See, THIS is how Kirk should've gone out. Doesn't get much more badass than calling in a nuclear strike on your own position to annihilate a city of soul-stealing mantis demons.
+Bek359 Now that you mention it, falling down the side of a small rocky hill in a broken steel bridge is kinda lame. At least Sheridan went out with a bang, and lived to tell the tale.
I hated Kirk death one of the worst death of tv character! Sheridan got better treatment he bombed everything came back to life like God then he lived forever w/the 1st ones.. Someone on Star Trek should have taken lessons lol
This is one of the most incredible scenes from an excellent show for me. Babylon 5 is one of the greatest shows ever made period, and a classic. Great writting, acting, visual effects, and plots. What makes this scene so incredible is how Sherriden deals with knowing his wife is no longer human, how he knows it was a trap all along and how much he loves Dellen while still dealing with his wife's return. The music with the scene as he activates the white star while Dellen hears his message is so good. And Poor Dellen, the sadness in her face as she knows he will die there, I felt so much for her. Dellen and Sheridan were an amazing pair, acted by two good actors. How i much I miss this show...
oui, i reaaly like star trek nefore the crap they mae in the 10s but this show its so much better thne star trek and i know it ended like the creator wanted and the medias as proven many time thats its better to end earlier instead of keep going for too long but u wish they had made a folow up like in the last episode when we find out theres a shadow creature in a vase for the kid of sheraidan when he will grow up but none of them knows, i wish they show whit time if they find out and what happen to the son.
The White Star crashing through the dome is probably the most iconic Babylon 5 scene for me. If I think of the show I think of exactly that mental image.
They should have fired a weapon at it. Even if it wasn't completely destroyed, that would have been something. It seems unbelievable that they'd leave it in orbit, or let it hit the city to explode the fusion bombs.
Oh my GOD. This scene. And the speech afterwards. Left us going... woah. Like... this episode redefined science fiction television forever. I mean, the show itself redefined television forever, but this moment, and G'Kar's speech at the end redefined the show that had already changed everything we thought we knew. Babylon 5 is the greatest show in the history of television. It changed EVERYTHING.
+jon crocker I love me some SG-1 (just started in on Season 1 for the third time), but without Babylon 5 to pave the way, and prove that TV shows with continuing plots could succeed, SG-1 wouldn't have gotten as good as it did in latter seasons. (The first season was kinda... eh... until the final few eps.)
Yup, sort of like how Gandalf went to Lothlorien to acquire his new staff. Only instead of getting help from the Lady of Lorien, Sheridan gets help from just some first of the first dude named Lorien.
Okay, kind of reminds me of "The Empire Strikes Back". Some people will do *anything* to escape their parents or their spouses! Seriously though, it makes perfect sense that the Shadows would fall for this. Their whole philosophy is "What do you want?" - a fundamentally selfish idea. They legitimately believed that he came to Z'ha'dum because he wanted Anna back. That he would give up her life, and his own life (or the alternative of life with Delenn) to strike at them was too selfless for them to accept. So they didn't realize that *their* trap was really *his* trap!
In that they parallel the Devil of the Bible. The selfishness and thinking that they had trapped their prey, only to be trapped by the prey. Of course Sheridan was supposed to be a Messianic figure, so the parallels are natural. Heck, you can even go to the final episode and his bodily assumption.
A bit of trivia: According to the Technomage trilogy, Anna always considered herself to be a component of a Shadow vessel, even after they pulled her out. That final shriek was her war cry, the sound that the vessels make when they attack, the one that according to Warren Keffer is "like you hear a scream in your mind."
Having read the Technomage trilogy...you shouldn't be hurting yourself over this :D. The books very quickly turn into a fanfiction about "How Galen saved the galaxy while all those incompetent maincast B5 characters sorta helped him".
More like if Ned Stark had a few jars of wildfire on him and blew himsel,f Jeoffrey and Cercei up before the headman could deliver the killing blow crying "Fuck the King"
In an earlier scene the Shadows, and their human 'advisors', made it clear that they knew Sheridan was an important and influential leader. They produced his (thought to be dead) wife, thinking as always with their "what do you want?" mind set that she would be the one thing that could turn him. Instead he knew along it was a trap, turned it on them, and literally made a leap of faith. For all of the warnings about how he would 'die' if he came here it was an interesting turn that he wasn't 'killed' but instead willingly sacrificed himself to strike a devastating blow on the Shadows.
