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							|  |    _Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis | 
						
						
							|  |    - [13]Notes - [14]JMS | 
						
						
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							|  | Overview | 
						
						
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							|  |      Sheridan discovers a connection between Morden and the death of his | 
						
						
							|  |      wife. The station is inundated by Narn refugees. A new Earth | 
						
						
							|  |      Alliance agency tries to recruit station personnel. [15]Ed Wasser | 
						
						
							|  |      as Morden. | 
						
						
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							|  | Sub-genre: Drama | 
						
						
							|  | [16]P5 Rating: [17]9.30 | 
						
						
							|  | 
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							|  | Production number: 217 | 
						
						
							|  | Original air date: May 10, 1995 | 
						
						
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							|  | Written by J. Michael Straczynski | 
						
						
							|  | Directed by David Eagle | 
						
						
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							|  |    _Note: this episode is more momentous than most. Think twice before | 
						
						
							|  |    proceeding to the spoilers; it's worth seeing unawares._ | 
						
						
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							|  | Backplot | 
						
						
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							|  |      * Delenn and Kosh tell Sheridan about the Shadows and the Vorlons: | 
						
						
							|  |         _D:_ | 
						
						
							|  |                There are beings in the universe billions of years older | 
						
						
							|  |                than either of our races. Once, long ago, they walked | 
						
						
							|  |                among the stars like giants. Vast, timeless... they taught | 
						
						
							|  |                the younger races, explored beyond the Rim, created great | 
						
						
							|  |                empires. But to all things, there is an end. Slowly, over | 
						
						
							|  |                a million years, the First Ones went away. Some passed | 
						
						
							|  |                beyond the stars, never to return. Some simply | 
						
						
							|  |                disappeared. | 
						
						
							|  |         _S:_ | 
						
						
							|  |                I'm sure this is all very interesting, but what does any | 
						
						
							|  |                of this have to do with Morden? | 
						
						
							|  |         _D:_ | 
						
						
							|  |                Not all of the First Ones have gone away. A few stayed | 
						
						
							|  |                behind. Hidden or asleep, waiting for the day when they | 
						
						
							|  |                may be needed. When the Shadows come again. | 
						
						
							|  |         _S:_ | 
						
						
							|  |                Shadows? | 
						
						
							|  |         _D:_ | 
						
						
							|  |                We have no other name for them. The Shadows were old when | 
						
						
							|  |                even the ancients were young. They battled one another | 
						
						
							|  |                over and over across a million years. The last Great War | 
						
						
							|  |                against the Shadows was ten thousand years ago. It was the | 
						
						
							|  |                last time the ancients walked openly among us. The Shadows | 
						
						
							|  |                were only defeated, not destroyed. A thousand years ago, | 
						
						
							|  |                the Shadows returned to their places of power, rebuilt | 
						
						
							|  |                them, and began to stretch forth their hand. Before they | 
						
						
							|  |                could strike, they were defeated by an alliance of worlds, | 
						
						
