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* There were two moments in the TV movie ''In the Beginning'' that choked me up.
** Regardless of how many times he watches it, I still have to choke back the tears when the Earth Alliance President calls for ships to take part in the Battle of the Line.
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*** It's especially bad when you realise that even if the Line does its job, you're talking about a few hundred humans left. This is an extinction level attack, and she's begging for whatever help she can to save a pitiful few hundred people. Reduces me to tears every time I see it.
*** Damn it, I've never even watched In The Beginning (though I've watched a lot of Babylon Five) and I just started tearing up.
**** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbBRrK9Q-rw
** Likewise, Londo Mollari's account of the Human-Minbari war produced some tears as well.
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*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeNBJ5o-b7s#t=1m27s
* For someone who knows the [[Backstory]], the meeting between Delenn and "King Arthur" in "A Late Delivery from Avalon". Both bore heavily the knowledge that they had helped to start the Earth-Minbari war. Indeed "King Arthur" might actually have fired the shot that killed Delenn's beloved mentor.
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* The scene in "The Fall of Centauri Prime" when Londo walks willingly to his doom - knowing he has to sacrifice his freedom and his friends to save his people. All while we see a montage of his life so far set to heartbreaking music. I was in ''floods'' of tears.
** Made even worse by the fact that he doesn't get out of it, and he is controlled by his 'keeper' until the day he dies.
** It gets better / worse in the ''Centauri Prime Trilogy'' of sequel novels. They put a whole new spin on Londo's [[Dying
** Also, the conversation beforehand when G'Kar finally forgives him for all the terrible things he did...let's face it, that entire episode was one big [[Tear Jerker]].
* "I think I loved Talia."
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** And now, Zack Allen took ship and went out to join them.
* While it was not something that is on the show, JMS' introduction on the Season Five DVD booklet as he explains the odds the show overcame to become what is was, especially the final words.
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* Delenn and G'Kar's discussion right before the latter joins the war council.
* After Marcus dies Lennier is talking with Delenn, and he asks this question, "Delenn, do you know what Ivanova said at the end? That all love is unrequited?" It's a small one but it hurts to hear his voice crack when he says it.
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* My favorite episode is "The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari." It has a lot of powerful moments, but the bit that gets to me the most viscerally is his small, pathetic, "I do not want to die."
* From the episode ''The Long Night'', after the Centauri withdraw from Narn and an exhausted G'Kar confronts a group of his fellow Narns in the replica throne room. The Narns want to immediately begin plans to strike back, saying that the Centauri have taught them the path to victory, but G'Kar tells them that they have learned the wrong lessons.
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G'Kar: "ARE A LOST PEOPLE! They should be pitied! They are already on a course for self-destruction! They do not need help from us!" }}
** The way G'Kar's voice almost breaks as he shouts this got me tearful. Part of it's no doubt a result of having been brutally tortured for days, but another part of it is G'Kar taking another step on his path to full enlightenment. He once lived for the purpose of destroying the Centauri, but now he's almost crying for them. In some ways, I found this moment as tear-provoking and significant as his epiphany in ''Dust to Dust''.
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