Don Gilleo I totally agree! You really have to admire Sheridan. He went there with the sole purpose of destroying the Shadows. He knew that he would die and that he would never see Delenn again but he went anyway. Now that's a heroes death!
The Sheridan/Delenn/Anna love triangle was extremely tragic. In the beginning, Anna is presumed dead from an accident during her scientific expedition to the unknown world. John is devastated by it, pining away over her. Later, he is told that her death was actually part of a greater conflict - the coming great war against the powerful ancient enemy. She was an early casualty of that coming war. John decides that he will resolve the conflict - "Teach me how to fight them; how to beat them." During the course of fighting for his new cause, he falls in love with the person who recruited him into it - Delenn. Their romantic relationship is highly grounded in the cause - the conflict against the ancient enemy. Then, just as he has romantically committed to his new lover, he discovers that Anna is still alive, to his horror! Furthermore, she has picked the other side in the conflict. "You gave me every reason to believe she was dead!" "If there was any chance she was still alive, you should have told me!" Now John must choose between his two lovers, just as he has chosen a side in the conflict. And must tragically experience the painful consequences of losing Anna again. This was actually more tragic than Han Solo being frozen in the carbonite (not knowing if he would survive) while Princess Leia sadly watched.
FYI, according to writer-producer Straczynski, it took *30* takes before Melissa Gilbert's scream was acceptable for director Adam Nimoy. Considering who his dad was, that's a nice bit of irony.
For me, it was the first time they beat a Shadow ship in a stand up fight. Humans and Narns together. Seeing how psychics could neutralize the Shadows, and that the war could be WON. It blew me away - back in the day.
Yeah I agree, that moment for me was awesome - they were always these badassess that could not be beaten, then yay. It was like when they finally took down a reaper in mass Effect
I love how everything about Anna's new personality is such a transparently poor facade, even the way she walks @ 1:53 is alien. It is sheer hubris on the Shadows part to think they had deceived Sheridan.
As someone pointed out in a comments when the whitestar comes crashing down his wife screams like a shadow. Just an eerie acknowledgment that his wife is dead and what Sheridans sees is but a shadow. In the end Sheridan saves her.
@0:22-2:26 Garibaldi: No boom? Sinclair: No boom. Ivanova: No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. [Sinclair and Garibaldi exchange an exasperated look and wander off.] Ivanova: What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later.... BOOM!
She's now his ex-wife. In retrospect, he looks back and probably wishes that this actually happened when she announced their pending divorce (unknown to him), then got together with actor Tim Busfield. Melissa has endured much over her life, but not indicating she had issues about her husband, directly to him, rather than publicly announcing a divorce and immediately shacking -up with Busfield, is questionable. She's been married a few times, like her mother, who also had issues.
This is the Empire Strikes Back episode, where Sheridan knowingly goes into an enemy trap only to be beckoned with by a corrupted relative to join the villains. He then jumps into a void rather than betray his conscience. We even get a shot of Anna peering over the edge as Sheridan plummets. The only difference is that Vader didn't get 1000 megatons shoved up his ass like Anna did!
Just Anna walking towards John with the Shadows bringing up the rear...devastating moment in B5...a tv series built on a seabed of devastating moments.
Good for Sheridan. No compromise with an enemy that tries to persuade you to betray the Earth. No quarter given nor asked for; you just destroy them by any means possible.
The Shadows asked John Sheridan to go to the dark side-- John Sheridan gave them a *gigaton* worth of 'fuck you'. To put that into some context; the energy released from a one megaton nuclear detonation would be enough to run your average house for 100,000 years. Sheridan took *1,000 times that*, and rammed it *straight down the Shadows' throats*. Sheridan got a LOT of awesome moments in this series, but THIS, unquestionably (with the possible exception of his 'Get the hell out of our galaxy! Both of you!' speech) was his best.
DorianMichaelsIII I agree, but to throw another badass moment at you, when Sheridan goes to Kosh for help and Sheridan gives him a right good ol' dressing down. "Put your money where your mouth is!" Kosh is all like "Dissobediant!" and Sheridan exclaims "Up yours!" Love that.
The fact that "anna" had said that the Shadows feared that if anything touched by Vorlon arrived on their homeworld, they would die has a double impact here.
This moment more or less ended the "greatest science fiction scene of all time" debate for me. There are other great science fiction shows, and there are great moments in those shows but... this...
Reminds me of that line from independance day when they stow away & nuke the alien death star... do you think they've got a clue whats about to happen to them? Ha ha not a chance in hell!
