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   Stile4aly  writes:   
   >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   
      
   Seasons 2 and 3 were the flawless masterpieces that still make the series   
   worth watching. Season 4 suffered near the end from being compressed.   
      
   >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.   
      
   This is approximately as pathetic as "the dog ate my homework". Writers   
   don't forget everything they write even IF they lose their notes. It might   
   drive some to a nervous breakdown though...   
      
   >Ultimately, things would have been better had TPTB known that S5 was a   
   >given; S4 would have ended with Intersections in Real Time, Claudia   
   >would have been kept on, we would have had a bang up S5 opener, and we   
   >would have lost some of the fluff that plagued S5 (No Compromises,   
      
   That might very well be true. Too bad it didn't work out that way - it   
   leaves the series permanently flawed. *   
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