Oh, I already had an argument with deadspeaker about it a while ago, when I wrote my "what if B5 had been written by Joss Whedon" (and BTVS by JMS, and a couple of other switches) persiflage, in which I cast Delenn the Shadow Slayer as Buffy and Neroon as Spike.*g*
(You know, after she - not some Earth jock - sacrifices herself at Z'ha'dum and gets resurrected by her friends against her will, they have this torrid affair which allows her to feel again...)
Okay, seriously now. If they had an affair pre-War it would give additional emotional subtext to both Neroon's anger and bitterness early on and later to his decision to join with Delenn to end the civil war, and then to die in her place. Really, what surprises me is that there is no Delenn/Neroon out there yet, but that Neroon/Marcus is.
(But then, any Marcus pairing surprises me, given that he's our one canonical virgin.*g*)
I find it fascinating that they revere Valen's memory as holy, but they refuse to play along with his ideas for equality in Minbari society. So much for the we're-more-civilised-than-the-other-races image they try to show...
Well, you have to allow for changes through a millennium, and, as the Sinclair novel indicates, different legends developing around Valen. Still, I suppose you can make a similar case for Christianity, given its humble origins and promotion to state religion post-Constantine with all the ensuing changes in regards to the social aspects of the message that meant.
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(You know, after she - not some Earth jock - sacrifices herself at Z'ha'dum and gets resurrected by her friends against her will, they have this torrid affair which allows her to feel again...)
Okay, seriously now. If they had an affair pre-War it would give additional emotional subtext to both Neroon's anger and bitterness early on and later to his decision to join with Delenn to end the civil war, and then to die in her place. Really, what surprises me is that there is no Delenn/Neroon out there yet, but that Neroon/Marcus is.
(But then, any Marcus pairing surprises me, given that he's our one canonical virgin.*g*)
I find it fascinating that they revere Valen's memory as holy, but they refuse to play along with his ideas for equality in Minbari society. So much for the we're-more-civilised-than-the-other-races image they try to show...
Well, you have to allow for changes through a millennium, and, as the Sinclair novel indicates, different legends developing around Valen. Still, I suppose you can make a similar case for Christianity, given its humble origins and promotion to state religion post-Constantine with all the ensuing changes in regards to the social aspects of the message that meant.