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Slowly making my way through the first season Babylon 5 DVDs..

Repeatedly quoted in episodes 18 & 19 (A Voice in the Wilderness 1/2), but really a leitmotif of B5:

Draal: " The third principle of sentient life is the capacity for self-sacrifice - the conscious ability to override evolution and self-preservation for a cause, a friend, a loved one."

Would make for an interesting B5/Andromeda crossover. Not that I'm ever going to write it, but still...

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A weekend pretty much wasted, though this could be said of the past few free days in general... but then, on some level it was nice, just doing nothing for once, even if, on another level I maybe should be worried that unless forced to, I can so rarely rouse myself to any activity.

What also struck me yesterday watching the news is my recent rather appalling resigned cynical apathy towards politics, local as well as international. I will continue to vote, as a matter of principle, but there’s this lingering sense that it doesn’t make much of a difference anyway. I didn't used to think like that...

[On a somewhat less important, but still irritated note - I'm not a fan of the sport, but as it's impossible to ignore it altogether... I'm well and truly *sick* of seeing the winners of ski jumping events interviewed, every single one of them looking highly anorectic, sunken in cheeks, sharp noses and everyone pretending that nothing's wrong. This can't be healthy; those guys are athletes and they have the BMI of supermodels...]


( B5: 1.17 Legacies  )

( B5: 1.18/19 A Voice in the Wilderness 1/2  )