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Black armbands I'm fine with.
You look at current political discourse and there are organization names and protest signs and comments by actual people in power that make JMS' dialogue seem… dare I say it… SUBTLE.

It does kind of feel like she'd been rehearsing that speech in front of a mirror for a while.

Is this where the philosophical nature of the Vorlon vs Shadow conflict is finally revealed?  'Cause that's kind of one of my favorite things in the series.

There needed to be an episode where Londo faces the consequences of his actions on a personal level and literally look it in the eye.  To complete the emotional stakes, structuring it in the form of cultural honor and custom ties the themes together visually and emotionally.

I agree with you but it's one of those things that gots a lot of split opinion.  I've heard/read many complaints that it's clunky or heavy-handed.  I just love "The Everyman" type of character in these shows and I think the actor is so sympathetic and wonderful that it works beautifully.

Man I am sick of all the "subtlety" complaints.

Anecdotal I know, but I on the contrary am seeing a LOT of non-book readers predicting Robb's demise and specifically due to pissing off Frey.

Tiger!

Three of Delenn's core character traits—manipulativeness, passive
aggression, and emotional instability—are traits that have historically
been ascribed to women

Wish fulfilment fantasy?  Zuh?  Who wishes for their wife to die so that a former enemy space alien can emerge from a cacoon to marry them after fighting a devastating war?

A year before or after and she would not have cried.  She is the most vulnerable at this point, emotionally, and full of doubt she will have been or ever will be in her life.

One female buddy-cop style pairing I would love to see is Delenn and the leader of the Mars resistance, that tall blonde lady.  Too bad one leaves the station just as the other arrives.

I'm sure it has its own Minbari word?

Also, the bridging humans and Minbari together thing applies more directly to the Rangers.

They're aliens, and they have to do aliens things, even while doing normal human things.  This is just science, people.

But, as pointed out above, it was not actually written by that person.

Eh, people use scary sounding words to talk about non-scary things all the time.  I just came out of a meeting where people threw around the phrase "killer app."  I assure you, no apps will kill any body.

My impression of the Black Star "dishonor" thing was basically that it was bullshit and they knew it.
The Minbaris' big problem at this point is pride.  They were in a war with a lesser, unholy species and it's shameful to them that they got outsmarted this one time in such a big, splashy way.

Caste is economic and political, clan is family.