Thank you! *beams* It's been a while since I wrote any B5, so I was a little worried I might have gotten rusty in the character voices department. Very happy to hear you think I captured them all with the right amount of depth.
Delenn paralleling the loss of Lennier and Vir's loss of Londo works also very well.
It's kind of ironic, isn't it? That Delenn, who has always been perceived as the wise one, would turn out to be incapable of holding onto the main relationship in her life (apart from her lover) while Londo can. And of course much of the praise for that goes to Vir himself, but still, it's one of those little twists that make me appreciate the last season more than it's given credit for.
The Londo-Vir conversation re: succession and Vintar, what Londo can't and can tell Vir, and Vir's responses: perfect.
Thanks! In fact, writing this fic was what made me watch the Lost Tales from beginning to end for the first time. I started watching it once, and was so disappointed by the first 'tale' that I never even made it to the second one. But the second one was a very pleasant surprise, with all the little hints at the Centauri situation and such. (Well - pleasant, apart from my headdesking about Sheridan still not even trying to find out what's up with Londo - even though he clearly knows something is wrong. "Londo's in a very dark place", yeah, right. *grumbles in fannish disgruntlement*) And is it just me, or did the actor playing Vintari try to mimic Londo's accent? Aww! *melts*
Vir and G'Kar: I couldn't pass up the chance to have a scene with the two of them! And I don't think I'd ever written Vir from G'Kar's pov before, only the opposite, so this was a new experience.
TIMOV!!!!! So glad she survives in your version of events.
Well, my own main frustration with the Centauri Trilogy (among several other ones, including the lack of G'Kar) was how Timov's ending was handled. It's not that I can't bear character deaths in a story (if I did, I wouldn't be in this fandom, obviously :)) but more that there was so little point to it, except to make poor Londo's life even more miserable - and I daresay he got enough misery piled onto him in the course of those three novels. (Hence, my second main frustration: that so much of the novels degraded into Londo-whump.) Also, if there's anyone with both the guts and the style to tell the President of the Alliance off, surely it has to be Timov. :)
And yes - like you, I'd like to believe that, even as Emperor, Vir was still able to build himself the life he wanted. He deserved that.
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Date: 2010-10-31 05:57 pm (UTC)Delenn paralleling the loss of Lennier and Vir's loss of Londo works also very well.
It's kind of ironic, isn't it? That Delenn, who has always been perceived as the wise one, would turn out to be incapable of holding onto the main relationship in her life (apart from her lover) while Londo can. And of course much of the praise for that goes to Vir himself, but still, it's one of those little twists that make me appreciate the last season more than it's given credit for.
The Londo-Vir conversation re: succession and Vintar, what Londo can't and can tell Vir, and Vir's responses: perfect.
Thanks! In fact, writing this fic was what made me watch the Lost Tales from beginning to end for the first time. I started watching it once, and was so disappointed by the first 'tale' that I never even made it to the second one. But the second one was a very pleasant surprise, with all the little hints at the Centauri situation and such. (Well - pleasant, apart from my headdesking about Sheridan still not even trying to find out what's up with Londo - even though he clearly knows something is wrong. "Londo's in a very dark place", yeah, right. *grumbles in fannish disgruntlement*) And is it just me, or did the actor playing Vintari try to mimic Londo's accent? Aww! *melts*
Vir and G'Kar: I couldn't pass up the chance to have a scene with the two of them! And I don't think I'd ever written Vir from G'Kar's pov before, only the opposite, so this was a new experience.
TIMOV!!!!! So glad she survives in your version of events.
Well, my own main frustration with the Centauri Trilogy (among several other ones, including the lack of G'Kar) was how Timov's ending was handled. It's not that I can't bear character deaths in a story (if I did, I wouldn't be in this fandom, obviously :)) but more that there was so little point to it, except to make poor Londo's life even more miserable - and I daresay he got enough misery piled onto him in the course of those three novels. (Hence, my second main frustration: that so much of the novels degraded into Londo-whump.) Also, if there's anyone with both the guts and the style to tell the President of the Alliance off, surely it has to be Timov. :)
And yes - like you, I'd like to believe that, even as Emperor, Vir was still able to build himself the life he wanted. He deserved that.