							|  |                including the Minbari and the few remaining First Ones who | 
						
						
							|  |                had not yet passed beyond the veil. When they had | 
						
						
							|  |                finished, the First Ones went away. All but one. | 
						
						
							|  |         _S:_ | 
						
						
							|  |                There's still one of them left. Where? | 
						
						
							|  |         _D:_ | 
						
						
							|  |                (indicates Kosh, to Sheridan's great surprise) That is why | 
						
						
							|  |                Kosh cannot leave his encounter suit. He would be | 
						
						
							|  |                recognized. | 
						
						
							|  |         _S:_ | 
						
						
							|  |                Recognized? By who? | 
						
						
							|  |         _K:_ | 
						
						
							|  |                Everyone. | 
						
						
							|  |         _D:_ | 
						
						
							|  |                For centuries the Vorlons stood alone, the last remaining | 
						
						
							|  |                guardians. Watching and waiting. | 
						
						
							|  |      * Delenn's question to Kosh (cf. [18]"Chrysalis") was, "Have the | 
						
						
							|  |        Shadows returned to Z'ha'dum?" | 
						
						
							|  |      * The Icarus, an Earth exploration vessel carrying Anna Sheridan, | 
						
						
							|  |        arrived at Z'ha'dum in late 2256 (see [19]Analysis.) A landing | 
						
						
							|  |        party, exploring a cave, inadvertently discovered the Shadows, | 
						
						
							|  |        awakening them. The Shadows destroyed the Icarus so its crew could | 
						
						
							|  |        not return to warn others, and killed the crewmembers who wouldn't | 
						
						
							|  |        cooperate. Morden was one of the crew. | 
						
						
							|  |      * Delenn and Kosh knew about the reawakening of the Shadows | 
						
						
							|  |        immediately -- maybe even witnessed it somehow as it was | 
						
						
							|  |        happening. | 
						
						
							|  |      * The Earth government has formed a new agency, the Ministry of | 
						
						
							|  |        Peace (nicknamed "Minipax" by its employees,) with the alleged | 
						
						
							|  |        goal of helping reduce internal tensions among the EA's populace. | 
						
						
							|  |        Its first visible action was to establish a program called the | 
						
						
							|  |        Night Watch, paying people 50 credits a week to wear black | 
						
						
							|  |        armbands and report suspicious people to the authorities so that | 
						
						
							|  |        troublemakers can be reformed before they disrupt the peace. | 
						
						
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							|  | Unanswered Questions | 
						
						
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							|  |      * Is Sheridan's wife still alive? | 
						
						
							|  |      * What is the Ministry of Peace really up to? | 
						
						
							|  |      * Will Talia join? | 
						
						
							|  |      * Similarly, what significance is there in the fact that Delenn | 
						
						
							|  |        narrated Sheridan's vision? Was she sharing it with him, or had | 
						
						
							|  |        she seen it before? | 
						
						
							|  |      * What kind of information did Morden bring for Londo? | 
						
						
							|  |      * What, if anything, happened to the ship that originally discovered | 
						
						
							|  |        the ruins on Z'ha'dum? Someone must have discovered them before | 
						
						
							|  |        the Icarus' arrival, since the crew of the Icarus knew they were | 
						
						
							|  |        going to explore an ancient civilization. | 
						
						
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							|  | Analysis | 
						
						
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							|  |      * Delenn's opening remarks about the First Ones bear a striking | 
						
