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The budget for an episode of a running TV show is *not* relevant for comparison, because set-up costs can be spread over the entire series, and only enter the budget figure for one episode by a fraction. Meaning, if there's an item that costs $1 million and the series has 20 episodes, the budet...

Yep :) (nods). To quote jms: "Yes, there's a certain Jungian influence in the shadows, in that the shadow as Jung referred to it was unbridled want, unbridled need, and that's what they appeal to. jms." Even though this quote dates from 1996, I think it's safe to assume that this idea was...

Well, as I'm not a telepath I can't know what he would or wouldn't have done ... especially given that the whole original five year plan is something I hadn't thought he would have done ;) I tend to agree with respect to the Earth civil war, though. I think that part was probably at most a...

Whether WB actually got it or not is actually of minor importance, IMO (even though I still find it hard to believe that they'd simply forgotten about their request, hadn't they received the outline they had asked for). What is more important, IMO, is that the outline apparently was written...

I saw it when it first aired in Germany, in 1995. I'm not sure whether I saw the pilot at the first airing, or the first few episodes. We were a group of friends at the University and one of them taped it regularily from the start, so this wasn't a problem, as we would watch them together. Later...

What I meant is that you can't on the one hand argue that in B5 prophetic visions always comes true, while on the other hand when presented with counter examples of visions that *don't* come true argue that they are there to nudge characters in the opposite direction. Either prophetic visions...

I'm afraid I can't agree with that. The point of the prophecies in B5 is that they can come true one way or another, that the image does *not* set a particular path in stone. For instance, there were at least two possibilities how B5 could end up in fire - either through the Shadow attack a...

I'm sorry, I can't follow that part of your argument at all. Delenn and Zathras are talking about people having a destiny, but that doesn't mean that we are dealing with a universe governed by predestination. As JMS has repeated countless times, one of the most important themes of the show is...

I understand your point. But since I'm still very uncertain what to make of it all, I can't say I agree - nor can I say that I entirely disagree. In fact, assuming that I'm on the right track for a moment, even if it's just for the sake of speculation, besides the idea of evil as tangible...

I see ... I have to say after over half a year I'm still not entirely sure what to make of this story (which is why I find it so interesting). I'm pretty sure Asmodeus wasn't a demon in the biblical sense. There were a few lines that pointed to that - like Father Cassidy's line that this...

I've read your post on that, elsewhere (you know where ;)) - I can't quite agree with you. I found the Lochley story far more interesting that the second one (which was a bit too predictable for my tastes, and yes, that Sheridan would refuse to consider other options for so long is a bit hard to...

The JMS commentary on this one had me confused. Kosh chose to "unmask" to save one life, because all life is sacred, for the Minbari as for the Vorlons? Well, certainly not true for the Minbari Warrier cast - and even Delenn threatened the Earth Captain with death in Severed Dreams. And the...

In another forum someone mentioned that the Morella prophecies are explained in the Centauri Trilogy by Peter David. According to this poster, "the eye that does not see" refers to the Keeper, which looks like an eye and which Londo tried to destroy, thereby harming his people, and Londo's...

^^ok, thank you. Well, I still don't think that necessarily means Lady Morella's prophecy refers to G'Kar's eye literally (rather than G'Kar himself). But maybe this is splitting hairs, either way, G'Kar is the one, obviously :)

I agree. I could imagine that this could have somehow occurred without G'Kar and Sheridan being saved. Cartagia's glory? That is odd. Do you have the exact quote?

Thank you :) That might be. Still, I think there is the possibility that for Londo's redemption only the acceptance of the Keeper was essential, and that by saving G'Kar and Sheridan, and thus generating a chance to save his world, he went the extra mile. But for this to say, I'd need to...

Quick hello, as I'm new here (but not at all to B5)- sorry for jumping in like this :) I always thought that the "you must save the eye that does not see" wasn't referring literally to G'Kar's eye (for if that were the case, Londo wouldn't have saved an eye that "does not see" - G'Kar's eye did...