B5 | 2.01 | Die Feuerprobe (Points of Departure)

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Hab auch mal ein bißchen rumgeforscht und folgendes gefunden:

JMS hat sich bezüglich Keffer dahingehend geäußert bzw. die Figur damit begründet, dass er auch mal die weniger "wichtigen" Leute zeigen wollte. Außerdem fand er es anscheind etwas unrealistisch, wenn bei "Außeneinsätzen" immer Leute vom Führungsstab unterwegs sind, wie es bei anderen Serien ja oft gemacht wird (was mich desöfteren übrigens bei ST stört, aber das passt hier jetzt nicht rein), um das etwas zu umgehen zu können, wurde eben Keffer eingeführt.
Über eine Einmischung seitens WB habe ich nix gefunden.

Originally posted by JMSNews.com

(blocked) asks:
> I meant is he just another "unimportant" character that's going
> to get killed off in the end?

But see, not every story has to be about the Important People.
We've got that in our nominal "heroes." What tends to get omitted from
SF are the grunts and the blue collar guys, the pilots who have to fly
the missions called on by the Big Guys. To say "are they important"
is, I think, really a question that proceeds from a skewed perspective.
Are *you* important to the overall arc of this nation, the history of
this country? Am I? Probably not; I'll never sign a constitution or
discover radium or walk on the moon, I just write stories for phosphor
dot screens; can there be anything more ephemeral? But the
repercussions of history are written on the faces and the lives of
those who *can't* change it, who have to live with the decisions made
by those above. Showing those people is as valid as anything else.

It ain't just the heroes that make the future, Edwin. It's the
carpenters and the plumbers and the dockworkers we showed in the first
season. Now, you may think they're unimportant. I don't.

jms

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Nor was Keffer's character useless; through him, we got to see
the Starfury pilots and learn more about them, we got our first close
look at the shadows, we met the Gropos, and the primary incident that
began to unravel the whole thing

Achtung Spoiler!

-- Keffer's gun camera footage --

came
about.
......

jms

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we're introducing a character who will be a Squad Leader for Zeta
Squadron (the one that arrived in "Survivors"), Warren Keffer, which will
be portrayed by Robert Russler. (Many people noted that logically you
would have a regular squad leader as well as in some situations the
Commander going out, and most times it's the Squad Leader who's out there
doing this kind of stuff. And they're correct.)

jms

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Keffer wasn't added because fans thought that sending the commanding
officer into battle was inappropriate. We will still continue to send our
COs into battle when necessary. Throughout the season, we've tried to
flesh out the command levels. We started with 2 starfury squadrons on B5,
and added a third in "Survivors." Logically, those are going to have
squad leaders. Adding in all three would be a stretch budget-wise, but we
could at least add one, to show a different aspect of the crew. And, in
truth, you wouldn't have command personnel leading every single routine
mission. We'd kinda wanted to do this in the first year, but we didn't
have the money for it. In year two, we did, and thus added him.

jms