This was one of the greatest Sci-Fi series ever! And i remember when i saw this episode in TV for the first time... i was very sad about this ending because here in germany i saw the 4th season 3 years later... :(
The Shadows pre-exist Humanity by several million years. They created bio-organic starship hulls, laser scalpels of doom, and invasive cybernetic enhancement. But they still have room to learn new concepts. In this scene, Sheridan teaches them a human concept. The word "PWND!!!!!"
I'd like to point out that all of Sheridan's lauded battle strategies can be boiled down to "let's blow them up!" He defeated the Mimbari by mining an asteroid field. He destroyed a shadow vessel by blowing up a jump gate. And now he puts a bunch of bombs on a white star and crashes it into their planet. I feel like deep down he secretly wants to be a terrorist or at least a mad bomber...
Officers of his rank are carefully chosen, and they understand the consequences of their actions. If he wasn't capable of defeating an enemy by any means necessary (an episode title), he would never have been chosen. The people choosing these officers have never been confronted with a choice like this, however. That's why they kill younger officers. To avoid the blame.
A very simple strategy that works. It is so simple and effective. That makes it so great. Another tactic that he uses however when he commands large fleets is to have smaller ships clear the way from the enemy’s secondary ships while his main strike force engages the primary assets of the enemy. Like thrusting a sword to the heart. He used this tactic in the episode shadow dancing to allow the Minbari cruisers to engage the Shadow cruisers and in the Call to the arms to allow the Victory and Excalibur reach and kill the the Shadow Planet killer. This is also a sound tactic. The Royal Navy understood and adopted 100 years ago that when the enemy’s main units are defeated, the enemy’s fleet is defeated. Overall Sheridan has a flexibility in tactics. He uses what will work best in an asymmetrical situation when he faces a significantly more powerful enemy and he changes tactics when he engages with a fleet against a fleet. Somehow though, I wish that the writers used some creativity to develop his fighting strategy better.
I sort of think of him like Ulysses S. Grant. He's not subtle, but he is effective. He knows how to apply overwhelming force exactly where it will do the most damage to the enemy, and he has the will to do it, even knowing the cost.
I can't help but hear just a little bit of Kosh's good-natured stank as he tells Sheridan to jump. 'Asshole, we can't survive that blast, but maybe we'll survive the jump. JUMP.'
Some odd foreshadowing in this scene when Sheridan acknowledges his permanent estrangement from his wife and decides to basically do in her and her cronies. Boxleitner and Gilbert divorced 15 years after this episode aired.
I love how Sheridan doesn't respond to ''Anna'' at all when she keeps trying to appeal to his emotional attachment to her. He knows that more talk can only help stall the Shadows' attention while the White Star makes its way down, but his stern silence shows how much he refuses to dignify this imposter of someone he loved and how ready he is to die, taking her and the Shadow homeworld with him, rather than play along with the charade any longer.
Nathanielle Crawford That's overreacting. Conventional explosives are sufficient for that. Now, if you want to talk about what to do to the one who takes the last coffee pod.......
I thought of that, but the fact is that Ed Wasser hit that role out of the park. I can't imagine anyone else. I love that line "Why don't you eliminate the entire Narn homeworld?" "All in good time, ambassador." That was the first time we saw real fear in Londo's eyes to Morden. For the first time I think he realized that he may have made a deal with the devil.
Throughout this arc I kept expecting some long drawn-out love triangle after the reintroduction of Anna. To my absolute surprise, Sheridan wasn't written like a moron and instead suicide nukes the fuckers that took his wife and paraded her zombified body in front of him like some sick joke. Fuck the Shadow, fuck the Vorlons, long live Sheridan.
Nice that he got his real life wife to play this role . Not every husband get to blow up his wife with nuke . Also she was head of the screen actors union at the time .
There was an episode that led up to this one where they caught glimpses of the future. And Delenn experiences a flash of the future where she and John are together and and someone walks into the room and say's "I'm Anna Sheridan, John's wife". (you can't see their face yet), but I knew it was Melissa Gilbert's voice.
That's one way to finalize a divorce.
Yeah, I would say you are right there!!
Even better than Arnold's divorce from Sharon Stone in "Total Recall."
I would like to know another solution to when your wife has been twisted into your nemesis by an alien war machine.
If you've gone through divorce, you know....
You.Know.
LOL
Kosh: "Jump! Jump now!"... most direct thing he's ever said.
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I thought that I heard something in Kosh's voice when he said "Jump, NOW!!" I heard fear, and that's rare for a Vorlon to show any fear.