						
							|  |        similarity to G'Kar's comments about the beings at Sigma 957 (cf. | 
						
						
							|  |        [20]"Mind War.") Could those beings also be First Ones? If so, are | 
						
						
							|  |        the Vorlons aware that they are still around in some form? | 
						
						
							|  |      * Her remarks also echo her comments about humans in [21]"Babylon | 
						
						
							|  |        Squared" -- suggesting that she believes humanity has the capacity | 
						
						
							|  |        to eventually rival the First Ones. | 
						
						
							|  |      * Delenn stated that all but one of the First Ones have gone away, | 
						
						
							|  |        and that the last one is Kosh. But does she mean that only one | 
						
						
							|  |        race remains, or only one individual? Or is there a difference | 
						
						
							|  |        where Vorlons are concerned? (See [22]jms speaks) | 
						
						
							|  |      * If Kosh would be recognized by "everyone" because (as implied by | 
						
						
							|  |        Delenn) his race had once walked openly among lesser ones, it's | 
						
						
							|  |        plausible that Kosh may resemble something from legends thousands | 
						
						
							|  |        of years old -- an angel, perhaps, since the Shadows bear some | 
						
						
							|  |        resemblance to demons and Kosh's suit seems to have room for | 
						
						
							|  |        wings. This would tie in with Kosh's statement in [23]"Hunter, | 
						
						
							|  |        Prey" that Sheridan must be ready "to fight legends" before Kosh | 
						
						
							|  |        will reveal himself -- otherwise he'd be mistaken by some as a | 
						
						
							|  |        divine being rather than an alien. Of course, angels and demons | 
						
						
							|  |        are far from the only figures in the human pantheon, let alone | 
						
						
							|  |        alien mythology, and Kosh may be something else entirely. | 
						
						
							|  |      * Or the encounter suit may allow Kosh to control who gets visions | 
						
						
							|  |        like Sheridan's; if he took it off, everyone who tried to look at | 
						
						
							|  |        him would see something different, something personal. (See | 
						
						
							|  |        [24]jms speaks.) This brings up a potential connection to the | 
						
						
							|  |        flashes in [25]"Babylon Squared"; perhaps the Vorlons were | 
						
						
							|  |        involved in Babylon 4's time travel, and the flashes were a side | 
						
						
							|  |        effect of that. | 
						
						
							|  |      * Why did Delenn demand to see Kosh in [26]"Chrysalis" before she | 
						
						
							|  |        was willing to undergo her change? She seems to know enough about | 
						
						
							|  |        Vorlons that she would have had some idea what he looked like. Did | 
						
						
							|  |        she simply want to verify that Kosh was one of the First Ones | 
						
						
							|  |        mentioned in the Minbari history books? Or does his appearance | 
						
						
							|  |        have something more directly to do with her wanting to become | 
						
						
							|  |        partially human? That's assuming he was showing himself to her at | 
						
						
							|  |        all, rather than sending her a dream sequence. | 
						
						
							|  |      * How did Kosh know what happened on Z'ha'dum? Or was he just | 
						
						
							|  |        inventing the scene he showed Sheridan based on what he figured | 
						
						
							|  |        must have happened? Perhaps he gleaned it from his meeting with | 
						
						
							|  |        Morden in [27]"Signs and Portents," though Delenn claims she and | 
						
						
							|  |        Kosh have known about it for the past three years. | 
						
						
							|  |      * The Icarus expedition seems to have set forth in late 2256. In | 
						
						
							|  |        [28]"Revelations," which is set in early 2259, Sheridan's sister | 
						
						
							|  |        says that it's been two years since Anna's death. In this episode, | 
						
						
							|  |        Delenn implies that the Shadows were awakened three years earlier. | 
						
						
							|  |        Late 2256 makes sense if both of them were rounding. | 
						
						
							|  |      * The Shadows on Z'ha'dum may have been awakened in 2256, but they | 
						
						
							|  |        weren't the first. The creature in [29]"The Long Dark" awoke | 
						
						
							|  |        during the Earth-Minbari War and was headed for Z'ha'dum. What | 
						
						
							|  |        caused it to wake up before its masters did, assuming its masters | 
						
						
							|  |        are the beings the Icarus discovered? | 
						
						
							|  |      * Delenn's question was, "Have the Shadows _returned_ to Z'ha'dum?" | 
						
						
							|  |        That implies they were elsewhere; if so, where? Perhaps the same | 
						
						
							|  |        thing that drew the abovementioned creature to Z'ha'dum also drew | 
						
						
							|  |        the Shadows there. In that case, they may have already been awake | 
						
						
							|  |        before the Icarus arrived. | 
						
						
							|  |      * Sheridan let Morden go so he wouldn't suspect that his true nature | 
						
						
							|  |        is known. But the damage may already be done; Morden and his | 
						
						
							|  |        associates are likely to be suspicious of his sudden release. The | 
						
						
							|  |        reason given to Morden -- "it was all a mistake" -- is going to | 
						
						
							|  |        seem especially suspicious; "the Centauri asked for your release" | 
						
						
							|  |        or "you're right; we can't hold you without charges" seem like | 
						
						
