Scorpius is indeed a complex villain, but Londo in the end was this really sympathetic tragic hero....and I could never feel terribly much sympathy for Scorpius. I liked him a lot better towards the end, but my gut reaction to him was always pretty much "AAAGH!"
I agree, Londo truly was more of a tragic hero, a la Crais. I think I liked Scorpius because he was never redeemed, instead the series merely explained him. Scorpius was what Crichton might have been if he allowed science to come first. There's a point in the series, in Into The Lion's Den, in which Cricton wonders if Scorpius might be right. He struggles with Scorpius' views throughout - because Scorpius solution seems at times the easiest way out. By the end of the series - I stopped seeing him as pure villian, and more a complex shadow self. (Don't get me wrong, I never found him attractive or sympathetic. Yet... he intrigued me. Everything time I thought I understood or knew the character, they revealed a new layer. In that regard - he gives Londo a run for his money.)
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Re: "These guys make Whedon and Minear look like wimps"
Date: 2004-10-31 05:32 pm (UTC)I agree, Londo truly was more of a tragic hero, a la Crais. I think I liked Scorpius because he was never redeemed, instead the series merely explained him.
Scorpius was what Crichton might have been if he allowed science to come first. There's a point in the series, in Into The Lion's Den, in which Cricton wonders if Scorpius might be right. He struggles with Scorpius' views throughout - because Scorpius solution seems at times the easiest way out. By the end of the series - I stopped seeing him as pure villian, and more a complex shadow self. (Don't get me wrong, I never found him attractive or sympathetic. Yet... he intrigued me. Everything time I thought I understood or knew the character, they revealed a new layer. In that regard - he gives Londo a run for his money.)