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From: Erez Zadok <ezk@>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
To: <b5jms@>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 9:44 AM
Subject: ATTN: JMS - Re: 200 page document
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From: Bill McClure <mster2@>
Date: 1 Dec 1999 07:03:50 -0700
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Anyone looking at the S1 bible
right now sees stuff that was laid out for the later seasons,
and it was pretty much all done...
right down to telling writers
not to get Lyta into a relationship
because she would eventually become starstruck by Byron,
and I didn't want anything else to get in the way of that.
I thought Byron was originally intended for Ivanova, up until Claudia
decided to leave the show...???
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From: jmsatb5@ (Jms at B5)
Date: 1 Dec 1999 23:15:15 -0700
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Anyone looking at the S1 bible
right now sees stuff that was laid out for the later seasons,
and it was pretty much all done...
right down to telling writers
not to get Lyta into a relationship
because she would eventually become starstruck by Byron,
and I didn't want anything else to get in the way of that.
I thought Byron was originally intended for Ivanova, up until Claudia
decided to leave the show...???
Correct. Note the use of the word *starstruck*, not *involved with*. The
theory was that Byron would have gotten involved with Ivanova, who --
feeling
she'd messed up by being too closed off to a somewhat similar person
decides to
take a chance with someone, only to have it blow up in her face -- while
Lyta
suffered from unrequited love (a constant B5 theme), which would no less
fuel
her desire to avenge him.
jms
(jmsatb5@)
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Philip Ayres
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