Hey, it’s the blonde gal from Mars resistance! I didn’t mind her so much in this episode. She brings bad news: someone’s going to try killing Lisa and Garibaldi. Sheridan hires her as the new head of intelligence for the Interstellar Alliance.
Lyta agrees to go with G’Kar. And hey! This means that half my prediction a couple of posts ago came true! I said Londo and G’Kar would take off to explore the universe. Londo still hasn’t committed to the trip, but G’Kar’s certainly going.
The bad kills a security guard to steal his link.
Bad dude hacks into the stolen link. Oh no! Now he can eavesdrop on the security channel. But he underestimates Zack (yay Zack), who figures out what’s going on and manages to trap Bad Dude just before he tries to shoot Garibaldi and Lise.
But G’Kar has majorly pissed off one of his followers, and Bad Dude #2 shoots at him:
Yikes! Lise is hit instead!
Garibaldi, having finally found and kept the love of his life for longer than a few hours, isn’t about to let this go unpunished. He recruits Lyta to “interrogate” the would-be assassin:
Wow, is Lyta ever cold-hearted during this scene. Effective, though. They find out that the board of Lise’s company is behind the badstuff.
Sheridan comes to say good-bye to G’Kar. I hate these good-byes. 
:-(
But G’Kar’s reply is hugely eloquent and moving:
G’Kar: I believe when we leave a place, part of it goes with us and part of us remains. Go anywhere in the station, when it is quiet, and just listen. After a while, you will hear the echoes of all our conversations, every thoughts and words we’ve exchanged. Long after we have gone our voices will linger in these walls, for as long as this place remains. But I will admit that the part of me that is going, very much will miss the part of you that is staying.
And G’Kar calls Sheridan “John” for the first time! 
Garibaldi and Lise get married, yay!
G’Kar: I find I’m actually looking forward to seeing the universe with you alongside, Lyta. Perhaps we’ll find something extraordinary. Perhaps something extraordinary will find us. Either way, it’s going to be quite an adventure.
Lyta: I smell another book coming.
G’Kar: What a wonderful idea.
And then Lyta and G’Kar leave B5.
LEAVING Babylon Five. For good, I assume. I would love to be a fly on the wall in their ship, following the adventures they’re sure to have. Could someone please tell me without major spoilers — will we find out any of their adventures in the B5 movies?
With the blonde’s help, Garibaldi gets a guarantee of his and Lise’s safety as well as getting the board to all resign. Woohoo, Garibaldi! His solution is ingenious.
Franklin and the blonde reunite.
“You go on ahead,” she tells him. “You know how I like the lights.”
Then more good-byes…
Garibaldi’s farewell speech to Sheridan and Delenn was deeply moving. I’m SO GLAD that Garibaldi finally is finding his happy place — I was really worried for him.
SUCH good writing in this series.
Delenn: It occurs to me, I have never walked the length of this place end to end.
Sheridan: Well, Delenn, it’s five miles long.
Delenn: I know. Coming?
Sheridan: Now?
Delenn: “Now” is all we have.
8 comments ↓
Just thinking about the title of the last episode makes me choke up.
And man oh man, I wish I had time to watch these again; like I said when I found your blog: watching someone watch this for the first time has rekindled my love for this show.
So very good.
(And I’m absolutely certain JMS was talking about himself, and us-the-fans, in G’Kar’s goodbye.)
Seeing as you are approaching the final episode of the series, I feel obliged to offer some advice:
1. Don’t watch it alone. This episode should be seen with a group of as many fellow B5 affectionados as possible.
2. Bring tissue. A lot of tissue.
Oh boy.
The next episode has Lennier stuff. That’s all I’ll say.
The final episode of the series made me the Tissue Box Queen ’cause I pretty much bawled my eyes out. I watched it with two people who had seen the show before so it was good, and in the rewatch I’m going to be seeing it with my friend. Oh man. It’s heavy stuff.
God, I love this show <3
JMS wrote a series of short stories post-B5 and one of them is about G’Kar and Lyta. Problem is they are very hard to come across as they were put out in now out-of-print magasines. I think I’ve read -about- them, but not actually read them. Another of the stories is a controversial tale about Marcus and Ivanova. Some of the more devoted among us here might know how to find them :).
The Centauri trilogy of paperbacks (outlined and sanctioned by JMS and written by Peter David) has a lot more about the future of G’Kar. Remind me and I’ll lend them to you, if you like. They’re a fun read.
The beginning of the end. I remember feeling rather down–not just because the B5 series was ending–but because JMS did a 3 episode ending! With good-byes every episode! So it was three weeks of being aware, This is the end. Vs the usual tv wrap-up of one episode, even if it was 2 hrs long. It was a well-written, well-acted ending, but hard on viewers perhaps.
Allison, I didn’t know that the Centauri novels had much at all about G’Kar. I will have to check amazon for copies. Less than half-way thru the series, he became my favorite character. Sheridan & Delenn are heroic, but G’Kar and Londo experienced the most changes in their characters during the course of the series.
Many SF shows have heroic characters, good acting, and decent special effects. But very few shows have done the kind of character development that JMS did in B5. More tv writers should study the theater. It’s been around for-oh, 4,000 years!
*coughcough*
SOMEONE might just have a copy of the Babylon 5 short stories on her hard drive and might be convinced to share.
As well as the unproduced Crusade scripts. For the true completists among us.
But I would definitely recommend the novels first.
On rewatching, it’s amazing how much details of these final episodes I did not remember, so it was cool to watch again. For instance I remember Garbaldi confronting the Egars board, but forgot about Number 1 (blond woman) being there.
Seems like they should have something like GPS tracking on those links, eh? And even the medical technicains should know that a link is not glued on and raised attention when it was removed. Security computer system should also have shut down the link and/or reported the unsuccessfull use of the link after three tries.
I loved seeing Garabaldi so prepared and ready to address the Edgars board. Work to do also helps him stay away from The Bottle.
Great laugh when Lyta takes off the handcuffs.
Oh, did you all notice?
Story by Harlan Ellison & J. Michael Straczynski
Teleplay by J. Michael Straczynski?
The Sheridan/G’Kar goodbye may have been an analogy of the JMS/fan goodbye, but I showhow think there is a bit of Bad Dude #2 (Narn) in us fans who demand more from JMS because he owes us and we made him what he became.
G’Kar’s farewell to Sheridan, about their voices remaining in the walls, is used as the opening narration of the straight-to-DVD Babylon 5: The Lost Tales - Voices in the Dark.
Leave a Comment