It makes me wonder about some of the things Londo has seen and heard over the course of his life in and out of the Centauri court.
The implications are horrifying, but it's another one of the details I like because they stress that going to the stars in this future does not automatically confer enlightenment: the Centauri Republic is technologically second only to the Minbari and it's an absolute monarchy with an imperial cult and vivisection as a form of public execution. We've got nukes and electrocute people. Ta-da.
including the extras; I love the Centauri aide who just apathetically fails to catch Cartagia tossing the bloody cloth at him)
I forgot that guy! He really looks like he cannot be asked to care about the nineteenth appalling thing thrown casually in his direction that morning.
and especially Vir's reactions, in which Vir is the one actual normal person in this scene who is having normal emotional reactions to an objectively horrifying conversation.
I love scenes where Vir is the normal person in the room (not to mention often the person who is holding the brain cell, or at least the brain cell with ethics) because especially by Centauri standards Vir is not all that normal, it's just that everyone else in the room is . . . farther out.
And just for completeness's sake, Cartagia's extremely well-deserved death scene.
I have never seen Wortham Krimmer in any other role and he's so spectacular as Cartagia, I kind of can't imagine it.
But as for what G'Kar would have wanted Londo to change about the situation to make it right - if he even could - I don't think what Londo himself would have wanted to change is the same.
I think that's actually true. They took different kinds of damage. What G'Kar requires to heal is textually not what Londo originally knows how to offer.
(That said, the part about the obligation of a witness to speak out does sound like G'Kar to me, because his entire history—the history of anyone who lived through any part of the occupation of Narn—is woven with atrocities that have not been acknowledged outside the community that suffered them and certainly not officially by anyone who inflicted them, R.I.P. Emperor Turhan.)
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The implications are horrifying, but it's another one of the details I like because they stress that going to the stars in this future does not automatically confer enlightenment: the Centauri Republic is technologically second only to the Minbari and it's an absolute monarchy with an imperial cult and vivisection as a form of public execution. We've got nukes and electrocute people. Ta-da.
including the extras; I love the Centauri aide who just apathetically fails to catch Cartagia tossing the bloody cloth at him)
I forgot that guy! He really looks like he cannot be asked to care about the nineteenth appalling thing thrown casually in his direction that morning.
and especially Vir's reactions, in which Vir is the one actual normal person in this scene who is having normal emotional reactions to an objectively horrifying conversation.
I love scenes where Vir is the normal person in the room (not to mention often the person who is holding the brain cell, or at least the brain cell with ethics) because especially by Centauri standards Vir is not all that normal, it's just that everyone else in the room is . . . farther out.
And just for completeness's sake, Cartagia's extremely well-deserved death scene.
I have never seen Wortham Krimmer in any other role and he's so spectacular as Cartagia, I kind of can't imagine it.
But as for what G'Kar would have wanted Londo to change about the situation to make it right - if he even could - I don't think what Londo himself would have wanted to change is the same.
I think that's actually true. They took different kinds of damage. What G'Kar requires to heal is textually not what Londo originally knows how to offer.
(That said, the part about the obligation of a witness to speak out does sound like G'Kar to me, because his entire history—the history of anyone who lived through any part of the occupation of Narn—is woven with atrocities that have not been acknowledged outside the community that suffered them and certainly not officially by anyone who inflicted them, R.I.P. Emperor Turhan.)