From dmb@any.isis.rl.ac.uk Tue Dec 24 17:28:09 1996
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 10:41:41 -0100
From: Devious Brownies <dmb@any.isis.rl.ac.uk>
To: b5-creative@lists.best.com
Subject: A MORE bizarre story: (Some spoilers for final five)

From: elmwood@firstsaga.com (Susan Bischoff)
>This is a true story of what happened last week.

Here is one in reply. Be warned, there is a slight spoiler for "And the Rock 
Cried Out, No Hiding Place".

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True tale:

	It was a Sunday, and it was lunchtime. In the UK, these two conditions 
somehow combine to produce endless TV programmes explaining what to do if your 
swine-herd comes down with mottled hog-flu, and other tidbits useful only to 
those people who think that fresh air should necessarily smell of animal shit.

	I was sat rewatching a B5 episode I had recorded from Channel 4, where 
Sheridan is bemoaning the fact that the Shadows are attacking unpredictably, 
almost at random. I, like most people, considered this momentarily, then was 
reabsorbed into the rest of the action.

	Programme ends, I stop the video. There is a Countryfile (or some such) 
programme about how some of our "farm heritage" is in danger of dying out. Cut 
to man rounding up sheep with the help of a sheep dog. Back and forth darted the 
dog, sometimes making an advance here, sometimes over there, sometimes laying 
low to let its victims settle. After a series of apparently random "attacks" the 
sheep finally find themselves in a place of safety. Then the farmer shuts the 
gate behind them and takes them all to the slaughter.

	Needless to say, it took all of about thirty seconds of thought before I 
was struck by certain similarities. My conclusion, just over a week before "No 
Hiding Place", was that the Shadow attacks were herding people to some place 
where they would be dealt with.

	However, despite this flash of synchronicity, I haven't taken up 
watching "Farmer's World" on the hope of discovering the secrets of season four. 
Yet.

David B.
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"Moral garbage on legs"