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Skriven 2006-08-14 11:07:00 av Robert E Starr JR (6731.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: Alien-Kids on B5 (Was
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<c1iDg.369706$iF6.241132@pd7tw2no><0001HW.C1034D29018CE09DF0407530@news.verizon.net><Xns981D646414471methuselahaltgeekor

On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 22:58:10 GMT, Amy Guskin <aisling@fjordstone.com>
wrote:

>>>On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 13:49:29 -0400, Stefan wrote
>(in article <1155491369.732284.315730@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>):
>
>> Methuselah Jones wrote:
>> 
>>> The only ones I
>>> can remember offhand are the little Marcab girl in C&L, the boy in
>>> "Believers" and the little Human girl Stephen meets on his walkabout. I
>>> suppose you could count Garibaldi's daughter, but she was nearly an
>>> adult.
>> 
>> Not to forget the (off-station) appearance of Luc and Lyssa (ItB),
>> the only Centauri-Kids I remember.
>> 
>> And I'm pretty shure never saw a Minbari kid (neither on the Station
>> nor on Minbar-Homeworld).
>> And only adults on Drazi-Homeworld,same for the Brakiri ("Day of the
>> Dead").
>> 
>> Comparing to Star Trek with Enterprise plenty of children (see:
>> evacuation
>> of the ENT-D in "Generations"), I'm suddenly a bit puzzeled.
>> 
>> Is there any JMS-statement about the fact of the very minor appearances
>> of
>> Alien- / Kids at all? <<
>
>In "Convictions," the episode where Brother Theo and his monks come to live 
>on the station, Ivanova asks him why he wants to live there.  Before he gives 
>his explanation about finding the many names of God, he says to Ivanova, 
>"_You_ live here," and she replies that she is _stationed_ there, and then 
>makes some statement to the point that mostly the station houses military 
>personnel, diplomats, businesspeople making deals there, civilian station 
>personnel, and a few shopkeepers.  It's not really a place you'd be likely to 
>find children, except for the occasional traveler passing through (which 
>we've seen, as mentioned above).

Except that people do emigrate there to find a better life, and there
should be more young children among the lurkers, anyway, because they
would not have access to birth control, and hence more likely to have
"unexpected" pregnancies. Unless there were other factors, such as
increased radiation in downbelow, that would cause miscarriages, etc.

I just think the whole family thing is simply not addressed in the
series - because then the series would be about something other than
what it was.

Even if you are "stationed" somewhere, if you're not in a combat zone,
you tend to bring your family with you. Haven't you seen the family
housing on/near every single military base we have?

I figured the lack of children was more a budgetary issue in terms of
show production - because with children under a certain age, there are
restrictions on hours, and you have to provide tutors, and other
expenses that you don't need for adult cast members.

I mean, you don't see a lot of little kids on "Smallville." either.
And a small Kansas town would be rife with "breeders" and kids in
strollers, and toddlers and elementary school kids running underfoot.

I've always been pleased that many of the main characters on B5 still
had living parents (and that some of them were still married to each
other, as in the case of Sheridan's parents). And some of them had
GOOD relationships with their parents, too. Not like some other shows
where it seemed every character was an orphan, or that their parents
were an embarassment (or a plot device to foist an "unexpected
pregnancy" onto).

-Wendy
                                                       
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