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Skriven 2006-10-14 22:40:29 av Greg Bryant
Ärende: Re: Compromised 4th and 5th season.
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From: Greg Bryant <gabryant@fuse.net>

That's pretty accurate, as I remember the events.

Sad that there was no cliff-hanger / "end of year" episode for S4, instead
the standalone "Deconstruction". Those were always corkers!



On 10/14/06 4:08 PM, "Joseph DeMartino" wrote:

> Since pretty much all of your assumptions are wrong, it is hard to know
> where to start.
> 
> Every individual episode was *not* pre-planned.  Season 5 was not
> "kludged" togethered.  (That's the proper spelling, BTW), etc. etc.
> 
> When it became clear that PTEN was going out of business and year four
> would have to be the last, JMS looked at his rough breakdown of the two
> seasons, which - as usual - included 4 or 5 more-or-less stand-alone
> 'breather" episodes near the beginning of each season to help new
> viewers catch up with the story.  He pulled all of those out, so now he
> had about 34 episodes to look at instead of 44.  (Because he always had
> to plan on the *possibility* of a season 5.)   He needed to wrap up as
> many major story threads as possible, and avoid opening any new ones in
> Season 4.  So he moved the establishment of the Teep colony out of S4
> and into S5, which elminated a lot of "B" stories and helped hiim
> conoslidate "A" stories from two episodes into one.  He pulled the end
> of the Earth Civil war from the beginning of S5 into S4.  Whereas S4
> would have ended with Sheridan captured, now it would end after the IA
> was established.   "Sleeping in Light" was shot as the series and
> season finale to air at the end of S4.
> 
> When the 11th hour renewal came through for S5 and TNT picked the show
> up, JMS had to restart from where he'd left off with the Teep thread
> that was going to flow into "Crusade" (which was being negotiated) and
> then the crisis of Centauri Prime.  Unfortunately Claudia Christian
> chose not to return for S5 at the last minute, and this took some of
> the air out of the Teep thread, which was supposed to be Ivanova's
> story and pay off things that had been laid in since the first episode.
> (Not planning every episode in advance doesn't mean you can't do
> foreshadowing.  Lyta and G'Kar have a conversation in the pilot that
> pays off around episode 519. <g>)  Because "Sleeping in Light" was now
> moved to the 522 slot, JMS needed a new episode to air as the finale of
> Season 4.   Luckily the production and broadcast schedules were such
> that they were able to shoot "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" as
> the first episode of the S5 production run, but still air it as the
> last episode of S4.
> 
>> "Throw away that last episode and lets resume with the real thread." <
> 
> I have no idea what this is supposed to mean.  "Deconstruction" *was*
> part of the "real thread".  As noted, it was produced as part of season
> 5.  The events in the episode all "happened" in the future history of
> the series.  It is no less "real" than the future glimpsed in "War
> Without End" or "In the Beginning".  Based on comments like this I
> suspect your problem with S5 in particular and the show in general stem
> from not paying very close attention to what you're watching.
> 
> By all means read "The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5"
> (http://tinyurl.com/j57t) and consult the archives of JMS's GENie,
> Compuserve, Prodigy and Usenet postings at www.jmsnews.net.
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> Joe
> 
> 

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