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Londo's arc by itself is remarkable, walking a tightrope between comic relief and villain and sympathetic protagonist. And it all works, it's never trite or for
by TillE 3y ago
Londo's arc by itself is remarkable, walking a tightrope between comic relief and villain and sympathetic protagonist. And it all works, it's never trite or forced. He's a great character because he's all those things in different mixes, and you understand him and his changes.
Lots of genre fiction has broadly similar characters, but I nearly always hate them, and I love Londo.
- kemayo 3y agoI think that part of what keeps Londo sympathetic is that, for all that he makes terrible choices and goes to some dark places, he's not doing it from self-interest. He wants to do what's best for his people. In a weird parallel with a later highly-regarded genre character, he actually has a lot of similarities with Zuko from Avatar the Last Airbender. Particularly in the whole arc of rejected chances to do the right thing.