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I recall Joe saying recently that he'd love to see a reboot, or a next generation style Babylon 5 at some point. It's just that it's up to WB, since they own the show. Harlan wasn't on Crusade either. Probably plenty; he did sign on for all five years. But if Harlan was coming up with the...

I still don't follow what control you think Joe didn't have. Sure there would be some things like when PTEN wanted his Japanese fighter pilot idea replaced by "Babylon 5's Han Solo", but he did control that by making sure that character (Keffer) got killed. As far as I am aware, the only main...

The story seems to hold up quite well to me. Really one can match a lot of the 10-page outline to the story, and see all the good stuff that was added and improved upon as well. I should also point out again because for some reason this is often forgotten that Joe said his stories don't match...

Pretty sure it was just supposed to be a cute scene. Because Drazis have the best parties in all of Grid Epsilon.

I think that the "production company" referred to in regards to budget issues on Rangers is Babylonian Productions, i.e. Doug Netter, not WB. Any notes that came down about the budget to the production team were likely from Doug, who more often handled the business side of things for the show.

I wasn't making any other conclusions except to point out that people on the show did make statements about the subject of redoing the comp shots and re-rendering CGI, whether they were actually going to do it or not. I don't think I cut out any context of the quotes [except for the part about...

Not that he was saying it was the definite plan, but it was something George Johnsen had mentioned a couple of times: And then when the Sci-Fi channel reruns came around Joe said:

They were always expecting to have to do this. If you take a look at the Making of B5 bit on the season 1 DVDs (the old special hosted by Walter Koenig) you can see in the background of one of the interviews how when the CGI was being worked out the computer would block out the top and bottom...

In the "premises in development" memo in volume 2 there is a brief mention: ="Spider in the Web" ="The Quality of Mercy" A story involving a character that's a time bomb; supposed to be written by David Gerrold but never got scripted. =the Narn/Centauri war breaking out in "The Coming of...

^ He does continue to improve. Neroon appears in two back-to-back episodes next season and

Nope, he doesn't know where Kosh is. He assumed Lyta would have him.

Joe got all five years, so don't know what you're getting at.

To see what Joe means when he says the story is what he wanted one should check out these notes where he first sketched out the concept of the show: http://www.cafepress.com/b5books/6587738.

^ The contact with Kosh is definitely the major reason G'Kar changes his attitude. Kosh wasn't able to contact him previously; like with Sheridan G'Kar's mind "wasn't quiet enough to hear him." The Dust opened his mind up to the Kosh contact.

^ And it went in the opposite order of the DVD. Story 1 was Sheridan/Galen. Story 2 was Garibaldi. Story 3 was Lochley.

Joe has often said that his "outlines never survive contact with the story" once he writes it. This outline is a 10-page synopsis based on 110 notecards that Joe broke out for the series; the notecards detailed dialogue, major events, and episode titles. Then each season he would break out the...

2.5 km I believe was the first figure; but the five mile figure was decided on before The Gathering. Joe mentioned it January 1993. Reading over Joe's old posts I get the impression that Catherine's arc beyond the mind-rape had something to do with corporations strip-mining worlds with...

I recall Joe stating the Centauri were based on the Roman Empire, but it's not an exact 1-1 correlation either.

Yep, but this also starts the road towards Lyta's feelings about always being used by others.

Don't think that's what he meant. The species of Babylon 5 can't create hybrid children without genetic manipulation, which is why Delenn had to go through the Chrysalis to conceive a child with a human.