But that doesn't mean you weren't important. In fact, think of yourselves as absent friends, in memory still bright.

This is very true to the way I think about fandoms. Like, fandoms that were important to me never really leave me, even if I don't think about them day to day and may have forgotten the order of plot points and such.

because so many of the actors have died that it's become haunting to watch scenes between Garibaldi and Franklin or G'Kar or Zack or Sinclair

:((( yeah