By the way[]
What's the source for the March date? -- Noneofyourbusiness 21:50, November 4, 2010 (UTC)
- Across Time and Space: The Chronologies of Babylon 5. Blind Wolf 01:15, November 11, 2010 (UTC)
Soundtrack[]
Was a soundtrack ever released for this?
Series plans[]
Were many details ever released on plans if the series had been made?
In Crusade, which was shot before this but set only about 2 years after, there was no mention of The Hand, or the rangers/ISA being involved in a major war with them. This combined with the fact that the ISA seemed to be able to dedicate themselves and the rangers to finding a cure, and were involved in the telepath war which I think probably hadn't culminated yet at the time of Legend of the Rangers seems to suggest there was no major public ongoing war with some entity more dangerous than the Shadows.
So I would presume it wasn't intended for The Hand plot to last that long, perhaps a series at most. (Sort of like finding a cure to the Drakh plague wasn't going to be a 5 year plot.) Unless the series was intended to be highly compressed in time. Like Lost for example, instead of Babylon 5 and Crusade (and many other series) where each series was mostly intended to be about an earth-year. Or the war was still being kept secret.
OTOH perhaps it was intended the Hand plot would be a very short arc, a few episodes at most? And the series would be more self contained without such long arcs, as with Babylon 5 and planned for Crusade.
Then again, if the series had gone on for long enough, it would have started to intersect with period covering the Drakh plague, I wonder if this was intentional and there were plans to cover part of this and subsequent planned events? (And earlier on, the telepath war.)
And was there any particular plan for how long the series would last if funding could be found? Since JMS seems to really like 5 seasons (Babylon 5, Crusade, Sense8), I can't help wondering if there was some hope for that with this too. It's also possible JMS only had a really rough plan of what he wanted to do or has simply never said much.
Nil Einne (talk) 15:36, September 14, 2015 (UTC)
- Although one thing. While the telepath war happening after tLotR seems to make most sense from what was said in Crusade and also I think some of the books, I remember now that G'Kar seemed to imply Lyta was already dead which goes against the idea she died near the end of the telepath war. Unless he only thought she was dead, or meant something else (e.g. he considered the person he knew lost perhaps not understanding what she was trying to do with the underground) when he said "She's gone now". Nil Einne (talk) 16:05, September 14, 2015 (UTC)