From her pov, the Shadows are evil and destructive, and not able to command someone's loyalty or bravery. So she assumes that a) Morden is a minion, and b) he's going to spill after enough pressure.
Yeah, I think that's it - it doesn't even occur to her that Morden's working with the Shadows knowingly and willingly. Maybe that changes after she loses faith in the Vorlons and realises what the people she's been serving are capable of, although I think she'd still have some trouble adjusting to the idea that you might work for the First Ones without worshipping them.
About Sheridan trying to get rid of Londo: yeah, that is puzzling. I suppose Londo could have done just as much damage anywhere else, but surely it would have reduced the risk to the station and all the lives Sheridan's responsible for if he was elsewhere. And that's even without the issue of trying to fight the Shadows with Londo so close. I suppose he could be worried about drawing too much of their attention, but beyond this episode he doesn't seem too bothered about that either.
Londo is prone to saying "I have no choice" re: the Narn/Centauri war as well, but in his case, not only does Vir point out that it isn't true but Londo himself comes to realize later on it wasn't, and in any event the show never gives us reason to assume we're supposed to believe he doesn't.
Yeah. The Delenn apologetics in In the Beginning were just disturbing as well as implausible - so if you're sorry after giving an order, then it's no longer your fault when that order's carried out? Plus the whole idea that the war could have a life of its own. Even if she couldn't have stopped it, which I don't believe, she could have done a lot more to try than quietly angsting over whether Dukhat would have approved.
Which is one reason why I think B5 handles the Narn/Centauri storyline more realistically than the Human/Minbari backstory.
For all the collective faults that Londo and G'Kar have, at least they don't try pretending their war never happened. I think Delenn wants forgiveness as much as Londo does, but she's willing to accept things that would be a consequence of forgiveness in place of that forgiveness itself - so if Sheridan loves her, then it doesn't matter if she never quite got around to telling him what she'd done. It does seem that canon exonerates her for it, though, and that bothers me. We only ever really get this one episode where she talks about it, which doesn't seem right.
I wonder if Delenn ever made the connection between the Vorlons destroying entire worlds because there's something bad and what the Minbari were doing? I'm convinced that was Vorlon-influenced behaviour (not that it should absolve the Minbari of any responsibility), and it can't have been easy to see someone else doing exactly what you once ordered yourself - even the Centauri don't want to completely wipe out the Narn.
Re: (II)
Yeah, I think that's it - it doesn't even occur to her that Morden's working with the Shadows knowingly and willingly. Maybe that changes after she loses faith in the Vorlons and realises what the people she's been serving are capable of, although I think she'd still have some trouble adjusting to the idea that you might work for the First Ones without worshipping them.
About Sheridan trying to get rid of Londo: yeah, that is puzzling. I suppose Londo could have done just as much damage anywhere else, but surely it would have reduced the risk to the station and all the lives Sheridan's responsible for if he was elsewhere. And that's even without the issue of trying to fight the Shadows with Londo so close. I suppose he could be worried about drawing too much of their attention, but beyond this episode he doesn't seem too bothered about that either.
Londo is prone to saying "I have no choice" re: the Narn/Centauri war as well, but in his case, not only does Vir point out that it isn't true but Londo himself comes to realize later on it wasn't, and in any event the show never gives us reason to assume we're supposed to believe he doesn't.
Yeah. The Delenn apologetics in In the Beginning were just disturbing as well as implausible - so if you're sorry after giving an order, then it's no longer your fault when that order's carried out? Plus the whole idea that the war could have a life of its own. Even if she couldn't have stopped it, which I don't believe, she could have done a lot more to try than quietly angsting over whether Dukhat would have approved.
Which is one reason why I think B5 handles the Narn/Centauri storyline more realistically than the Human/Minbari backstory.
For all the collective faults that Londo and G'Kar have, at least they don't try pretending their war never happened. I think Delenn wants forgiveness as much as Londo does, but she's willing to accept things that would be a consequence of forgiveness in place of that forgiveness itself - so if Sheridan loves her, then it doesn't matter if she never quite got around to telling him what she'd done. It does seem that canon exonerates her for it, though, and that bothers me. We only ever really get this one episode where she talks about it, which doesn't seem right.
I wonder if Delenn ever made the connection between the Vorlons destroying entire worlds because there's something bad and what the Minbari were doing? I'm convinced that was Vorlon-influenced behaviour (not that it should absolve the Minbari of any responsibility), and it can't have been easy to see someone else doing exactly what you once ordered yourself - even the Centauri don't want to completely wipe out the Narn.