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   From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   Captain Infinity wrote:   
   >>Original "ending" was to be "War Without End", showing Sinclair becoming   
   Valen   
   >>"bookending" the series. When Michael O'hare left at the end of the first   
   year,   
   >>a new arc was conceived with Sheridan (Bruce Boxlighter) as the lead, but the   
   >>storyline with Sinclair/Valen was too good to just let go. When JMS manaegd   
   to   
   >>talk O'Hare back for a guest-shot, he did the story.   
      
   > What kind of drugs were you taking when you fever-dreamed this bunch of   
   > baloney?   
      
   Fools (especially women with a crush on Michael O'Hare) have been saying   
   this for years, no matter how many times JMS has said it's not true.   
      
   I do think there's some /partial/ truth behind it; the "Ulysses"   
   symbolism (the poem is about an old, tired king looking for one last   
   adventure) suggests very strongly to me that there was a stage in the   
   story's development in JMS's mind that Sinclair's departure was to come   
   at the end.  But I also think he had abandoned it by the time he clearly   
   understood what the Vorlon-Shadow conflict was really about, and I am   
   certain that he had abandoned it by the time he decided to film "Babylon   
   Squared" as part of the first season.   
      
   Stories don't always go where you think they will.  In the earliest   
   drafts, Beren was an Elf, Strider was an unusually tall Hobbit, and   
   Frodo's name was Bingo.   
      
   --   
   John W. Kennedy   
   "But now is a new thing which is very old--   
   that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,   
   which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."   
      -- Charles Williams.  "Judgement at Chelmsford"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)