Lennier being in love with Delenn was in fact Mumy's idea, and JMS specifically asked him, "you know this doesn't end well, right?" Mumy: "Yep."

an “artificial intelligence” with the personality of an a chatty blue-collar worker written with a sense humor that might charitably be described as “old-fashioned.” More honestly, it’s awkward and horribly annoying. To be fair, the characters on the show also find it annoying and work to fix it. But if the show…

And he's Joshua Malina's brother-in-law. (No, really. Malina's wife and Busfield's are sisters.)

And when he's clearly wrong. Or at least, when the narrative doesn't agree with him, and the audience isn't expected to.

@avclub-04d524031f29c89d78cae864bd6f0de7:disqus Of course it would have—wouldn't be as tragic otherwise, would it?

Where Crusade was going would have been "investigating Earth's connection to Shadowtech," eventually.

One of the interesting things about “Point Of No Return” is that it seems to explicitly endorse the superiority of clearly defined, local hierarchies over nebulous loyalties to nations or “the greater good.” That’s not something that really comes up again so directly over the course of the show.

In a lot of ways I've had your reaction to Jeremy as I look back on the show later (as I said before, in the Sports Night of life, I'm a recovering Jeremy who dreams of Danhood), but on this aspect, I think it was a pretty even divide.

Jeremy and Natalie's breakup always made sense to me. I've never heard the "love bank" metaphor, and now that I have, I can think of a few objections to it, but it works here very well.

Right. He's roughly saying "it's even odds," or more generally, "it's anybody's guess."

JMS, in his chance to speak, talks about the fact that there was a union action (B5 was a non-union show, like many; but it was filming in LA, not Vancouver as was common, so the unions finally stepped in) in the middle of him writing "Exogenesis," and he thinks that's what tanked it.

Beat me to it, @avclub-97d6c074b974838257db17a02f8784c4:disqus.

Nimoy, perhaps, or George Takei.

“And I promise I will not rest until I stand with you again, here in this place where I belong.”—Sisko.

Dammit, I was going to bring up the fanfic angle. *grin* Beat me to it, Rowan.

I didn't say perfect with Rebecca. I said a triumph of nobility. Which includes correcting screwups. (You can't be noble if nothing goes wrong.)

I talked about that a long time ago, when I noted that the breakup felt natural, and so did the getting back together, which is saying something.

Appreciated!

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

Dan needed to be broken, or else he'd be too perfect. Look at last season: the conflicts Dan deals with (as opposed to the studio in general, "Ordinance Tactics," or where he's peripheral, the Mary Pat Shelby storyline) are the one-off with Hillary Clinton, everything with Rebecca, and Bobbi Bernstein. One of which…