#david corwin

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Lieutenant Corwin eventually became Babylon 5’s station commander. The nameless kid doing ops work in season 1 ends up as captain of the whole darn station. He knows where all the bodies are buried. He knows how everything works. He knows all of EarthGov’s tricks (which they still try to pull on occasion). Nothing gets by Captain Corwin.

Episode 3: A Day in the Strife

JESUS DELENN

For fuck's sake, Londo, can you please go at least five minutes without being the absolute worst. It’s a miracle Delenn didn’t have to immediately visit MedLab for conversational whiplash.

I really enjoy Ta’Lon as a character - the episode in which he was introduced was so weird to me, but at least we got him. Nice to see him and Sheridan getting a drink together.

Corwin has learned that Ivanova isn’t as scary as she seems and that is awesome.

Aaaaa fuck Ta'Lon you excellent dude.

Episode 4:

PASSING THROUGH GETHSEMANE

Brad Dourif is so fucking incredible. His performance just makes this episode. The religious themes here captivated me, the way it deals with forgiveness, redemption, the shouldering of one's burdens.

Lyta's throwing of some hardcore brainwashed/culty vibes, and of course Garibaldi is suspicious as hell. I mean, this is suspicious as hell.

Delenn is 0% interested in Garibaldi's position on capital punishment.

Brad Dourif played a very intense character for a while on Star Trek: Voyager that I was also fascinated with. He improves everything that he's in, and there have definitely been a handful of appearances he's made that have woefully underused him (LOOKING AT YOU, AGENTS OF SHIELD). Him telling Delenn and Lennier the story of Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane, and what it means to him really stuck with me - it's very much one of my favorite episodes.

And hey, Lennier's a Valen fanboy! God that's cute.

Ok, so A - one murder is a hell of a thing to get sentenced to a mind wipe. B - without an official station telepath, now that Talia is gone, who did the mind wipe?

I've mentioned before that B5 can get some legit guest stars - I’m sure there are some heavy-hitters that I'm just not aware of, but something I noticed in later watches is that there are 5 significant horror movie actors that show up as guest stars. First is Jeffrey Combs (who, I have to brag, I met at a horror convention several years ago and he was an absolute delight) in Eyes, playing a very intense young telepath - he's probably best known for playing Herbert West in the Re-Animator films, as well as a number of roles in Star Trek. Second is Ken Foree in GROPOS - my personal favorite film of his is Devil's Den, but I guess most people would know him from Dawn of the Dead. Third is Brad Dourif, who is fuckin CHUCKY! And the last one is Robert Englund, motherfuckin Freddy Krueger! Now, you can make a pretty good case to include Patricia Tallman (recently-reappeared resident telepath Lyta Alexander), thanks to her appearance in Dawn of the Dead remake Night of the Living Dead, but she's basically a series regular.

Babylon 5 fan stage two: Knowing that his name is Lt. David Corwin

Babylon 5 fan stage three: Actively noticing whenever he has a scene of his own.

Babylon 5 fan stage four: LOLing and going “Oh no, poor Lieutenant Corwin!” when he shows up and inevitably has a bad day, which he always does

(I got gif-happy again sorry not sorry)

Exogenesis

Oooh the symbiote episode. It's a good one for Marcus. He's got a lot of great lines, but you also get a great picture of his character.

Kat the bartender is back, and Corwin gets an actual name and promotion.

A private meeting in Ivanova's quarters has Corwin utterly terrified. Poor boy. But yes, she is terrifying.

Marcus is such a sassmaster.

Corwin got completely taken for a riiiiiiiide here by this guy.

He is a sweet baby though.

A sweet baby who gets taken for a hell of a ride.

Marcus rushes in.

TWICE! Gee, I wonder why this feels familiar.

God this is a good episode for Marcus.

Can you tell I love this scene yet?

But it’s so good!

And now we see that Marcus has a crush on Ivanova. He's quick and he's clever but he's also got absolutely no game, so he has no chance against all of her barriers (especially after what happened with Talia).