The Rose's Grove

I can't say I'm 100% jazzed about everything in the B5 trailer, but as with everything about B5, even if I'm complaining about aspects of it, I'm doing that because I love aspects of that universe so much that I become functionally irrational around them. So.

I'm obviously mad that the whole thing isn't about Delenn and the rest of the Minbari, Londo, and G'Kar, but if I have to put up with John Sheridan in order to get more of that universe, then so be it. And even though I feel like the animated Sheridan is a bit off and weirdly serious-looking, the sound of Bruce Boxleitner's voice lights up the room just like his smile does. I have no idea how he does that, it's quite impressive.

Hearing the old familiar voices that remain to us was a delight every time they appeared, and I was impressed by how much the voices that remain have not changed. I discovered I was half afraid that Peter Jurasik might've forgotten how to do Londo's accent, but of course he has not.

The new voices were largely successful to my mind, which was kind of a surprise! Unfortunately, at least to my ear, the new voice actress playing Delenn... um...

Look. I know my standards here are very high. There's a high likelihood I would have disliked anything short of Mira Furlan's spirit possessing some other actress and speaking through her and... somehow recreating her own exact vocal cords in the process. I am a teensy bit obsessed with voices in general (it's up there with "attracted to good acting" in my qualifications for serious, and seriously weird, crushes), but... let's just say that while I think this person is a perfectly fine voice actress, I don't think she made much of an effort to sound like Mira Furlan and/or Delenn. Which I think was a mistake.

Now, I have bitched about voice actors based on a false premise before and been proven wrong. I hope I will be again here. But this is a reaction to a trailer, so this is what I've got.

Anyway. The animation looks cheap (too much use of copypasta), I'm mad at JMS for seemingly once again forgetting that not all good Minbari (or, indeed, all Minbari at all) are Religious caste, the multiverse thing is overdone, blah blah blah. I'm sure I'll have a boatload of complaints, and I don't care. It's more B5. I'll be there.

Fandom: Babylon 5
Characters: Delenn and Mayan (friendship)
Rating: G

This could be read as AU, given that as far as canon is concerned we only know that Mayan visited B5 twice, both times in the first season, first in "The War Prayer" and then again (off-screen) in "Eyes." This fic posits a third visit, at the beginning of the second season.

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All right, let's do this. muccamukk asked to hear about my favourite one-episode guest character on Babylon 5, and, after some serious thought, I've decided that has to be Shaal Mayan... for reasons that have almost nothing to do with the one episode she was in.

( I have a lot of feelings about Mayan, okay? )