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They're good quotes, but I think some people are missing the point. They need to be short one-liners that sum up a stage in the plot, "There is a hole in your mind"; "No one here is exactly as he appears"; "President Clark sign a decree today declaring martial law.", not huge monologues that...

I've wondered the same thing myself. Actually Morden asks the infamous question far less often than you might expect. Only in two episodes, 'Signs and Portents' and 'In the Shadow of Z'hs'dum'. In total he asks "what do you want?" 10 times to my count. Five times to G'kar in S&P, once to Delenn...

You can't really blame Sheridan. He's only the president of the Alliance, a diplomatic organisation. He in himself doesn't have much control over the decisions made by the Alliance. He would have to go along with whatever decision the majority of the Alliance wished to take. Look at the actions...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR> JMS didn't explain How it happened. Just that it Did. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> JMS didn't explain it because he didn't write it, Neil Gaiman did (he's the author that the Gaim are named after). If you've ever read anything by him...

Both the Shadows and the Vorlons manipulate the younger races behind the scenes, very rarely getting involved directly. They much prefer to leave the younger races to get on with things themselves, occasionally nudging them in the right direction. The Shadows and Vorlons only really get...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR> I think that Earthforce design may have been run Americans. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> America and Earthforce are both reletively young compared to other nations/races. For that reason less emphasis is given to aesthetics and more...

I found this today, it really does show how small minded some people are. The whole B5/Lotr thing really is ridiculous, I've heard it mentioned before over the years but now where else as comprehensivly as here. http://www.jumpnow.de/b5lotr/b5lotr.php ------------------ "Watch the Shadows...

I do not for a moment believe that Into The Fire was anti-climatic. But that's just my opinion. If you want to split hairs though, it wasn't anti-climatic. You might have found it *disappointing*, but that in itself doesn't make it *anti-climatic*. ------------------ "Watch the Shadows, they...

What happened to both Sheridan and Sisko is never explained, it is diliberatly left a mystery. As for Sisko's return, I believe this was in the past. Remember what the prophets told him before going into battle- "the end of your journey lies behind you, not ahead of you" and Sisko's line "Maybe...

I know that Paramount stole the idea for DS9, but so what? You can't copyright an idea, just the application of it and you have to admit the application of the same idea turned out very different with DS9 and B5. I liked DS9. The only problem I had with it was the ending which was a little...

What do Rangers sit on? An Itsilzha Settee. ------------------ "Watch the Shadows, they move when you're not looking..."

People are dwelling too much on whether SF is more *real* than other TV shows. It doesn't matter whether or not it is possible, it isn't supposed to be a prediction of the future, it's just a story like any other. The success of SF is based on the fact that it isn't realistic. It changes our...

Thank you very much Mr Morden, it seems you have given me exactly what I want. As soon as I read your post i rushed down to the train station and caught a train to Leeds. I was very happy to find the very low prices, the day before I had tried to purchase the HMV compleate season 1 boxed set...

All B5 videos have been withdrawn in the UK to make way for the DVDs, this seems to inclued Crusade too. I tried to get the boxed set from HMV only to be told that they had been deleted from their computers. Their is one upside to this though, the incredably cheap clearance sale of B5 videos at...

B5 wasn't cut because C4 wanted to aim it at 8-year-olds, they just wanted to beable to fit it into any time slot and don't want to limit themselves to just showing it after 9:00pm. To my mind this is an even worse reason for cutting as it shows the least ammount of respect. Most networks only...

Channel 4 did show the unedited versions of B5 season 5 on their 4Later slot. "Bastards" was only cut out because it was originally shown on the Big Breakfast. At least it waasn't as bad what they did to Angel, they made that compleatly unwatchable. ------------------ "Watch the Shadows, they...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR> Tolkien had the same problem in his day. Many claimed that his works were allegorical and that Mordor and the dark lord Sauron represented the industrial revolution or the horrors of war that Great Britain was involved in...

'Deconstruction of Falling Stars' is a brilliant episode in that people have very different views on what it means, especially the Human Encounter suit. This has been disscussed elsewhere so I won't go into an in depth disscussion here. But it seems to show to me that we have become just like...

Comparison doesn't have to mean which is the better show. You could compare a subject that both shows have tackled and discuss that. For example B5's telepaths compared to ST's Betazoids. The Psi-Corps place strict controls on their members whereas Dianna Troi goes around sensing everyone else's...

Compasisons between B5 and ST are perfectly valid, *if* it is done in the right way. A proper discussion about the plot and formats of the show and the advantages and disadvantages of each. However such discussion rapidly degenerates into a slanging match between people who have nothing more...