							|  |        they would have been better excuses. Of course, the latter may be | 
						
						
							|  |        what Zack told Morden. | 
						
						
							|  |      * The Night Watch armbands seem more a tool of terror than of peace, | 
						
						
							|  |        reminiscent of the armbands worn by Nazis and other tyrannical | 
						
						
							|  |        regimes, a constant reminder to everyone that they're under | 
						
						
							|  |        observation. The program seems designed to cause people to turn in | 
						
						
							|  |        their neighbors, and it's probably naive to believe that people | 
						
						
							|  |        accused of suspicious behavior (or worse, suspicious "attitudes") | 
						
						
							|  |        will simply be put into therapy and released shortly thereafter. | 
						
						
							|  |        Combined with the Ministry of Public Morale (cf. [30]"And Now For | 
						
						
							|  |        a Word") it suggests the Clark government is more interested in | 
						
						
							|  |        keeping the citizenry under its thumb than anything noble. | 
						
						
							|  |      * If it's true that the Night Watch considers thoughts dangerous, | 
						
						
							|  |        they may well be involved with Psi Corps somehow; certainly it | 
						
						
							|  |        would make sense for them to try to involve telepaths in rooting | 
						
						
							|  |        out undesirables. Or, perhaps more likely, they're simply another | 
						
						
							|  |        of Psi Corps' machinations. | 
						
						
							|  |      * The Shadows aren't the only ones inhabiting places of power. Londo | 
						
						
							|  |        observed that the technomages (cf. [31]"The Geometry of Shadows") | 
						
						
							|  |        were usually cloistered in their places of power. And now the | 
						
						
							|  |        technomages are headed for the Rim, or beyond it, because of a | 
						
						
							|  |        great darkness approaching; what do they hope to achieve? | 
						
						
							|  |      * Unless the holding cell cameras are very advanced, the Shadows' | 
						
						
							|  |        invisibility is not all that good. Presumably there are aliens on | 
						
						
							|  |        the station who can see well into the infrared or ultraviolet; the | 
						
						
							|  |        Shadows would be easily detected by such beings in any public | 
						
						
							|  |        area. Perhaps that's how Kosh knew who Morden was in [32]"Signs | 
						
						
							|  |        and Portents." On the other hand, it may simply be that some | 
						
						
							|  |        aliens _have_ seen the Shadows with Morden, but didn't think them | 
						
						
							|  |        remarkable enough to be worth mentioning; they're probably far | 
						
						
							|  |        from the weirdest-looking creatures walking around the station. | 
						
						
							|  |      * Talia was able to detect the Shadows without even trying. That | 
						
						
							|  |        suggests that telepaths will be a valuable weapon against the | 
						
						
							|  |        Shadows -- which leads to the suspicion that the Shadows are | 
						
						
							|  |        working to co-opt Psi-Corps behind the scenes so human telepaths | 
						
						
							|  |        will be less likely to work against them. It's not clear whether | 
						
						
							|  |        her ability to sense the Shadows was typical for a P5 telepath, or | 
						
						
							|  |        a result of her enhanced abilities (cf. [33]"Mind War.") | 
						
						
							|  |      * It's also worth noting that Talia saw Morden darken the same way | 
						
						
							|  |        Delenn did in [34]"Signs and Portents" -- does this mean Delenn | 
						
						
							|  |        has some telepathic ability? | 
						
						
							|  |      * In [35]"Infection," Franklin says the Ikarans built their war | 
						
						
							|  |        machines to fend off invasions, the last of which was 1000 years | 
						
						
							|  |        ago. Could they have been participants in the last conflict with | 
						
						
							|  |        the Shadows? Will the technology obtained by Earth in that episode | 
						
						
							|  |        be used in the upcoming war? | 
						
						
							|  |      * Morden's triangular hand placement while he was in his cell is | 
						
						
							|  |        reminiscent of Lennier's meditation posture. Perhaps there's no | 
						
						
							|  |        connection, or perhaps there is. | 
						
						
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							|  | Notes | 
						
						
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							|  |      * The name "Ministry of Peace" and its abbreviation Minipax are from | 
						
						
							|  |        George Orwell's "1984." | 
						
						
							|  |      * The convention mentioned by Talia is probably not the one | 
						
						
							|  |        described in the novel [36]"Voices" because the novel takes place | 
						
						
							|  |        before [37]"The Coming of Shadows." | 
						
						
							|  |      * Delenn's narrative bears some resemblance to Gandalf's description | 
						
						
							|  |        of the coming of Sauron near the beginning of the first book of | 
						
						
							|  |        "The Lord of the Rings." In particular, this passage: | 
						
						
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							|  |      "The rumours that you have heard are true: he has indeed arisen | 
						
						
							|  |      again and left his hold in Mirkwood and returned to his ancient | 
						
						
							|  |      fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor. That name even you hobbits | 
						
