{original post had no questions}

Basically, yeah, too much depression and guilt lately, and she's
been for the most part a passive character lately, while others acted
around her. Now it's about time for her to start becoming active again.
There's fire and steel in *use*, and fire and steel waiting to be
called upon...time to shift from the latter to the former.

jms

Penny J. Legner <103643.763@compuserve.com> asks:
> And people wonder why this show is so fantastic?

Thank yu...I tri to rite gud....

jms

{original post had no questions}

Exactly. She needed that amount of time, so that's what she
had to have to make it believable. The next logical step is to show
the other parts of her starting to come back into the foreground.

jms

Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
> The question that come up as a result of this, at least in my
> mind anyway, are; was she able too, and was he asking too much of
> her under the circumstances, and should he have at least given
> her some time before expecting an answer? In essence, what I guess
> I'm asking in a nutshell is, was he expecting too much of her?
> After all, what if she didn't refuse because of what he had just
> told her? Could she have lacked the courage at such a vulnerable
> moment, thereby putting her needs on the back burner for what he
> wanted? Even if that's indeed what happened, it still constitutes
> love, but was it fair of him to put her in that position? Thus,
> the question naturally therefore arises from this is, was he
> thinking more of her at that moment, or of himself and what he
> wanted?

Well, I think it's better for someone to know that first, then
find out about it later. "Oh, good, we're going to spend the rest of
our lives together...oh, by the way, now that you've committed, you
should know...."

Uh, uh.

jms

Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com> asks:
> BTW, Joe, cross-culturally, how does the Minbari sleep-watching
> ritual compare in seriousness to a human marriage proposal?

Well, I think it fair to say that with Delenn starting the
ritual, there had already been kind of an implicit understanding that
this was going to be more than just a fling...and there's still a long
road ahead of them before this can be finalized.

jms