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   From: macthevorlon@yahoo.com   
      
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   > videonovels wrote:   
   > > 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.   
   >   
   > ...but spread out over 22 hours rather than 18.  Lose four hours of   
   > stretching from the Byron storyline,   
      
   Please, let's lose some Byron scenes, especially that song.    
      
      
      
   >it would be a lot less badly   
   > remembered.   
      
   Right!  The less exposure to Byron  the better.   
      
      
      
   > And a season which began with three or four episodes of   
   > the thrilling climax of the war against Earth, then a lower-key   
   > stretch, then ramping back up with the war against Centauri Prime,   
   > would feel like a more satisfactory unit than one which started with a   
   > solid half-season of low-key stuff.  (That would make it more like the   
   > structure of season four, in fact.)   
   >   
   > While we're at it...  I can't find the postings where JMS talked about   
   > it, but the events of "In The Beginning" and "Thirdspace" were part of   
   > the original plans.  Apparently the flashback stuff which went into   
   ItB   
   > would have been an extra episode or two woven into "Atonement",   
   > alongside the Dukhat flashbacks.  Presumably those two films were the   
   > material that was lopped out of season four, not "standalones".)   
      
   Interesting.   
      
      
   > Oh, and if he had definitely known there would be a season 5,   
   > presumably there wouldn't have been the whole renegotiating-for-cable   
   > thing, and we wouldn't have lost Claudia Christian...   
      
   Grrr! Argh!   
      
      
   > ....which would also   
   > have left people better-disposed towards the season!   
      
   Definitely!  Minimization of Byron's screentime, plus no Tracey Scoggins   
   (Yes, she was new and she tried but she was wooden.)!   :D   
      
   So in Crusade, Gideon would have had a fling with Ivanova?  That could   
   have worked.   
      
   --   
   Mac Breck (KoshN)   
   -------------------------------   
   "Babylon 5: Crusade" (1999)   
   Galen: "There is always hope, only because it's the one thing that no   
   one has figured out how to kill yet."   
   (Galen's obviously never met Warner Brothers, TNT-Atlanta or Sci-Fi.)   
      
   "Brimstone" (1998)   
   Angel: Oh, there's one more thing you should know. Your fate was never   
   determined until you killed Gilbert Jax. All in all, you've led a good   
   life, Ezekiel. Have faith. Your work's appreciated.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)