Ivanova Is God

[@Cheburashka207]

Ivanora is always right I will listen to Ivanova I will not ignore Ivanova's recommenadations Ivanova is God!!

[@turtlelover5988]

Yeap

[@nigelft]

Is it me, or would Ivanova make for one hell of a scary DI (not that DIs aren't scary enough as it is ...) ...

[@TheMarcHicks]

Well there goes my faith in the Almighty (from a later episode 😉).

[@laozdruni6856]

Squidtron 😂😂😂😂😂

[@TheNoybusiness]

@@nigelft Oh, drill instructor. My first thought was Detective Inspector. .

[@aqueen04]

This was one of my absolute *favorite* Ivanova moments in the entire series! As a kid, I even got my hands on a t-shirt that had the quote "Ivanova is God. Ivanova is always right." on it. I've long since outgrown that t-shirt, and it's faded and worn out, but I still have it. One of my childhood treasures.

[@ghostbirdofprey]

We can't forget the gem that is how matter-of-factly Sinclaire tells Londo he's not telling him anything lying in the shadows of Ivonova's famous line

[@seanembery9391]

Ivanova was always my favourite.

[@danielhaire6677]

Just realized something: That archaeological crew is unique in that they are some of the ONLY people to have angered Ivanova and LIVED.

[@wrath2501]

Holy crap you're right. That's not even true of the Shadows, or the Vorlons. Literally everyone else who pissed her off in the series died. 0.0

[@jamesstewart5706]

She was pissed because she was trying to protect them and keep them safe. The other times she got pissed it was at people who were trying to or had already succeeded in harming others.

[@johngregory4801]

It's better to be lucky than good. These guys were damn lucky.

[@Paerigos]

There is always Garibaldi...

[@daanvos194]

@@Paerigos after the sleep joke i get it

[@RandallHallKaizenReiki]

I imagine God looking down saying "No, no. You're good. They deserved it."

[@Zaluskowsky]

hehe jeah

[@jasoncutler5640]

"I'll allow it!"

[@crowbar_the_rogue]

With a British accent, obviously. Like in those old movies.

[@Isabella-nh5dm]

I love the character of Ivanova. She was a high point for me. They actually wrote a female character that had depth, intelligent, beautiful, strong, fragile and kick ass. A true leader and a once in a life time character to play. They should have kept her for season 5. I doubt that it was truly an unreasonable request.

[@Karajorma]

From everything I've heard about it, Claudia Christian took some bad advice from her agent and ended up not being in the show even though JMS wanted her in. Nothing more than a contract negotiation that went wrong. By the time that the issues were solved it was too late.

[@EmperorPylades]

Season 4 was meant to be the finale, hence the rewrites so it had the resolution of the Vorlon vs Shadow conflict AND the EarthGov Civil War. Claudia took up a contract for another show and was unable to come back, when B5 was renewed at the eleventh hour.

[@pioneer_1148]

@@Karajorma From what I heard someone ambused the cast with a shit contract and said "sign or you won't be in season 5". Claudia told them where to shove it.

[@Karajorma]

​@@pioneer_1148 Even Claudia Christian claims different in what I heard from her so I doubt it.

[@Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

@@EmperorPylades Season 5 was meant to be the finale, but the network bosses kept holding things up in the air, so JMS had to provide for the possibility that Season 4 would be the finale.

[@Batman1016]

Ivonova: "Just kidding about that 'God' part. No offense." God: **eyes Ivonova nervously** "Uh . . . nah. Nah, we cool. S'all good."

[@Deepingmind]

Right, God is just "Oh shit I think she's after me! No, no she isn't? Oh thank heavens, she's only angry at someone else."

[@thegrimmretails3777]

@@Deepingmind I kinda want that God and Angel crew on TikTok to do this now.

[@CaptEoNinja83]

Ivonova: "Just kidding about that 'God' part. No offense." GOD: "It's fine, honey. I know what you meant."

[@skyclaw]

I feel like God is probably understanding about that sort of thing.

[@keeper21br]

She was kidding about the God part. Not the lungs part.

[@johngregory4801]

The writing for Susan's character was so multi-faceted. She the friend you need when you're down, the best person to have your back when the SHTF... AND she's death incarnate.

[@marcisb73]

One of the most hilarious speeches given on TV show. More hilarious because it is serious and Ivanova was dead serious about ripping lungs out part.

[@1femalegeek]

She is a Jew. A Russian Jew to be specific. In the episode TKO, she sits Shiva for her father, which is Jewish tradition for mourning the death of a loved one.

