My Favorite was G'Kar. Tough, ruthless, but in many respects, quite charming.
2006-08-17 11:58:00 · 1 answers · asked by brainstorm 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
Lyta Alexander...the Vorlon augmented, ex-Psi Core telepath.
Lyta...outside of Ambassador Lando Molari...is the most tragic figure in the Babylon 5 saga.
Molari went through the most insane things...made the most terrible decisions...and was doomed from the start...
Ambassador G'Kar grew the most...going from buffoon to spiritual being and leader....
But for someone who was on the side of good...who went through as much as G'kar or Lando...no character was more disrespected, used and discarded...by the people on her own side...from Sheridan...to Delenn...
trying to evade Psi-Corps as a rogue telepath...Delenn asking her to find out from the Vorlon ambassador about what the Vorlons were planning for the Shadows and the price she paid for the attempt....I can still hear her scream...
Sheridan telling her that if she ever takes another command decision out of his hands...he would personally hand her over to the Psi-Corps to be turned inside out...
The bad, bad bsiness with Third Space...
The death of Byron and the other telepaths...
I remember the day the command staff approached Lyta and had her placed in chains ...
but I remember the tears on my face the day Lyta realised she had to go back to Psi-Corps or starve...after she had helped so much and so often in key moments during the B-5 saga...and now that they had no more use for her...were downgrading her accomodations and now she had to pay regular rent...and no one would hire her... a rogue telepath...she is in her room...she is fastening the Psi-Corps emblem to the lapel of her jacket...and the tears are in her eyes...and mine...that was just so wrong...
I loved the stories she told...her transformation with Byron...the way she faced down the command staff when they came to evict her from Babylon 5...and just about everything she did as a telepath...but for me...she was the most human character next to G'kar.
Only he went through more paradigm shifts...only he went through more dark nights of the soul...and when G'kar offered to go with Lyta...take her from Babylon 5...on a voyage that was more 'walkabaout' than just an aimless journey away from the ungrateful at B5...my heart stayed in my mouth for a long while after the episode ended.
Lyta Alexander is the bomb. Sometimes I just go through the DVD box sets and watch Lyta moments...
scanning a man with a secret who is resisting her scan, by doing the math in his head...she reads what he is doing...tells him he made a mistake..."don't forget to carry the two...that's it" and takes the secret from him anyway...
moments with Zack Allen...the only being outside of G'kar who treated Lyta like the human being she still was...and who would have loved her for the rest of her life...
Her first confrontation with Byron when he explains to her why she is not a slave and must act accordingly......
there are so many moments in B5 that are pure magic for me...and Lyta was integral to a great many of them...
she will always be my favourite character in what is for me the definitive sci fi series ever to air on american tv.
Good to find another fan of the show.
As Sheridan would say...
May the gods stand between you and harm...in all the empty places where you must walk.
2006-08-17 12:44:33 · answer #1 · answered by Zholla 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