Most direct... and long after his death...
I got thinking, what if Sheridan had actually jumped when told rather than hesitate, would have actually survived and not needed Lorien's help?
Jump down jump down and say...
See, THIS is how Kirk should've gone out. Doesn't get much more badass than calling in a nuclear strike on your own position to annihilate a city of soul-stealing mantis demons.
+Bek359 Now that you mention it, falling down the side of a small rocky hill in a broken steel bridge is kinda lame. At least Sheridan went out with a bang, and lived to tell the tale.
+Bek359 Fans always said that Kirk should die on the bridge. They made the mistake of not specifying the *Enterprise's* bridge!
I hated Kirk death one of the worst death of tv character! Sheridan got better treatment he bombed everything came back to life like God then he lived forever w/the 1st ones.. Someone on Star Trek should have taken lessons lol
OMFG so funny
Bek359 Maxim 20: If you're not willing to nuke your own position, you're not willing to win.
This is one of the most incredible scenes from an excellent show for me. Babylon 5 is one of the greatest shows ever made period, and a classic. Great writting, acting, visual effects, and plots. What makes this scene so incredible is how Sherriden deals with knowing his wife is no longer human, how he knows it was a trap all along and how much he loves Dellen while still dealing with his wife's return. The music with the scene as he activates the white star while Dellen hears his message is so good. And Poor Dellen, the sadness in her face as she knows he will die there, I felt so much for her. Dellen and Sheridan were an amazing pair, acted by two good actors. How i much I miss this show...
oui, i reaaly like star trek nefore the crap they mae in the 10s but this show its so much better thne star trek and i know it ended like the creator wanted and the medias as proven many time thats its better to end earlier instead of keep going for too long but u wish they had made a folow up like in the last episode when we find out theres a shadow creature in a vase for the kid of sheraidan when he will grow up but none of them knows, i wish they show whit time if they find out and what happen to the son.
A dark city of timeless evil from before man and he nukes it and his evil zombie wife back to hell. Sheridan has balls of steel.
Most people would settle for a divorce, but sometimes these breakups can get pretty hardcore...
A dark city of timeless evil from before man - Mecca? ;P
SuperJohnnyuk 'edgy'
I meant a Mecca for evil and chaos- a nightmare that all us lesser ones fear
+SuperJohnnyuk No.
Sheridan goes to Z'ha'dum and dies... *like a boss*.
(Then he got better.)
"She turned me into a Newt!!"
"A NEWT!!??"
"I got better!!"
@@thedukeofnuts we'll have to nuke the site from orbit it's the only way to be sure
The White Star crashing through the dome is probably the most iconic Babylon 5 scene for me. If I think of the show I think of exactly that mental image.
I think of the Minbari cruisers coming out of hyperspace in Severed Dreams.
They should have fired a weapon at it. Even if it wasn't completely destroyed, that would have been something. It seems unbelievable that they'd leave it in orbit, or let it hit the city to explode the fusion bombs.
I love how you can see the heartbreak in Sheridans face when she says That the Anna he knew could never come back.
Bruce is a great actor.
Oh my GOD. This scene. And the speech afterwards. Left us going... woah. Like... this episode redefined science fiction television forever. I mean, the show itself redefined television forever, but this moment, and G'Kar's speech at the end redefined the show that had already changed everything we thought we knew.
Babylon 5 is the greatest show in the history of television. It changed EVERYTHING.
+jon crocker I love me some SG-1 (just started in on Season 1 for the third time), but without Babylon 5 to pave the way, and prove that TV shows with continuing plots could succeed, SG-1 wouldn't have gotten as good as it did in latter seasons. (The first season was kinda... eh... until the final few eps.)
+jon crocker Stargate didn't need B5...but it DID need a kick-ass movie to start it off.
Well put John, Babylon 5 has a special place in my heart
In which John Sheridan nukes Space Mordor.
+Josh Sweetvale (Bonkers)
Dang those Space Ringwraiths. Always messing with the galaxy.....
Gandalf fell into the pit of Khazad-dum, Sheridan falls into a pit at Z'ha'dum. Both return to fulfill their destinies before dying the true death.
Now that you mention it, the original creator of Babylon 5 must have read Lord of the Rings ^^
Indeed JMS likes LotR. You know the name of who Sheridan will meet at the bottom of the pit, don't you?
