cursing up a storm

[chanter1944]

Just found out Vir's actor has passed. As if I didn't have all the B5 feels already lately! Dammit dammit dammit! :( Too many beyond the rim. Too sharding many.

*repeats to self* The actor may be dead, but the character's not. The actor may be dead, but the character's not...

I would do well to remember this.

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[technoshaman]

My favourite Vir bit... which, come to think of it, shows just how much fire he'd gotten years before; he didn't just improv telling You-Know-Who off, he'd *thought about it*...

is this. Vir Gets What He Wants.

[technoshaman]

And then there is this. To absent friends, in memory still bright.

You'll need kleenex.

[thnidu]

I never saw much of the show past the first season, but that scene... close to Kleenex.

[technoshaman]

If you ever get round to it... you can kinda cherrypick Season 2, watch *all* of Season 3, most of season 4 (which includes Stephen Furst's directoral debuts), and of Season 5, ONLY watch:

The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
Day of the Dead (written by Neil Gaiman)
and the last four:
Wheel of Fire
Objects in Motion
Objects at Rest
Sleeping in Light

The rest of it? Out the airlock, really.

[thnidu]

Thanks for the advice, which I will save.

[chanter1944]

That sharding toast gets me every time, though I admit to wishing someone had said Talia's name...

Related, including to your episode and season recommendations below: Oh, I *like* you. :) To be fair, I already did, but yeah. :)

There's a season 1 fic in my journal, a few posts prior to this one... I wonder if it would interest? Forgive disjointed thoughts/sentences; I am overtired to a ridiculous degree, but the question stands.

[technoshaman]

*bow, flourish*

I just figured S5 was so *bad* in certain spots that a warning was in order... but it's not *completely* trash either; the ones I pointed out actually have some impact.

*goes to find fanfic*

[chanter1944]

True true. 'Day Of The Dead' actually made me like Lochley.

*curious* What'd you think? Fic, I mean?

[technoshaman]

And, oh, yeah. Talia. Talk about a raw deal. At least Lyta got a decent one. I think of all the characters who wandered through B5, she and G'Kar got the best outcomes. Well, and Garibaldi.

Susan? *sigh* Poor dear.

But then, except for Garibaldi, JMS never let *anyone* keep who they wanted to.

[chanter1944]

*thinks* Let's see. Molari definitely not. Franklin no. :( Susan--ooh, no, arguably twice, and if she knew either of us had called her a poor dear, she'd probably backhand us, eh? :) Lochley? Zoe. Sheridan and Delenn? Not forever, and the way they parted... jeez Louise. Sinclair? Well, there *are* stories about Catherine getting sent back in time and their finding each other, but they're not canon...

Damn. You're right.

[chanter1944]

That is a marvelous scene, agreed.

[alatefeline]

I'm sorry. The loss of a creative person whose work mattered personally is a strange kind of grief.

[technoshaman]

Innit though.

[chanter1944]

That it is, and how. That it is. See also every sharding thing I've written about, and every tear I've cried over, Sinclair's actor.