babylon 5 shitposts part 22 - londo & g'kar edition

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I spend a lot of time insulting B5′s aesthetic/color choices so here I will compliment a visual thing:

I like that G’Kar is associated with red and none of the other characters really have red in their outfits except Londo, who has red on his neck and nowhere else, and that’s the only part of his outfit that never changes

He has to take the scarf and brooch off to let the Keeper in and he has to finally get rid of the red altogether when he becomes emperor, those things happen at the same time as him sending G’Kar away for good

Also like… scenes where G’Kar has power over Londo are usually colored red. The elevator is red once it breaks down, G’Kar’s cell in season four is black until he loses his eye and “sees” Londo properly and then it’s red, Londo is only ever in G’Kar’s (red) quarters once and it’s when he asks G’Kar to sign the joint statement in 415

Also also, the whipping scene in 403 is completely washed blue, which strips any red out

I saw this post a while back and then couldn’t find it again for AGES, but it was so eye-opening about this particular thing that now I think about it whenever I rewatch episodes of the show. As well as the big things - Londo taking off the scarf forever when he accepts the Keeper and severs himself from G'Kar; Londo’s most dramatic moments with G'Kar often being colored red - I’ve also been noticing that the amount of red visible at his neck/throat/heart often suggests where he’s at, emotionally, especially re: G'Kar but also just in general.

Obviously this is not true across the board, especially early in the show; it also depends on what else he’s wearing and the other needs of the episode. But there’s also a general, broadly speaking, pattern that the more red you see on his neck/throat/chest, the more emotionally open he is and the less close to the “dark.” In a lot of season two, for example, he’s very buttoned up and the red is hidden, e.g. in “The Long Twilight Struggle” when he’s at his worst in the council sequence and he’s trying to get G'Kar sent back to Narn to be tried and executed, you can’t really see it at all.

But the later in the series we are, the more visible it often is. And of course you see quite a lot more of it when his coat is off and he’s out of official/ambassadorial mode, as when he’s relaxed and lounging around in his quarters, or hanging out with G'Kar in late season four/season five.

"this is what you asked for, heavy is the crown" // Londo Mollari

BABYLON 5 1993 – 1998・1x01 Midnight on the Firing Line

ambition | prompt 2 for @b5-minvember

The alliance my soul invented and refuses to let go.

La'an (Star Trek) and Kleya (Star Wars)

The chaos alliance that could end galaxies yet decided to fight for them

Allow me to add a third side to this alliance

b5 text post memes part 18

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Old Babylon 5 doodles from last year:) I could already rewatch the show it was so goooood. I care a lot abt Sheridan and Delenn-

B5 rewatch: Divided Loyalties

So, I've come to the decision that there's only one person on this station that I can trust implicitly. You.

A tale of two telepaths

Despite that Talia Winters was only created as a character because they couldn't get Patricia Tallman back to reprise the role of Lyta Alexander for a while, I enjoy the huge difference between them:

Talia "the Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" Winters, when asked to scan someone's mind:

Lyta "killed a planet with her mind because it was pissing her off" Alexander, when asked to scan someone's mind:

Whatever, show me the money, and I'll get onto it as soon as I'm done torturing this guy.

They’ve transcended “enemies to lovers” and found some new undiscovered country

They're soul mates but for like. Murder.

(The next line, of course, is, "Perhaps it is everything you said." And yes. worse. How I wish Tumblr knew these guys as well as some more recent angels & demons.)

Not lovers or enemies but a secret third thing (prophesied to strangle eachother to death only for it to later turn out to be consensual).

What a cutie. You’d never know he’s just looking for any and all excuses to detonate a nuclear device.

when i said everyone on b5 has an “i thought i was just having a career but it seems i am fated to be historically important 😐” realization where they have to stare into the middle distance for a few days to come to terms with it, it’s actually everyone except delenn. she sees fate coming and she’s an eager volunteer.

i find her brief flickers of fear and doubt incredibly compelling (like when her grey council friend gives her the triluminary and her face journey is ‘oh damn so we’re really doing this’—

“i can’t [take it].” “if you’re right, you will have more need of it than we will.”

—or when she goes to see kosh in chrysalis), but these are not ‘lord will you take this cup from me’ moments. she grabbed this cup herself and ran with it, while the rest of the grey council with the same information was like hey can you maybe put that cup down???? please??

even her other satai bestie is like “respectfully, is this an ego thing?” which is wild because the option she’s turning down is being the leader of her entire culture. she WANTS the prophecy to be about her! sure, kosh may have played a cryptic role in maneuvering her into position and her soul vibrates like a tuning fork whenever she stands too close to sinclair (and sheridan later, of course, with some other vibrations at play there as well 😏), but “chosen one” isn’t something that just happens to delenn. she wants the job!! i can think of very few characters who lie down on the tracks of destiny as intentionally and insistently as she does.

Everyone else, even Londo: Lord will you take this cup from me

Delenn: CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG

The Vorlons have to have her literally tortured by actual Jack the Ripper just to double check she's not just doing it for her ego/guilt over that near-genocide she started/the gram. Delenn has never been hinged in her life, and she is not going to start now.

Can y'all believe that Babylon 5 put a bisexual Jewish woman on TV in the 90s and not only got away with it, but made her a fan favorite and one of the most Iconic sci-fi characters of all time?? What a power move.

# here’s to us watching Babylon 5 for the first time in our late 20s early 30s and falling in love with the best lesbian/ queer power couple of the 90s # Ivanova and Talia were cannon # please fix it

Forgot to share that I wrote a little Babylon 5 fix-it, my first non-Trek fic and my first femslash! Enough context is given within the story that I think you could read this fandom-blind if you wanted to, and I would be honoured. Or if you're one of the 12 or so B5 fans who exist on here, I hope you like it. (5K, explicit, angst with a happy ending)