#ambassador kosh

[bed-wed-behead-your-fave]

Ambassador Kosh from Babylon 5

[yumyumpod]

What it feels like every year.

[lronvaliant]

ambassador kosh in the backrooms

[virshairbrush]

I’ll never forgive Morden for this, smh

[therighthandofvengeance]

[bearcatgirlboy]

kosh holographic keychains on my ko-fi now!! only 2 available, US shipping only (sorry) :)

EDIT: THEY ARE NOW SOLD OUT, thank you!

[milatheregnar]

In the continuing adventures of having the best financé ever, they turned to me and said in their best ambassador Kosh

“Ravioli ravioli give me the form-oli”

[authortobenamedlater]

“And so it begins. You have forgotten something” Yeah story of my life Kosh.

[tomthefanboy]

This scene always reminded me of Kosh.

Kosh + sass

[lronvaliant]

He never died. Definitely not. He just went on a vacation, that's all...

[mylittleredgirl]

EXTREMELY funny how talia’s first reaction to ambassador kosh is just “this fucking guy.”

everyone else is (rightfully) intimidated by the incredible power and mystique of the vorlons, but until kosh starts really fucking with her, he’s just the most annoying customer she’s ever had. fucking hour of scampering. are you kidding.

@ god are you hearing this shit.

[therighthandofvengeance]

Babylon 5 Characters as Literary Devices

BESTER: gallows humor, pejoratives BYRON: off-rhyme CARTAGIA: metonymy DELENN: stage directions, catharsis, paralipsis FRANKLIN: juxtaposition, truism GARIBALDI: allusion (to Looney Tunes specifically), limerick (namely the one he taught Delenn) G'KAR: hypophora, surrealism IVANOVA: non sequitur, nemesis, pun, sardonicism, satire, tragicomedy KOSH: foreshadowing (which therefore contributes situational irony) LENNIER: enthymeme, pastiche LOCHLEY: synecdoche, tautology LORIEN: deus ex machina LONDO: circumlocution, hamartia, hubris, volta LYTA: litotes, oxymoron MARCUS: idiom, verisimilitude MORDEN: cacophony, syllogism, utopia NA'TOTH: onomatopoeia, poetic justice NEROON: in media res SINCLAIR: enjambment, frame story SHERIDAN: suspension of disbelief TALIA: paradox, understatement VIR: epiphora, parrhesia ZACK: maxim, tmesis ZATHRAS: mise en scene, malapropism

[val-of-the-north]

DAAAANG. He doesn't just look otherworldy, he sounds otherworldly too! I love that mysterious droning that happens before and during the times he speaks.

Also was he a disembodied light for some time or something? Really gives the vibe of a superior being, but he sounds so gentle despite that. Really, REALLY sick character lol, holy crap.

also did he just do the yes meme agkmglm

I was unfamiliar with kosh so I had to check him out and...

Damn. I really get you. This is sick

Oh hi Val xD

OH MY GOOOOD YESSS

This is all I can find to show!!! He always speaks in riddles and had such chemistry with the protagonist of further seasons of the series, Captain Sheridan… My mom didn't get why I was so excited when Kosh was on the screen... xD

[robotshellyeah]

some thoughts about Deathwalker:

my favorite thing about babylon 5 has always been the conversations between the ambassadors and their aides. the show is not always a story from the perspective of the human characters - sometimes you get a window into how the aliens interact with each other when humans aren't around. I really liked the scene between Na'Toth and G'Kar about why she attacked Jha'dur. if it had been her explaining herself to a human like Sinclair or Garibaldi, the cultural practice underlying her desire for revenge would have been portrayed as "alien" and less legitimate. but instead she tells it to G'Kar, who understands her completely and tells her that her behavior was right (he says that she wouldn't be narn if she felt differently, and that he's proud of her!) and therefore we the audience are reassured that her motivations are not to be dismissed. it was refreshing to see G'Kar take her side and only tell her to wait because it was necessary for political maneuvering

