(Apologies for constant minor revisions to the above post. I think it's in its final version now?)
That's adorable and feels honestly in character.
I KNOW. I also saw a relatively recent interview with Peter Jurasik in which he talks about Andreas and includes the utterly adorable detail that they would negotiate their contracts together, including alternating their roles on the opening credits. (I promptly had to go check and they do indeed alternate from season 2 onward.) They really do seem to have been nearly inseparable during their time on the show.
I would also love to know more about how the ten-season plan expanded from the oldest known five-season sketch, because no iteration of it actually sounds like a good idea.
I cannot get over how much of JMS's original plan (all his original plans!) sounds like a bad idea! I think the man is genuinely some kind of insane creative genius and yet it sounds like he regularly needed to be saved from the terrible implications of his own plots.
Slightly contradicting this version of events in which Byron was a late addition, I have read for years that the original version of this subplot was supposed to be Ivanova/Talia, which if true would have been incalculably more interesting to me.
I remember you saying something about that before! Honestly, given the absolute chaos that seems to have stalked every version of the show and its creator, I could see this simply having been one of many details elided from the above summary for space. I do get the strong impression from the very first (mid-80s) summary that an F/F subplot was planned all along; it's really too bad that he kept losing all the main components of it!
I am similarly so glad that time-traveling David Sheridan never made it into the canonical show. Like the time-jump, JMS seems to have kept trying to crowbar him in and he just didn't fit. It wasn't that kind of universe.
Right?? The time-travel weirdness that we did get was just rare enough to be unique and interesting as part of the ongoing background-level weirdness of a show that also has telepaths, real prophesies, and visitations by the dead. Turning time travel into a major component of the show's plot would have made it feel significantly less grounded, to its detriment.
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That's adorable and feels honestly in character.
I KNOW. I also saw a relatively recent interview with Peter Jurasik in which he talks about Andreas and includes the utterly adorable detail that they would negotiate their contracts together, including alternating their roles on the opening credits. (I promptly had to go check and they do indeed alternate from season 2 onward.) They really do seem to have been nearly inseparable during their time on the show.
I would also love to know more about how the ten-season plan expanded from the oldest known five-season sketch, because no iteration of it actually sounds like a good idea.
I cannot get over how much of JMS's original plan (all his original plans!) sounds like a bad idea! I think the man is genuinely some kind of insane creative genius and yet it sounds like he regularly needed to be saved from the terrible implications of his own plots.
Slightly contradicting this version of events in which Byron was a late addition, I have read for years that the original version of this subplot was supposed to be Ivanova/Talia, which if true would have been incalculably more interesting to me.
I remember you saying something about that before! Honestly, given the absolute chaos that seems to have stalked every version of the show and its creator, I could see this simply having been one of many details elided from the above summary for space. I do get the strong impression from the very first (mid-80s) summary that an F/F subplot was planned all along; it's really too bad that he kept losing all the main components of it!
I am similarly so glad that time-traveling David Sheridan never made it into the canonical show. Like the time-jump, JMS seems to have kept trying to crowbar him in and he just didn't fit. It wasn't that kind of universe.
Right?? The time-travel weirdness that we did get was just rare enough to be unique and interesting as part of the ongoing background-level weirdness of a show that also has telepaths, real prophesies, and visitations by the dead. Turning time travel into a major component of the show's plot would have made it feel significantly less grounded, to its detriment.