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From: Gordan Bobic <gordan@>
To:
ifis-chat@
Subject: RE: B5...
Date: 19 December 1997 17:58
On Friday, December 19, 1997 2:45 PM, Daniel Celano
[SMTP:celano@] wrote:
SPOILER WARNING.....
Yes I did spot the Canticle for Leibowitz rip off, the ST rip off,
the ending for obvious to me. When Garbardi ask about the master
plan
is was obvious he was upto something - even before it was a obvious
plot line.
So what happen to all the prophocies we been seeing - will Londo
get kill by G'Kar now they are good buddies.
No, no, no, no, no! They aren't "good buddies"! There was always too
much blood shed between their two races, so they will most certainly
NEVER really trust each other, which is not really surprising... Of
course, they are on reasonably good terms now, and their interests
are the same. So, they have less cause for conflict than ever, which
reflects in their relationship.
I agree. There seemed a brief period where there was a chance for them to
be true, trusting friends. I think that was the episode where the Narn
colony world was taken out by the Shadows... after that it was never going
to be quite the same.
Of course, they seem to have this friends-enemies relationship going
on since the beginning of the series...
Are the neck-biting
slugs still around.
How could Sheridan meet himself in a prision
now he is the president of the universe. Will Londo be Emperor and
with Alpha Centeuri still be destroyed...
There is something you are missing here. Those were the prophecies of
what would have happened if they had lost the war! The destruction of
the Centauri Prime was supposedly done by the Shadows! (Or at least
that was my understanding of the truth). In fact, all the prophecies
were about that. I believe that the idea was that the future and
faith don't exist. They are merely the consequence of everything that
has happened before. So, that future no longer exists because what
they have done has changed it!
Hhhmmm... I think you might be in for a shock next season. True these were
prophecies but then they all seem to be coming true so far... If you look
at what happened in the future, nothing has so far contradicted it. For a
start, why *shouldn't* Sheridan end up in a Centauri prison just because
he's president? If you remeber, Delenn is also there in the future and
tells Sheridan that whilst they win the war at terrible cost, the build
something that endures for 1000 years (the Alliance?). We also already know
that Londo is about to be declared Emperor. As for the destruction of
Centauri Prime, this was never supposedly carried out by the Shadows
themselves but by their friends. As Mr Morden said when the island was
detonated "you'll regret that - we have friends. Centauri Prime is
damned!!!"... or something along those lines. Well those friends seem to be
settling into Centauri life just fine. I suspect that Londo will acquire a
Keeper as seen and then things will get interesting.
Of course, that is just my perception/interpretation of it all...
Indeed. It all comes down to interpretation.
P.S. As myself and Dominic noted, the distruction of the Earth culture in
2762 can be directly attributed to Bill Gates. The computer system used to
simulate the fab four obviously used a decendant of ActiveX. No decent
operating system would allow a child process such free reign over system
resources that it could actually get inside the OS and reprogram it. They
should have used Java.
