Re: Babylon 5: The Lost Tales
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| She thinks he is too upset about the events between season 4 and 5. She said he does not forget such things. |
Well, that may be her perception, but as we all know Claudia's perceptions do not always map 100% with reality. (Hence her whole confusion about the actors taking a "cut" in royalties with the move to TNT - which would not have been allowed under SAG rules - and other things connected with her departure.)
As I noted, since the events of S4/S5 JMS has gone out of his way to say nice things about Claudia on the commentary tracks (and never got into the controversy about her departure at all.) He's also written two short stories featuring Susan Ivanova, which would seem to indicate he still has stories to tell about the character. As for "never forgetting"...
Robert Foxworth made two appearances as General Hague, the leader of a secret group of military officers trying to resist the totalitarian bent of the Clark regime. It was Hague who notified Ivanova of Sheridan's appointment to command Babylon 5 at the start of season 2, and who briefed Sheridan on the full extent of the conspiracies and counter-conspiracies back on Earth later in the same season. The culmination of Hague's arc was supposed to be season 3's "Severed Dreams", the episode where Babylon 5 finally declares independence and fights the opening battle of the Earth Civil War. Instead Foxworth bailed at the last minute, going to work on a two-part Deep Space Nine episode that parallelled the B5 arc to some degree and in he played essentially the same character. (Except for more money.)
His agent claimed that he was "accidentally" double-booked, but nobody who knows anything about how television works actually believes that. JMS reacted by killing Gen. Hague off-screen and giving all his lines to a new character, his second-in-command, Major Ryan. ("Never honk-off the writer.")
But seven years later, in 2003, JMS was excutive producing a series called Jeremiah for Showtime and he didn't hesitate to cast Foxworth in a two-part episode that he wrote himself. The actor was right for the story, so he got the part, and personal feelings be damned. I would expect him to take the same position if he had a chance to tell a really good Ivanova story or include the character in a larger project like a theatrical film - regardless of what Claudia assumes about how he sees things.
Regards,
Joe
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Now, how about some of Leeta, the hot redheaded Dabo Girl on DS9? 
