Re: "we'll have to kill him" - you can fanwank that by considering that knowing you're the reincarnation of closest thing the Minbari have to a Messiah figure is really not something you want someone whose moral values you're not yet sure to do. Let's not forget just the previous episode Sinclair was pretending to be a xenophobe. And the religious caste has at that point more power than the other two castes.
One of the things I love about the Valen/Sinclair revelation later is that this means the Minbari belief in reincarnation is neither confirmed nor denied, any more than any other religous belief on this show; the triluminary reacted to Sinclair because he was actually Valen in the flesh, the one and only, which says nothing at all about where souls go when one dies.
Re: acting, I get the feeling that this is the point where JMS adjusted his concept for Sinclair to Michael O'Hare as an actor, since early Sinclair being more the action hero type, like Sheridan later, whereas from this episode onwards we have more emphasis on Sinclair as a man of thought.
Deathwalker: was weird for me as a Star Trek fan because Jha'dur is played by Saavik. Speaking of ST actors, fun trivia fact: Knight 2 in And the sky full of stars was the role JMS originally wrote for Walter Koenig, who then had a heart attack (they didn't shoot the episodes in the order they were broadcast) and thus couldn't play it. Which led not only to some last minute recasting but to a second role JMS wrote specifically for Walter Koenig, and I have to say, thank you, universe, because Bester is so much the better part (and gives Walter K. more to do in a single episode, acting-wise, than Chekov had in entire seasons of TOS and the movies).
Vorlon parenting: not only that, but Kosh's recording of Talia is a painful procedure. These are the guys who employ Jack the Ripper as an educational test method.
Narn blood oath: there is at least one more episode which brings it up, Sic Transit Vir.
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One of the things I love about the Valen/Sinclair revelation later is that this means the Minbari belief in reincarnation is neither confirmed nor denied, any more than any other religous belief on this show; the triluminary reacted to Sinclair because he was actually Valen in the flesh, the one and only, which says nothing at all about where souls go when one dies.
Re: acting, I get the feeling that this is the point where JMS adjusted his concept for Sinclair to Michael O'Hare as an actor, since early Sinclair being more the action hero type, like Sheridan later, whereas from this episode onwards we have more emphasis on Sinclair as a man of thought.
Deathwalker: was weird for me as a Star Trek fan because Jha'dur is played by Saavik. Speaking of ST actors, fun trivia fact: Knight 2 in And the sky full of stars was the role JMS originally wrote for Walter Koenig, who then had a heart attack (they didn't shoot the episodes in the order they were broadcast) and thus couldn't play it. Which led not only to some last minute recasting but to a second role JMS wrote specifically for Walter Koenig, and I have to say, thank you, universe, because Bester is so much the better part (and gives Walter K. more to do in a single episode, acting-wise, than Chekov had in entire seasons of TOS and the movies).
Vorlon parenting: not only that, but Kosh's recording of Talia is a painful procedure. These are the guys who employ Jack the Ripper as an educational test method.
Narn blood oath: there is at least one more episode which brings it up, Sic Transit Vir.