						
							|  |      have heard of, like a shadow on the borders of old stories. Always | 
						
						
							|  |      after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and | 
						
						
							|  |      grows again." | 
						
						
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							|  | jms speaks | 
						
						
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							|  |      * "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" is an episode that is as emotionally | 
						
						
							|  |        raw as [38]"Chrysalis" with some major revelations that force | 
						
						
							|  |        Sheridan to make the most important decision of his life. | 
						
						
							|  |      * Correct; Delenn and Kosh have said nothing about G'Kar's claims | 
						
						
							|  |        because they're trying to keep a low profile. | 
						
						
							|  |      * The shadows know that Kosh knows, because the Vorlons *always* | 
						
						
							|  |        know; they also know (or think) that they're in a superior | 
						
						
							|  |        position because if Kosh should tell the others, either a) most | 
						
						
							|  |        wouldn't believe him, or b) the shadows would move aggressively | 
						
						
							|  |        now, costing untold lives. They're more worried about an alliance | 
						
						
							|  |        between lots of races than the Vorlons alone. | 
						
						
							|  |      * I would not create a race as potentially unstoppable as the | 
						
						
							|  |        shadows without making sure they had one -- but only one -- | 
						
						
							|  |        Achilles' heel. Though it may take our characters a long time to | 
						
						
							|  |        figure out what that is...almost *too* long.... | 
						
						
							|  |      * No, "all but one" refers to the race, not an individual. The First | 
						
						
							|  |        Ones are various species/races. One of these species/races is | 
						
						
							|  |        still around at this time. The Vorlons. Of which Kosh is one. | 
						
						
							|  |      * BTW, the one big reason that Sakai [Catherine, Sinclair's old | 
						
						
							|  |        flame in the first season] could not have filled Anna Sheridan's | 
						
						
							|  |        role in awakening the shadows...and this is the one thing that | 
						
						
							|  |        everyone who advocates this theory tends to forget...is that they | 
						
						
							|  |        were *already up and awake* in the first season, as we saw in | 
						
						
							|  |        "Signs and Portents." They were up, around, and had had some time | 
						
						
							|  |        to build stuff up, reclaim some of their ships, and in other ways | 
						
						
							|  |        get organized and develop their contacts. | 
						
						
							|  |        Also, Morden was already working for them. | 
						
						
							|  |      * _Why did Delenn demand to see Kosh?_ | 
						
						
							|  |        She wanted to see Kosh to assure herself that the Vorlons, who | 
						
						
							|  |        she'd never met before, were who she believed them to be, and that | 
						
						
							|  |        this was a true Vorlon and not a pretender. He had to be in place | 
						
						
							|  |        as part of Valen's prophecy. | 
						
						
							|  |      * The rim, and the "veil" beyond which the bulk of the First Ones | 
						
						
							|  |        passed, is the Galactic rim. As for why the shadows are doing what | 
						
						
							|  |        they're doing...that's kind of the key to the whole thing, which | 
						
						
							|  |        we haven't turned yet. | 
						
						
							|  |      * Some of the first ones just got bored after millions of years, and | 
						
						
							|  |        went off in general. The rest, for the most part, went beyond the | 
						
						
							|  |        Rim for the same reason you cut down old trees to make room for | 
						
						
							|  |        new ones. | 
						
						
							|  |      * _Are the First Ones as old as the universe itself?_ | 
						
						
							|  |        Well, to some degree you're limited by the amount of time it takes | 
						
						
							|  |        to evolve life per se, then into intelligent life, then into | 
						
						
							|  |        spacefaring life. You need time after the Big Bang for planets to | 
						
						
							|  |        be formed, cool, develop environments capable of supporting | 
						
						
							|  |        life...then the long haul begins. | 
						
						
							|  |        So yes, on the one hand, you've got races that are millions of | 
						
						
							|  |        years older than humans, who were prowling around while we were | 
						
						
							|  |        still furred, fanged, and slamming bones together. But they're not | 
						
						
