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Skriven 2006-10-15 00:02:54 av Greg Bryant
Ärende: Re: Compromised 4th and 5th season.
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From: Greg Bryant <gabryant@fuse.net>

On 10/14/06 5:34 PM, "Shabaz" wrote:

> Greg Bryant wrote:
>> On 10/14/06 4:08 PM, "Joseph DeMartino" wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 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>)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Curious how that was supposed to be Ivanova's thread, instead of Lyta's? JMS
>> has said that if he had known in time that Claudia was leaving, he would
>> have allowed her to stay dead and Marcus alive.
>> 
>> As it might have been, Marcus sacrificed himself for Ivanova, she would have
>> been promoted to station commander, and then what?
>> 
>> .
> She would've been Byron's lover, and Lyta just one of Byron's devoted
> groupies. That's the reason he was cast as someone vaguely Marcus
> looking I believe; she was supposed to initially see in him a man like
> Marcus, and when everything went south, it would've made all the more
> poignant that she had in fact missed her chance to get a man like
> Marcus when Marcus died. It could've been really interesting, with the
> commander of B5 actually getting involved with the teep colony, and
> what it would've meant when the colony went bad.
> 
> I think one of the big problems people had with Byron could've been
> solved if it had been Ivanova there, since she would've had a much
> stronger negative reaction to a lot of what happened to and with the
> man. Lyta never really got beyond being a devoted follower of Byron's
> word, even if she was elevated from groupie to lover, and never became
> a character really questioning this guy. In the version we got, we got
> Garibaldi and Zack muttering under their breath about a 'martyr
> complex', but never really anything that really came close to piercing
> that arrogance of idealism that a lot of people saw and seemed to
> dislike in Byron. Don't know if it would've helped with the singing
> though. ;)
> 
> Lyta would still have been the one that, after his death, would
> continue be this resistance person, IIRC.
> 
> -Shabaz
> 
> 

Interesting. Susan was a low-level telepath in the closet; no doubt this
would have brought her out.

Of all the changes that JMS had to make over the five years of the series to
account for actors coming and going, other changes, etc., the loss of
Claudia and the uncertainty over Season 5 seems to have been the most
damaging to the story arc.

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