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To be fair Babylon 5 WAS planned for the 5 Season Arc and only extended after the original plans for season 3-5 were essentially compressed into what became sea
by dtx1 5y ago
To be fair Babylon 5 WAS planned for the 5 Season Arc and only extended after the original plans for season 3-5 were essentially compressed into what became season 3 and 4. But from what I know it's true that the Babylon 5 we got was substantially different from the one originally planned. Here's a very detailed Discussion of the original story line https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/synopsis-of-jmss-synopsis-of-the-original-arc-for-b5-spoilers.53739/ https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/synopsis-of-jmss-synopsis-of...
- Izkata 5y agoI don't think 3 was compressed, it was 4 and 5 that became 4 due to fears the network would cancel it without having a chance to resolve the big arcs. But even there, the story was that they did it by dropping the side plots, and then the 5th season that aired was made entirely of those dropped side plots, not just extended in the usual sense. Also interestingly from that link, the end of that version of season 5 where Sinclair was believed to be a traitor, got rolled into the planned plot of the Crusade spinoff, though the series was canceled before they reached that point.