(I have not watched In the Beginning yet! The only one of the films I've seen is the pilot movie, although of the others, In the Beginning is the one I know most about. I just couldn't quite bring myself to watch old, kind of broken Londo.)
YES, re: both the Centauri and the Narn and cross-species sex. Your theory of the Centauri attitude jives perfectly. Meanwhile I am a bit ... worried for G'Kar, because, as you say, his sexuality is a psychological minefield. I feel that in part it also has to be just that he spends so much time worrying about and caring for his own people that most of them end up being like his children, and can't be objects of potential desire. Which doesn't mean he didn't also imprint on the Centauri, and that it isn't deeply problematic in lots of ways.
Re: G'Kar blackmailing Londo, I forgot about Emperor Turhan! (Cartagia tends to make such an overwhelming impression that lots of other things seem sort of irrelevant, y'know?) If Turhan is Emperor, all of Londo's problems and his family connections make a lot more sense. :)
Yes, I noticed that Delenn and the Minbari assassin had pretty much all the same gender markers! I'm glad they changed her makeup, but I think Minbari without gender binary is cool in concept, even if it didn't work out in execution.
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(I have not watched In the Beginning yet! The only one of the films I've seen is the pilot movie, although of the others, In the Beginning is the one I know most about. I just couldn't quite bring myself to watch old, kind of broken Londo.)
YES, re: both the Centauri and the Narn and cross-species sex. Your theory of the Centauri attitude jives perfectly. Meanwhile I am a bit ... worried for G'Kar, because, as you say, his sexuality is a psychological minefield. I feel that in part it also has to be just that he spends so much time worrying about and caring for his own people that most of them end up being like his children, and can't be objects of potential desire. Which doesn't mean he didn't also imprint on the Centauri, and that it isn't deeply problematic in lots of ways.
Re: G'Kar blackmailing Londo, I forgot about Emperor Turhan! (Cartagia tends to make such an overwhelming impression that lots of other things seem sort of irrelevant, y'know?) If Turhan is Emperor, all of Londo's problems and his family connections make a lot more sense. :)
Yes, I noticed that Delenn and the Minbari assassin had pretty much all the same gender markers! I'm glad they changed her makeup, but I think Minbari without gender binary is cool in concept, even if it didn't work out in execution.