dawnchild
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I want to honour Mira Furlan with a few words.
Going through forum threads I realize that I have not posted in this thread before. I was not active on this site for some years (including 2021/22) and only returned to activity in the past year. So this is a late farewell to an inspirational human being and great actress, 3 years late, but no less heartfelt.
The few interviews I saw with her gave me the impression that she was a warm human being who stuck by her principles. Her history in the former Yugoslavia also shows that her life had not been easy.
The way she played the Minbari Delenn in Babylon 5 was special, you really felt she was this alien but also very human being which left a strong impression on me. It is not for nothing that I selected her for my avatar here at the site replacing an old one several years ago.
I did not know she was seriouisly ill and it saddened me greatly when I learned of her passing. As others have said, far too many Babylon 5 cast-members have passed beyond the rim too early, life is so unexplainably unfair sometimes.
They live on, however, in their artistic work in Babylon 5 and elsewhere and thereby gain a sort of immortality that is precious and valued. Watching Babylon 5 on wonderful Blu-ray disc recently has made me think of them all, all those dear friends in a way from the Babylon 5 universe who became part of our lives back in the 1990s and who are no longer among us. We treasure their lives and their memory.
As Mira said through Delenn:
"All life is transitory, a dream. We all come together in the same place, at the end of time. If I don't see you again here, I will see you in a little while, in a place where no shadows fall."
R.I.P. Mira Furlan and safe travels beyond the rim.
Going through forum threads I realize that I have not posted in this thread before. I was not active on this site for some years (including 2021/22) and only returned to activity in the past year. So this is a late farewell to an inspirational human being and great actress, 3 years late, but no less heartfelt.
The few interviews I saw with her gave me the impression that she was a warm human being who stuck by her principles. Her history in the former Yugoslavia also shows that her life had not been easy.
The way she played the Minbari Delenn in Babylon 5 was special, you really felt she was this alien but also very human being which left a strong impression on me. It is not for nothing that I selected her for my avatar here at the site replacing an old one several years ago.
I did not know she was seriouisly ill and it saddened me greatly when I learned of her passing. As others have said, far too many Babylon 5 cast-members have passed beyond the rim too early, life is so unexplainably unfair sometimes.
They live on, however, in their artistic work in Babylon 5 and elsewhere and thereby gain a sort of immortality that is precious and valued. Watching Babylon 5 on wonderful Blu-ray disc recently has made me think of them all, all those dear friends in a way from the Babylon 5 universe who became part of our lives back in the 1990s and who are no longer among us. We treasure their lives and their memory.
As Mira said through Delenn:
"All life is transitory, a dream. We all come together in the same place, at the end of time. If I don't see you again here, I will see you in a little while, in a place where no shadows fall."
R.I.P. Mira Furlan and safe travels beyond the rim.