Yup, sort of like how Gandalf went to Lothlorien to acquire his new staff. Only instead of getting help from the Lady of Lorien, Sheridan gets help from just some first of the first dude named Lorien.
Okay, kind of reminds me of "The Empire Strikes Back". Some people will do *anything* to escape their parents or their spouses!
Seriously though, it makes perfect sense that the Shadows would fall for this. Their whole philosophy is "What do you want?" - a fundamentally selfish idea. They legitimately believed that he came to Z'ha'dum because he wanted Anna back. That he would give up her life, and his own life (or the alternative of life with Delenn) to strike at them was too selfless for them to accept. So they didn't realize that *their* trap was really *his* trap!
In that they parallel the Devil of the Bible. The selfishness and thinking that they had trapped their prey, only to be trapped by the prey. Of course Sheridan was supposed to be a Messianic figure, so the parallels are natural. Heck, you can even go to the final episode and his bodily assumption.
Or, his answer to their question wasn't what they expected.
A bit of trivia: According to the Technomage trilogy, Anna always considered herself to be a component of a Shadow vessel, even after they pulled her out. That final shriek was her war cry, the sound that the vessels make when they attack, the one that according to Warren Keffer is "like you hear a scream in your mind."
+cugamer I did not know that. I neglected to pick up the Technomage Trilogy back in the day although I'm kicking myself now.
Having read the Technomage trilogy...you shouldn't be hurting yourself over this :D.
The books very quickly turn into a fanfiction about "How Galen saved the galaxy while all those incompetent maincast B5 characters sorta helped him".
fanfiction written by someone that clearly did not understand the show in the slightest. JMS should be ashamed of the things he let get published.
lucasbachmann, Agreed, I don't consider the technomage trilogy cannon. It was ok, but was a poor fit in the B5 story.
@@lucasbachmann JMS said that the Technomages trilogy is a Canon
The only time Kosh was not speaking in riddles...
Schwatvogel you do not understand
But you will.
I don't know when he said "if you go to zahadom you will die." that was pretty straight forward.
He was just a piece of himself in Sheridan, he needed his full mojo for riddle games.
He was also fairly straightforward when he spoke to Sheridan through dreams as his father while he was 'dying'.
At the time, this was the sci-fi equivalent of Ned Stark getting his head cut off.
+ArcaneAzmadi haha...Yes it was!
yup.
Yep!!! Not to mention one of the best cliff-hangers ever on TV!!
@Ghastlly Grinner
The Expanse, look it up
You can thank me later
More like if Ned Stark had a few jars of wildfire on him and blew himsel,f Jeoffrey and Cercei up before the headman could deliver the killing blow crying "Fuck the King"
In an earlier scene the Shadows, and their human 'advisors', made it clear that they knew Sheridan was an important and influential leader. They produced his (thought to be dead) wife, thinking as always with their "what do you want?" mind set that she would be the one thing that could turn him. Instead he knew along it was a trap, turned it on them, and literally made a leap of faith. For all of the warnings about how he would 'die' if he came here it was an interesting turn that he wasn't 'killed' but instead willingly sacrificed himself to strike a devastating blow on the Shadows.
Don Gilleo I totally agree! You really have to admire Sheridan. He went there with the sole purpose of destroying the Shadows. He knew that he would die and that he would never see Delenn again but he went anyway. Now that's a heroes death!
He had learned to fight legends.
that music still gives me goosebumps. the best storyline I've seen from any sci-fi series.
One of the best scenes EVER! That scream!!!!
According to the show's creator, it took 30 takes before the director was satisfied with her scream.
@@soylentteal Practice makes perfect, I guess.
(It did in this case :)
Aaaand Anna Sheridan gets a tan... Well, let's just say anyone not wearing SPF 2,000,000,000 sunblock on Z'ha'dum is gonna have a real bad day...
meldroc. yep. Ask Mr Morden :)
@@redshirt5126 he was extra crispy lol.
robocop? nah..wait .. Terminator !
Either that, or they'll be very calm...
As a married man I am taking notes just in case.
Well, the actors were also married.
The Sheridan/Delenn/Anna love triangle was extremely tragic. In the beginning, Anna is presumed dead from an accident during her scientific expedition to the unknown world. John is devastated by it, pining away over her. Later, he is told that her death was actually part of a greater conflict - the coming great war against the powerful ancient enemy. She was an early casualty of that coming war. John decides that he will resolve the conflict - "Teach me how to fight them; how to beat them." During the course of fighting for his new cause, he falls in love with the person who recruited him into it - Delenn. Their romantic relationship is highly grounded in the cause - the conflict against the ancient enemy. Then, just as he has romantically committed to his new lover, he discovers that Anna is still alive, to his horror! Furthermore, she has picked the other side in the conflict. "You gave me every reason to believe she was dead!" "If there was any chance she was still alive, you should have told me!" Now John must choose between his two lovers, just as he has chosen a side in the conflict. And must tragically experience the painful consequences of losing Anna again.
