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   From: nomail@gordol.org   
      
   It is alleged that Michael Johnson claimed:   
      
   > >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.   
      
   There would have been more build-up, and the climax would not have   
   happened so suddenly.   
      
   > >, 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.   
      
   How do you know that?  You don't, you're tied into the Compressed Story   
   that we did get.  There could have been another episode showing the war   
   in action.  There could have easily have been one or more other   
   episodes on Mars, dealing with both of Garibaldi's aftermaths; after   
   Bester "freed" him, and then his rescuing of Lise after the war.   
   Perhaps something political with Luchenko and her people preparing for   
   their move when Sheridan arrives.   
      
   Or even something happening back on the station.   
      
   > >, 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   
      
   Byron was not miscast.  Byron was supposed to be a tragic romantic   
   type, like Marcus, and with more than a passing physical resemblance to   
   Marcus.  Because he was supposed to have gotten involved with Ivanova   
   as she tries to fix her mistake of having snubbed Marcus by going with   
   someone who reminds her of him.  The problem with Byron is the same   
   problem with the entire telepath story in the first half of the season:   
   It was by itself insufficient for the airtime it was expanded to fill.   
   I have every confidence that if the story had progressed the way it was   
   supposed to, then the Byron story would have been shorter and better.   
      
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