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Skriven 2006-07-24 09:44:00 av Robert E Starr JR (5175.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: Babylon 5: Lost t Tal
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Nicole Massey wrote:
> In thinking about this, I've thought about the holes in the narrative The 
> big ones for me are:
> 
> Lyta's fate
> Delenn's fate
> Garibaldi's fate
> Laurel Takishima's fate
> Dr. Kyle's fate
> Catherine Sakai's fate
> What Garibaldi did on Mars between the episodes
> Garibaldi's PI work on Babylon 5
> Lennier's fate.
> Na'Toth's fate
> The future role of the great machine
> More on Crusade
> Possibly more on Anna when she found herself among the Shadows.
> Lyta on the Vorlon Homeworld
> What ever happened to Lou Welch?
> More about Vir, including his fate...
> More about Capt. Lochley and her team.
> 
> So, in the details there are a metric buttload of options for Joe to go with 
> this. I just regret that we can't see the later life of Dr. Franklin and 
> G'Kar. Those holes will be vast craters Joe will have to dance around. I 
> don't envy him that task. 

One real benefit I see to this is that so many stories can be told without 
extensive involvement of the original characters or their actors - let's face 
it, some of them aren't wearing their age as well as others and it makes it
hard 
to take them too far back in time (look at Jonathan Frakes in the "Enterprise" 
finale - yikes!)  Quite a bit could even be written around existing footage:
for 
example, look at how the Techno-Mage books show "alternate angles" of existing 
scenes - the Sheridan/Elric/Londo meeting, for example, seen from Elric's 
perspective.

Not saying we'd want ALL the stories done that way, but it does easily allow
for 
that possibility, which gives jms a lot more flexibility in telling stories, 
particularly involving Franklin, G'Kar, Zathrus, et al.
              
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