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Babylon 5: Sleeping in Light (1998)
A fitting and heartfelt conclusion
Not since the last episode of MASH have I been so affected by the last episode of a TV series. There are moments here that almost break your heart. One of my favorites is when Sheridan calls for a toast to old friends long gone and each character recites the name of someone who has passed on. Garibaldi toasts G'Kar, Delenn toasts Lennier, Vir toasts Londo and just as Steven is about to toast Marcus, Susan finally says Marcus's name showing that she has finally come to terms with his sacrifice. One moment that rarely gets commented on is the fulfilment of one of B5's longest running prophecies. Way back in season one, episode 13 "Signs and Portents" Sinclair is given a vision of the future by the Centauri Seer Lady Ladira. The vision depicts a single shuttle being jettisoned from B5 while the station explodes. The same vision is shown in "Babylon Squared" along with a monumental battle against the Shadows. Sinclair asks Ladira if this is a vision of the future and she replies that the future is fluid due to what the choices that we make along the way and she's not sure whether it will actually happen. So at the end of "Sleeping" we finally get to see the partial fulfilment of that vision with the peaceful and bittersweet destruction of B5 which is JMS's way of telling us that the bleak future predicted by Ladira has been irrevocably changed for the better.
Lonesome Dove (1989)
The true origins of Lonesome Dove
Years ago I read an interview with Larry McMurtry in which he disclosed how Lonesome Dove the novel came to be written. It seems that back in the mid- sixties McMurtry wrote a screenplay that would have starred John Wayne and Henry Fonda, who had never done a movie together. The screenplay was of course the original bare bones for LD. Wayne was supposed to play Gus and Fonda was supposed to play Woodrow. For various reasons the film was never green lighted and the script sat on the shelf until McMurtry expanded it into the novel years later. Personally, I prefer to see Gus and Woodrow played by Duvall and Jones as opposed to Wayne and Fonda. A similar thing happened to Ray Bradbury who wrote a script in the late fifties called Dark Carnival. Fred Astaire was going to produce and star in it but the deal fell through and Bradbury later adapted it into his novel, Something Wicked This Way Comes. Twenty-five years later it finally made it to the screen.