I wonder how long JMS had this revelation planned? Her saying that she's spent the last ten years trying to make up for one moment of rage does explain a lot of her behaviour, although arguably we could guess some of her responsibility from knowing very early on that she was on the Grey Council.
True. I don't think JMS had everyone's storylines mapped out to the last detail (and not just because of the obvious necessity to change some stuff because the actors left), but in the case of Delenn I'm inclined to think this particular bit of her backstory was long term. First season Delenn was presented as ambiguous, but second and third season Delenn was shown basically exclusively in a positive light, and so I don't think it was a sudden new idea but rather something that, if Sinclair had remained the leading man, would have come to light somewhat sooner. (To provide a greater parallel between them.)
Which makes me wonder, too - if Sheridan knows by Sleeping in Light that she'd been on the Grey Council, which he says he does, then how close did he get to finding out what she did in the war?
I think if he had ever asked her directly, she would have told him. But he just didn't want to know, and so he asked neither her nor anyone else.
That scene needed to be longer, I think - deborah_judge said a while ago that Delenn wouldn't have been able to send away the Vorlons anywhere near so easily as she sends away the Shadows, and it would have been interesting to see her have to deal with either in more depth.
Yes to the later, but I'm not sure about the former. I think Delenn really meant it when she told Kosh II that she would lose all respect for "you" - meaning not just him, but the Vorlons in general -, and that was what she did. If she needed to be disillusioned about the Vorlons any further, she got it when finding Lyta in that rather blatant allegory of the abused wife scene. Lastly, she already had her big "Who are you?" inquisition. So I think that yes, she would have dismissed the Vorlons. "What do you want?" otoh, was a question she never answered in canon.
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True. I don't think JMS had everyone's storylines mapped out to the last detail (and not just because of the obvious necessity to change some stuff because the actors left), but in the case of Delenn I'm inclined to think this particular bit of her backstory was long term. First season Delenn was presented as ambiguous, but second and third season Delenn was shown basically exclusively in a positive light, and so I don't think it was a sudden new idea but rather something that, if Sinclair had remained the leading man, would have come to light somewhat sooner. (To provide a greater parallel between them.)
Which makes me wonder, too - if Sheridan knows by Sleeping in Light that she'd been on the Grey Council, which he says he does, then how close did he get to finding out what she did in the war?
I think if he had ever asked her directly, she would have told him. But he just didn't want to know, and so he asked neither her nor anyone else.
That scene needed to be longer, I think - deborah_judge said a while ago that Delenn wouldn't have been able to send away the Vorlons anywhere near so easily as she sends away the Shadows, and it would have been interesting to see her have to deal with either in more depth.
Yes to the later, but I'm not sure about the former. I think Delenn really meant it when she told Kosh II that she would lose all respect for "you" - meaning not just him, but the Vorlons in general -, and that was what she did. If she needed to be disillusioned about the Vorlons any further, she got it when finding Lyta in that rather blatant allegory of the abused wife scene. Lastly, she already had her big "Who are you?" inquisition. So I think that yes, she would have dismissed the Vorlons. "What do you want?" otoh, was a question she never answered in canon.