JMS on CompuServe (Nov 06, 1998) *POSSIBLE SPOILERS* (2/2)

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 [ Summary of subjects in this section: ]
    Sb: #51465-#<WoF>Sheridan's memory
    Sb: #50806-#Londo's Tragic Fate

 [ Summary: "What the heck is wrong with Sheridan?" ]

 #: 51502 S5/Seas. 5 SPOILERS
    06-Nov-98  17:06:05
Sb: #51465-#<WoF>Sheridan's memory
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

      Y'know, this discussion kinda baffles me to some extent.

      For starters, Sheridan was only in the future briefly; he was being 
beaten and was confused and not sure how much of it was real; he doesn't know 
if his going to Z'ha'dum *changed* any of that future...the events he did see 
were 20 years down the road, and there's no way for him to know (as we know, 
the audience) what connects to what...he sees only destruction, and that could 
have happened two weeks before (there's no rule that says a capital city can 
be bombed only once)...no way to know if the keeper may have been implanted 
days or months before.  To try and impose a quick understanding of events 20 
years down the road on things happening right now, without knowing the 
context, would be madness...you don't need a keeper to start a war, or half 
our own leaders here would have had keepers on them.

      As for Delenn...yes, he heard her talk about their son, but at the same 
time, again, that's 20 years down the road.  Their son could be any age, so 
the news that she's pregnant will still be a shock whenever it comes; you may 
know that you're planning to have kids, that the doctor says its possible, but 
when you actually hear the news, it's a stunner every time.

      His question is a natural one...he doesn't know if the kid in the future 
had to be taken out of utero to be sustained until it came full term, doesn't 
know if extreme measures had to be taken...his question is a sensible and 
justifiable one.

      People are assuming that what *they* know as the audience, Sheridan 
knows, which he does not...and assuming that he knows everything that is to 
come, or what it means, or how it happens, or in what context, which he does 
not.

      His memory is not faulty.

                                                                    jms

 [ Summary: "I would think the threat of setting off the nukes would not
   have been enough [to make Londo give in to the Drakh], after all, the 
   capitol was already getting fragged anyway." ]

 #: 51085 S16/S5 Unaired SPOILERS
    02-Nov-98  15:43:12
Sb: #50806-#Londo's Tragic Fate
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

      Yes, the capital was getting beat up, but there's a difference between 
thousands of dead and billions dead...Londo sacrified himself to save the 
lives of billions.

                                                                    jms


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