							|  |        as old as the universe, because they can't be. | 
						
						
							|  |      * Exploration and archeological/scientific vessels like this usually | 
						
						
							|  |        piggy-back on Explorer or other jump-capable ships, with an | 
						
						
							|  |        arrangement that they'll be there for X-number of days or weeks, | 
						
						
							|  |        then another ship will come that way and again piggy-back them | 
						
						
							|  |        out. | 
						
						
							|  |      * Thanks. I like Vir a lot. Many folks were willing to write him off | 
						
						
							|  |        in the beginning, not understanding that there was more beneath | 
						
						
							|  |        the surface (a problem Vir has also had in his "life"). But you | 
						
						
							|  |        gotta be careful; characters have a way of surprising you. And I | 
						
						
							|  |        like that, and intended that, Vir be the first one to stand up to | 
						
						
							|  |        Morden. | 
						
						
							|  |      * Again, look at the Kosh/Morden scene in [39]"Signs." A light is | 
						
						
							|  |        suddenly blown out off to one side. Morden didn't move. So who did | 
						
						
							|  |        it...but his constant companions? | 
						
						
							|  |      * _Kosh's command to Morden in "Signs"_ | 
						
						
							|  |        His comment would have been addressed to the shadows and their | 
						
						
							|  |        current emissary. | 
						
						
							|  |      * _How does Morden communicate with the Shadows so easily?_ | 
						
						
							|  |        Well, one can always assume that Morden received some help, in one | 
						
						
							|  |        form or another, in adjusting to the shadows.... | 
						
						
							|  |      * The difference is just in accent. ZA HA DOOM is the way I | 
						
						
							|  |        pronounce it, but ZA cHA DOOM is also acceptable (from someone | 
						
						
							|  |        who's learned to more or less accept the 47 different ways in | 
						
						
							|  |        which one may pronounce straczynski). | 
						
						
							|  |      * And, as you note, one of things that I like to play with is the | 
						
						
							|  |        layering of ambiguity. Let's say, just for the sake of argument, | 
						
						
							|  |        that we set up two sides: Shadowmen vs. Vorlons, which looks like | 
						
						
							|  |        evil vs. good. Fundamentally, I would find that boring. What you | 
						
						
							|  |        would then have to do is get into WHY they're doing what they do, | 
						
						
							|  |        and HOW they're doing what they do. | 
						
						
							|  |        There is, for instance, the "good" that says, "We know what's best | 
						
						
							|  |        for you, we'll protect you, nurture you, but you'll do it our way, | 
						
						
							|  |        and we'll keep you away from ideas and beliefs you shouldn't be | 
						
						
							|  |        exposed to." Okay, maybe that fits one definition of good...but is | 
						
						
							|  |        it? | 
						
						
							|  |        On the flip side, for instance, there's the "bad" that says "There | 
						
						
							|  |        must be conflict and death, because it's only through conflict and | 
						
						
							|  |        death that we grow stronger, that we can eventually create an | 
						
						
							|  |        ordered universe. The gene pool must be kept strong. To do that, | 
						
						
							|  |        there must be war and strife and death." Okay, maybe that fits the | 
						
						
							|  |        definition of evil, but is it? | 
						
						
							|  |        The key, again and always, is that nothing is what it seems on | 
						
						
							|  |        Babylon 5. And even if it looks like it IS what it is, you have to | 
						
						
							|  |        look at WHY it is what it is...and maybe at that point it isn't. | 
						
						
							|  |        One of the things about this show is that you see as much as | 
						
						
							|  |        you're willing to see. You can gloss over it, say, "Okay, these | 
						
						
							|  |        are the good guys, these are the bad guys." But the closer you | 
						
						
							|  |        look, the more you see the shades. I imagine when the Shadowmen | 
						
						
							|  |        are more fully revealed, some folks'll think we're going for a | 
						
						
							|  |        basic good/evil conflict...but believe me, there's a hell of a lot | 
						
						
							|  |        more involved in it than that. | 
						
						
							|  |      * _(From a 1993 GEnie message -- presumably we can replace | 
						
						
							|  |        "Sinclair" with "Sheridan" now.)_ | 
						
						
							|  |        I've just sat here for five minutes trying to decide how to phrase | 
						
						
