Talk:A Late Delivery from Avalon

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In my opinion: Dr. Franklin shows up as a despisable character, because he presses the sergeant - with no evident reason - to surface his true personality, thus making him losing his false innocence. He feels the urge to "heal" him, and he eventually succeeds; in this light, the "thank you" that the sergeant gives him when he leaves the station is no more than the cheapest, forced by nothing but screenplay, fraternization with evil that I ever saw in a movie. I saw no reason at all for Franklin to have pushed for a re-surfacing of personality, other than making the sergeant live again, in pain, with his "sin". I felt pity for the character of Franklin, here; he is stained by this approach of "healing everything". He did not have to heal anything. Because of this, it is a cheap episode, regardless of what JMS considers; furthermore for the worst, the re-orientation of "Arthur" to the resistance movement is cheaper still. Pity for the scene of handing the sword to Delenn, because THAT scene only makes the whole episode worth watching. Viktor.