On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:36:33 -0800 (PST), Duggy
 wrote:

>We've discussed before that Season 4 was supposed to end with Face of
>the Enemy (or an approximation thereof) and Intersections in Real Time
>as the season 5 opener.
>It certainly sounds interesting and stronger than what we have.  FotE
>would make a great end of season cliffhanger... and I love IiRT,
>however...
>I was reading a UK SF magazine at the time and they had ratings for
>then recent episodes of Babylon 5, a graph with "fans", "casual
>viewers" and an average.  IiRT was the highest rated for fans and the
>lowest for casual viewers.
>So, I'm wondering, would IiRT work as a season opener.  Sure the fans
>would love it, but season openers are usually where casual fans check
>out a show and potential new fans come on board...
>I guess I'm wondering if people think IiRT would have actually been a
>good season opener?
>
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Personally, I find IiRT so disturbing and uncomfortable that I
routinely skip it when viewing through the season, so as a first
episode, I think it would have been a disaster.  You would have had to
have a filler episode, where everyone reacted to the capture,
Garibaldi bemoaned his fate, etc. before going into what was happening
to the captain...

Charlie
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