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Who runs the White Council?

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BrainFireBob:
Hope he's really Chauncy in disguise.

Mira:

--- Quote from: Bad Alias on October 01, 2020, 07:41:50 PM ---Jim watched Babylon 5. https://www.reddit.com/r/dresdenfiles/comments/6ltrjg/suggestion_one_of_jim_butchers_favorite_shows/. It's a series where the obvious villains are good guys and the obvious good guys turn out to be villains. This clip is from season 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5xhucIJK8k. I think it's more along the lines of what G'Kar was saying. People's motivations and character are not what they seem. The Merlin's a good guy, Ebenezer, the paragon of virtue, is an assassin, LtW is Black Council, Cristos is a political mastermind trying to destroy the Black Council, etc. Ebenezer is an example of someone not being what he seems. The rest is purely speculation for illustration of what could be.

There's also a Grey Council in B5. B5 is in my top 2 all time great TV series. A lot of that might be because it was so groundbreaking when it came out. It was the first long running TV series I've ever seen where nearly every episode was important. I think there's only one episode that doesn't play into the larger story arc.

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  Yeah, and it could have been even greater, JMS was forced to rewrite the last four seasons because the star Michael O'Hare unknown to anyone suffered from severe mental illness.  He left the show after the first season, and it is a tribute to JMS's writing ability that he could pull off the change from Sinclair to Sheridan.  O'Hare did manage to take his meds and make a guest appearance in which he turned out to be Valen I believe in the third season.  There were lots of rumors about the departure of Mr O'Hare, from poor ratings to lack of star appeal, and there were a lot of upset fans who loved him, including me who couldn't understand why he left.  We know now that JMS promised to keep Mr O'Hare's secret when he left.  Mr O'Hare suffered from severe paranoid schizophrenia, and like a lot of schizophrenics struggled with the concept that he needed meds and needed to take them because of the side effects and the delusion that they were cured.  He did have a couple of jobs after he left the show, but his condition continued to get worse, it ruined his marriage and finally he became homeless until he died of a heart condition.  On his death JMS revealed what had happened to him.  I feel compelled to write this because I too loved the show and the character of Jeffery Sinclair and admired the star who played him.   

Bad Alias:
JMS also crammed two seasons into Season 4 because he was under threat of cancellation. Basically, half of what happened in Season 4 was supposed to happen in Season 5. That's why Season 5 seems to have so much filler.

Griffyn612:

--- Quote from: Bad Alias on October 02, 2020, 08:04:41 PM ---It's not exact, but.
Q: How much time did the Merlin spend swearing when he learned Harry had returned?
A:[Stammering]I'm not going to answer that because you'll see later as we go on. Um. Does anyone really think that whoever's in charge of the White Council is really what he looks like? So we'll see more about that as we move along."

It's 34:55 of the video.

I do think that the Merlin might not be as anti-Harry as we think. I do think he doesn't like him and is endlessly frustrated with Harry for going left when he should have gone right.

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That sounds more like Arthur just has secrets to his personality, rather than some bigger secret of someone else being in charge or him being a different being.

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