It's such a lovely character piece, this story, both of Vir and everyone else.
It was an odd thing, really. Leaving Centauri Prime in ruins, it felt as if she had left more than just Mollari there.
This is a feeling I get from Delenn a lot in the later part of s5, from the time she hugs Londo onwards, and you verbalize it. Her paralleling the loss of Lennier and Vir's loss of Londo works also very well. And Londo not having packed is such an inspired and heartbreaking detail. Of course he didn't. And of course Vir would understand the implication.
The Londo-Vir conversation re: succession and Vintar, what Londo can't and can tell Vir, and Vir's responses: perfect.
One of the things that frustrate me most about David's Centauri trilogy is the lack of G'Kar and G'Kar-Centauri characters interaction, so that scene with him and Vir was very, very welcome. Vir not wanting to be protected, G'Kar insisting he's the hope of the Centauri: if you look back to the "dead... dead...dead" scene between them, it's the complete contrast, and yet it's the logical continuation.
TIMOV!!!!! So glad she survives in your version of events. The exchange with Sheridan was so great, and the one with Vir was fantastic. "A good man" just about sums it up.
Historian: ah, that Chinese curse of "may you live in interesting times". I'm glad Vir's reign was peaceful and thus "uninteresting"; both he and the Centauri really needed that.
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It was an odd thing, really. Leaving Centauri Prime in ruins, it felt as if she had left more than just Mollari there.
This is a feeling I get from Delenn a lot in the later part of s5, from the time she hugs Londo onwards, and you verbalize it. Her paralleling the loss of Lennier and Vir's loss of Londo works also very well. And Londo not having packed is such an inspired and heartbreaking detail. Of course he didn't. And of course Vir would understand the implication.
The Londo-Vir conversation re: succession and Vintar, what Londo can't and can tell Vir, and Vir's responses: perfect.
One of the things that frustrate me most about David's Centauri trilogy is the lack of G'Kar and G'Kar-Centauri characters interaction, so that scene with him and Vir was very, very welcome. Vir not wanting to be protected, G'Kar insisting he's the hope of the Centauri: if you look back to the "dead... dead...dead" scene between them, it's the complete contrast, and yet it's the logical continuation.
TIMOV!!!!! So glad she survives in your version of events. The exchange with Sheridan was so great, and the one with Vir was fantastic. "A good man" just about sums it up.
Historian: ah, that Chinese curse of "may you live in interesting times". I'm glad Vir's reign was peaceful and thus "uninteresting"; both he and the Centauri really needed that.