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Dec. 17th, 2004 10:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solitary_summerMore B5 (re-)watching...
There's another reason why I empathise with Garibaldi... so much of B5 is big destiny, epic love, ancient greek tragedy stuff, and while obviously this is something I like about the show (how could I not), I kind of sympathise with Garibaldi's frustration about not being able to have a simple conversation that isn't all about matters of life and death to pass the time on a boring shuttle flight. Moreover, he's the only real, almost defiant, atheist among the main characters: I mostly appreciate B5's spiritual angle (except for a couple of episodes that are too religious-heavy for my taste), I love Delenn as much as the next person, and as far as my own life is concerned I've trying to have a more open mind in this respect recently, but this religious approach is not something that comes naturally to me, and while I admire Delenn's character, she is not me, and I have a much more immediate sympathy for someone who's trying to make sense of life and live it in a good way without being able to fall back on the certainty that it does make sense.
More (mostly random) thoughts about this and that, but... later, i think.
[I always tend to skip the opening credits after one or two episodes, but I love Michael O'Hare's 'It was the dawn of the third age of mankind...'. ::Mmmsigh::.]