the plotline with Talia was kind of upsetting - I don't think I appreciated when I watched the show for the first time in college how violating that experience would be, and Sinclair and Garibaldi were so nonchalant about it at the end. Talia was like "Kosh hired me under dubious circumstances, exposed me to terrifying stimuli, and recorded my thoughts without consent presumably with the intention of using them later to hurt me" and Sinclair and Garibaldi were like "lol yeah he's a wild one". I guess there's nothing they can do about it but still yikes

why was Garibaldi allowed to go through Jha'dur's stuff when she was unconscious, seems ethically questionable

my opinion of G'Kar is so heavily influenced by how he is in the later seasons, I forgot how slimy he is in season 1. I think he experiences the most character growth of any of the cast.

Lennier is the guy we all know who's way too into military history

[thethirdromana]

Points of Departure!

Ooh, there's a new guy. Unsure about him.

And a new intro! I'm trying to stay open-minded here but I DON'T LIKE IT. Sinclair definitely had a better voice for this.

"The year the Great War came upon us all". The what now. The Great what??

I'm enjoying all the helpful exposition for people who haven't seen season 1, but it's interesting that "We still don't know what Ambassador Kosh looks like inside his encounter suit" is on the list. Clearly this is important in some way. But also, Ambassador Kosh hasn't seen you naked either, Ivanova.

I'm intrigued to find out if the new Sinclair-the-ambassador storyline will play out entirely in Sinclair's absence. Given real-world events, presumably?

I really enjoyed Sheridan being interrupted in the middle of his tedious good luck speech.

"Hi," said Lennier, "would you like me to explain a season's worth of mysteries for you? Grand, so."

Those were all the answers I thought we would get at the end of season 1.

At least I understand why season 1 had so many soul-themed episodes now.

[woodsfae]

B5 S03E22 Z'Ha'Dum previous episode - table of contents

Flashback central - Anna talking about signing onto the Icarus. Kosh saying "Z'Ha'Dum," Delenn and Sheridan talking about the Icarus landing on Z'Ha'Dum, Morden being a dickbag. 

Anna doesn't seem very sincere, and I don't buy her "I'm an open book, but DELENN didn't tell you...no, I shan't say..." schtick. 

I know I made all those predictions about how this will play out, but I really don't know how this is going to play out. Will the future be subverted and the prophecies less than self-fulfilling? I don't know! 

Partner: "Do you think these guys did like, late-night interviews in the 90s or was it not popular enough?" Me: "Hm let me consult my extensive memories of being 0-6 years old in an anti-technology cult in the 1990s." 

Anna: "I'm your wife." Dr Franklin: "That's your wife." Sheridan: "If that's my wife, then what was all my years of grief-processing for?" 

Excuse me Sheridan, take your hands off Delenn. Don't shake her just because you're emotionally overwrought. 

I am on Delenn's side in this argument. Delenn said clearly that anyone who wouldn't have served the Shadows would have been killed. Therefore, Anna was either dead, or completely opposed to the life and wellbeing of every living thing in the galaxy. 

yeah yeah Sheridan, you have big emotions. But don't be a dick.

Londo's political maneuvering has resulted in a promotion and he's bummed because he can't be satisfied with anything. He's a voracious pit of longing that can never be filled. When he's made an ambassador, he rages because they're sending him away. When he's given a prestigious advisor position, he's mad because he deserved it twenty years ago. 

Mr Morden Jr is here. Sounds like there's about to be an attack on B5. 

Looks like Dr Franklin just found something in his scans on Anna Sheridan. 

Anna is refusing to answer any questions about anything unless John goes with her to Z'Ha'Dum to hear the answers there. Not even why she stayed and let herself be declared dead and all her loved ones grieve her death. 

Aaaan he agrees to go to Z'Ha'Dum if she explains why she stayed. Against future!Delenn's pleas. 

