A collection of random musings (Glass, Adams & B5)

[hobsonphile]

Saturday night, my friends Jason and Daniel invited me to a showing of Shattered Glass, a movie whose release is amazingly timely in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal, which contributed to the unseating of Raines at the New York Times. A relatively straight-forward telling of the events that lead to the disgrace of Stephen Glass, former

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[neuralclone]

It's first thing in the morning, so I don't have anything too profoud to offer ... except to comment that Londo's first wife, the one he was forced to divorce, was also a dancer. I think he might also be recapturing his youth in Adira, as well as falling in love with her for herself. He is obviously expressing something that has been pent up deep inside for a very, very long time.

[hobsonphile]

I think he might also be recapturing his youth in Adira, as well as falling in love with her for herself.

Quite true. Which is why I think G'Kar had it exactly right when he observed that Londo never grew up.

You know, this further motivates me to explore Londo's youth in greater detail. The show provides several tantalizing tidbits- Urza, the story of his first marriage, etc. His admission that he sees himself in Vir is particularly fascinating in this regard.

Astute observation

[selenak]

Regarding Londo's first wife, I find it fascinating to observe how in his recounting of falling in love with her and getting divorced for Garibaldi in season 1, he ends the story as an anecdote, with the punchline being that she turned out to be a harridan with an annoying voice, but when we get inside Londo's mind in season 5 in The very long night of Londo Mollari and he talks with "Sheridan" (but really himself) about her, he admits that he truly loved her and divorced her only because his family insisted. "I died again that day." So yes, falling in love with Adira might have been a way to try and take the other road, the one not taken before.

OT side note: one could argue that in the "anecdote" version of his first marriage, Londo's subconscious is playing a trick on him because the wife who has an annoying voice and could be described as a harridan by him is actually Timov, and by mixing her with the dancer whom he did love, you could say he's admitting feelings other than irritation for her (Timov) without realising it.

Consider me extremely delighted *g*

[selenak]

I'll look out for the movie. BTW, did you see Quiz Show a couple of years ago? Your description of the plot reminded me a bit of it. In Quiz Show, Ralph Fiennes was the character with the easy charm, Charles van Doren, and one of the points the movie made was how overeager people were to forgive him as opposed to the unattractive, uncharming man who exposed him.

John Adams would make for a fascinating protagonist. And it could be a rich ensemble show, too, with Abigail A., with characters like Franklin and Jefferson... excellent idea.