Babylon 5/Recap/S03/E12 Sic Transit Vir
Sic Transit Vir
Centauri Minister: Oh, I heard a new joke. Hehahaahhh. What is more dangerous than a locked room full of angry Narns? |
This episode contains examples of:
- Adorkable: John Sheridan may be in charge of a space station five miles long and a quarter of a million people, but put him in front of the girl he likes so he can ask her out to dinner, and he turns into a bashful schoolboy.
- Almost Kiss: Sheridan and Delenn (damn you, Ivanova!)
- Arranged Marriage: Vir has become important enough for noble families to start trying to match him up with their daughters.
- Breather Episode
- Bug War: Londo finds himself having to deal with the insects that have invaded his quarters since he can't get an exterminator in.
- Continuity Nod:
- The flarn Sheridan prepares is what Delenn and Lennier made for the Minbari dinner they invited him to.
- The Shon'Kar was first mentioned when Na'Toth encountered Deathwalker.
- Centauri have six...well, they have six. Ivanova seems to have trouble getting her mind around that.
- Daddy's Little Villain: Lyndisty.
- First Kiss: Vir's as far as we know. "If kisses could kill, that one would have flattened several small towns."
- The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: Lyndisty manages to capture the Narn that was stalking her.
- Longing Look: Sheridan directs one of the wistful, "I can't believe I'm that lucky" type toward Delenn after she accepts his dinner invitation, in a lighter example of the trope. That man is besotted and it is adorable.
- "Not Wearing Pants" Dream: Ivanova has the fully naked kind in the beginning.
- Claudia Christian apparently had the option of doing it naked or in her nightgown. She opted for naked because it was funnier that way.
- Take Up My Sword: The Narn Shon'Kar is basically an oath for anyone in the family to take revenge on a particular target when the opportunity presents itself, whether or not the original oath maker has failed. In this case he has, and his brother picks up the hunt.
- The Talk: Once Vir realizes he's been shafted into an arranged marriage, he makes a beeline for Ivanova, asking her advice about courting women.