>>>3.0) Devlin is a blip? (Hey! Someone else who read the psi-corps
>>>trilogy!)
>>
>>Nope, I haven't. They call them that on the show too.
>
>Really? I hadn't remembered that. Then again, most of the teep stuff
>on b5 bothered me. It felt like "we need something to fill out the 5th
>season. I know, teep vs normal war!"

(shrug) I haven't seen season 5, either, so it must have been sometime before that.

>>His family. He has got one...
>
>to quote from aQoF: "Come with me, said Amanda again. "You've
>nowhere else to go, correct? No family gathering, no mysterious
>errands to the far
>corners of this miserable planet."

Which means only that his family isn't having an occasion that would require his presence. I never said they were a close family...

>And you wound up with a lover of Amanda's, plus body guard, go-fer and
>the like. Just out of curiosity, do you ever write up big character
>plans, and they wind up with a bit part, take an early out on the
>contract, and leave you with a hole to fill

Not that I can think of. Occasionally, characters will get dispossessed or moved around as the plots of stories evolve around them, but I can't think offhand of a case in which the character is the part that's packed up and signed off early.

--G.
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