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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
You're saying you're more a fan of the Architect, rather than the Gardener?  |
I am a fan of someone who can come in and tell the Gardner that the plants are going to grow roots that will destroy the building and that is problematic.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Even with Babylon 5, though, the ending was rushed because the studio threatened to axe the final year of the series, and then when it wasn't axed, the extra year was rather a mix-mash of ideas.
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The studio didn't threaten to axe the show, it did. TNT picked up the Fifth season after they had shot the series finale. So the Shadow War ending was accelerated and some of the stuff on Centauri Prime was moved.
Losing Claudia Christian really hurt. I could have done without the telepath story or the addition of Capt Lochley because the former was awfully done and the later was mediocre. It was too late to add a new character with a screwy background to the station. The original telepath plot line was suppose to include Ivanova and that would have been interesting although Byron would still have been annoying. Not to mention, Ivanova as the Captain would have been fun. She would have had Bester's balls for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
The point is, JMS had trap doors built in to cover contingencies and he executed them. They might not have been perfect but they worked. GRRM does not have an outline to share with someone which probably means he has a loose idea about where he is going but nothing definitive. It allows him to play how he wants and do what ever he wants. He is not even accountable to himself.
And people buy his books and say they are great. The TV series is doing wonderfully so there is no one to counter his impression that he is awesome and so what was suppose to be a trilogy has greatly expanded and he cannot/does not write enough to be able to finish the silly thing. He is accountable to no one because he makes the Publisher and HBO a ton of money.
Frustrating and why I stopped reading the books and won't watch the series. One persons opinion.