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Skriven 2007-06-13 16:42:07 av Jan (1829.babylon5)
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Ärende: Re: Question about "Signs and Portents"
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In article <1181745582.019089.307700@j4g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, Tom says...
>
>JMS may have covered this elsewhere, but I couldn't find it.  I was
>watching it the other day and remembering the last scene where Lady
>Morella showed Sinclair the vision of B5's destruction.  Did JMS ever
>say whether he was witnessing the destruction of B5 as a result of not
>stealing B4, or was it the decommisioning of B5 20 years later?  I
>assumed it was the former, only because she spoke of pain and death,
>which would not have happened in the latter.
>


I'm pretty sure it's the final decomissioning.  In the script book that
features
'Signs and Portents' (Volume 2 available at www.babylon5scripts.com), JMS
wrote:

"In this episode, we also get a sneak peek down the road to the destruction of
Babylon 5 itself, just to once again put all of my foreshadowing cards on the
table."

You don't foreshadow what's not going to be in the story after all.

In the script itself is what I've always thought of as an early visualisation
of
the death of the station:

"We FEATURE the station, and can barely SEE several slarge beetle-shaped craft
in the far b.g.  There's a growing RUMBLE.

A small shuttle ZOOMS out of the docking bay as suddenly Babylon 5 _explodes_
from within, sections erupting into fire in a rippling effect...as the
Hindenberg went up in secions..."

Mainly the last suttle emerging and the 'honor guard' of ships is what always
made me think that it was the decommissioning.

Jan


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