SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted.
What is your favorite story arc?
|
Log In/Create an Account
| Top
| 170 comments
| Search Discussion
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
You can't have your cake and let your neighbor eat it too.
-- Ayn Rand
(Score: 2) by theluggage on Wednesday January 25 2017, @12:12PM
Delenn was supposed to run away with Sinclair's baby in season 2 to return her races' souls, the shadows were supposed to be a red herring distracting from the fact that the Minbari were set to reopen their war with humanity after getting their souls back, leading to season 4 ending with Babylon 5 being destroyed by them. It was kinda a mess and ran headfirst into a number of casting problems and what we got was better.
Hadn't heard that version (was that from the notes that JMS published a few years back?) - although it was obvious that the plot had major changes (e.g. B5 destroyed and B4 was "stolen" and moved forward in time to replace it) but I think if you look at most stand-alone films and novels you'll find that the plot goes through huge changes during development - Star Wars IV (before it became a franchise) is a case in point. The point was that B5 had a plan from the start whereas most TV shows pretty obviously make it up season-by-season with the possibility of - if the cancellation notice arrives in time - finding the one-armed man in the final episode.
Actually, I think "making it up as you go along" was appropriate for the X-files, since it was all about paranoid conspiracy theories, which in "reality" are continually retconned to fit inconvenient facts and the public mood...