridan's actions are not shown as a good and justifiable thing to do.
No, and I'm hard pressed to think of parallels in other shows. It's also a very contemporary topic. Because Morden is a certified villain, and not an innocent, but the episode makes it clear - both through Garibaldi and Ivanova - that this still doesn't mean Sheridan can can abuse his own power by going Guantanamo on him.
I loved how completely Sheridan was obsessed with Anna this early in the series.
When rewatching the show, I was struck by the "my wife and my career" line, because obviously these are the two things he has to abandon in the course of his personal arc. B5 is very much about change, and Sheridan has to leave the two things he used to define himself behind - the EarthForce career officer, and Anna's husband. Which is why I think his personal arc ends at Z'ha'dum, which is the culmination of these developments.
I wonder how much of her was left after that, though - if her body was still there, and all her memories were intact, wouldn't that make her a lot closer to being the same person she was before that Sheridan allows for after going to Z'ha'dum?
Here we get into "how much do memories define a person" territory, which two other favourite shows of mine have examined beautifully. On B5, you have the concept of the death of personality via memory wipe and the implant of a new one, which I always found deeply disturbing yet fascinating. In Passing through Gethsemane, Edward and Charles are clearly two distinct personalities, both real, and yet they share the same body, and Edward is an artificial creation made to atone for Charles' crimes. Carolyn in Ship of Tears seems to be the same person Bester fell in love with, despite the implants and the drive to merge with machines, but then Carolyn was never actually plugged in a Shadow vessel.
(Sheridan draws an interesting parallel between Anna and Carolyn, in one of the few post-Z'ha'Dum Anna references, when talking to Bester in Rising Star, when he says he knows what it is to love someone and to lose her only to find her again and lose her once more. He does not make the distinction of this not having really been Anna then, but of course he's arguing with someone and pressed for time.)
Seeing Morden get annoyed was a nice change, too. He actually looks shocked for a second when Sheridan pushes him back into his chair and says he's not leaving, and he is clearly not happy when Vir tells him what he wants.
I think the only other time whe see Morden lose his cool - but then spectacularly - is when Londo blows up the island Selini.