(August 8, 2012 at 11:39 pm)padraic Wrote: Agreed.They did the usual American thing: Take fair-to-good idea then beat it to death with a stick.
Successful US TV series often go on at least one season too long.Greedy bastards. I wouldn't mind if they included some graphic and inventive alien sex.
In this case, the problem was that the author thought he was only getting 4 seasons, which was why season 4 was so fast paced. He was packing the Shadow-Vorlon war and the Earth Civil War, originally intended as seasons 4 and 5, into the last season because he thought that was all he was going to get.
Then his contract was renewed. He had a whole season to fill and he'd already used up everything he'd originally intended for it.
My understanding is he then went, "um, wtf do I do now? How about hippy telepaths?" and much of the season turned out to be half-baked crap.
At least that's the back story I heard. Not sure if it's true but it would explain a lot.
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