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John Flinn said he was the same character in an interview; feels like he would have heard that from Joe? Does it change the story one way or the other? I like thinking he was the same guy who looked for sanctuary from Babylon 5 to be the one who decides to go full assault on Centauri Prime.

I just watched this episode a few days ago and I agree, Russ did a great job with it! Seemed very natural banter with Bruce/Sheridan.

I really enjoy the fullscreen versions from Vudu, but unfortunately Severed Dreams is the same widescreen version that's on the DVD.

From the top of my head, these are the ones I remember being wide screen. The Gathering is a fake wide-screen that was aired on Sci-Fi channel: The Gathering TKO Severed Dreams The Paragon of Animals Sleeping in Light But that still is 95% in the original full screen. (edit: originally I...

It's not on DVD in full-screen; however you can purchase the full screen episodes from Vudu. About 4 or 5 of the episodes are still the wide-screen versions, but most are the full-screen. I downloaded all five seasons (once purchased you can stream or download) and yes it is nice to see the...

The episodes on Vudu are the original fullscreen versions (with the exception of four or five episodes) which I downloaded recently and started watching to see the original CGI and composites in full. I haven't done a side-by-side comparison with the audio on the DVDs though; that would be...

It's not so easy to say one way or another since we don't have a lot of visibility into internal memos, but at least one Crusade script has been published ("Racing the Night"), and the entire 4th act was changed for that episode. Joe attributes that to notes he received. That could have been...

Babylon 5 is done in Surround Sound so that is possibly related. I don't have a good speaker setup to test this theory. The DVDs do seem awfully quiet to me as well.

When this is where you set the level of conversation I have no reason to respond.

I don't think this is true since the whole concept of the Psi Corps which is there from the pilot is based on what should and shouldn't a telepath be able to get away with. As for Sheridan's guilt/not guilt it was in the author's intent at some point because very specifically Joe calls out in...

I don't think you actually know what evidence you are asking for. You've made a conclusion first and won't accept any answers that don't fit your preconception.

Probably because he never thought that. I stick by the idea that characters don't need to end up learning the lesson for the show to have presented it. The fallout was a direct result of his line of thinking. This is the one part I think would have played very differently with Ivanova; her...

Deathwalker wasn't part of any of those governments. The telepaths are Earth citizens. Just a random side-note: Peter David & Bill Mumy wrote one fifth season script, but it was not produced.

With the high-pitched voice and all? That would have been awesome! Ha.

My understanding is that it is related to WB having many different competing branches. B5 was part of the PTEN branch and the show was produced independently of the WB studio (by Joe & Doug's studio); there is probably no branch in WB left to support it.

Hm that's an interesting thought. The Drakh are a bit underdeveloped. Joe had a funny line in his script books saying he "created skeletor [from He-Man] as a species" The way the music worked in the show was that JMS would sit with Chris Franke and "spot" the episode - marking exactly where...

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I disagree that the story needs to be that explicit. It wasn't a dilemma to Sheridan at the time; but it ended up spinning out of his control. That is the story showing consequences. Yes which largely leads to Lyta feeling the way she does. This has been building in season four as well.

I don't think a character needs to acknowledge his own flaw for it to exist. A lot of people never notice what they do wrong. This gets played out in more subtle ways with the way Lyta feels she is being treated; there is a scene later in the season with Franklin that exemplifies this. If...

Part of the exploration is - will Sheridan make mistakes as well? Recall in the season two vision Sheridan is in a Psi Cop uniform; and he used the telepaths in the civil war. This is someone who says he hates what the Psi Corps stands for and does the same things. Good things like the...