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From: chris@clyth.JFKshhot
"videonovels" wrote in message
news:1157644381.708743.19680@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>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.
>
Except the telepaths were supposed to come to B5 before peace broke out,
when it would be sensible for that particular storyline to start. Bringing
the renegades on board when the B5 crew were supposed to be co-operating
with Earth again did not make sense.
Other than that, the series had climaxed in the previous season, and they
needed to spend too much of the fifth season restarting things.
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