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echo: babylon5
to: Joseph Demartino
from: Allen Prunty
date: 2007-12-19 02:22:54
subject: Kosh on BB5

You have to remember the Kosh did perish once and they sent a 
replacement... I can remember it clearly... just can't remember the episode.

Allen

Joseph Demartino wrote:
> On Nov 28, 10:34 am, Doug Freyburger  wrote:
>> Joseph DeMartino  wrote:
>>> Doug Freyburger  wrote:
>> With Kosh lines isn't it sometimes ambiguous if we hear it as
>> a part of the narrator's viewpoint or if the other characters hear
>> it as a thought broadcast?
> 
> Not really.  We never hear anything as part of the "narrator's
> viewpoint" because there isn't a narrator.  When Kosh says something
> *out loud* he says it in the musical language of the Vorlons.  A few
> seconds later the characters hear the English from the translator
> built into his encounter suit.  The few times he seems to communicate
> teleapathically with characters it is very clear what is happening.
> (More often than not Kosh isn't even in the shot.) Also he does this
> *very* rarely, and only under special circumstances.  (He touches
> G'Kar's mind when G'Kar is under the influence of dust, and therefore
> temporarily telepathic himself, and Sheridan becomes his pet
> project.)  It is very hard to believe that Kosh would contact
> "Sinclair" mentally within seconds of stepping aboard the station for
> the first time.  Especially since Kosh had only just recognized
> Sinclair  as Valen, and given that Valen would have warned Kosh about
> doing or saying anything that might change the timeline.  (To the
> extent of not telling Kosh who he had been.)
> 
> In the case of Kosh's arrival on Babylon 5, we are seeing the event
> from Kosh's point of view - Lyta is accessing Kosh's memories
> telepathically.  Therefore *she* "hears" Kosh's thought (and so do
> we), but "Sinclair" doesn't.  There's no musical sound before the
> line, so we know he didn't say anything aloud.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Joe
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