							|  |        this and not give something vital away...and it's damn near | 
						
						
							|  |        impossible. | 
						
						
							|  |        (another five minutes passes) | 
						
						
							|  |        Okay, look...do this. Get a piece of paper. Write down the | 
						
						
							|  |        following: "Sinclair sees the hand, but Sinclair does not see the | 
						
						
							|  |        hand. And five other people standing in the room would not see the | 
						
						
							|  |        hand that Sinclair sees, or see the hand that they see." | 
						
						
							|  |        I know it looks like gibberish. But trust me on this. Put the | 
						
						
							|  |        piece of paper in your wallet (next to the condom) and hold onto | 
						
						
							|  |        it for about two years. Assuming we're still around that long, at | 
						
						
							|  |        some point that message will make absolute and perfect sense. | 
						
						
							|  |      * Kosh is always and forever *exactly* what he appears to be, no | 
						
						
							|  |        less and no more. At the same time, Kosh is absolutely *nothing* | 
						
						
							|  |        like what he appears to be. | 
						
						
							|  |        These are not contradictory statements. | 
						
						
							|  |        And this is about the straightest answer I've given yet on the | 
						
						
							|  |        subject, believe it or not. | 
						
						
							|  |      * I think it would be just about impossible to put Kosh on the | 
						
						
							|  |        outside of a mug. | 
						
						
							|  |      * Exactly. You will note that Macabee says, of the Ministry, "...or | 
						
						
							|  |        Minipax, as we like to call it around the office." It's an | 
						
						
							|  |        in-house joke, not the real name of the thing. | 
						
						
							|  |      * Re: the two speeches by G'Kar and Delenn...yes, they were | 
						
						
							|  |        constructed specifically to echo one another, because the walkers | 
						
						
							|  |        at Sigma 957 are one of the older races that flit through but | 
						
						
							|  |        don't really pay any attention to us anymore. | 
						
						
							|  |      * The Vorlons are one of the remaining ancient races; Kosh is one of | 
						
						
							|  |        the Vorlons, not the last of them. | 
						
						
							|  |      * Kosh is a Vorlon. The Vorlons fought the Shadows. There are many | 
						
						
							|  |        Vorlons, back home. (The Writer committed an error in that he used | 
						
						
							|  |        too many pronouns in that segment of dialogue.) | 
						
						
							|  |      * _Was Kosh's line about Sheridan going to Z'ha'dum a warning or a | 
						
						
							|  |        threat?_ | 
						
						
							|  |        Yes. | 
						
						
							|  |      * How do you get a shot of Morden's head on a pike past the censors? | 
						
						
							|  |        Easy. | 
						
						
							|  |        You frame the shot so the head is draped...in shadows. | 
						
						
							|  |        If I were to be planning such a thing, of course.... | 
						
						
							|  |      * MPs (Military Police) also wear armbands. So do the Red Cross and | 
						
						
							|  |        some United Nations forces. | 
						
						
							|  |      * _How many times did you shoot the scene with Talia slapping | 
						
						
							|  |        Sheridan?_ | 
						
						
							|  |        Only twice. Mainly 'cause she tended to whack him real hard. [...] | 
						
						
							|  |        The take you see is the first one printed. | 
						
						
							|  |      * He said stop because Zack had found the right wavelength (at least | 
						
						
							|  |        briefly) and didn't want him to go further and lose it again. | 
						
						
							|  |      * _Will Vir, even metaphorically, get to wave at Morden?_ | 
						
						
							|  |        That would be telling. | 
						
						
							|  |      * _Was the Great Machine inside Epsilon 3 built by a member race of | 
						
						
							|  |        the First Ones?_ | 
						
						
							|  |        Could be. | 
						
						
							|  |      * No, Varn was not one of the First Ones. | 
						
						
							|  |         | 
						
						
							|  |   Bruce Boxleitner speaks | 
						
						
							|  |    | 
						
						
							|  |      * _Bruce: what has the most challenging episode been for you so far, | 
						
						
							|  |        and why?_ | 
						
						
							|  |        The episode we just finished filming today. It's called In the | 
						
						
							|  |        Shadow of Za'Ha'Dum and my character deals with some very personal | 
						
						
							|  |        issues. | 
						
						
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