If tumblr had been around when Babylon 5 first aired, I swear this website would have been obsessed with Londo and G'Kar.
Listen. LISTEN. They are bound by fate. They circle each other like binary stars. When they're around each other, they flare like comets that get to close to the sun. They may well be destined to crush all life between them with the intensity of their will.
Tumblr would not have been normal about them, and I would have been HERE for it.
Babylon 5: where we put four different styles of war criminal in the same room and expect them to use conflict resolution skills to find galactic peace.
We Centauri live our lives for appearances, positions, status, title. These are things by which we define ourselves. But when I look beneath the mask I am forced to wear, I see only emptiness. And then I think of you and I say, "To hell with appearances."
One of the smartest things I’ve ever heard about Babylon 5 and Londo’s arc is that Morden chooses Londo to work with because what Londo wants is inherently unachievable. He wants the Centauri Empire reformed and he wants it “all back the way it was.” But the nature of empire is that it was never the way its nostalgia merchants think it was; it was always a little shabbier, a little weaker, a little worse.
The glorious empire Londo pictures never existed and can never exist, and so he will always want more and more and more, always believing that his goal is just one more deal with the devil away.
Something my father said. He was… old. Very old at the time. I went into his room and he was sitting alone in the dark, crying. So I asked him what was wrong. And he said, ‘My shoes are too tight. But it doesn’t matter because I have forgotten how to dance.’
-Londo Mollari, Babylon 5
God, that bit gets me every time. Just crying into my cereal this morning.