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Weird Babylon Alternative Universe #2
May. 3rd, 2021 11:31 pmI mean, it's really more like Weird Alternative Universe #7003 since there are so many twists and turns in this story, but the one I'm thinking of today ...
So my rewatch just hit Interludes and Examinations, a particularly painful point in the canon, and I had somehow forgotten that Morden only hears about Adira and her return to the station because he's in the right place at the right time.
Of course Morden is casting about for a way to steer Londo back into his arms, so if that opportunity hadn't arisen he'd have had to find something else awful to do instead. And if Adira hadn't been right where she was, there's every chance he'd have picked the only other plausible target: Vir.
I mean, I guess he chooses Adira intsead for good reason (more plausible that Refa would pick an insignificant former slave to poison than a fellow nobleman?) but if she'd shown up a week later Morden might never have known she existed.
Probably the universe where Adira arrives back and finds Londo completely grief-stricken and seeking revenge on Refa for his friend instead of his lover is ultimately a worse one than the one that exists, since Adira is hardly going to be a position to accomplish what Vir does in canon. (For that matter, we don't even know her position on Narn-Centauri relations and/or Centauri expansionism and/or assassinating Cartagia.) But it would certainly be an interesting one ...
So my rewatch just hit Interludes and Examinations, a particularly painful point in the canon, and I had somehow forgotten that Morden only hears about Adira and her return to the station because he's in the right place at the right time.
Of course Morden is casting about for a way to steer Londo back into his arms, so if that opportunity hadn't arisen he'd have had to find something else awful to do instead. And if Adira hadn't been right where she was, there's every chance he'd have picked the only other plausible target: Vir.
I mean, I guess he chooses Adira intsead for good reason (more plausible that Refa would pick an insignificant former slave to poison than a fellow nobleman?) but if she'd shown up a week later Morden might never have known she existed.
Probably the universe where Adira arrives back and finds Londo completely grief-stricken and seeking revenge on Refa for his friend instead of his lover is ultimately a worse one than the one that exists, since Adira is hardly going to be a position to accomplish what Vir does in canon. (For that matter, we don't even know her position on Narn-Centauri relations and/or Centauri expansionism and/or assassinating Cartagia.) But it would certainly be an interesting one ...