I had NO idea he was in a cult! This explains a great deal about some of the plotlines, tbh.
RE: Ivanova/Marcus - ok, that sounds a LOT better than what I was fearing! I agree with you, having something a bit more fleshed out on the Telepath War would have made me very happy. For one thing, we never see a 'good' Psi Corps member. They're either psychopathic or trying to leave. Whereas telepaths were shoved in that box and there must have been plenty who felt that this was the one chance they had at survival. I'm also interested that nothing was made of how the other races appear to have managed to exist peacefully alongside their telepaths, and it's just humans that seem out for blood. Minbari telepaths seem to be almost exclusively religious caste, and Centauri telepaths fit seamlessly onto the social ladder of Centauri society. (Weirdly, they reminded me of the pre-reform Vulcan in Diane Duane's Spock's World - familial commodities, and sometimes power players.) Yet humans just couldn't figure it out. Where are the humans discussing a pan-galactic telepath organisation? We have the Interstellar Alliance; where are the Minbari teeps wanting to help their human brethren?
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RE: Ivanova/Marcus - ok, that sounds a LOT better than what I was fearing! I agree with you, having something a bit more fleshed out on the Telepath War would have made me very happy. For one thing, we never see a 'good' Psi Corps member. They're either psychopathic or trying to leave. Whereas telepaths were shoved in that box and there must have been plenty who felt that this was the one chance they had at survival. I'm also interested that nothing was made of how the other races appear to have managed to exist peacefully alongside their telepaths, and it's just humans that seem out for blood. Minbari telepaths seem to be almost exclusively religious caste, and Centauri telepaths fit seamlessly onto the social ladder of Centauri society. (Weirdly, they reminded me of the pre-reform Vulcan in Diane Duane's Spock's World - familial commodities, and sometimes power players.) Yet humans just couldn't figure it out. Where are the humans discussing a pan-galactic telepath organisation? We have the Interstellar Alliance; where are the Minbari teeps wanting to help their human brethren?
... I may write this fic.