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We already know what happened with the plauge - it got cured. You want the details? OK. Personally, I'm not that interested. The plague was never anything more than the "McGuffin" in the Crusade story, the thing - of no intrinsic importance - that the characters think is important and go chasing after. I didn't really care what happened to the secret information in North by Northwest, I cared about what happened to Cary Grant. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Yeah, I know all that, Joe. In fact, I said as much in a previous post.
I don't know why you don't want to know the details, though -- that's sort of like saying, "Sure, Sinclair has a hole in his mind, so what?" That was just a plot point to get the story rolling, too. The only reason you cared about Cary Grant was because of the story the McGuffin sent him on, and how that story changed him.
Are you under the mistaken impression that I only care about the details and not the characters? My hope that Rangers covers the Plague and the Telepath War is fueled by the thought that I will again see characters that I care about (and that would be my only chance to see them, because, IMHO, I think that Crusade is not going to return).
Irregardless of what JMS has said about the timeline, it is, after all *his* timeline, and there's no reason he can't tweak it. After all, he has re-thought and tweaked things on the fly before. He's said or planned lots of ideas that he's changed or abandoned, Delenn's sex change for one. Let me remind you of a quote from a different thread:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR>Joe D. said:
JMS has always said that nothing is "canon" until it appears on the screen. So some of his comments, especially regarding "works-in-progress" have to be read in the context of when they were written, and you have to allow for him changing things if he has a better idea later.
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If the Teep War occurs before Rangers, there's no reason that a flashback of some sort can't occur. Babylon 5 (and Crusade, too) went all over the place in terms of timelines and POVs. B5, set in a specific five-year time frame, showed us events a 1,000 years in the past and a million years in the future. Anything is possible.
And if JMS comes to the conclusion that Rangers might be his last kick at the can, why not go all out and include the Teep War and the Plague?
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR> Joe D. said:
News anchors today still refer to "recent" terrorist incidents like Oklahoma City and the World Trade Center bombing because, for the majority of adults in their audience, who do not measure time in terms of summer vacations, anything less than ten years old can be counted as "recent."
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"Recent" is a subjective term, and can mean any length of time that suits your arguement.
I have not any news anchor refer to the Oklahoma bombing, the second worst terrorist act in North American history, as "recent."
The only reason "recent" was used in ACTA was so that JMS would NOT be tied down to a precise date for the war. He is 'Mr.Trapdoor,' after all.
I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade, but Crusade is a cancelled show and it is extremely rare for a cancelled show to return. ( I didn't say "impossible," I said "rare."
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Would I like it to return? Yes. Do I hope it returns? Yes. Do I think it's going to return? No. Do I hope I'm wrong? Yes.
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