Babylon 5
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JMS had planned to have a squadron leader character but what he'd envisioned wasn't Keffer. the PTEN folks wanted "Babylon 5s Han Solo". In addition, Larry DiTillio made it pretty clear that even though DiTillio tried to give Keffer some meaty scenes, the actor just wasn't up to them.
No, in fact the outline of the show that JMS wrote between the pilot and first season had the Babylon 4 station going forward in time in a rekindled war with the Minbari.
The actress lobbied for more screen time and when it wasn't given, asked to be released from her contract. That gave JMS the opportunity to get back the telepath he'd always wanted in Lyta played by Patricia Tallman.
I think it was the guy who played Keffer who Jerry Doyle said he screamed at one day for being a prima donna, being unprepared on the set, and making everyone else's job harder. Apparently nobody liked the guy, and were glad to see him fried by the Shadows.
Andrea Thompson went on to a stellar career as a CNN anchor - for, what, a month?
And, I've always wanted Patricia Tallman too.
Andrea Thompson went on to a stellar career as a CNN anchor - for, what, a month?
And, I've always wanted Patricia Tallman too.
shivah is a ritual that is supposed to bring the mourner into "emotional contact", if you will, of the death of his or her loved one. Psychologically, reliving the trauma of the passing in such a state allows one to grieve naturally, helping bring closure and come to terms with the loss. I thought it was done very well.
Every main character had a "trapdoor" built into their background, so that the show could easily explain, and replace an actors departure. While O'hara was able to handle Season 1, when he needed to leave the show, JMS just dusted off his being recruited into the Rangers plot.
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I agree, the Shiva scene was done very well. It was the intercutting with the fight scene that totally ruined it for me.
MY wife and I lived in Albuquerque NM at that time, and were surprised to see Andrea Thompson show up as a reporter on one of the local TV station's newscasts, not too long after she left B5. She spent a little time (a few months?) there before disappearing and showing up on CNN. It was a little surreal seeing her in such different roles in a fairly short time span...
That trapdoor thing is interesting, so if the actor who played Garibaldi didn’t work out he would have succumbed to alcoholism? I suppose he could have died on B4 instead if Sinclair ditching him to avoid it.
Not sure what they could have done with Londo and G’Kar after the various looks at the future rolled out.
Not sure what they could have done with Londo and G’Kar after the various looks at the future rolled out.
Well look at what happened to the actor who played Kosh...
Speaking about being shot in the back, the person who was supposed to shoot him in the back was the stations first XO Laurel Takashima and was the one with the implanted personality that was later give to Talia Winters.
Wow, Dr Franklin hits on patients of his who are effectively new to the world and under his control too. All space station doctors are creeps.
I don't see anything creepy about his relationship with the singer. She wasn't his patient until she went to steal his credentials *after* they slept together.
Franklin always seemed somewhat overworked - no wonder he was taking stims. For the large and diverse alien population of Babylon 5, you'd probably need a hospital with the equivalent of a few hundred doctors. I assume medical robots and diagnostic AIs would carry a lot of the burden a couple of hundred years from now but we never see any robots at all in the series and the only AI was a joke one for Garibaldi to interact with.
I'd say kissing unfrozen girl is up there with Bashir's hitting on Sarina in terms of inappropriateness, though I guess Franklin caught himself and realized it was inappropriate earlier in the process.
I'm sure we heard references to other medbays in show.
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