Anna says - IPX found a Shadows ship buried under the surface of Mars. As soon as they unearthed it, it sent a message. IPX took some parts and put a homing device inside. When another ship turned up and took the first one, they tracked it. (didn't the second ship also kill a fuckload of people? She doesn't mention anything about that.)

The Icarus went to the coordinates and found the Shadows. In a pit. Very foreboding. She says it was an accident that the crew was killed, and also destroyed the comm system. She says they portrayed themselves as vunerable coming out of hibernation and cut a deal that they could stay and study their tech if they didn't try to contact their homeworld(s). 

It would be a cool plot twist if Anna was telling the truth and he really was about to find out he's been on the wrong side this entire time. However, I don't think that's the case. The Shadows haven't been taking out governmental heads, they've been displacing populations, causing genocides, anmd spreading suffering. 

I do wonder what this secret task he's given Garibaldi is. 

It's incredibly foolish to run off to the ACTUAL HOMEWORLD of your mortal enemies. But there goes John Sheridan! trot trot. Well, they did hit him where he's most vulnerable. The wound of losing a loved one never really goes away. 

They're taking the White Star - what a fucking security vulnerability! Also, so funny that Sheridan is taking the White Star when he's only SEEN the Minbari pilot it. Aviation law must have gotten lax in the future. 

Z'Ha'Dum doesn't have a breathable atmosphere. He goes off, alone, with his formerly-dead wife. To the enemy's planet. With no breathable atmosphere. And just nods and hands over his gun. And doesn't even keep his oxygen mask at hand! 

Dummy.

And Morden's here. AND Anna gives HIM John's gun! goddddddddddd

Poor Delenn, she looks wrecked. John's message to her talks about his time jump and Delenn's plea to not go to Z'Ha'Dum. He says he went because maybe in that future, he listened to her and DIDN'T go, so he's going in case it changes the future. 

Well. 

ok

Justin on Z'Ha'Dum says that most of the higher races left this part of the universe, and the Vorlons stuck around to be parents. Clean your room, behave, etc. The Shadows, though, want to release their potentials...through conflict. "Those who survive are strong, better," Justin says. And Morden says if you knock over an anthill, the future generations get better at building anthills. 

hm. 

"...but I love my mom and dad," - noted parents-guy John Sheridan, hopefully. 

"A few get lost along the way," Justin says. Yeah. Like the Narn got directly targeted and attacked repeatedly until they lost their telepaths, then almost lost everything? Literally they were T A R G E T E D. It isn't a neutral "they got lost," they were pummeled into near-oblivion. 

Oop, the Shadows have arrived at B5. 

Morden would have us believe that sonnets came from wars. Bullshit - sonnets came from the Italian courtly style and was developed in order to flirt better.  (per Partner's masters of poetry)

Ahhh, the Shadows are hanging out over B5 as the hammer over Sheridan's head. Sheridan's too good at diplomacy, so he's preventing the species' growth through warfare. boooooo.

I could go through and rebut the things they're saying point by point but ehhh. It's a lot. But it's 99% bullshit and 1% mispresented.

Sheridan drops a bomb: Anna has been altered in the same way as the people who were being sent to become components in the Shadows ships. 

Whoop, Shadow incoming. And gun incoming! John Sheridan had TWO GUNS. badadadada

oof, poor Sheridan. He's arming the White Star to detonate, and Anna's turned up saying that Anna is dead, but she can love John as well as Anna ever did. 

"I want you to know that I love you, Delenn. Bye." he says, in the video message. 

And there's the Kosh fragment! Sheridan jumps into the pit of doom in the center of Z'Ha Dum as the White Star bursts through the central dome. 

Anna didn't like that!

Kosh said he couldn't help Sheridan if he helped then. And then he helped anyway. lol

I like the G'Kar voice-over. Andreas has such a marvelous voice and he really knows how to use it. 

One of the fighters is missing - piloted by Garibaldi! And the marvelous CGI depicts it floating in a Shadows ship. Well. At least we won't run out of plot anytime soon. :P

season 4 awaits!