[ SECRET POST #3485 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3485 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Severe and worsening mental health issues. He was rapidly losing control and showing violent tendencies. Everyone on the show knew, but nobody spoke about it until after his death, out of respect.

[sabotabby]

Eek, that's awful.

[amanuensis1]

Oh, I had such a crush on him. That makes me so sad to learn of it. Poor guy.

[(Anonymous)]

and having people talk about what happened after he was gone was specifically what he wanted. He had a big conversation with JMS about it.

[liz_marcs]

I found a link to a video of JMS talking about. Unfortunately, the video isn't embeddable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwyAo_YjtdM

Here's another link where JMS talks about Jeff Conway, Richard Biggs, Andreas Katsulas, and Michael O'Hare (start at time code 26:30; O'Hare's part is at 39:05): https://soundcloud.com/janmschroeder/pcc-promise-panel

I'll say this for JMS: he kept that promise. I've got the B5 DVDs, and on the commentary tracks which were recorded before O'Hare died, JMS said several times that Michael O'Hare left because he wanted to go back to working live theater and it was a good thing because he (JMS) had written himself into a corner on Sinclair anyway.

The thing that's really striking about rewatching the first season of B5 is that you notice that towards the end of the season most of O'Hare's scenes were basically of him alone and that Sinclair was barely in the same shot as the other characters.

[mithen]

I remember being SO MAD at JMS for claiming (on USENET! I am old!) he had no plans for Sinclair's character arc and it was convenient to have him written off, because to me it seemed blindingly obvious that he had a long-term arc for the character, and I was furious that he was claiming that he didn't. I groused about it for YEARS.

And then I found out what really happened and was like "Well, damn. Gotta revise my opinion of you completely, JMS. You're a stand-up friend."

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, I didn't even realise he had died :( I saw him talk once, at a convention back in about 2000?

I always preferred Sinclair to Sheridan myself but I also really liked how his arc turned out.