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Skriven 2007-06-07 17:41:47 av Matt Ion (1748.babylon5)
  Kommentar till text 15322 av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated (1735.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: Day of the Dead: my review
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Vorlonagent wrote:

>>> Don't be so sure that you can't pick them if you try.  Again, Lennier 
>>> getting Morden is an anomaly in the pattern of people getting dead they 
>>> had an emotional (often painful and unresolved) bond with.
>> ASSUMING there was such a pattern.  I wouldn't say Garibaldi had had a
>> particularly close bond with Dodger other than as an 
>> almost-one-night-stand.
> 
> They were getting close, then she had to go and got killed.

"Close" in the whole day or two the GROPOS were on B5?

It was an almost-one-night-stand.

>>> Lennier has no strong connection to Morden, no ufinished business.  So 
>>> why did Morden show up?
>> Perhaps because that's who The Universe decided was "needed" to deliver
>> the message?
> 
> Perhaps.  If so, the Universe is either so much of a bastard that it wanted 
> to set Lennier on his self-destructive course or simply didn't know him well 
> enough to find a proper messenger.

Lennier was already on that course.  As I noted before, Morden was the 
only one who could have really imparted that message, being the one 
person Lennier knew he absolutely could not trust.

> If Lennier did not summon Morden, I like the idea of Morden as a reflection 
> of Lennier's own deepening darkness.  In that sense, Morden is the perfect 
> choice.

There's that too.  Then again, if you go by some of the background 
picked up about him, such as in "The Shadow Within", perhaps Morden was 
never really as "dark" as Lennier is becoming at this point.

>> As several have noted, Lennier had no "unfinished business" with Morden,
>> so why would he want or expect to see him?
>>
>>>> Who he expected is unclear, but you definitely get the sense that Morden 
>>>> was NOT the one he wanted.
>>> I got a defintie sense that Lennier was ready for potential trouble.
>> Notice that he also seems rather surprised and confused when Morden
>> reveals himself... and Lennier then proceeds to attempt to ignore him
>> throughout the encounter.  This does not indicate it's someone Lennier
>> expected or wanted to see.
> 
> Seems to me that Lennier swung into immidate action.  Lunge, pike to 
> morden's throat.

Except he didn't know it was Morden immediately.  He heard the voice, he 
lunged... and put his pike up to the newspaper Morden was holding in 
front of his face.  When Morden lowered the paper, it took Lennier a 
moment to even recognize him - recall that Lennier had never had a lot 
of close dealings with Morden but knew of his deeds more through what he 
had heard and been told by Delenn.  Thus his initial confusion, followed 
by the surprise that it was not who he'd expected to see.

> After that, Lennier was not ignoring Morden but his message.
> 
> In many ways, the idea of Morden as an external manifestation of Lennier's 
> own Shadow seems to fit very nicely.  Lennier treats Morden the same way he 
> treats that part of himself...trying to bury it in meditation and duty 
> instead of facing it.

Agreed.
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