84d Subj : Re: OT - Babylon 5 (WAS Re: I BLAME BRAGA_ To : rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.startrek.current,alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise,alt.tv.star-trek.voyager,alt.tv.star-trek.ds9 From : Mac Breck Date : Fri Sep 09 2005 20:25:40 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise "Uri Bruck" wrote in message news:4321ffc1.3260187@ny.news.verio.net... > "Joe" wrote: > > > > >"Merrick Baldelli" wrote in message > >news:ho83i11hp2ch4fnd9sfl16k047emhkvkro@4ax.com... > >> On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 13:35:06 -0500, "Joe" wrote: > >> > >>>Speaking of B5...(SPOILER)... > >>> > >>>Was the idea of Sinclair as Valen (sp?) always planned or did they invent > >>>that due to wanting to fire Michael O'Hare? Or did he not get fired? > >>>Bottom > >>>line, why was he off the show after one season? > >> > >> He was always supposed to be Valen. According to one the > >> stories (that I happen to believe most plausible given the writing > >> that was going on at the time O'Hare was on the show), if O'Hare > >> stayed around through all five seasons, the last episode of the series > >> was supposed to send Sinclair back to the past to become Valen. > >> > >> According to jms -- [O'Hare] left because his character wasn't > >> developing and he didn't believe he could put in an adequate > >> performance. It was amicable decision... > Haven't seen any of this on the Lurker's Guide, which has quite a few > quotes from JMS. What's the source for this? http://www.jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-14774 http://www.jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-14332 http://www.jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-9044 http://www.jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-14577 -- Mac Breck (KoshN) ------------------------------- "Babylon 5: Crusade" (1999) Galen: "There is always hope, only because it's the one thing that no one has figured out how to kill yet." (Galen's obviously never met Warner Brothers, TNT-Atlanta or Sci-Fi.) "Brimstone" (1998) [Stone lights a candle for the dead in a Catholic church] Gina: Who's that for? Ezekiel Stone: Me. . 0