Vir’s (almost) married! Or so Londo claims. I don’t trust Lyndisty or Londo. Love the name Centauri Abrahamo Linconi. 
Heh. Great opening Ivanova sequence, where she dreams that she shows up at work naked.
This is the first Vir episode after he finds out about the prediction that he is going to be emperor someday. We still don’t know what the new Emperor looks like, do we? Though he seems to like Vir. Surprising that he recognizes that Londo had influenced Vir’s reports, and asks that Vir be more confident in himself.
Interesting to find out that the fearsome Londo is afraid of bugs. 
So I’m curious…why is Londo so concerned that Vir get married? And that he hook up with Lyndisty? Is she is secret spy, to keep an eye on Vir for Londo? Is she really as totally clueless and naive as she seems? Don’t tell me.
Heh. Great scene where Vir asks Ivanova for sex/love advice. And we find out more about Centauri sexual organs, yikes.
Also cool to find out that Vir has been using a nonexistent person named Centauri Abrahamo Linconi to save Narns. He’s MUCH more of a rebel than I first thought he was back in the first season.
Wow, the captain’s a messier cook than I am! And it seems he wasn’t being modest when he told Delenn that dinner was going to be barely edible. She’s a trooper for eating it anyway.
Poor Vir. I don’t trust his wife, if she really is his wife. Though she could have run when Vir was attacked in the corridor, and she didn’t. Does she really love him? Hm…
Don’t tell me.
Lyndisty was perfectly cast. It’s pretty disturbing how sweet and loving she seems, until she starts talking about the Narn being inferior and how she’s killed many of them herself.
Still waiting for Sheridan and Delenn to consummate their love — there’s got to be a Minbari-human peace child, doesn’t there?!? Don’t tell me.
Interesting to see Sheridan made up like a Centauri. Hm, what are the chances that we’re going to see Sheridan masquerade as the real Centauri Abrahamo Linconi sometime soon? Don’t tell me.
Next episode: A Late Delivery From Avalon.
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In that opening scence, we barely notice (pun intended) that the others in C&C now have new B5 uniforms, but not like the senior officers. They almost look like regulation casuals.
We have yet to see the new emperour, but we will. The minister with the unique voice that talked to Vir is The Regent, but was not labeled as such in this episode. We will also see more of him on Centari Prime.
More fan favorite lines came from the Londo & The Bugs sequence.
Did that Narn family have a blood oath on Vir or on Lyndisty?
For Centauri, marriage is an important way to make alliances. This is just one more way of Londo shepherding Vir’s career.
Hm. “Abrahamo Lincolni” revealed in the same episode as some fairly obvious Civil War/slavery/racist imagery. Subtle, JMS
Got to root for Vir, though; it takes cojones — or whatever goes with or is part of 1 through 6 — to do what he did for the Narns, against the entirety of his race. (Or at least his supposed peers in the upper classes of Centauri.)
Londo might be exaggerating, but that IS a heck of a big bug. I’m not sure I’d want it running around my place, either.
Bruce,
Actually, I was thinking it didn’t look big enough! I’ve seen larger palmetto bugs (ie roaches) when I lived in Florida. And they can fly too! Now that would really freak-out Londo! (It usually does that to humans too.)
DJ @5: So have I — and they did (and I’m used to NYC roaches). I think they were going for a balance between something we could both see and understand Londo having trouble with, and something really, truly scary. (It was, after all, comic relief.)
Comic relief yes, but it was also there to show Londo being upset by the smallest of things and ready to go into a big rage because of it. Afterall, he was losing control of what he used to have control of, but he could not rant about those details.
That’s a good point, Tim. Ahh, where’s a Dalek when you need them! (Exterminate! Exterminate!)
Kinda a bit off-topic, but I read today that Bruce Boxleitner has just been announced as joining the cast of “Heroes” next season.
“Heroes”- the last best hope of past sf TV stars everywhere (isn’t that about four or five past sf TV stars now? We’ve gotten past characters from Star Trek, Doctor Who, Veronica Mars {not really sf, but still a genre fav} and now B5). Let’s hope “Heroes” pulls off a decent third season.
Happy Birthday on 5/8 to Steven Furst.
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