[@fingerboxes]

Weirdly, being Russian might not make her Ashkenazi. Before coming to America my family was Russian, but we lack all Ashkenazi genetic markers and also look super Arab. Also our family's marriage contracts lack the Rabbi Gershom clause meaning there may or may not have been polygamy relatively recently in my family history. So basically my family was Russian before coming to America but instead of being Ashkenazi, they're Mizrahi, meaning that before wherever they lived got glomped by Russia, it was Ottoman. That probably means that they'd been Russian less than a hundred years before they left for America. I don't know exactly where they were from but it's probably somewhere between modern Armenia and Iraq.

[@KenS1267]

@@fingerboxes Could have been much further afield unless you have specific markers for what were called Babylonian Jews. Many Sephardi from Spain wound up in the Ottoman Empire after being expelled in 1492. IIRC England expelled its Jewish population at some point as well and it wouldn't shock me if some of them eventually made their way to Istanbul as well.

[@cafeeineaddicted8123]

@@KenS1267 Never mind that we have 2.5 more centuries of fictional history from the 1990s to 2258. Plenty of time for population movements.

[@robertbusek30]

God: “We have an understanding, Ivanova, so it’s cool.”

[@RavenheartIndustries]

“...Ivanova will rip your lungs out!” And everyone in c and c stops and looks at their crazy Ivan of a commander...

[@davidhenderson3400]

And thinking 'She would do too."

[@DarthAzabrush]

Lieutenant Corwin only became a recurring character because of his performance of the scene where he insists to ISN he has a good working environment and no, nobody at all bullies or intimidates him with Ivanova starring at him in the background.

[@TrollDecker]

I see what you did there. 😏

[@TheVeritas1]

@@DarthAzabrush I was ROFL at Ivanova's stare during Corwin's interview.

[@michaelweigel8253]

I would rather follow Ivanova into battle than Janeway.

[@dynamicworlds1]

A-Ivonova is God, so that's not a fair comparison. B-the biggest problem with Janeway is that the writers couldn't agree what her character was supposed to be and made a mess of things going back and forth with her characterization preventing her from actually developing properly into any kind of a fully-realized character.

[@Randyandmellie]

DS9's Kira is quite a bad ass

[@nunyabuizness2953]

@@Randyandmellie My favorite episode with Kira is when she thought she had a Cardassian war criminal and it turned out to be an imposter that stole his identity so that he could receive the punishment a war criminal of that notoriety would normally get out of guilt and penance. The guy hated himself for the small part he played in the Bajor occupation that he sobbed to Kira describing the shrieks of Bajoran children being slaughtered. She went from hating the guy to feeling sympathy for him and trying to comfort him. Turned out he didn't actually do anything directly during the occupation because he was just a filing clerk.

[@DartLuke]

Just tell Janeway that shadows and varlons took all coffee

[@michaelweigel8253]

@@DartLuke Ha ha ha ha

[@FARBerserker]

Mollari:"You will tell me right?" Commander: "NO!" Mollari: well, at least he is honest . .

[@patrickseaman]

Such a wonderful character arc portrayed by such a wonderful actress

[@cabbievonbump]

I can imagine God saying, "Susan, remind Me to Never Piss You Off."

[@alexakaa.charlesross8919]

I believe very strongly that Ivanovna could lift Thor's hammer.

[@blueleader102]

She is worthy.

[@Sinapus]

Love the mantra and the conversation between Sinclair and Londo was funny too.

[@lotsofspots]

Sinclair's slightly annoyed "No." :D

[@themandownthehall]

Take a scene like this and add to it the opening monologue after Marcus died for her where she was crying to Franklin. It shows how incredible Claudia Christian was as an actress

[@MelissaHash]

A brilliant actress indeed! #IvanovaIsAFierceFieryGawd!

[@andrewbyrne2173]

Minor quibble but she is an amazing actress, not was.

[@themandownthehall]

@@andrewbyrne2173 good point. I should have said "was as an actress in this series."

[@DieyoungDiefast]

1st rule of Ivanova...... Never get Ivanova angry

[@Nitestar999]

IVANOVA IS GOD!!! Gotta love the Mantra!!

[@aquilesriffo]

A clear example that a woman can be a strong character in a series without losing her feminine side

[@edmonddantes3640]

Yes, or be an overbearing feminist ball buster.

[@1977Yakko]

@Howard Pearcey Maybe. I think the general consensus is she's strong character who happens to be female, not a strong character because she's female.

