Interesting Links for 30-06-2019

[andrewducker]

Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers

(tags:engineering design software outsourcing airplanes )

The Conservatives are suffering entryism from Brexit extremists

(tags:UK Europe conservatives doom )

Stonewall was not the start - it took a decade of resistance to reach that point

(tags:lgbt transgender history protests viaLilysea )

Babylon 5 Is the Greatest, Most Terrible SF Series

(tags:tv Babylon5 review )

Are the Brits at it again?

(tags:UK funny )

Researchers model how octopus arms make decisions (and talk to each other without informing the brain)

(tags:octopus communication nerves neuroscience )

Britain: Ruined since the 5th century

(tags:history uk )

Scotland's only breast milk bank is looking for volunteers

(tags:milk breastfeeding scotland )

German far-right group used police data to compile death list

(tags:fascism police germany )

Stonewall's CEO Reveals Why She Decided To Fight For Transgender Rights

(tags:Transgender LGBT uk )

Have some relationship advice

Some great comments too
(tags:relationships advice )

The computer games industry is renowned for terrible jobs. This is worst than most

(tags:Jobs games OhForFucksSake )

Three Halflings in a Trenchcoat: a homebrew fighter class for D&D

(tags:dungeonsanddragons funny )

Ray Harryhausen | Titan of Cinema | National Galleries of Scotland (next year)

(tags:scotland specialeffects movies )

How tea killed the fairies

(tags:tea myths )

UK to deport aspiring astrophysicist, 23, to Pakistan where she faces death or forced marriage to cousin

(tags:UK pakistan OhForFucksSake )

100% renewable energy without blackouts (by 2050)

(tags:renewables electricity thefuture )

Comments

[melchar]

I think the Valen storyline would still have played out - but I admire JMS for having actively planned for the loss of major actors in the show & having entire new story-loops for the replacement characters.

[momentsmusicaux]

Yes, but WHO would have taken Babylon 4 into the past and transformed into Valen?

I read something once where JMS said he had what he called a trapdoor for every character -- a plan in case the actor died / left / whatever.

[melchar]

My guess is that it would've still been Sinclair. The Sheridan-is-a-boyscout-NOT character arc is just too good to -not- use. It's just he came in a season or 2 earlier than planned.

[jducoeur]

Don't know about the plans for Valen, but remember: Babylon 5 was always intended to be only the first half of the story. In the original plan, the second series took place a little while later, with Babylon 4 being shanghaied into the *future* to fight the next Great War. (IIRC, the series hewed fairly closely to the original plan for the first few seasons, and then went *way* off-course during the last two.)

So that scene with Sinclair looking 25 years older? I'm pretty sure it that the original intent was that it simply took place 25 years later, in a series where Sinclair was a secondary character and his son was the lead...