OFF: Re: HW: Question for Dave regarding use of music for Dr. Who
Arin Komins
akomins at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU
Thu Jan 25 10:43:39 EST 2001
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, M Holmes wrote:
:Subject: Re: OFF: Re: HW: Question for Dave regarding use of music for Dr.
: Who
:
:The cunning thing of course is that he really wasn't. He did the sales
:spiel for the Shadows in the vein of a car salesman "Hey, Ambassador
:Londo. Want to completely destroy several Narn planets; bomb their
:homeword into the stoneage; gain fame and fortune; become Emperor of
:Centari Prime? Well, just walk this way..."
*laugh*
:Well no. He simply asked "What do you want?" and of course the above is
:what Londo thought he wanted.
:
:That "minor character" comment is a major calumny IMHO. The Shadows were
:menacing precisely because just about all you saw of them was this
:polite, if not amiable, character, and some wicked looking spacecraft
:that could slice'n'dice just about everything in the galaxy.
agreed. I think my favorite sequence of the B5 series (as opposed to the
original pilot, which is still my favorite, but I'm weird ;-) ) is
the Morden/Molari/Vir interactions.
...but I never did buy g'kar as a christ-like figure....
Arin
(great fan of all the "nonmajor" characters in B5,
Vir/Lennier/Morden/etc.)
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