In Valen's Name should've been a tv episode!

[Candlelight]

Just finished reading the comic for the first time and I have to say it holds up as a great little story. It's sad, it's funny, it closes the door on Valen's story and Babylon 4 herself. Granted the way it is from a tv perspective it does leave a sense of mystery regarding the fate of B4, but it's a tense little plot and I could visualise the comic playing out as a tv episode as I read it. I could even hear Chris Franke's sad score as B4 died.

It could've worked in season four, as a build up/teaser to the Minbari civil war that was to come, and maybe replace the it's-oh-so-obvious-the-media-is-evil Illusion of Truth episode.

Would've been nice to have seen Sinclair and Zathras again.

 

[Harvey]

The big problem with making this into an episode (or a TV movie) would be getting Michael O'Hare back. They couldn't afford to bring him back in a few scenes for In The Beginning (JMS used footage from season one), or for The Coming of Shadows (Sinclair's message was filmed at the end of season one), only for a big two-part episode, War Without End.

Keeping that in mind, just reading the summary of this comic, I'd rather have seen this story told instead of River of Souls, or even Thirdspace, which I admit to liking. A shame.

 

[Pilot Ace]

A lot of these threads you're making should have a spoiler warning, if only because we have Babylon 5 newbie threads so often...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

What was Valen talking about when he said "I've found...her"?

 

[Mr Light]

Catherine Sakai was lost in the B4 time portal in the novel "To Dream in the City of Sorrows". So he finally found her 1,000 years in the past and they lived happily ever after.

 

[Candlelight]

A lot of these threads you're making should have a spoiler warning, if only because we have Babylon 5 newbie threads so often...

With respect, you're talking about a show that finished over 10 years ago. By board rules we only really need to have spoiler warnings up to 12 months after a show/movie/book was released to the general public.

Most posters try and be careful with thread titles but generally if it has a topic regarding something you're currently first-time watching, stay out!

 

[Candlelight]

Catherine Sakai was lost in the B4 time portal in the novel "To Dream in the City of Sorrows". So he finally found her 1,000 years in the past and they lived happily ever after.

I had wondered that, however he had Minbari hybrid babies didn't he? Or was the Minbari bit from him after his change?

 

[Pilot Ace]

With respect, you're talking about a show that finished over 10 years ago. By board rules we only really need to have spoiler warnings up to 12 months after a show/movie/book was released to the general public.

Most posters try and be careful with thread titles but generally if it has a topic regarding something you're currently first-time watching, stay out!

Under normal circumstances I would agree, but the prevalence for "new to Babylon 5" threads that are posted here would have led at least myself to show courtesy in including a spoiler warning.

But, so it is.

 

[Candlelight]

I agree with you too; new to B5 threads often get hijacked by the old guard who know all that's coming and often spill too much or get into an arguement with someone else who might be "wrong" and suddenly the whole five year arc is spilled out in front of you.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Catherine Sakai was lost in the B4 time portal in the novel "To Dream in the City of Sorrows". So he finally found her 1,000 years in the past and they lived happily ever after.

Seriously? It was CATHERINE, of all people? Talk about the coincidence to end all coincidences! Well, I guess even B5 can pull off a deus ex machina every now and then.

 

[Candlelight]

Catherine Sakai was lost in the B4 time portal in the novel "To Dream in the City of Sorrows". So he finally found her 1,000 years in the past and they lived happily ever after.

Seriously? It was CATHERINE, of all people? Talk about the coincidence to end all coincidences! Well, I guess even B5 can pull off a deus ex machina every now and then.

Not necessarily. The time portal in Sector 14 was always pointing 900 years in the past. It makes sense she ended up there.

What is lucky is that she managed to stay out of harms way and not get killed in the Shadow war until long after Sinclair had set up Rangers, the Grey Council, etc.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Catherine Sakai was lost in the B4 time portal in the novel "To Dream in the City of Sorrows". So he finally found her 1,000 years in the past and they lived happily ever after.

Seriously? It was CATHERINE, of all people? Talk about the coincidence to end all coincidences! Well, I guess even B5 can pull off a deus ex machina every now and then.

Not necessarily. The time portal in Sector 14 was always pointing 900 years in the past. It makes sense she ended up there.

Yeah, but space...is big...really big...you just wouldn't believe how vastly hugely mind bogglingly big it is...

And even if she did manage to get extremely lucky enough to wind up in the correct year: How'd she *know* what year it was? How'd she know where to look for him? Or even THAT she should look for him? Did she suddenly get it into her head to go to Minbar and just stumble across him by accident? Obviously Sinclair couldn't have known she was coming...

 

[ManOnTheWave]

Catherine Sakai was lost in the B4 time portal in the novel "To Dream in the City of Sorrows". So he finally found her 1,000 years in the past and they lived happily ever after.

I don't know about the 'happily ever after' part.

 

[miraclefan]

Keeping that in mind, just reading the summary of this comic, I'd rather have seen this story told instead of River of Souls, or even Thirdspace, which I admit to liking. A shame.

Definitly over River Of Souls.

 

[Mr Light]

Isn't there a sweet action scene where they have a dogfight INSIDE of the hollow B4? That would have been awesome to see.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

A lot of these threads you're making should have a spoiler warning, if only because we have Babylon 5 newbie threads so often...

With respect, you're talking about a show that finished over 10 years ago.

Rosebud was a...you know.

 

[David cgc]

And even if she did manage to get extremely lucky enough to wind up in the correct year: How'd she *know* what year it was? How'd she know where to look for him? Or even THAT she should look for him? Did she suddenly get it into her head to go to Minbar and just stumble across him by accident? Obviously Sinclair couldn't have known she was coming...

Well, Sinclair was on good terms with the denizens of Epsilon 3. They might've mentioned she'd arrived. Sakai was in a prototype, fighter-sized White Star, so she probably had the sensor and computer power to figure out when she was, and she was a Ranger, so going to Minbar for help would be logical (though it's never been said if the Epsilon 3 jumpgate was there a thousand years ago, or if it was built specifically for the Babylon stations, so she might not have been able to leave on her own).

And, again, luck has nothing to do with her getting into the time of Valen. The time portal connects 2254, 2258, 2260, and ~1250. That's it. That's what it was made for. She was either going to be spit out in the middle of the 23rd century or the middle of the 13th.

 

[The Evil Dead]

Keeping that in mind, just reading the summary of this comic, I'd rather have seen this story told instead of River of Souls, or even Thirdspace, which I admit to liking. A shame.

Definitly over River Of Souls.

That would've been so freakin' sweet....Damn, what a great TV movie that could've been.