[@crazylarryjr]

or a sense of humor

[@aquilesriffo]

@Howard Pearcey that has a logical explanation: She is a Military Officer there, not a human female helping a Minbari female to look more ' terrestrial'

[@brandonk8948]

That's what makes them cute. Her fiery temper and self-reliance always attracted me oddly enough. ;)

[@SuperBoyboys]

"It's probably nothing important" "But if it is important, will you tell me?" "fuck no" *sad face*

[@darthmeow1370]

Yeah that part is underrated gold rightly overshadowed by Ivanova's epic dressing down of those idiots. The delivery is perfect, he is clearly thinking "of course the %^$@ not!" but simply says "NO" and walks off. He didn't tolerate Londo's bullshit for a microsecond, and Londo surely ended up respecting him more for it. The subtlety to it is that they both knew it was bullshit, mere fishing on Londo's part just in case the commander would be dumb, weak, or off his game at the moment enough to give in. He'd probably have been surprised if it actually worked, but he had to give it a try anyhow. It's just part of how the game of politics is played.

[@b1ngnx33]

Ivanova......AWESOME!!!!

[@EchnatonOne]

Claudia Christian at Babylon 5 = Best TV Woman

[@kuribayashi84]

Susan Ivanova and Chuck Norris are a married couple... and Chuck Norris is the one making the Sandwiches.

[@maciejp7829]

they are not

[@LarryDickman1]

@@maciejp7829 It was a fucking joke.

[@manemperorofmankind8119]

Don’t get my hopes up

[@ironhead2008]

The sandwiches make themselves out of fear.

[@Deepingmind]

@@ironhead2008 You beat me to it.

[@ethenallen1388]

This is the woman who would later insult one of the First Ones.

[@crylittlesister6377]

New guy in the background: "I didnt see that in the manual* Seasoned officer: "Trust me it's in there"

[@nakoavo]

Ivaniva is always right. I will listen to ivaniva

[@mikeb.5039]

Sheridan and Ivanova for office in 2020

[@1977Yakko]

We could use Susan Ivanova to kick some rioters ass right about now. Hell, she might even scare the Covid away.

[@tempest411]

I always loved Ivanova!

[@MichaelClark-uw7ex]

Ivanova is the most feared being in the universe.

[@VictorHugoBrazil]

I will always follow Ivanova´s recomendations!

[@target4all766]

God:Hey better she's mad at them than me i am right Gabriel!?😅 Gabriel:Hey, don't drag me into this, I'm just trying to do my job here did we even know each other!?

[@vulcan2882]

I always liked Ivanova .. she and Delenne were my two favorits on the show. Along with Vir and Leneer.

[@Lazmanarus]

Leneer

[@vulcan2882]

@@Lazmanarus ... thanks, I knew that. My damn spell check changed that after I posted it.

[@ryszardnanke3860]

noone can beat Chuck Norris, with exception of Ivanowa of course

[@GregBurch]

Lyta?

[@DieyoungDiefast]

That'd be a bitch fight I'd pay to see. :)

[@Brownshoe24]

Chuck Norris is long dead 200 years, before Ivanowa was born !

[@tommyfjellengen2108]

I wouldnt be so sure.. lol

[@ДушанРадин-ы3ю]

@@tommyfjellengen2108 Please,Ivanova IS God!

[@Erick_Bloodaxe]

Ivanova is my favorite character from this serious, her and Geribaldi.

[@sritger]

Ah, Claudia...you are so beautiful.

[@Tonymace100]

Bat5hade j

[@demarcusfaulkner7411]

I imagine the almighty is looking down and shaking his head saying Ivanova really did you just say that.

[@zakurowolfalphasilverwolf]

She reminded me a lot of Catherine Janeway from Voyager and I like them both so much! I miss Sinclair!!!!! 😭😭😭😭

[@davidpickens8800]

She was Ivanova before there was Insaneway

[@zakurowolfalphasilverwolf]

@@davidpickens8800 wooooooow lol

[@Vogler9]

I have always liked Claudia Christian. I once saw her in a movie with Steven Segal. She was very impressive!

[@ДушанРадин-ы3ю]

Better than that fraud Sigall,i seen that film too.

[@jefffuchs2274]

The Hidden!

[@sharkdentures3247]

To be fair, I'D be willing to get 'down on my knees' and Worship at the Altar of Claudia Christian! .. . .I mean, Ivanova! ;) LOL

[@dwaugh2215]

the people from the background looking at her as if she's gone mad, but dare not wanna say it out loud lol

[@alcoholandfun243]

Ivanova can order me around any day ☺

[@nubman0]

Imagine an encounter between (a young) Lieutenant Commander Susan Ivanova and Colonel Jack O'Neill (from Stargate). *LOL*

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

nubman0 It would be a lesson in bitchiness (Jack) and sarcasm :)

[@marcusanton95]

Jack O'Neill would be like, Carter who?

