I read somewhere on this site about what the Apocalypse Box would eventually be revealed as. I didn't make this up; this is what I read, and apparently, it would've been what the show would REALLY be about.
Naturally, it's a big spoiler. Here ya go:
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Billions of years ago, when the First Ones made the decision to leave the galaxy, some of them chose to stay for their own reasons. The Vorlons stayed to help the younger races through order and discipline. The Shadows stayed to shape the younger races through chaos and conflict.
Then there was the third race. They hated the younger races with a passion. They were jealous of them, and they believed that the galaxy was theirs alone. We don't know what they called themselves, so for the sake of brevity, we'll call them the Heretics, for obvious reasons.
Naturally, both the Vorlons and Shadows didn't want the Heretics to succeed in their plans for galactic extinction. So, for the one and only time in their histories, they banded together in common cause to defend the younger races against the Heretics.
The war was brutal, horrific beyond that of even the Shadow Wars. In the end, the Vorlons and the Shadows were victorious (obviously), and the Heretics were exterminated ... except for six of them. These were the most powerful, most clever, most hateful of them all. For whatever reason, the Vorlons and the Shadows chose not to kill these six surviving Heretics, but to lock each of them away in very special prisons designed by both of the victors. These prisons were impenetrable, invulnerable, impossible to escape from ... with one caveat. If these prisons were brought together, the prisoners would be able to work together to free themselves, all at once.
These prisons have changed hands countless times through the millennia. Some of them were sealed away on certain planets, some were believed lost forever, but one of them has endured, more or less out in the open. And over time, because of the circumstances that follow it, this single prison became known as ...
... the Apocalypse Box.
Yeah. THAT'S what the Box would have been revealed as, if the series had been allowed to continue.
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Sure, the Box would have been guiding Gideon to find a cure for the Drakh Plague, but it would've had an ulterior motive in mind as it slowly worked its will over Gideon. And in exchange for the cure, it would've made its price known, the obvious would have happened ...
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... the Boxes would be opened, and the Heretics unleashed on an unsuspecting galaxy, with only the Excalibur leading the battle against them ...
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... and that would be that.
And NO, I'm not making this up. Even MY fevered imagination couldn't come up with something this diabolical. But if TNT had left jms alone, to do the show HIS way, the RIGHT way, it would've been a ratings bonanza for them.
Still, there's hope that, if Legend of the Rangers is successful, we still might see this storyline come to light. That's why the spoilers before.
MAN, I hope this show gets back on the air!!!
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