Babylon 5 to be Rebooted on the CW

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LiamA said:
I was watching the first season tonight and I would like to see this redone just to see how it would have been if Sinclair was in the entire show instead of being written out and replaced.
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Well, assuming that was the only thing that remained unchanged...

Catherine Sakai likely would've filled the role that Anna Sheridan did. Beyond that, I don't know, but I think JMS has released the rough original plan through various books. Sinclair still would've become Valen, though.
 
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LiamA said:
I was watching the first season tonight and I would like to see this redone just to see how it would have been if Sinclair was in the entire show instead of being written out and replaced.
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Re-watching the series now on Tubi. I’ve wondered about this quite a bit—how different of a show this would have been.

Sinclair’s path seemed tied to taking B4 into the past. If O’Hare hadn’t have left the show, would Sinclair have been the key POV character throughout the rest of the series? Would Sinclair have been the one to travel to Za’ha’dum? Would his relationship with Delenn become romantic?

The exchange between Sinclair and Sheridan remains one of my favorites of the whole series. “Lucy and Ethel?”
 
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Echowarrior said:
Well, assuming that was the only thing that remained unchanged...

Catherine Sakai likely would've filled the role that Anna Sheridan did. Beyond that, I don't know, but I think JMS has released the rough original plan through various books. Sinclair still would've become Valen, though.
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I mean, how does that happen though without him being written out? That is a key part of the story.
 
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The Predaking said:
I mean, how does that happen though without him being written out? That is a key part of the story.
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Actors leaving a show doesn't have to mean they quit or got fired. Sometimes actors will deliberately take a shorter contract which will leave them free to pursue other acting jobs.

(Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda did something similar; Tyr and Rev were always going to leave the show in season three [because Robert Hewitt Wolfe had planned for the crew to fall apart and then come back together for the big universe-saving finale], but the circumstances of their departures changed due to behind-the-scenes BS [Brent Stait developed allergies and RHW was fired and replaced with a producer who wanted to retool the show].)
 
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The Predaking said:
I mean, how does that happen though without him being written out? That is a key part of the story.
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JMS specifically wrote the entire story, created with backdoors (pre-planned story explainations) in case actors had to leave for whatever reasons, so that the story wouldn't be too heavily interupted by sudden departures. So the story likely wouldn't have changed much with him there
 
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Well,


How could SInclair leave to become Valen in the past with Bablyon 4 without leaving the show? My only thoughts were that it would have to happen at the end of the series this time.
 
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The Predaking said:
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How could SInclair leave to become Valen in the past with Bablyon 4 without leaving the show? My only thoughts were that it would have to happen at the end of the series this time.
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Check the above links.

Sinclair wasn't meant to become Valen in the original plan - B5 was going to be blown up at the end of Season 5, and Babylon 4 would have been pulled into the future, not sent into the past.

He did a lot more rewriting than just actor escape hatches. It's interesting to see what did remain constant, and ultimately for all the issues with the Season 5 we got, and other lost plotlines like the whole Lyta/Talia plotline(there WAS a reason Kosh copied Talia's mind originally) I think the show was stronger for JMS being forced to tweak it as he did.

Also from reading through the comments, those summaries are derived from the script books JMS put out that were mentioned earlier - the poster apparently went through all the books, and noted down each time JMS mentioned something was changed, then compiled them by season into the lists I linked.
 
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Ungnome said:
Wouldn't mind an Earth Force space sim. The Starfury is my favorite starfighter of any franchise.
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I don't know if it's still out there, but there was a B5 starfury space sim called "We Found Her" released years ago.

*edit* it's actually "I've Found Her" and it looks like there may still be downloads out there from a quick search
 
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Back when I was in college, I was working with another guy over the internet importing Babylon 5 ship models into the WIng Commander: Prophecy engine and creating new weapons to use with them. Never turned into a full-on mod or anything, but it was a lot of fun to dink around in.
 
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There were mods out there for X-Wing Alliance too, with some clever hacks to mimic their specs (the Shadow fighter had like ten fire-linked lasers on one hardpoint to mimic how powerful their guns were supposed to be).
 
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