( Babylon 5 Moderated Usenet group )įollowing her departure, it was decided that Catherine Sakai would be Asian to match Takashima's ethnicity. Our characters would not, for as much as another full season. With the coup, or pulling the trigger herself. In the events in "Chrysalis," either giving him over to those involved Takashima would have been revealed as having been in on the VorlonĪssassination attempt by season's end, and would have betrayed Garibaldi Instead, Garibaldi's second in command became the traitor. JMS had let slip that Takashima was planned to betray Garibaldi in the Season 1 finale, so he decided not to reuse the plot for Ivanova. The actress became uncomfortable with the role, and she was replaced by Susan Ivanova. Thread and passed it along to Talia, setting it up as early as the veryįirst episode, when Talia and Ivanova first meet, and later reluctantly (Her background on Mars would've been the perfect timeįor it to have happened.) When Laurel went away, I took that one Takashima would have been the one to be Control. This plotline was transferred to Talia Winters. The first officer on board Babylon 5 was originally meant to be a PsiCorps plant who would leave after a year or two. ( Babylon 5 Moderated Usenet group ) Laurel Takashima Talia, except that she would have begun to form a strong link to Kosh,įirst in the form of dreams, then something with implications that couldīe read as menacing or benign. If Lyta had stayed on B5, her arc would be pretty close to that of ![]() Lyta was originally going to become closer to Kosh, a subplot that was transferred to Sheridan: It seems to me that the "different way" of getting her into that arc was that instead of having enhanced telepathy powers due to Kosh (as we eventually saw with Lyta Alexander), she got them through Jason Ironheart in Season 1's "Mind War". Much of the Lyta arc will now go to Talia, but there's now a different way of getting her into that arc. Talia Winters got a lot of Lyta's planned arc: He also would haveĬontinued to be more scientist than doctor. The position of advisor/paternal figure for Sinclair. Kyle would have stayed around, he would have moved more into Kyle was going to become more of a parental figure to Sinclair and more of a scientist than his replacement, Dr. This was written before Lyta Alexander returned to the show due to the need to write out Talia Winters, but it's clear that this still fit with his narrative.ĭr. In "War Prayer"), which actually helps the storyline in many ways. Remained important, in that it was established that they were soonĪfterward recalled to Earth under mysterious circumstances (as noted Alas, as later events unfolded, thingsĭid not work out, and the characters were dropped.but their story Only two humans who have seen or scanned a Vorlon. These two characters appeared in the pilot "The Gathering" and had an explicit tie to the Vorlons.Ĭase in point: Dr. There were several major cast changes that happened between then that JMS had to write around. The pilot "The Gathering" was filmed about a year before the main series. (Unknown source, quoted on )Ĭhanges from "The Gathering" to the main series You can do a story about a platoon in WW II, for instance, and some of the platoon may live, die, be injured, whatever.but the story of WWII is the story of WWII. It's the difference between different *results* and different ways of *getting* there. So in a way, the structure of the story is kind of like a computer game tree.pull out a piece along the way, and it goes down a different path, but ends up at exactly the same point at the end. But you can't bring X-million viewers along to a certain point, then say, "Well, all the stuff we were going to do we can't because X isn't here." An actor can quit, or get hit by a car, or slammed by a meteor.there's no way to control the characters the way you do in a novel. One of the first things I had to do, in plotting out the storyline, was to set aside trap doors for *every single character*, because you never know when or how the real world is going to impinge upon you. Side for a little bit, and then you're back on track again. ![]() Such change momentarily shifts the story about ten degrees to one Obviously, you don't want to lose anyone, but in every case any There is a "trap door" built into the storyline for every character. ![]() There are, in short, *always* unpredictables in anyĬonsequently, in drafting the story for Babylon 5, I made sure toĬompensate for any possible changes. Get into contract disputes, they can be hit by meteors, they canĭecide to buy a house in Cambridge and raise hedgehogs under anĪssumed name. The trouble, of course, is that unlike writing a novel, where theĬharacters exist only on a sheet of paper, actors and writers are JMS always planned to accommodate cast members being unavailable by having "trap doors" planned for every character
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