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   From: a@b.com   
      
   On 14 Sep 2006 04:15:01 -0700, atereshchenko@googlemail.com wrote:   
      
   >   
   >> JMS: "if I had known with absolute certainty that there would be a   
   >> season 5, then season 4 would have ended with 418, 'Intersections in   
   >> Real Time.'  So you only pull 4 episodes forward, really."   
   >   
   >You are quite wrong.   
   >If everything would go as planned originally (and judging by later JMS   
   >comments), season 4 would have less events and ended at the time of 418   
   >- meaning that Shadow war would end in the middle of season 4 (5-6   
   >episodes later then in the final version), Sheridan would be freed in   
   >first episode of season 5   
      
   Well.. If everything would go as planned orginally it wouldn't be   
   Sheridan that would be freed.. it would be Sinclair, after having been   
   turncoated by his old friend Garibaldi :P. The only extension I could   
   see to the Shadow War is an extra episode to decompress the climax   
   Into The Fire.   
      
   >, war with Earth would continue until win in the middle of season 5   
      
   I don't buy this making it 11 episodes into the 5th season. 11   
   episodes for all of the aftermath is just too compressed. The actual   
   story at most has 4-6 episodes to it from the time Sheridan is   
   captured. It has always been stated that JMS was trying to show the   
   before, middle, and after of these events on the universe.   
      
   >, and no telepath conflict would be present (or at least with much less   
   >screen time, and with Ivanova involved instead of Lyta).   
      
   While the miscasting of Byron and the stretching of the story led to a   
   very weak first half.. need I remind you that the Telepath Arc is the   
   entire B-story arc for the show? This entire series is not one arc but   
   two and how they interweave to form a whole. Not including what   
   happened to the telepaths and how the resistance was created out of   
   the events of the show would have been silly. I still hold that season   
   5 deals with the aftereffects of the events in 1-4 and as such its   
   basically a season that should have been entitled 'Epilogue' for the   
   climax of 'Endgame' and is one of the reasons it was so weak.   
      
   Oh.. and personal belief. "Sleeping of Light" is "Deconstruction of   
   Falling Stars" and vice versa with the final two episodes to the show   
   being DoFS(Sheridan's death 20 years in the future and B5's demise)   
   followed by SiL(a recording of the events from the time of the end of   
   the show to the present 1 million years in the future with the human   
   race having succesfully evolved and moved on to New Earth).   
      
   -MJ   
      
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