the Great Machine does little or nothing in the Great War
Yeah, it just feels odd. I understand JMS not wanting to use the Great Machine as an all-powerful deus ex machina that could be used to solve any problem, but without a good explanation as to why Draal can't/won't help them, it does come across as one when it's only mentioned when it is used (helping with B4, finding the first ones, boosting the Voice of Resistance signal...)
I wonder what the Centauri-in-the-street thought of all this longing for conquest. Idle support as long as it didn't impinge on their everyday lives?
I'm now seeing posssible parallels between Centauri Republic and today's Russia...
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Date: 2015-01-20 03:59 pm (UTC)Yeah, it just feels odd. I understand JMS not wanting to use the Great Machine as an all-powerful deus ex machina that could be used to solve any problem, but without a good explanation as to why Draal can't/won't help them, it does come across as one when it's only mentioned when it is used (helping with B4, finding the first ones, boosting the Voice of Resistance signal...)
I wonder what the Centauri-in-the-street thought of all this longing for conquest. Idle support as long as it didn't impinge on their everyday lives?
I'm now seeing posssible parallels between Centauri Republic and today's Russia...