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**DONOTDELETE**
Guest
Hey guys,
I know this issue has been beaten to a pulp for nearly a decade now, but because I never had watched the full 4th season until now, and of course the question of “how much of Season 4 was condensed” pops into my braincase. Based on comments from JMS at the Lurker’s Guide, we know that
A. Intersections in Real Time was supposed to be the episode that originally ended Season 4. JMS then says that four episodes would have been pulled forward to the next season. Considering that he wrote this message thinking that there would be no Season 5 and that all of the episodes had already been finished, I’m almost positive that he’s including Sleeping in Light. Thus, it was originally planned that Season 5 would start off with Between Darkness and Light, Endgame, and Rising Star and end, as it currently does, with Sleeping in Light.
B. That JMS originally envisioned Into the Fire as a two-parter.
C. That most of the condensing occurred in the first part of the season.
D. That the current final episode of Season 4, The Deconstruction of Falling Stars, was written to replace Sleeping in Light after Babylon 5 had been renewed for a fifth and final season. Otherwise, it never would have existed.
So, that would leave three other stories, which were either condensed or were broken down to their arc-sensitive parts, which were then inserted to other stories.
Sound about right?
I know this issue has been beaten to a pulp for nearly a decade now, but because I never had watched the full 4th season until now, and of course the question of “how much of Season 4 was condensed” pops into my braincase. Based on comments from JMS at the Lurker’s Guide, we know that
A. Intersections in Real Time was supposed to be the episode that originally ended Season 4. JMS then says that four episodes would have been pulled forward to the next season. Considering that he wrote this message thinking that there would be no Season 5 and that all of the episodes had already been finished, I’m almost positive that he’s including Sleeping in Light. Thus, it was originally planned that Season 5 would start off with Between Darkness and Light, Endgame, and Rising Star and end, as it currently does, with Sleeping in Light.
B. That JMS originally envisioned Into the Fire as a two-parter.
C. That most of the condensing occurred in the first part of the season.
D. That the current final episode of Season 4, The Deconstruction of Falling Stars, was written to replace Sleeping in Light after Babylon 5 had been renewed for a fifth and final season. Otherwise, it never would have existed.
So, that would leave three other stories, which were either condensed or were broken down to their arc-sensitive parts, which were then inserted to other stories.
Sound about right?