LOOK AT THIS WOMAN’S HAT
what the actual fucking everything in this screencap
grapes or something attached to what? a potato? shaped vaguely like some kind of animal?
g’kar’s fruit hat looks woefully normal now
what the fuck even
The contrast of the candles and chandeliers and statues with the fucking grape giraffe thing is killing me
On a serious note though it’s really interesting that Centauri parties like this one and the one in Soul Mates don’t have fancy food, but actually seem to have mostly things like bread and fruit
Also there is literally a table with nothing on it but that candelabra, like, it’s not practical to sit there, nothing else is sitting there with it, no can eat there, it’s just in the middle of a perfectly lit room, burning away. Someone set out that table JUST for putting that candelabra on it.
Maybe this party is like a wedding reception - primarily finger foods with one extremely sparse meal somewhere in the middle of it. I like the idea of this just bread and fruit being a thing, though.
Isn’t real proper fruit sort of hard for them to get on B5? or certain naturally grown foods anyway? Maybe this is Londo showing off that he can afford to fill the party with so much fruit that they make fucking animal sculptures from it.
Oh, you could be right about the fruit thing. Grape giraffes as a status symbol.
The candelabra table though, God. I also just noticed that there are loose apples lying on the main table. Just lying there, not in a bowl or anything. This is such a wasteful party.
And Vir’s not even changed his clothes for it. In fact, I’m pretty sure Vir wears the same awful blue outfit throughout all of season one. Londo’s dressed horribly too, actually. That brown vest really isn’t working for him.
Nothing says Expensive Alien Party like grape giraffes. Londo Mollari: Man Of Class.
In Londo’s feeble defense though, he’s wearing his fancy vest and the weird half-vest that goes even over THAT for full court dress, so the implication is that he actually got super jazzed up for this party and dressed in full ambassadorial whatsit, but has already degenerated to being sans cape and coat, AND is drunk enough to not care that the extra layer of vest really looks pretty terrible without the coat to balance it. I’m pretty sure those aren’t meant to be worn without all the other layers.
Not that any of this makes the rest of the party make any fucking sense. I kind of like the food just littered around the table for some reason. It’s either symbolic, people are drunk, or both.