[@donaldpaluga]

A female MacGyver? That would be awesome ;)

[@daveh7720]

@Lacuna Leora Nah, they'd get Chuck Norris to babysit the little sprat.

[@danielhaire6677]

Now on a non-sexual side, imagine the meeting is a PISSED OFF Ivanova and an O'Neill that has gone full Black-Ops rage mode. Enemies would tremble and pray for a quick death.

[@419Films]

I do so love Ivanova. :-)

[@pearsonm957]

Agreed, if only fox had let firefly bloom

[@richardbeckenbaugh1805]

The woman who ran the programming for Fox was a racist who later admitted that she deliberately destroyed firefly because of the biracial marriage. She didn’t have the power to directly cancel the show but mixed up the order of the episodes in order to destroy its following. A single malicious person in a place of power can do a tremendous amount of damage to just about anyone. The other executives at Fox weren’t interested in doing their own jobs and checking to see that she was doing hers. She was eventually fired after destroying several shows for spurious reasons. By then, the damage was done.

[@johnbrobston1334]

@@richardbeckenbaugh1805 Do you have a source for that? Not questioning you, but DE&I is a big thing at work and this would be a good cautionary tale.

[@sirfenix1314]

One of her funniest and best scenes :D

[@kathleenhensley5951]

I still laugh at the mantra .... she was an amazing character, proof a woman character doesn't have to written as a man to be a powerful woman.

[@turtlelover5988]

Wait… that should seriously be B5's Mantra.

[@aronnemcsik]

It is. It probably repeated on every meeting debriefing and every time someone new comes aboard. if anyone forgot it they quickly get reminded.

[@NicoleDittman]

Lol one of the best parts of the series! Ivanova is God! Lol

[@michaelweigel8253]

C&C crew behind Ivonona: "Nothing, nothing...we didn't see anything Commander."

[@michaelweigel8253]

Ha ha ha

[@IAmTheAce5]

3:23 look at the people in the background. They hear her, and when she's done, turning to look, can't get moving fast enough.

[@Infernalicon]

well,she has Ivan in her Name for a good reason

[@jakubmike5657]

Now this is a god one can get behind!

[@dr.ryttmastarecctm6595]

I love it! Even Susan Ivanova looks up and Stage Right to talk to God!

[@johnwillsea6600]

I love I onava

[@jayanthony3006]

God I'd love to have this show on Netflix!

[@danielbeck2739]

IT's now on HBO Max and they've updated it up to HD I think.

[@stephenknizek2651]

All worship Ivanova!

[@catjudo1]

Claudia Christian was absolutely spot-on in her portrayal of Susan Ivanova. She would have made a great Honor Harrington too. That she was easy to look at was just an added bonus.

[@VoodooV1]

Good thing she sent herself to fight those Shadow hybrid Earth Destroyers in Season 4

[@michealmeyer822]

This is my favorite moment in B5

[@lovipoekimo176]

Not her sex scene with the Lumati ambassador?

[@Raguleader]

Oh Londo, such a silly character this early in the show...

[@wintermatthias3698]

My sentence at work, everytime a custormer did not follow my advices, and in the end had to admit that I was right. Same with my colleagues.

[@matthewjacobs141]

Who do we talk to.?..to get this show back on the air?

[@marcusanton95]

@J Calhoun Not to mention JMS is only interested in a major motion picture movie deal not a TV deal.

[@terryforsdyke306]

Talk to Ivonova, it would take some divine intervention to get a B5 based show that is not a poorly executed reboot, which is, to my mind, a great pity.

[@matthewjacobs141]

@J Calhoun Reruns

[@matthewjacobs141]

@J Calhoun IMO...There aren't enough good writers left in the industry...

[@bigbob1699]

Why are we not binge watching this?

[@TheGreatAndMightyGoBo]

Londo is my favourite character ever written i think 😂

[@slayer9240]

Is this the planet where they found the great machine.

[@garylowe2127]

Yes

[@borgduck]

She IS God! The Sinclair Method? A saviour (?)

[@cobblerwillorange]

Such a absolute screw up they lost her in the later seasons.

[@1977Yakko]

I think she was struggling with alcoholism at the time. She's made a comeback though. She does a lot of voice acting now. Her voice is absolutely unmistakable.

