[B5] Two Babylon 5 Notes
Mar. 13th, 2006 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldAfter seeing the last spate of episodes, two things have been sticking in my mind.
The talking heads on ISN responding to the foundation of the Interstellar Alliance in "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" suggest that, with everything that has gone on, the late President Clark's party might lose the elections.
Let's unpack the central assumption here. After their leader staged a violent coup d'état, installing a police state with the help of telepathic paramilitaries, allying with evil dark gods against for the sake of their technology and power, massacring colonists on Mars and elsewhere by the tens of thousands, and finally, planning to annihilate human civilization on Earth using the defense platforms in orbit, Clark's party might lose the election. This speaks of a worrying level tolerance for extreme political incompetents.
And the bitch of it, as President Luchenko might say? Earth seems to be more functional than the other regimes out there. Remember that Centauri Prime was nearly annihilated by the Vorlons because of a single mad emperor.
I'd forgotten about "The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" If I had, then the discussion I'd prompted with my confident assertion that Londo deserves to suffer with a Keeper on his shoulder for two decades would have gone differently. The episode seems to make the point that Londo's main problem was a lack of empathy, an unwillingness to challenge cruel tyrants, a seeming inability to speak up. Good episode.
The talking heads on ISN responding to the foundation of the Interstellar Alliance in "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" suggest that, with everything that has gone on, the late President Clark's party might lose the elections.
Let's unpack the central assumption here. After their leader staged a violent coup d'état, installing a police state with the help of telepathic paramilitaries, allying with evil dark gods against for the sake of their technology and power, massacring colonists on Mars and elsewhere by the tens of thousands, and finally, planning to annihilate human civilization on Earth using the defense platforms in orbit, Clark's party might lose the election. This speaks of a worrying level tolerance for extreme political incompetents.
And the bitch of it, as President Luchenko might say? Earth seems to be more functional than the other regimes out there. Remember that Centauri Prime was nearly annihilated by the Vorlons because of a single mad emperor.
I'd forgotten about "The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" If I had, then the discussion I'd prompted with my confident assertion that Londo deserves to suffer with a Keeper on his shoulder for two decades would have gone differently. The episode seems to make the point that Londo's main problem was a lack of empathy, an unwillingness to challenge cruel tyrants, a seeming inability to speak up. Good episode.
