r/babylon5 • u/Pdx_pops • 1d ago

RIP Mr. Bester

The man was a legend across the genre and I feel like I've lost an uncle...

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u/PomegranateFair3973 1d ago

I love Bester. Even as a lifelong Trek fan, Bester is without doubt Walter's best role.

Did you really need to eulogize him with an animated GIF that looks like he's jerkin' it?

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u/Pdx_pops 1d ago

Memorializing him and his sense of humor. He knew what he was doing when he filmed that scene

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u/glabel35 1d ago

Wasn’t his quote on a convention flyer something like “come see me before I die?”

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u/HypnonavyBlue 1d ago

Walter would probably tell you himself that he had more screen time, lines, and relevance as Bester than Chekov, as much as we loved him as Chekov. (Favorite Chekov bit: when he quite relatably gripes about being sampled to death by the medical staff in "The Deadly Years".)

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u/EmperorMittens 1d ago

It's a far brighter day when you can look at someone who has passed and laugh at their antics in life. Like OP said, it's a way of memorialising the man and his sense of humour.

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u/Lumpy-Marsupial-6617 1d ago

The Corp is Father, The Corp is Mother...

...where did The Man from UNCLE come into play here? /jk

RIP Bester, now the feds know what I am referencing my hand gestures from.

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u/Mysterious-Tackle-58 17h ago

It's actually 😅 the other way around, mother comes first, then the father does, just as it should be in any heterosexual relationship. 😘

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u/Lumpy-Marsupial-6617 11h ago

Or sometimes not at all...-Austin "Danger" Powers.

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u/DarthFozzywig 1d ago

My children and his grandchild were in the same activity class a few years ago, so I had the pleasure of talking with him a couple of times. I resisted the urge to fan out on him, but he knew I knew who he was. After, he sent us an autographed Star Trek magazine, just to be cool. He was a very nice gentleman.

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u/Jaguardragoon 1d ago

RIP to Koenig

Bester, id have walled up his cell like cask of amontillado

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u/Noah-x3 1d ago

It's pretty wild I was watching an episode with him in it just this morning

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u/gchance1 1d ago

I'm extremely disappointed that the one time I got to meet him, he was having a bad experience at a Star Trek convention, and was on edge. It skewed my opinion of him for a while until I realized that everyone can have a bad day.

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u/rampancy 1d ago

Just iconic. The expression of a man whose superpower actually isn't being telepathic, but having mastered the art of being an annoying asshole.

RIP. A true legend.

Be seeing you, Mr. Garibaldi...

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u/Kholdhara 1d ago

Us mundanes, as he would call us, will remember this legend.

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u/Hyperion_Magnus 1d ago

😥😥😥😥😥

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u/Swimming_Drummer9412 1d ago

He did the most amazing job. The most scary and loveable character i ever saw. Rest in peace dear Walter.