[@Meyosan]

Actually what happened was that JMS screwed up, he had let her know how much she was needed in the last season, which allowed her to take some bad advice from her agent, which was that she skipped out on signing the contract during the deadline, and thought that the fan backlash would have been enough to make them go with her contract demands. She was told no, and one of the actors had stated that if they did bring her back on those terms, that he, and a few others would have walked out. My suspicion is that they would have brought back Ivanova, only to lose Sheridan, Delenn, and Garibaldi.

[@matthewsmith4647]

She made enough money from Skyrim voice work to retire comfortably lol

[@marcusanton95]

I don't care what excuses JMS comes up with. He and WB screwed the pooch, had they just given whatever she wanted (which according to her wasn't more money) we wouldn't have gotten a shitty Season 5. He would have had to write a totally unbelievable short story about how Marcus is revived, then clones her, then takes her to some Maui looking planet. They fucked up Period.

[@ДушанРадин-ы3ю]

@@Meyosan So what,Ivanova is far better than that loser Dellen(Furlan).

[@badlaamaurukehu]

Listen to Ivanova.

[@johnathanhughes4367]

God: You kidding girl? High five, right there!

[@crwydryny]

Best part, after this youtube suggested a clip of full metal jacket R lee ermy

[@lkvideos7181]

Yes my queen !

[@Brownshoe24]

She's a Jew She does appear to have a belief in God, and she occasionally "talks" to God (in a rather joking manner) under her breath in a few episodes of the series.

[@Lightingwarrior]

All Hail Invanova!!!

[@Daniel-rd6st]

Obviously superior technology to Star Trek! Not only do they have prober seats and seatbelts (!), their consoles also arent made of explodium!

[@NateSean]

Camina Drummer had a Susan Ivonovah poster in her bedroom.

[@davidioanhedges]

Cassandra/Ivanova .... was always right ...

[@samsignorelli]

"No one listens to Zathras..."

[@IdgaradLyracant]

This show needs a remastering with updated CGI.

[@hubbsllc]

It's unfortunate, isn't it? As I recall, whereas they thought ahead by shooting the show in 16:9 aspect, to render the CGI at higher resolutions for HD/4K purposes would have taken more time than they had. I don't know to what extent a re-render would be possible today.

[@caronstout354]

No remastered CGI! Given the fact that this show struggled to stay on air the entire time it was on air while using primitive, in hindsight, computers to render their visual effects makes B5 even more impressive. New CGI would make it look average...

[@bovnycccoperalover3579]

Ivanova was a Russian Jew. No wonder her life resembled a Dostoyevsky novel.

[@cameraman655]

My kind of Woman, I am in love.......

[@The22ndDoctor]

When people whine about the effects, I like to point out 1:15 with different engines firing to course correct before firing them all.

[@davidhenderson3400]

B5 FX people are some of the few that understand how thrusters really work in space. I have seen some many effects that show them like a jet engine or something flying around on Earth

[@otokonokakseisso]

i always love thiis girl.

[@michaeltaylor1747]

Ivanova every right thinking males big sister

[@johndoes2434]

We got a mystery to solve Q Scooby-Doo theme song

[@RomeoRomantique]

Ivonova is someone Chuck Norris can only dream of being compared to that lamo old timer has no true power heh Chuck Norris couldnt hurt a fly! she is more hell incarnate!

[@Deepingmind]

I think that's his great granddaughter you're speaking ill of... Best of luck, even the Vorlons won't bail you out of that mess. lol

[@MsCreepyChan]

She's not god, he just sent her.

[@georgestefanou4250]

I think Im in love

[@denisetrine3066]

If theres anything of value will you tell me? No!

[@RavenheartIndustries]

ed trine I love that line. It’s like Lando was expecting something completely different and didn’t know what to say to that.

[@VulpisFoxfire]

Poor Crom dissed by Tron...

[@Kosh800]

That's not Tron -_-

[@suchiuomizu]

Not Lando either.

[@toatahu2003]

He expected the Commander to lie and say yes...

[@ayveekins]

Heh, My name is Ivanova XD

[@wandamorris7042]

I bet that is how cults start up

[@BeneMitja]

Sounds.. mm.. Reasonable. :)

[@TheKollav]

Lets start "The Church of Ivanova"! :D

[@AndersonNeo12]

She sounds like a mistress from a SM-movie ps.: they are like " la di da di da i got work to do" 3:37

[@bannor216]

B5 had a more military feel in the first seasons.

[@MrPeterpiper1969]

Yes, She is ... She most definitely is.

[@iaries]

I think there was another scene that's similar where she was maybe addressing fighter pilots, goes something like: "trust yourself, trust Ivanova, everyone else, shoot them!" lol - forgot the scene tho :/