XPost: rec.arts.sf.tv   
   From: paul@harper.net   
      
   On 7 Sep 2006 08:53:01 -0700, "videonovels"   
    wrote:   
      
   >I am soooooooo sick & tired of hearing people say, "They squeezed all   
   >the story into season 4, and left nothing for season 5."  That is a   
   >false rumor.  (Dare I say?  "Lie"?)  According to the creator of   
   >Babylon 5, the only change made was to move episode 422 (Sheridan   
   >tortured) to episode 418.  That's it.  A Trivial modification.   
   >   
   >SOURCE:   
   >   
   >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."   
   >   
   >Basically, he threw away all the stand-alone stories (which were common   
   >in seasons 1/2/3) & focused season 4 on nothing but the war.... thereby   
   >allowing the cliffhanger to be moved backwards from 422 to 418.  That's   
   >it.  NOT a major modification.   
   >   
   >.   
   >   
   >Also: All of the story that was supposed to be in season 5, about the   
   >teeps and the Drakh and Londo's ultimate Tragic fate, and the founding   
   >of a new Alliance capitol, was still there.  Season 5 remained   
   >essentially intact, as JMS had originally planned.   
      
   So the fact that Season 5 was at times virtually unwatchably bad was   
   all down to shit writing then?  Okay.  If that's what he says then it   
   must be true.   
      
   Paul.   
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