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<!-- TITLE War Without End, Part Two -->
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<h2><a name="OV">Overview</a></h2>
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<blockquote><cite>
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Ambassador Sinclair returns to pull Babylon 4 through time
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(<a href="020.html">"Babylon Squared."</a>) Part 2 of 2.
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</cite>
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<a href="/lurk/universe/actors.html#ohare">Michael O'Hare</a> as Ambassador Sinclair.
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<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Choate,+Tim">Tim Choate</a> as Zathras.
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<a href="http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Broadhurst,+Kent">Kent Broadhurst</a> as Major Krantz.
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</blockquote>
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<pre>Production number: 317
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Original air week: May 20, 1996
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Written by J. Michael Straczynski
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Directed by Mike Vejar
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</pre>
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<p>
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<hr size=3>
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<em>Note: Please don't send me any spoiler information for this episode while
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this note is present -- I know there's detailed information out there and I'd
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rather watch it cold. Thanks.</em>
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For spoilers, try the
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<a href="http://pages.prodigy.com/wildfoto/spoilers.html">B5 Spoilers Page.</a>
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<h2><a name="BP">Backplot</a></h2>
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<h2><a name="UQ">Unanswered Questions</a></h2>
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<h2><a name="AN">Analysis</a></h2>
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<h2><a name="NO">Notes</a></h2>
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<h2><a name="JS">jms speaks</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li> YAAAAAAGGGGHHHHH.....
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<p>
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Well, I *finally* finished writing the two-parter, "War Without End,"
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which is probably the toughest thing I've written for the series to
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date. Given everything that has to fit in here, and the fact that
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it's the other half of the B4 storyline (this ain't a spoiler,
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that'll be common knowledge in ads and the like), it became a pretty
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difficult job, moreso than when I'd originally thunk it up. It's
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kinda like cramming 20 pounds of potatoes in a 10 pound bag...but I
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*think* I got it all in, even though the initial drafts came out at
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about 7 pages too long. As I commented to one person, "I'm
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definitely dancing on the edge of my ability here." But I'm pretty
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sure I pulled it all off...and I think folks are going to be quite
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pleased.
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<p>
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But *man* that was tough....
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<p>
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Now, having written 16 and 17, only 5 scripts remain to be written
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for this season. And there's still an awful lot to fit in before the
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big season ender, which I suspect will raise quite a few eyebrows.
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<p>
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<li> In my last general posting to rastb5, I mentioned that from time to
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time, I'd try to post the occasional "letter to home" just to keep folks
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up to date on matters Babylonian. Now that I can catch a breather, I
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figured I'd take this opportunity to do so (though since it's 3:15 a.m.,
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this'll likely be short).
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<p>
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"catching a breather" refers to the script situation. I've just
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finished writing 316 and 317, the two parter, "War Without End,"
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which was a very difficult task, given the amount of story and
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logistics that had to be put into it. While writing "Babylon
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Squared," to which this is the flip-side, I figured, "Oh, sure, yeah,
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I can get this all in on the other side, no problem," but when it
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came time to do it, it got awful tight, but finally I fit it *all*
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in. (Well, all except one teeny, tiny sentence, about where Zathras
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was first seen, and how, 'cause to do what I'd first had in mind
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would've taken another 3 pages, and I didn't have that, so that one
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element I'll have to just deal with later somehow. But that's it.)
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Hopefully, one need never have seen B2 in order to watch and follow
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WWE. (Which was one of the hard parts, since B2 may or may not be
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aired prior to this, all the background information *had* to be in
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the episodes, so that's a lot of background to include.)
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<p>
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This now leaves 5 episodes to be written for this season. At this
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point, Lyta should factor strongly in one or two of these, there will be
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some direct confrontations between our side and the shadows, then a
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really nasty final episode for year three.
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</ul>
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