This was actually more tragic than Han Solo being frozen in the carbonite (not knowing if he would survive) while Princess Leia sadly watched.
John "Nuke'em" Sheridan
Wasn't his nickname Starkiller? :D
MapleDog To the Minbari, yes; Bruce Boxleitner actually referred to his character as John "Nuke 'em" Sheridan, though
I got to refresh my memory,its been a long time.
And always, always . . . Right in their goddam faces.
@@henrypickett6271 The starkiller, Za'ha'dum, the Vorlon/shadow slug fest, and even Thirdspace. John never saw a problem that he didn't want nuked
Sheridan in true Arnold's voice: "Consider this a divorce!"
What a scream. Good set of lungs on that one ☝️
FYI, according to writer-producer Straczynski, it took *30* takes before Melissa Gilbert's scream was acceptable for director Adam Nimoy. Considering who his dad was, that's a nice bit of irony.
Love how the Music builds up from 1:10...epic soundtrack from christopher franke
I can't even begin to understand how a guy from an electronic band (Tangerine Dreams) managed to create one of the best symphonic soundtracks ever.
I don't think it qualifies as a cliffhanger when the main character jumps OFF the cliff and then nukes it for good measure.
Like Ivanova says, there is always a boom, no boom today maybe book tomorrow!
To me, this sequence is perhaps THE highlight of the entire Babylon 5 series.
For me, it was the first time they beat a Shadow ship in a stand up fight. Humans and Narns together. Seeing how psychics could neutralize the Shadows, and that the war could be WON. It blew me away - back in the day.
Yeah I agree, that moment for me was awesome - they were always these badassess that could not be beaten, then yay. It was like when they finally took down a reaper in mass Effect
I love how everything about Anna's new personality is such a transparently poor facade, even the way she walks @ 1:53 is alien. It is sheer hubris on the Shadows part to think they had deceived Sheridan.
As someone pointed out in a comments when the whitestar comes crashing down his wife screams like a shadow. Just an eerie acknowledgment that his wife is dead and what Sheridans sees is but a shadow. In the end Sheridan saves her.
Nuke divorce - talk about dropping the mike!
that is the way to go having your spaceship ram the capital city of your enemy with 1000 megatons worth of nukes
@0:22-2:26
Garibaldi:
No boom?
Sinclair:
No boom.
Ivanova:
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow.
[Sinclair and Garibaldi exchange an exasperated look and wander off.]
Ivanova:
What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later....
BOOM!
Consider this a divorce :)
Gilbert was his real life wife , he must of liked the idea dropping a bomb on the White Star on his wife LOL
She's now his ex-wife. In retrospect, he looks back and probably wishes that this actually happened when she announced their pending divorce (unknown to him), then got together with actor Tim Busfield. Melissa has endured much over her life, but not indicating she had issues about her husband, directly to him, rather than publicly announcing a divorce and immediately shacking -up with Busfield, is questionable. She's been married a few times, like her mother, who also had issues.
cirian75
probably cheaper to
This is STILL the best scream in any series, ever, one of my all time favourite TV/movie moments. What a great show B5 was!
It cracks me up every time. As if she just realized how pissed Sheridan was XD
It should be, since (according to Straczynski) it took 30 takes before director Adam Nimoy was satisfied with her scream.
This is the Empire Strikes Back episode, where Sheridan knowingly goes into an enemy trap only to be beckoned with by a corrupted relative to join the villains. He then jumps into a void rather than betray his conscience. We even get a shot of Anna peering over the edge as Sheridan plummets. The only difference is that Vader didn't get 1000 megatons shoved up his ass like Anna did!
NUKE THE SITE FROM ORBIT! It's the only way to be sure! ;D
Twenty years later and this still gives me chills.
no problem that cant be solve by the proper application of high explosives
2:19 I love her Scream
Just Anna walking towards John with the Shadows bringing up the rear...devastating moment in B5...a tv series built on a seabed of devastating moments.
"One thing at a time, ambassador. One thing at a time."
