I'm guessing they're hoping for Dune-like ratings. Dune, like B5lr had previews in theaters and got something like 2.8? million viewers. Sci-fi thought this was high enough to make a sequel (children of dune), so I'm hoping Rangers does a bit better to clinch a series birth.
Phil
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"And that, Mollari, is why it will not be your people, or mine, or the Gaim, or the Drazi or the Vorlons or the Shadows who in the end will stand astride the galaxy like giants. It will be the humans."
"I think you are the one who is mad, G'kar," Londo said. "I can choose just as well as the humans. I can choose to stay in this cell, with you, or I can choose to leave."
"Yes, but can you choose for there not to be a cell at all?"
"I don't understand," Londo said.
"Exactly," G'kar said. "Exactly."
[This message has been edited by Emfeeli (edited January 20, 2002).]