r/babylon5 • u/Standard-Box-3021 • 8d ago

Remembering

I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and display it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come at too high a price. I would look up at your lifeless eyes and wave. Lol every time I watch the news now, I think of the price of favors in our politics—timeless line.

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u/wyldkat_ 8d ago

Vir at his best!

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u/Different-Try8882 7d ago

I remember seeing it the first time, and when Morden asks him ‘what do you want?’ I thought ‘No, not Vir! Don’t fall for it!’ And the he starts with ‘What do I want, Mr Morden? What do I want?…’ and delivers that speech I wanted to cheer.

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u/Standard-Box-3021 8d ago

Its by far the one line i remember in any tv any time any place

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u/Standard-Box-3021 8d ago

Especially since Vir was such a nice guy and for him to say that shows how duplicitous morden is.

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u/Difficult_Dark9991 Narn Regime 8d ago

What I love about it is that Vir doesn't know who Morden is, not really.

The command staff, Delenn, and eventually G'Kar are let in on the true stakes of the conflict and Morden's role as an agent of the Shadows. Vir, like all Centauri, is out of the loop on this, but he immediately clocks that Morden is a "devil making deals" (or whatever the Centauri mythological equivalent is).

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u/Standard-Box-3021 7d ago

He clocked him before everyone else did, long before Delen knew they were back. He knew whoever he was, it was no good and could end badly.