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from: Andrew Swallow
date: 2008-06-13 01:10:12
subject: Re: So...why Babylon 5?

Methuselah Jones wrote:
> Of course, I know the answer in story terms: #'s 1-3 were sabotaged and 4 
> disappeared. But has Joe ever said why he personally settled on 5? Why not 
> Babylon 3, with one sabotaged and one disappearing? I've always thought it 
> a bit of a stretch that there would be *that* much support for the project, 
> that it could go through five iterations, with a world still struggling 
> with the economic impact of a devastating war.
> 
> So...why Babylon 5?
> 
Possibly a pun on the name of the space station that went missing B4.

Andrew Swallow
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