The Evolutionary Change of Babylon 5
09-24-04 | 10:45 PM
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Re: Sinclair was going anyway...
Originally posted by Linn1
JMS said in the second season set that it was written that way from the beginning, the only difference was the character was supposed to show up a little more than what actually happened.
JMS said in the second season set that it was written that way from the beginning, the only difference was the character was supposed to show up a little more than what actually happened.
09-25-04 | 03:30 AM
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While I don't necessarily disagree that Sheridan (or an equivalent) wouldn't have shown up in the series in some capacity, there's this overview of the five year-plan, publicly released by JMS after the "The Gathering" aired:
http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/univer...-overview.html
I don't, however, buy that Sinclair was always going to be written out of the series halfway through it. Not only do I think he was originally to have been on the series for its full five-year run, but that he was to have been the main character.
I don't believe that the reasons for O'Hare's departure have been fully disclosed -- whether O'Hare wanted out to pursue other things, the suits wanted a different leading man, JMS was running into story problems, or some combination of those three factors.
At the end of the first season, one character will undergo a MAJOR change, which will start the show spinning on a very different axis. The first season will have some fairly conventional stories, but others will start the show gradually moving toward where I want it to go. One has to set these things up gradually. Events in the story -- which is very much the story of Jeffrey Sinclair -- will speed up in each subsequent season.
I don't, however, buy that Sinclair was always going to be written out of the series halfway through it. Not only do I think he was originally to have been on the series for its full five-year run, but that he was to have been the main character.
I don't believe that the reasons for O'Hare's departure have been fully disclosed -- whether O'Hare wanted out to pursue other things, the suits wanted a different leading man, JMS was running into story problems, or some combination of those three factors.
