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  1. b5historyman

    JMS approved Chronological viewing order

    Bearing in mind I did all the ground work over 20 years ago, I'll do my best. Much of the dating from Season One was worked out on the dialogue and visual clues in the episodes. For example "And the Sky, Full of Stars" we get the information from Knight 2 about Sinclair being 39 born in May...
  2. b5historyman

    Theory on "In the Beginning"

    To answer your points: The Rangers were charged in 1261 (after the end of the Shadow war) to watch for the Shadows return and intelligence gathering activities. They weren't actually commissioned to fight again. And as Lenonn pointed out there were few of them now most were getting old and...
  3. b5historyman

    Reading Between The Lines - The Gathering

    Well I did point out in post above about third parties being involved. So it may not have come as a surprise to Varner that the assassin came to his quarters and cleared for access by Laurel. Remember the Minbari missed his rendezvous with Varner. Laurel was in on it so knew who the assassin...
  4. b5historyman

    Reading Between The Lines - The Gathering

    Yes, Laurel would have revealed as the traitor who shot Garibaldi.
  5. b5historyman

    Reading Between The Lines - The Gathering

    Their actions need to be taken into the wider context of what was happening around them, I touch on it a little here in my notes about Laurel: Laurel Takashima, was a double agent with an implanted personality, working for the pro Earth Homeguard. It was her that allowed the Minbari assassin...
  6. b5historyman

    Reading Between The Lines - The Gathering

    Well the Corps called her back to Earth later on to find out what happened and she was a prisoner until escaping through the undeground. Sure as hell would have raised red flags with them, one of their number had physical contact with a Vorlon. Talia's assignment I suspect was in part due to...
  7. b5historyman

    Reading Between The Lines - The Gathering

    It has to be said that Londo's narration is part of his conversation with Vir in The Legions of Fire: Out of the Darkness. So from the story point of view this is between Londo getting drunk after speaking to Luc and Lyssa and before he has Delenn and Sheridan brought to him
  8. b5historyman

    The Wind Swords

    Vorlons and Shadows are beings of light, by virtue of their natural luminescence. They both wear encounter suits but do not look the same out of them. http://jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-11744&query=Encounter%20suits http://jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-10395 Vorlons masquerade as "beings of light"...
  9. b5historyman

    Reading Between The Lines - The Gathering

    I think it's to do with Psi Corps not being interested in the affairs of Mundanes unless it impacts on them. Lyta was working for Xenocorp from 2247-2257 so to be generous, she could have been out of Earth Alliance territory for all those years.
  10. b5historyman

    JMS approved Chronological viewing order

    From a story viewing point of view, I wouldn't break off. One of the things that people seem to miss is there is a lot of "layering" in the stories of the B5 universe. The best example to illustrate this is, I wouldn't advocate people breaking off part way through Moments of Transition to...
  11. b5historyman

    The Wind Swords

    1. The extremist elements in the Wind Swords were intent on disrupting the Babylon Project by framing Sinclair for the attempt on Kosh's life. 2. Jha'dur gave them the means to poison Kosh, no one apart from some of the Council knew she was even hidden on Minbar. 3. The Vorlons would...
  12. b5historyman

    The Wind Swords

    I posted previously as to where the Wind Swords got the poison from and where Jha'dur got the poison from to give to them. Regarding the Vorlons, yes they're phsyical. But like ALL living things there is also energy. Both times Vorlons were killed there was an energy discharge that destroyed...
  13. b5historyman

    The Wind Swords

    Joe has said the Vorlons are physical beings, I've posted links upthread. There's NOTHING in the canon to say they are energy beings. It's fan supposition nothing more. http://www.jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-7422&query=poisoning This explains the reasons for the attempt on Kosh's life from...
  14. b5historyman

    The Wind Swords

    There wouldn't be any kind of Shadow/Allies escort, Jha'dur came straight from Minbar. Why would the Shadows allies be bothered with someone who, to all intents and purposes was dead? We can speculate as much but the facts are the first shot just missed but got it's target on the second.
  15. b5historyman

    The Wind Swords

    That whole "warning shot" thing, is just fan myth and people are making something out of nothing. To wit, an organic vessel jumps out of hyperspace possibly slightly disorientated from the energies of the jump point, has no firing resolution and takes a wild shot then locks on and destroys...
  16. b5historyman

    The Wind Swords

    I've nearly finished my umpteenth read through of the techno-mage trilogy and have yet to see any statement to that effect. Besides Joe has said the Vorlons are physical beings and I was never led to believe anything other than that when I was corresponding with him and Fiona during the...
  17. b5historyman

    JMS approved Chronological viewing order

    Slight edit to Divided Loyalties
  18. b5historyman

    The Wind Swords

    Firstly Vorlons are NOT energy beings. Joe has posted on this here http://www.jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-7422&query=poisoning This explains the reasons for the attempt on Kosh's life from Joe's post on GEnie...
  19. b5historyman

    Read Between The Episodes

    Laurel Takashima, was a double agent with an implanted personality, working for the pro Earth Homeguard. It was her that allowed the Minbari assassin into Varner's quarters and erased logs of the transport tube failure. This was being done to disrupt relations with the Vorlons and the Earth...
  20. b5historyman

    JMS approved Chronological viewing order

    If you watch it anywhere else it spoils the "surprise" about Sinclair, unless of course you've watched the series as a whole first.
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