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Well, there's not a whole lot of logic to it, but certain staples of sci-fi don't really bother me, while others do. (And really, it's not just me. There are certain conventions of "scientific plausibility" that were widely accepted by audiences in the '50s, but wouldn't fly today, even though...

I highly doubt it. Anyway, I've heard people try to use quantum physics to explain telepathy, psychic predictions of the future, and the like, and it's all pretty ridiculous and doesn't really make any sense. I *hope* JMS wasn't trying to go for that. I assume he just had no real scientific...

It's not clear that there was originally going to be any kind of "scientific explanation" for why the prophecies would be accurate. (The scientific explanation being that someone brought the information back in time.) I mean, even in the show as filmed, how do you explain Zathras knowing that...

Well, we may be splitting hairs here. Even in the outline, it sounds like the Shadows thought that the Vorlons meddling so much with the younger races was a bad idea in and of itself. It's just that the outline also makes it sound like the Shadows' primary goal was a selfish one....that they...

How was the ideological component of the Shadows' motives present in "Signs and Portents"? Just because Morden asks "What do you want?"? Anyway, even if it's true that the "order vs. chaos" thing was present by "Signs and Portents", it doesn't mean that it was present at the time JMS wrote...

JMS has been extremely open in the scriptbooks, and if he deliberately left certain things out of the story outline because he didn't want WB to see it, he probably would have 'fessed up to that. Anyway, the Earth Civil War not being in the "original" story outline doesn't seem that remarkable...

IIRC, according to the outline, there really isn't any open warfare against the Shadows until Babylon Prime. In the series proper, you just have the Shadows manipulating the Centauri and other races, but they don't attack openly as they started to do in "Interludes and Examinations" in the real...

Yes, that's what it says. It's also worth noting that the only characters that are mentioned by name in that outline are Sinclair, Garibaldi, Delenn, Londo, G'Kar, Kosh, and Catherine Sakai. (Though a couple of others, like Sinclair & Delenn's son are referred to with no name given.) There's...

My scriptbooks #14 & 15 haven't arrived yet. Hopefully, they'll arrive today. However, one thing I should point out about the synopsis of the "original story arc".....there really is no such thing as "the original story arc". JMS came up with the idea for the story way back in, what? 1986...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the TLT DVD extras, didn't JMS say that he had no intention of directing future TLT installments....that he was only doing the first one in order to set the tone? If so, then one would imagine that JMS's busy work schedule would not be so much of an issue for...

True, though why then include characters like Lennier and Vir in the Minbari and Centauri shots, when they're not mentioned in either of these two stories either? Presumably because there's extra room in those shots (since the only other Minbari and Centauri are Delenn and Londo respectively)...

I'm not sure I follow you here Joe. Are you saying that 75 minutes of screen time translates to 90 minutes if you include commercials? Because I don't think that tracks. 90 minutes of air time on television will certainly include more than 15 minutes worth of commercials. If 42 minutes goes...

Are the script books worth it? They're worth it to me. However, I'd like to throw some caveats in there. If one did not need to purchase all of them in order to get the special 15th volume, then I probably wouldn't be buying all of them. Also, if there was a way to pay a discounted price for...

So you would just skip "Epiphanies" and "The Illusion of Truth"? :p No, seriously, I assume you meant to type "first 8 of S4" instead of "first 6 of S4". But anyway, this list isn't quite right. At the end of In the Beginning, Londo has a line of dialogue that's a major spoiler for what...

Not sure if I'm interpreting this correctly, but are you saying that you think the TLT sales will be *less* than the sales of the each of the five season sets, movies and Crusade ("not every fan is going to buy TLT")? Why would that necessarily be the case? There are lots of fans who don't buy...

Also, here's a list of nitpicks for the show at nitpickers.com: http://www.nitpickers.com/tv/repository.cgi?pg=s&sp=i&tt=3 Not all of them are valid, and some wouldn't fall under "continuity errors", but there are also a few good ones in there.

There are a few discontinuities between "Babylon Squared" and "War Without End". There's a list of them here: http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/countries/us/guide/061.html#NO Also, there's an effects glitch in "No Compromises", where, when Garibaldi is in a starfury outside the station, the...

Regarding Galen's role, from JMS's December 1st message (contains SPOILERS): http://www.babylon5scripts.com/TLT-JMS-Photos.html AFAIK, that's as much as we know about Galen's role in TLT, except that JMS also said: "A couple of pivotal scenes that will cross the two segments" sounds like...

Budgetary constraints seem incredibly silly??? Anyway, JMS pitched this whole project as an anthology of short stories about the B5 characters. *Short* stories. The stories each focus on one character---they're small in scope and never intended to be on an epic scale like "In the Begining"...

*Early* Season 5 of Crusade? How long after ActA is the beginning of Crusade Season 1? I thought it was only a matter of weeks. If so, ActA would be something like "late Season 0" of Crusade, and five years later would be late Season 5.