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Originally Posted by MatthewLouwrens
Cool. I always enjoy Londo and Vir as characters. Still, sad that we won't get to have G'Kar in the stories - he and Londo were always such a wonderful pair.
That's the funny thing about television - here are people that we never know, never meet. I wouldn't know the first thing about Andreas Katsulas. And yet, when I wrote the above paragraph, afterwards I just sat there for a moment, sad that he had died, because he inhabited this character that I developed a great affection for. And so the world just felt a little bit emptier because Andreas Katsulas had died.
It's a curious thing.
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That interplay-dynamic the two characters (through the actors portraying them) shared was the key thing, and more's the pity we shan't be seeing that again. It'll be interesting to see how much of these recent real-life circumstances will manage to come through and flavor Jurasik's (and Furst's) performance.
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Originally Posted by BrianW
I hope JMS uses this opportunity to answer a few questions about the B5 universe, like who made the Great Machine (and why), and whether Londo's "gift" to Sheridan's son ever amounted to anything. I can do without exposes on Techno Mages, Rangers, or flashbacks to the card game between the Vorlons and the Shadows that got them bickering.
Oh, shoot, who am I kidding? I'll watch these things no matter what.
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Agreed about the Vorlon/Shadow conflict millions of years ago -- it'd be far too esoteric and abstract for a "human" audience to comprehend anyway. The whole story about Londo's "gift" to David Sheridan can be found in the
Long Night of Centauri Prime novels (particularly in Book III,
Out of the Darkness), though it'd be nice to finally show David in the flesh on the series and tie into (or even adapt part of) the books.