Talk:Alfred Bester (Babylon 5)
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Age confused[edit]
I'm just a little confused about his age - it says he did his final episode when he was 74, which was aired in 1998. Is this the age of the character, Alfred Bester, or the actor, Walter Koenig? I'm just asking, as on Walter Koenig's page, it says that he is only 72... and if his date of birth is right on that page, he is actually 72/73 (didn't bother with months... the calculator said 73 when I took the years away, though). So unless I missed something, he can't have been 74 in 1998... --Animemaster446 (not signed in) 86.165.156.192 (talk) 21:23, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
The picture of Bester is fairly dark - does someone have a lighter, clearer picture? --Tim4christ17 talk 07:59, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone have a reference for this statement, "Bester was left with a tight psychological knot of rage, guilt and denial, resulting in a mental block that left his left hand (with which he'd fired the gun) permanently non-functional." Dablueeagle 18:16, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
- it is strongly implied in one of the books, Deadly Relations: Bester Ascendant.
Slight confusion-technically, the 'Asimov' that Bester left in Garibaldi's mind-to not harm him, or though inaction, allow him to come to harm-was only the first of the Three Laws of Robotics. But in 'Phoenix Rising', Bester refers to it as the 'first two laws'. It's a flaw in the dialogue. Kalaong 15:28, 20 February 2007
The Evolutionary Villain: Alfred Bester as an Oppressed Victim and a Righteous Villain[edit]
I found one in-depth analysis by Mikko Poutanen in Villains - Global Perspectives on Villains and Villainy Today, Burcu Genc & Corinna Lenhardt, 2011, Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford, United Kingdom but it doesn't look reliable (seems WP:SPS). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:46, 26 November 2019 (UTC)