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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 2235076" data-attributes="member: 4779">Just finished Season 1 and am 3 eps into Season 2.  I really liked the first season.  Sinclair was really a great character.  I was waiting to see how he would be written out (I didn't see him on the cover of the Season 2 boxed set plus I knew Boxleitner was on the show eventually) and it looks like they did a in-between season dump for him.  From a web-search, I guess that many audiences didn't take too kindly to Michael O'Hare's acting so they replaced him?  I thought he played a career military man living on the frontier great.  Sheridan is a cool character and the actor certainly has the charisma to make me forget about Sinclair (almost) but it was a little jarring to have the Commander's entire storyline basically chucked to the wind.  I know he pops up again a little later on (checked his imdb profile, which I really shouldn't have because then I saw the entry for Boxleitner which lead to a spoiler) but still.  After a few more DVDs I'm sure I won't miss him as much.I tried watching one of the commentaries by JMS but the damn thing was FULL OF SPOILERS.  Gah, they were peppered in there pretty hard-core so I had to shut it off after 10 minutes.  I should have known better as I am not at all new to TV on DVD.</blockquote>