From: paul@harper.net   
      
   On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 21:58:30 -0400, Jeffrey Kaplan    
   wrote:   
      
   >Be honest:  What did you really not like about S5?  My guess is it's   
   >the telepath thing   
      
   Yes, that's the main thing. What you say about the Centauri storyline   
   is correct - that was good. But the whole telepath thing looked like   
   what it was - pure padding. It added nothing to the overall story (not   
   even the bit about the Vorlons meddling) and would have been better   
   replaced with a half-dozen discrete episodes that actually told some   
   of the back-story. The trio of trilogy books had a hell of a lot more   
   interest and storyline than the first half of season 5. Use some of   
   that ferchristsakes! And the whole Lennier mini-arc was padded too.   
      
   It's just that after the (mostly) good to excellent first three   
   seasons, and the rushed but generally okay season 4, season 5 utterly   
   lost the plot.   
      
   It's as though the whole thing was written by someone who had a   
   storyline for the five years, but had absolutely no flexibility or   
   writing ability to deal with the initial plan going wrong.   
      
   I suspect that the same (to an extent) applies to Crusade as well.   
      
   Sure, TNT fucked around with it big time, but surely someone who   
   claims to be a show-runner and "A-list" writer should be able to   
   manage his way around this without allowing the whole thing to be   
   compromised to the point of destruction?!   
      
   Sorry, but no. There is a significant track record here of things   
   going off the rails and keeping going off at high speed.   
      
   The one-shot wonder shot the bolt and couldn't get it back.   
      
   Paul.   
      
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