Eep, you finished the series while I was away! I feel like first-time watchers deserve a support group for the dealing with the the sadness that is the ending of S5... still, it looks like you had enough of one here! So, belated (and still hurried, sorry) response:
- Lennier's diary. Yes. Argh.
- As for what he did to Sheridan - my own not-quite-canon-twisting justification for this is that, while we only get this mentioned once, Lennier did say he had family killed on the Black Star that Sheridan blew up - and Lennier had to have been quite young during the war, and Minbar was probably a very angry and xenophobic place to be growing up in then, and at some level that's still in his mind.
- omgMarcus. I'll admit that the first time round I was still hoping for some kind of last-minute rescuscitation (see: 99% of all the I/M fic out there), but it was much, much more effective this way.
- and on a more fun level, the first time I saw the episode with Delenn's "Bastards!" line, the TV channel edited it out - so you got Sheridan and Franklin's stunned reaction to Delenn walking into the room. This puzzled me for quite some time.
- Lennier not being dead - yes, exactly! I was less upset by Objects at Rest than I could have been, just because he didn't actually die in it and I was so convinced he was going to. And in a way - I say this after much grumbling about it for years later on, but in a way - it is a good ending for him, with a chance both for redemption and a storyline of his own that doesn't centre on Delenn.
- Recs on stuff (mostly Lennier-based): Sabine's fic Education is Lennier after S5, and most of deborah_judge's fic is set then too: Varieties of Repentance, The Candle and the Star, and Third Rituals (part 1, 2, 3 and 4 are parts of the same series, A Question, With Answers is an AU for a scene in Darkness on the Abyss, and, well, pretty much all of her stuff's worth a look, especially the meta on Lennier here. ) There's more - but I'll return once I've combed through my bookmarks!
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Date: 2006-09-25 10:41 am (UTC)- Lennier's diary. Yes. Argh.
- As for what he did to Sheridan - my own not-quite-canon-twisting justification for this is that, while we only get this mentioned once, Lennier did say he had family killed on the Black Star that Sheridan blew up - and Lennier had to have been quite young during the war, and Minbar was probably a very angry and xenophobic place to be growing up in then, and at some level that's still in his mind.
- omgMarcus. I'll admit that the first time round I was still hoping for some kind of last-minute rescuscitation (see: 99% of all the I/M fic out there), but it was much, much more effective this way.
- and on a more fun level, the first time I saw the episode with Delenn's "Bastards!" line, the TV channel edited it out - so you got Sheridan and Franklin's stunned reaction to Delenn walking into the room. This puzzled me for quite some time.
- Lennier not being dead - yes, exactly! I was less upset by Objects at Rest than I could have been, just because he didn't actually die in it and I was so convinced he was going to. And in a way - I say this after much grumbling about it for years later on, but in a way - it is a good ending for him, with a chance both for redemption and a storyline of his own that doesn't centre on Delenn.
- Recs on stuff (mostly Lennier-based): Sabine's fic Education is Lennier after S5, and most of