Rewatch: "Babylon Squared"

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Zatras. Zathras. Zathras. Zatras. Zathras. Zathras. A figure in a blue space suit?
Bonus reading:

Analysis on Lurker's Guide
Discussion at B5_revisited

Comments

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I love this episode and especially in conjunction with its twin WWE-- which we'll get to soon enough. Both written at the same time with ins and outs and planned vagueness and plot points that could flip from one scenario to another to cover all exigencies. Really well done.

Here are two things from the scriptbooks:

"The first scene in which we see Zathras goes to great lengths to avoid being specific in the timeline because of the need...to layer in alternate possibilities in the event of unforeseen changes...
...in one iteration of the five-year arc, depending on what actors we did or didn't have, what changes might or might not have afflicted the series...our characters were indeed taking the station forward in time..meaning that Valen would have come back from a point of origin about twenty years later in our storyline rather than three years down the line. If you read the script with the notion that they were going forward not backward in time, the scenes take on a very different meaning."

Also a deleted scene I rather liked:

Delenn in her ship heading back to the station.

Computer: Destination?
Delenn (thoughtfully): Home. The only home I have, it would seem.
Computer: Specify. Destination?
Delenn: Babylon 5