On Dec 2, 12:58 pm, Joseph DeMartino  wrote:   
   > On Dec 1, 9:34 pm, Duggy  wrote:   
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   > > Wasn't LotR (and possibly tMoS) Crusade reboots?   
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   > No, and no.   
   > "Legend of the Rangers" took place before the Drakh attack on Earth,   
   > If it had gone to series JMS had a number of options.   
   You seem to be assuming that Crusade was about the plague.   
   > Good enough ratings could have led to a continuation of "Crusade" with   
   > some or all of the original cast.  Or a reboot with new actors.   
   > ("Rangers" would have reached the time of "Racing with the Night"   
   > around season 3.)  If Sci Fi wasn't interested in two series in the   
   > "B5" universe JMS could have used "Rangers" to resolve *some* of the   
   > plot lines left over from "Crusade", but it would not have been   
   > anything like a reboot.   
   I was joking about the "reboot".   
   > "The Memory of Shadows" script was set after the Earth quarantine was   
   > lifted, as I recall.  Neither had anything to do with the "Crusade"   
   > storyline.  (Although "MoS" may have included a character or two from   
   > "Crusade" or "LotR" or both.  Been awhile since the whole "MoS" thing,   
   > and the details grow hazy.)   
   My point is both had to do with Shadow (or Hand) technology in the   
   wrong hands... much like Crusade.   
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