Rewatch: "The Long, Twilight, Struggle"

[ruuger]

For some reason, I always confuse the name of this episode with the S2 finale... This is the one with the mass drivers, though, isn't it?

Bonus reading:

Analysis on Lurker's Guide
Discussion at B5_revisited

Comments

[philstar22.livejournal.com]

Oh, this episode. The one that originally made me hate Londo. It still makes me really, really angry at him even though I end up feeling bad for him later. But even madder at Rifa. He totally got what was coming to him later.

I honestly just...glory for yourself is not an excuse and neither is glory for your people on the backs of other people. There is one thing that I never agreed with in the series: the Centauri and the Narn being equally good/bad. The Centauri were always, always worse than the Narn. The Narn hating the Centauri given what the Centauri did to them is totally understandable, even if it is great that G'Kar was eventually able to choose another path. The show tried a little too hard to paint them as the same, particularly when G'Kar was the worse one in season 1.

That being said, it was an interesting and heartbreaking storyline. I feel so bad for G'Kar. And watching Delenn, knowing that she would help if she could but can't because of the Shadows and all she knows is heartbreaking as well.