Oh, the Romulans...I hadn't even thought of that. Yeah, I can see the comparison. They are sort of similar. (I knew there was a reason they were always my favorite Trek race!)
I believe that would be "JMS is trying to look deep."
Oh, JMS. You need to just concentrate on your story and your characters and let the deepness come from that. If you have to explain it, then you didn't do it right.
And I might be totally wrong, but my guess is that the constant confusion over Ivanova's age is a similar bit of confusion. No doubt each number made sense for him at the time, and he utterly forgot he'd already established something different.
Yeah, there's a similar thing with her mother's death--one episode puts it the year before Ganya's (so she's mid- to late-teens), and in "Divided Loyalties," she says she was still playing with dolls. I think the B5 Chronology website just split the difference and said she was ten. *g* (Me, I'm inclined toward the later end of the age range, because in "Midnight on the Firing Line," she seems to have genuine adult understanding of how depressed/out of it her mother got before she killed herself.)
When I still watched Bones, a friend and I had an ongoing joke about how the staff needed to collect spare change outside the studio so they could hire a script supervisor to keep all these little details in line. Perhaps JMS could've done the same. ;) (Although his sins are so, so many fewer than Bones's...)
Every time someone says something about that, I just want to shake them. Or, better, JMS. Sooooo tedious.
Perhaps introduce him to the Planet of Hats page at TV Tropes?
(There's a great article in this book that deals tangentially with this topic, and really goes into good detail about how it plays out in the series. If you do a search for "Babylon," "human," and "exceptionalism," you should be able to get right to the pages about it and, I think, read them all in the preview.)
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Date: 2010-07-13 12:09 am (UTC)I believe that would be "JMS is trying to look deep."
Oh, JMS. You need to just concentrate on your story and your characters and let the deepness come from that. If you have to explain it, then you didn't do it right.
And I might be totally wrong, but my guess is that the constant confusion over Ivanova's age is a similar bit of confusion. No doubt each number made sense for him at the time, and he utterly forgot he'd already established something different.
Yeah, there's a similar thing with her mother's death--one episode puts it the year before Ganya's (so she's mid- to late-teens), and in "Divided Loyalties," she says she was still playing with dolls. I think the B5 Chronology website just split the difference and said she was ten. *g* (Me, I'm inclined toward the later end of the age range, because in "Midnight on the Firing Line," she seems to have genuine adult understanding of how depressed/out of it her mother got before she killed herself.)
When I still watched Bones, a friend and I had an ongoing joke about how the staff needed to collect spare change outside the studio so they could hire a script supervisor to keep all these little details in line. Perhaps JMS could've done the same. ;) (Although his sins are so, so many fewer than Bones's...)
Every time someone says something about that, I just want to shake them. Or, better, JMS. Sooooo tedious.
Perhaps introduce him to the Planet of Hats page at TV Tropes?
(There's a great article in this book that deals tangentially with this topic, and really goes into good detail about how it plays out in the series. If you do a search for "Babylon," "human," and "exceptionalism," you should be able to get right to the pages about it and, I think, read them all in the preview.)