[B5JMS] Who are you?

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From: "David Maciver" <Jedi_Dean at btinternet.com>
Date: 14 May 2001 11:09:53 -0700
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"Matthew Vincent" <warlock at es.co.nz> wrote in message
news:3affaae2.49426992 at news.chc.ihug.co.nz...
> On 13 May 2001 15:15:05 -0700, jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5) wrote:
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> >I gave it a shot...and I came up first with Londo, then Marcus, Bester,
> >Sheridan, G'Kar, Garibaldi, Ivanova and all the other main characters
pretty
> >much in order.
>
> Good on ya for joining in on the fun, but you ain't Londo *g*. You
> have a "dark side" in terms of wanting to expose shadows/repression
> and express a more integrated self, but you don't have much of a
> tendency to harm others (we all have *some* potential for that, being
> animals and all). Your answer to "What do you want?" would have been
> most unsatisfactory to Morden. You're not even in the same ballpark as
> Londo. The only resemblance I can see is Londo's sense of humor and
> his use of laughter and amusement to get through the hard times.
>
> In terms of your natural tendencies for who you are on the inside, I'd
> guess that you're most like Delenn, with a bit of Vir, Franklin,
> Marcus, Lennier, Sinclair and Byron mixed in. When it comes to your
> external social identity, you're probably most like Sheridan and a bit
> of G'Kar (these two also being included in the above list). Actually,
> I'd say that overall you are most like Dukhat (who wasn't even on the
> list). You'd be Dukhat if you were a Minbari, which would probably be
> preferable to you, but as a human I'd guess that you're most like
> Sheridan (after becoming president). If you take your internal self,
> and then filter it through the need for strength and empowerment in
> the external world, then you basically end up with Sheridan.
>
> Londo, Bester and Ivanova don't really belong on that list at all;
> although maybe you have a teeny bit of Bester's intellectual sarcasm.
> Probably not terribly surprising, after spending most of your career
> being pushed around and criticised by jackasses with inflated egos and
> about half your IQ score (like the TNT folk) - oh well, you handled
> that much better than Nietzsche. I don't think you have much in common
> with Ivanova, although I guess there's the getting where you are today
> by hard work and loyalty (re: her comments in _The Fall of Night_).
>
> Oh well, that's my opinion, anyway. I'm not sure if this will be of
> any use, or if you'll even have time to read it, but it was fun to
> write. I was only going to make a brief comment, but I really got
> going on this for some reason.
>
> I actually got Bester 7th on my list, after 6 "good" characters (my
> list is in another post), and I've seen similar results for others, so
> maybe Bester is a bit miscalculated here. It's hardly a perfect
> personality test, but I've seen worse, and it was loads of fun to try
> out. :) I'm most proud of having Refa at #25, too. He can stay there!
>
> Matthew
>


Fact is none of us REALLY know JMS, except for JMS.  Frankly, I'm not that
surprised that Lando was high up there.  I always liked Lando, he was always
TRYING to do the right thing.  He never really made it.  Yes, he does have a
dark side, a big one, but he is no where near evil.  And it's pretty obvious
that the person that conceieved the characters would have all the main ones
in order.  Shows that the test is, for want of a better term, fairly
accurate.

A test like this doesn't show what you WANT, but who you are.  Sure, all the
fluffy, obscure as hell, light stuff is shown by JMS most of the time, but
for all we know he's a Uni bomber waiting to happen!

Ranger Dave, only kidding oh great one.  Hey, put down the gun!!!




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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 14 May 2001 12:27:10 -0700
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>Sure, all the
>fluffy, obscure as hell, light stuff is shown by JMS most of the time, but
>for all we know he's a Uni bomber waiting to happen!

What was your address again...?

 jms

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