Bill MacIntosh <70275.1372@compuserve.com> asks:
> How do you explain this apparent inconsistency?
> Have I (and at least one other B5 fan I have spoken with) simply
> misunderstood Ivanova's character or are you implying that the
> awesome might and destruction wrought by the Shadows would have
> been enough to cause anyone to crack?

With most of their systems down, everyone around her dead,
Sheridan dead, knowing she's about to die and there's nothing she can
do about it, and obviously knowing full well who's out there...about to
witness the deaths of a quarter million sentients on the station...I
felt a bit of an outburst, a final letting go of the emotions, was not
inappropriate for her. (Although I do think Claudia may have played it
a bit too hysterical at times; separate the lines from the performance
and look at it again.)

jms

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"You hand this woman a script and say to her, "Miss C., everyone
around you is dead and you are in command.
The station is falling down around you and you're in terrible
pain, about to die by decompression or laser burns or crushing--or
worse, you could become a Morden and be controlled by the Shadows the
rest of your life.
You have no hope of rescue.
You may not know where you are."
And then you say she was a tiny bit on the hysterical side?"

Hey...from where I sit, that's just another day at the office.

Don't know many producer/writers, do you?

jms