Babylon 5: Falling Towards Apotheosis

Air Date

Thursday November 28, 1996

Production Code

404

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  See ya "Kosh"! hide show

  Interesting double play on the title. You can take it to either refer to Emperor Loony Tunes or Sheridan, but while one takes it literally and longs for it, the other is getting it metaphorically, and whether he wants it or not. Kinda neat. And I'm wondering if the similarities between the names Cartagia and Caligula were a coincidence, or if JMS was planning on making the Emperor like this all along. Wouldn't surprise me if he did. Garibaldi seems wrong and I'm beginning to worry about what they did to him before they sealed him in SaranWrap and ejected his lifepod. I'm kinda shocked they killed NewKosh (no pun intended), and although it sucks that Sheridan only has 20 years to live, it's sweet that he and Delenn are engaged. She's seeming a lot more human now. I don't know if that's because the writers aren't paying attention, or if she changed that much after thinking Sheridan was dead and is now back. And we finally see how G'Kar wound up with the eyepatch he was wearing in the flashforward to the future on Centauri Prime.

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  Revolos55 Added Apr 3, 2008 All my reviews
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  the final end to the vorlons hide show

  as the vorlon continue their scorched earht campaign throught the galaxy,refugees flood into babylon 5 from every sector.as the threat of violent death spreads to the centauri homeworld, empereor cartagis reveals his insane conviction that the obliteration of centauri prime will be the inaugural pyre to commemorate his ascension to godhood.the savage aggression of the vorlons os also mirrored in their new ambassador to babylon5.kosh,a ruthless pitiless creature.as sheridan and garibaldi plan to rid the station of kosh,they risk unleashing the awersome millennia old power of the vorlon.they may not survive but then sheridam might not have long anyway.what a great scene when the good kosh fights the evil one of the station.

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• Guest Cast

  • Tom Billett Guard
  • Terry Urdang Young Woman
  • Khin-Kyaw Maung Worker

• Stars

  • Jerry Doyle Michael Garibaldi
  • Mira Furlan Delenn
  • Andreas Katsulas G'Kar
  • Jeff Conaway Zack Allan
  • Jason Carter Marcus Cole
  • Stephen Furst Vir Cotto
  • Claudia Christian Susan Ivanova
  • Richard Biggs Dr. Stephen Franklin
  • Bruce Boxleitner John Sheridan
  • Peter Jurasik Londo Mollari
  • Bill Mumy Lennier
  • Patricia Tallman Lyta Alexander
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• The list of sites that are accepting refugees from Ventari III is as follows: Tizino Prime, Mokafa Station, Drazi Fendamir Research Colony, Kazomi III, D'Grn IV, L'Gn'Daort, Nacambad Colony, 7 Lukantha, Oqmritkz, Velatastat, Lesser Krindar, and Greater Krindar. [edit]
• The two Koshes leave the firefight through the ceiling. If they are headed for space, they are taking the long way since they will have to pass through the center of the station. [edit]
• The rightmost head in Cartagia's cabinet is is Andreas Katsulas who also plays G'Kar. [edit]

• Sheridan: (proposing to Delenn) I, um... I wanted you to have this. I got it down in the Zocalo. It's not exactly what I had in mind, but, um... It's temporary until I can get you a real engagement ring. Um, it's an Earth custom. See, you give someone you love an engagement ring as kind of down payment for another ring. The kind you exchange when you get married. I don't know when we will be able to get around to that part of it. We may not survive the next two weeks, but I wanted you to have this and to know that whatever time I have left, I want to spend it with you. [edit]
• Cartagia: No, I don't care at all for the way he looks. Pluck out his eye.
  Guard: Which one?
  Cartagia: I don't know. Doesn't matter... That one. [edit]
• Cartagia: I was just thinking. I don't like the way he's looking at me. I'm trying to decide what to do about it. Would you care to make a suggestion?
  Londo: Oh, no, I'm sure whatever your Majesty decides will be appropriate. I shall go and pack. [edit]

• The episode title "Falling towards Apotheosis" refers mainly to Cartagias wish to become a living god..
  
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• As noted in "Hour of the Wolf", aspects of Cartagia's character are modelled on the insane Roman emperor Caligula. A reference is made to this when he shows the severed heads to Londo and explains that one minister had a persistent annoying cough that he "cured" by decapitating him. The Emperor Caligula was also annoyed by his co-heir Gamellus's peristent cough and "cured" him the same way. [edit]