This will always be one of the most powerful television scenes I’ve ever watched. If you put aside the sci-fi make-up and setting what you have is a survivor of unspeakable violence and humiliation confronting a man who stood by and watched and said nothing
G’kar allows for no excuses. There is a right and a wrong here, and it goes beyond the issue of if the violence could have been stopped. He suggests that a witness has an absolute, almost sacred responsibility to a victim to do something no matter how futile
Those lines “You were a witness! It doesn’t matter if they’d stop! It doesn’t matter if they’d listen! You had an obligation to speak out!” have stayed with me
Babylon 5 s5e2 The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
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