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<blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 910429" data-attributes="member: 8439">At the risk of igniting Ye Olde B5 Flame War, there were unavoidable changes made to the story due to actor issues, and the rush to tie things up in 4th season if neccassary. Now the church of joe can huff and puff as it wishes, but that will not make it so that the sinclair/sheridan switch, the dead space at the begining of season 5 or ivonnava's replacement with the Worst Character Ever <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> were all part of the orriginal plan.Also, I'm not so sure that the Big Plan method of series TV is so hot all the time. While we may mock a series that is the slave of market research, I find it just as annoying when a writer says &quot;this is the sympathetic character, damn it&quot; and keeps trying to shove him or her down our throats rather than adapting to how the audeince reacts to them.As a ST for instance, I have heard it said that the ferengi were orriginally planned as the Big Bad Guys of next gen. Yeah, that comic relief was planned to be the new klingons. But when the reactions to them were so non serious, the ST people wisely realized that a mistake had been made, and rather than desperately sticking to their plan (Lets have an episode where a lot of characters say they're afraid of the ferengi so the audience will know how to feel about them!) They went back to the drawing board and the series had an actually scarey main enemy. Now we can say JMS is sowonderful that he'd never make a mistake like that to begin with, but I think that the willingness to adapt characters and even 'arcs' makes a better story overall, as long as you avoid either extreme of rigidity or multiple personality characters.Kahuna Burger</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kahuna Burger, post: 910429, member: 8439"] At the risk of igniting Ye Olde B5 Flame War, there were unavoidable changes made to the story due to actor issues, and the rush to tie things up in 4th season if neccassary. Now the church of joe can huff and puff as it wishes, but that will not make it so that the sinclair/sheridan switch, the dead space at the begining of season 5 or ivonnava's replacement with the Worst Character Ever ;) were all part of the orriginal plan. Also, I'm not so sure that the Big Plan method of series TV is so hot all the time. While we may mock a series that is the slave of market research, I find it just as annoying when a writer says "this is the sympathetic character, damn it" and keeps trying to shove him or her down our throats rather than adapting to how the audeince reacts to them. As a ST for instance, I have heard it said that the ferengi were orriginally planned as the Big Bad Guys of next gen. Yeah, that comic relief was planned to be the new klingons. But when the reactions to them were so non serious, the ST people wisely realized that a mistake had been made, and rather than desperately sticking to their plan (Lets have an episode where a lot of characters [i]say[/i] they're afraid of the ferengi so the audience will know how to feel about them!) They went back to the drawing board and the series had an actually scarey main enemy. Now we can say JMS is sowonderful that he'd never make a mistake like that to begin with, but I think that the willingness to adapt characters and even 'arcs' makes a better story overall, as long as you avoid either extreme of rigidity or multiple personality characters. Kahuna Burger [/QUOTE]

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