That's just a linguistic tic, if an archaic one. There are a lot of recorded cases of people referring to e.g. the mental habits of 'the German' (meaning 'all Germans, considered as a unit'). 'The Vorlon' is just the same, and makes a lot more sense than it does when applied to human nationalities: Vorlons really…

The music really helps there. Because of *course* a dirge is the right musical accompaniment to a civil war…

And in the real world, Mira Furlan failed to snap the sceptre and they had to reshoot :)

How anyone can look at human history and conclude *that* is beyond me. It's like xenophobia and racism are not the default state that requires effort to overcome in the JMS universe… must be a nice place to live, but it's not this Earth. (Maybe Delenn could comment on this apparent difference, only I can't flag her…

These words SPOILERS become very important in the Centauri books. Downside: yes, this means the never-to-be-sufficiently-damned Technomages are in them too. Alas.

The problem with living with a Hungarian for a year or two (and having an almost-Hungarian grandparent) is that it's very hard to hear Londo's voice as such. He just sounds like my grandpa.

Yeah. That SPOILER moment of perfect beauty that Kosh showed Sheridan? The sounds were real, but the monks around him were pak'ma'ra under changeling nets. Really good changeling nets that could block out, y'know, the smell.

And then again, some of those accents were, y'know, the actual actor's or actress's accent. It's *hard* to eliminate those if English isn't your first language: not everyone manages it.

It's more like it was working off roads built by the dinosaurs at their height, and us mere mammals are slowly extending it as best we can. Those networks are *old*.

Not just Lost Tales, at least one of the movies too.

This is actually less disturbing than what happens to actual insects: a lot of cells dedifferentiate into stem cells, migrate, and redifferentiate again — but the highly-specialized stuff, including nearly all the neural tissue, commits apoptosis (cellular suicide) and the debris is eaten by (the insect equivalent of)…

I'd say 'Asimov Syndrome' would be more effective. He overconnected unrelated things in his late career far more than Star Wars could ever dream of. (See also Heinlein.)

No, Sheridan was never the basis. The fake Centauri was invented by Vir: Sheridan didn't know about "him" until shortly before Londo did (and the whole house of cards came crashing down).

I know what you meant, but… the Internet was 24 when _The Gathering_ aired. (DNS and TCP/IP were 11.)

I know what you meant, but… the Internet was 24 when _The Gathering_ aired. (DNS and TCP/IP were 11.)

Also worth noting that the *other* side of Quality of Mercy was also a setup — for UNSPOILERS Talia's memory wipe and replay from the recording. Only the actress left and that never happened.

Also worth noting that the *other* side of Quality of Mercy was also a setup — for UNSPOILERS Talia's memory wipe and replay from the recording. Only the actress left and that never happened.

If you time it, he's not given much screen time at all. He's in the credits, but he's not a major figure. A few minutes or less in all but a few episodes.

If you time it, he's not given much screen time at all. He's in the credits, but he's not a major figure. A few minutes or less in all but a few episodes.

You're largely right — but look up black-body radiation. Radiation that is absorbed must be stored or reradiated, and in the long term the only option is reradiation, since nothing has infinite heat-storage capacity. Of course, you don't need to reradiate it as a black-body heat spectrum, but doing that requires yet…