Good for Sheridan. No compromise with an enemy that tries to persuade you to betray the Earth. No quarter given nor asked for; you just destroy them by any means possible.
John Sheridan, cant wait to get to Z'Ha'Dum and take several million Shadows with him.
I bet the shadows never anticipated one of the younger races would be bold enough to attack their home world.
Have to agree with most here. I think B-5 was one of the best shows of all time!!
"You said if I go to Z'ha'dum I will die."
"Yes. Now." -Kosh
The Shadows asked John Sheridan to go to the dark side-- John Sheridan gave them a *gigaton* worth of 'fuck you'.
To put that into some context; the energy released from a one megaton nuclear detonation would be enough to run your average house for 100,000 years. Sheridan took *1,000 times that*, and rammed it *straight down the Shadows' throats*.
Sheridan got a LOT of awesome moments in this series, but THIS, unquestionably (with the possible exception of his 'Get the hell out of our galaxy! Both of you!' speech) was his best.
DorianMichaelsIII I agree, but to throw another badass moment at you, when Sheridan goes to Kosh for help and Sheridan gives him a right good ol' dressing down. "Put your money where your mouth is!" Kosh is all like "Dissobediant!" and Sheridan exclaims "Up yours!" Love that.
Impudent.
The fact that "anna" had said that the Shadows feared that if anything touched by Vorlon arrived on their homeworld, they would die has a double impact here.
This moment more or less ended the "greatest science fiction scene of all time" debate for me. There are other great science fiction shows, and there are great moments in those shows but... this...
The Expanse season 3 finale is good enough to rival this one
Sorry, Half-pint.
Reminds me of that line from independance day when they stow away & nuke the alien death star... do you think they've got a clue whats about to happen to them? Ha ha not a chance in hell!
Jean-Luc Martel. PEACE ✌
@@redshirt5126 yes!!!
This was one of the greatest Sci-Fi series ever!
And i remember when i saw this episode in TV for the first time... i was very sad about this ending because here in germany i saw the 4th season 3 years later... :(
it always makes me sad when Space Elf Delenn cries :c
Her horror and sadness was truly heartbreaking.
The great thing about this show is there was a whole season build up to this.
Sheridan performing some much needed Pest Control... :)
Well, that was taking "danger close" to a new level!
The Shadows pre-exist Humanity by several million years. They created bio-organic starship hulls, laser scalpels of doom, and invasive cybernetic enhancement. But they still have room to learn new concepts. In this scene, Sheridan teaches them a human concept. The word "PWND!!!!!"
I'd like to point out that all of Sheridan's lauded battle strategies can be boiled down to "let's blow them up!" He defeated the Mimbari by mining an asteroid field. He destroyed a shadow vessel by blowing up a jump gate. And now he puts a bunch of bombs on a white star and crashes it into their planet. I feel like deep down he secretly wants to be a terrorist or at least a mad bomber...
Officers of his rank are carefully chosen, and they understand the consequences of their actions.
If he wasn't capable of defeating an enemy by any means necessary (an episode title), he would never have been chosen.
The people choosing these officers have never been confronted with a choice like this, however.
That's why they kill younger officers. To avoid the blame.
A very simple strategy that works. It is so simple and effective. That makes it so great.
Another tactic that he uses however when he commands large fleets is to have smaller ships clear the way from the enemy’s secondary ships while his main strike force engages the primary assets of the enemy. Like thrusting a sword to the heart. He used this tactic in the episode shadow dancing to allow the Minbari cruisers to engage the Shadow cruisers and in the Call to the arms to allow the Victory and Excalibur reach and kill the the Shadow Planet killer. This is also a sound tactic. The Royal Navy understood and adopted 100 years ago that when the enemy’s main units are defeated, the enemy’s fleet is defeated.
Overall Sheridan has a flexibility in tactics. He uses what will work best in an asymmetrical situation when he faces a significantly more powerful enemy and he changes tactics when he engages with a fleet against a fleet.
Somehow though, I wish that the writers used some creativity to develop his fighting strategy better.
I sort of think of him like Ulysses S. Grant. He's not subtle, but he is effective. He knows how to apply overwhelming force exactly where it will do the most damage to the enemy, and he has the will to do it, even knowing the cost.
5 seconds in, Sheridan's face says "Man, did I take a wrong turn".
+R Fletch He should have taken the left turn at Albuqurque...
0:06 The epitome of the "Ah, Shit" moment.
@@ShadowStoryteller Followed immediately after with the "Well, that tears it" moment.
