Love how this could apply to current world events.

Find a way to work "I have always been here" into a conversation and I swear that you can physically tell who has seen B5 and who hasn't.

yeah, like spike has never used hair gel a day in his life

Kosh was an absolute legend.

Spike's sarcasm was so needed in those series 😂 I love him

The Best written show that ever was made. Still freaking great.

One could almost imagine Teal'c is lecturing Vlodomir Zelensky.

Ronon filing a mission report... He did it once and it was a very short one.

A 16 year old clip, youtube's recommendations sure works in weird ways. But aside that & the stupid title to it, this is a REALLY good monologue from Tealc with an excellent delivery from Judge

She is the same woman that wants v1ol3nc3 against men as a right and calls "patriarchy" an "occupying force".

who else can hear Kratos?

Man Judge is amazing and on fire in this scene. ❤

Things you take to a mission in another galaxy: An impressive amount of gold balls, apparently!

There are so many former adversaries turned hero in storytelling, but in my opinion this is what makes Teal’c one the most compelling. His moral bank account will forever be in the negative, and he will forever continue to make payments.

This show... so amazing.

This whole speech is beautiful. It's exactly the mindset that a former bad guy has to have to do what's right after turning to the good side.

This is the way

- How do I forgive myself? - That's the neat part, you don't!

Coming back to enjoy this clip 16 years later. Awesome!

Ah, it was that episode...😢

wow

One of the realest "real talks" in all of media

Awesome - what's also amazing and heartbreaking is how lots of this can be whittled down to the individual in ordinary life. How we could've done more, more of the right thing, not stood on the sidelines so much, helped out other people, the regret of having to live with poor life choices, and so on. Just great writing

Jason Momoa can do everything😊

Ah, good acting,writing and production, how I miss thee......

Teal'c is being uncharacteristically chatty here, but what he has to say feels very much in character. This is a well written exchange.

lol, I'm not that into fishing but I'ld have gone with him.

or is it about him practising for a voice acting role in a certain video game?

For all his strength and martial qualities, it is his wisdom and his heart that stand tallest. Jaffa Kri!

i believe that many people need to watch this scene. we fight pick sides and fight to hurt one another. we don't want to give ourself up for others. we lose more of ourself when we focus on ourselves. we can learn a lot form babylon 5.

Wow, in hindsight Maher was right. The Arab spring did not go well in Egypt. They replaced one dictator with another. Mona was naive.

Everyone goes on about Teal'c's words, but Tomin's, "I sit here," hurts hard every time I hear it. The words of a man broken by his own guilt, unable to fathom how he could possibly go on, how he could possibly change what he has done, the utter defeat brought on by his own decisions. "I sit here," knowing he can do nothing, knowing he has failed in every way possible for a man, he does not seek redemption, he does not seek escape, he simply sits and waits for judgment.

I feel like this scene right here is what the writers of God of War were thinking about when writing Dad of Boy, and why they wanted Christopher Judge as their main character.

Obviously a great scene, but why does Teal'c say "personal retribution" instead of "personal redemption"? Retribution is about punishment. Redemption is about earning forgiveness. A small thing overall, but I wonder about it.

He is a calm and reasonable person isn’t he?

This hits different after the end of Valhalla!

“I killed many who were deserving. Many who were not.” Not very far from kratos. He wanted justice and sacrificed alot for it.

1:47 He backs into the shadows to hide himself and his shame. When it is done, he will be done, and the truth will be laid to bare.

"Because you let them distract you. Blind you with hate!" This one cut deep.

The best part is Carson Beckett telling them not to be jealous. lol.

This is also why I think Jack and Teal'c were so close in the first place. Jack was in Black Ops so it meant he did "damn distasteful things" so he understood what Teal'c has done. That is why he defended him. Also why he was most likely to make bad choices at times but Daniel tried to preserve their morality. I love how everyone balances each other. Also makes it sadder when he said, "I have nowhere to go."

Actually Teal'c is dead right: for Tomin and himself there WAS literally no way out. Until the Tauri offered the opportunity to defect safely it was either serve the totalitarian dictatorship or be ploughed under as a victim.

TL was 100% correct. Obviously we cannot change the past but we can make a difference in the future.

I needed to hear that.

god this is such a good scene

Remember the flashback episode of Teal'c's first time as First Prime and how he stopped believing the Goa'uld were gods? Bra'tac basically gave this same talk to Teal'c back then, telling him how to use his feelings about his actions, himself and such as fuel to fight for good, he might not be able to save himself but he could use his position and knowledge to save others and do some good even if he damned himself in doing so.

You can not change the past, but you can change the future.

"They are a dying people...we should not get involved" And then he did and saved the Narn, maybe the Centauri as well with his revelation to G'Kar

Stargate was a show that could walk the line of all emotions. Just when you think the show is action mixed with humor the show will drop deep moments like this on you. Babylon 5 and Deep space 9 also made me feel this way

It's so easy to forget that Teal'c spent the better part of a century treating the geneva convention like a checklist. Not because he was evil, but because he was afraid for those he loved, and placed their lives above countless others... as any father and husband would. His initial motivation was to get power to take revenge, but he borrowed power from someone else and found it was never his to choose how to wield. When he joined the Tauri, he didn't magically become a good person. But he is an example that if "All it takes for evil to triump is for good to do nothing", then "All it takes for evil to fail is for those undertaking it to repent".