Joe D,
While I agree with all the points you bring up, and have read JMS's posts many times (although not when they were originally posted), I still can't get over the feeling that Catherine Sakai was being set up to play the same basic role as Anna Sheridan, therefore bringing Sinclair into the fold. Her trip to Sigma 957 in "Mind War" suggested to me that she might well have been contracted to go to Z'Ha'Dum in the same manner. While the premise and time frame would have to be a bit different, she could have been thought by Sinclair to have died and then reappeared at the end of S3, much in the same way as Anna, thereby giving Sinclair the Shadowman connection needed.
Perhaps something along those lines was originally contemplated by JMS, and modified when Sheridan came on board. I find that more plausible than Lise being the connection, because I'm sure the travel to Z'Ha'Dum and subsequent death and rebirth was always planned and would need to have been done by the main character, rather than a Garibaldi or Keffer.
Regardless, we'll never know unless the original arc, as the story of Jeffery Sinclair, as contemplated by JMS, is released, and the chances for that is about as much as the truth coming out on Enron
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Whoops, should have read the first post rather than just going to the second page! Oh well, it deserves to be said again...
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Wipster
"Live Long in Prosser"
[This message has been edited by wipster (edited February 16, 2002).]
