Talk:The Coming of Shadows

Opinion on the naming of the Centauri Emperor and Prime Minister.
While probably appropriate in other places (such as in the Notes section or other articles with a wider scope), naming the Centauri Emperor or Prime Minister in the Credits (Infobox) or Synopsis of this episode is, I feel, historical revisionism, best avoided. "It didn't happen that way." --Aladdin Sane (talk) 03:07, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

On editing the synopsis
I'm trying to understand and comply with WP policy/guidelines/proposed guidelines on writing synopsis's/summaries/plot summaries. I'm using (or trying to use): How to write a plot summary Plot-only description of fictional works Manual of Style (writing about fiction) I'm finding it difficult, but the most compelling thing I've read so far says that if we give a complete blow-by-blow or scene-by-scene for all the episodes, we risk stepping on the copyright for the story (the five-year arc). That hurts JMS, and I'm sure that was not the intent of the original writer of the synopsis.

That, plus long synopsis's are really boring to read. If you really want to know what happened in the episode, blow-by-blow, it seems to me like watching the episode would be the way to do that.

Since per the above guidelines the advised length for a movie or novel summary/synopsis is 300-500 words, I would assume that a TV episode deserves about 150 words. Also, long synopsis's risk getting the in-universe tag, since they weight the article toward the in-universe side. Prior to this editing, wc is reading this synopsis at 923 words. --Aladdin Sane (talk) 05:05, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
 * After my edit, the synopsis is at 726 words; still way too long, I feel. --Aladdin Sane (talk) 05:52, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Dude. Did you know there's a template for this?  See Template:Plot.  No.  Cool.  --Aladdin Sane (talk) 02:38, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

In Fire...
How will it end? In fire...

When I heard this, I thought of the Robert Frost poem Fire & Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I've tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.

I wonder if JMS had that in mind

ForestIan (talk) 06:33, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Londo's Dream
While a much later episode shows many more Shadow vessels flying over Centauri Prime, this episode showed perhaps a half dozen, several of which were the much smaller "fighter" craft. It's easy to infer that the count would have been much higher but larger numbers can't be known solely from this episode, to say nothing of a semi-precise count of "thousands." — Preceding unsigned comment added by WavSlave (talk • contribs) 16:45, 2 November 2018 (UTC)