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   From: arthur@alum.calberkeley.org   
      
   "Stile4aly"  wrote in message   
   news:1177776144.574154.111240@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...   
   > On Apr 27, 7:07 pm,  wrote:   
   >> "PV"  wrote in message   
   >>   
   >> news:12lrs2par4e41bf@news.supernews.com...   
   >>   
   >> > Captain Infinity  writes:   
   >> >>So YOU'RE the one to blame!  Scoggins was *awful*!  You should be   
   >> >>ashamed of yourself.  In time I may forgive you but right now...right   
   >> >>now...I think it best we not speak for a while.   
   >>   
   >> > Right with you there buddy. *   
   >> > --   
   >>   
   >>    I happen to think Tracy was great and that Season 5 was the BEST   
   >> SEASON   
   >> EVER. I never *dreamed* I'd   
   >> ever say that. . .but there it is. It's kind of what I call the   
   >> Teddy Roosevelt season, with President Sheridan as   
   >> Roosevelt. . .   
   >>   
   >>                                            -Mutant Leader   
   >   
   > Season 5 had 3 problems; it followed season 4 which is arguably one of   
   > the finest seasons of television ever produced, the loss of Claudia   
   > Christian necessitated the introduction of a new character which   
   > brought the moentum built up through S4 to a grinding halt, and JMS   
   > lost all his notes for the season before he was able to write it.  In   
   > the latest B5 Scripts book, JMS talks about being at a convention in   
   > Blackpool where he was assigned a larger room than the hotel intended,   
   > so they moved his belongings to a smaller room while he was on stage.   
   > When they did this, they tossed all his notes which had an ep by ep   
   > outline.  The result seems to be that S5 came off as scattered.   
   >   
   > Having recently rewatched the series I was struck by how well it holds   
   > up 10 years on, but also by how S5 is better than I remember it   
   > being.  Lochley seems more fleshed out, Byron is a little less grating   
   > and a little more noble, and the Centauri War makes more sense.   
   >   
      
   I also recently rewatched the series.  I finally purchased seasons 4 and 5   
   and before watching them I rewatched most of seasons 1-3.  I then watched   
   all of season 4 in a few days.  Then when it came time to watch season 5, it   
   took me several weeks to get through the first few episodes.  Once I got   
   into season 5 it wasn't as bad as I remembered but coming after season 4   
   defitely didn't help.  And yes it does hold up very well.   
      
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