quote:Originally posted by He Who Wanders: Michael O'Hare, who played Sinclair, was a more cerebral and understated actor than Boxleitner, who was more in keeping with the Hollywood model of a leading man: gung-ho, handsome, etc. Neither character or actor was necessarily bad. Both were appropriate for the story at the time, I think.
I preferred the Sinclair character in some ways. Yeah, he could be stiff, but I found it worked as a personality flaw. The show already had an Everyman in the Garibaldi character, and I think the Sheridan character encroached on that in a lot of ways.
But a change was going to happen anyway. The network was reportedly unhappy, and JMS was said to be introducing a new character, thinking that having Sinclair go to Zaadum (sp?) in addition to fulfilling his main destiny was putting too much of the story onto one character.
quote:Originally posted by Outdoor Miner: But a change was going to happen anyway. The network was reportedly unhappy, and JMS was said to be introducing a new character, thinking that having Sinclair go to Zaadum (sp?) in addition to fulfilling his main destiny was putting too much of the story onto one character.
True. One of the things that still impresses me about B5 is how JMS had a "trapdoor" written into the series for every character, allowing them to drop out of the story, if necessary, without compromising the arc.
It particularly came in handy with Talia Winters and Susan Ivanova.
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We were hooked to this when it was on. B5 was great, the characters were well thought out, the special effects were adequate (though looking back on how much computer graphics have grown since they are a tad wooden at times by todays standards 0 all of what, five years ), the storylines wove loads of great plots together with a level of sohistication not seen before and introduced a believeable 'future' history.
I really liked Babylon 5, you might have guessed!
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Babylon #1-3 were destroyed during or just after the construction process. Babylon 4...watch the show, and all will be revealed!
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Good judgment, Pex. Stu, you really don't want to have the fate of B4 spoiled here.
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Yeah, I wouldn't dare spoil it for anyone who hadn't seen it...I only started watching the show since it started being released on DVD, and actually managed to do a running commentary/review of every episode at another message board I frequent. The veteran fans of B5 who post there were very good to me, answering questions as best they were able without revealing too much, all the while being very interested as to what I'd make of the show. If they had spoiled things for me, it really would have taken away from the experience...
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