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The Long Twilight Struggle? :devil: I would say though that whilst the Centauri might not have given an official apology there policy very clearly had shifted away from imperialist expansion and towards appeasement of the Narns. I think it plays very much into the story that G'kar is still a...

I would preffer all of nothing personally, cameo's are distracting because its more of a wink rather than a chance for an actor to play a role of depth. I think that if JMS wanted a Londo like character involved Jurasik would actually still be able to play him. He was aged a bit via makeup...

It was an interesting decision to take at the end of season 4 exactly where to leave Garibaldi at would could have been the end of the show. As it is they tied everything up and gave him a happy ending but I'd guess they could have left over some drama to be resolved during Sleeping In Light...

Another sad loss,besides the bigger stars some of the guest slots were a bit patchy in season 1 but he was excellent.

To drag this back up again have we had any comment from JMS since on what the original plan was? That Kosh has the recording of Talia does seem like a clear hint to me that the real "trapdoor" with Talia wasn't activating the control personality but rather not bringing her back afterwards, I...

The lack of a single central character who everything was built towards definitely helped B5 I would say and we had lots of characters with long and furfilling arcs. I would personally say Vir is a bit more of an everyman than a central hero, the down to earth character that sees the story all...

The interesting thing looking back for me is that at the time you were dealing with a TV environment where such extended storytelling was rare and if you did get a "wrap up" it was often a much more ambiguous one such as TNG or Quantum Leap. Whilst Babylon Squared and several other late...

One thing that did always stand out for me relative to Trek at the time was how much better the physical fighting was on B5. Trek normally descending into the infamous Starfleet "double axehandle" that KOed Klingons instantly where as in B5 we get some pretty well choreographed scenes with some...

A series of tubes.

That does tend to suggest it was later after Sheridan had become a threat although I don't remember anything being stated as to exactly when it happened. We do on the other hand get the vision from Kosh as early as mid season two during All Alone In The Night though that tells Sheridan that...

If Morden is getting help from Clark and the Corps it could be possible that he's using his real ID but the system has been hacked somehow to make use it doesn't raise alerts. Ultimately though he isn't found out due to any form of ID(card or even his name) but rather visually due to...

To be fair I think Richard Moll as Max in Hunter, Prey did a pretty good job bringing some amusing character to the role but Sanderson was the only gangster who really had much threat and gravity to his performance. Was there ever any plan to have gangsters play a significant role in B5?

No mention of William Sanderson playing Deuce so far, I thought he was by some distance the best gangster B5 ever had and wish he'd been used again.

It could be viewed as a hint at humanities potential to advance to that level or perhaps as the early part of the series not having such a well defined power structure and introducing a Trek like "man become god" kind of character.

Whilst it doesn't nail everything honestly I'v always felt that MotFL actually feels more like "classic B5" than a lot of the opening half of the season, I spose partly because the Narn/Centauri politics are to the fore. Not sure I agree with Londo being out of character either personally or as...

If they cast similar character again I think Jurasik would be the easiest to return to the same role, he was aged a bit in the original and unlike most of the other major roles I think Londo could work as an older character. As I said though my guess would be that if JMS is looking at a single...

I would imagine if this does get made it will be a much more focused plot around the Sinclair(or Sinclair like character) rather than having the same kind of depth as the series. Honestly I can see the sense in wanting to go that route as for me the Centauri/Narn and Londo/G'Kar stories are...

You look elsewhere though and B5 does have situations in which characters who by general standards appear very moral still have in character falls. The key I would say is that there fall tends to be one of self judgement which at the simplest level is what I would have changed with Lennier...

As I said in the other thread I think the weakness of this is that it means the whole situation is less of a comment on the character. When the likes of Delenn, Londo, G'Kar, Ivanova, etc suffer some kind of "fall" a lot of the weight comes from the fact that there actions are very much in...

The obvious change of course would have been to have all or part of the telepath civil war in season 5 although I don't automatically think that would be needed to have Bester involved. As you say Byron isn't really given enough time for much of a "turn", if say Garabali had only been...