Approaching someone with 2 shadowy insectoid creatures of death isn't exactly the best way to get them to come with you.
It's not a moment in a episode, but the culmination of a entire season telling him not to go....and he still went.
I can't help but hear just a little bit of Kosh's good-natured stank as he tells Sheridan to jump.
'Asshole, we can't survive that blast, but maybe we'll survive the jump. JUMP.'
The bad guys are just never ready for that Luke Skywalker jump.
One of the greatest cliffhangers I have ever seen and this is my favorit!
"Consider this a divorce."
"I cancelled my insurance and blew myself up! Showed her right!?! Ha ha ha!!"
Some odd foreshadowing in this scene when Sheridan acknowledges his permanent estrangement from his wife and decides to basically do in her and her cronies. Boxleitner and Gilbert divorced 15 years after this episode aired.
Ripley would agree, "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls, what have you done LOL!!!
"JUMP! NOW!"
Love how the music score is building up 1:12 onwards....If there is one thing ill remember from B5 its the Music...
I love how Sheridan doesn't respond to ''Anna'' at all when she keeps trying to appeal to his emotional attachment to her. He knows that more talk can only help stall the Shadows' attention while the White Star makes its way down, but his stern silence shows how much he refuses to dignify this imposter of someone he loved and how ready he is to die, taking her and the Shadow homeworld with him, rather than play along with the charade any longer.
Great scream at the end!!!
That epic music that plays when Kosh says jump.
Little Crater on the Prairie.
The fact that Melissa Gilbert was, at the time, his real life wife probably helped.
It's a good thing that Z'ha'dum has no air defenses.
Best Divorce Ever. LOL
Kosh ........you are back.......finally! 😂
+🌺たつひ🌺 I am always with you!
+Kosh Naranek
....my all...😇💙
Thank Grathbar!
Never away . . . Just hiding for a while.
You would have thought that marriage counselling would've helped...but this WAS quicker
this is very cool. i was looking for the other "z'ha'dum goes boom" though
John Sheridan rained hellfire down on himself before Thanos 😎
Gotta love John "Nuke'm" Sheridan. Best captain of any science fiction ever.
1:41 to 2:26 To quote Police Detective John McClane from the "Die Hard" franchise: "Welcome to the party PAL!!! Yippee Ki Yay Mother Fuckers!!!"
Gave Mr. Morden a whole new look! Before his head was on the pike.
Best TV Series EVAR!
Thanks for posting this video. Moments this powerful and well crafted are unique to B5.
That's a hell of a way to call down final protective fire!
That is the definition of Danger Close.
See Z'ha'dum. See Z'ha'dum go boom. Boom, Z'ha'dum, boom!
This moment alone sold me on the series! 'nuff said!!! Just all kinds of awesome.
the moment he says I love you delen :D gets my every time
I plan to do this the next time my co-workers leave empty pizza boxes in the break room again.
OK, but keep it to 10kt, will yah? No need to take out the city next door.
Nathanielle Crawford That's overreacting. Conventional explosives are sufficient for that. Now, if you want to talk about what to do to the one who takes the last coffee pod.......
In that time epic, today still epic!!!
Always epic; always the best.
Weird that Z'ha'dum, being the Shadows' HQ, didn't have any planetary defense system to destroy the White Star.
"Jump. Jump now." The last words spoken by Kosh... long after he died.
I thought of that, but the fact is that Ed Wasser hit that role out of the park. I can't imagine anyone else. I love that line "Why don't you eliminate the entire Narn homeworld?"
"All in good time, ambassador."
That was the first time we saw real fear in Londo's eyes to Morden. For the first time I think he realized that he may have made a deal with the devil.
Throughout this arc I kept expecting some long drawn-out love triangle after the reintroduction of Anna. To my absolute surprise, Sheridan wasn't written like a moron and instead suicide nukes the fuckers that took his wife and paraded her zombified body in front of him like some sick joke. Fuck the Shadow, fuck the Vorlons, long live Sheridan.
Best season finale ever. The talk that happens with the rep from the bankers ect is one of the truest moments in television history.
"As they say in Canada, peace oooot!"
Nice that he got his real life wife to play this role . Not every husband get to blow up his wife with nuke . Also she was head of the screen actors union at the time .
There was an episode that led up to this one where they caught glimpses of the future. And Delenn experiences a flash of the future where she and John are together and and someone walks into the room and say's "I'm Anna Sheridan, John's wife". (you can't see their face yet), but I knew it was Melissa Gilbert's voice.