Talk:Earth: Final Conflict

message: Gene Roddenberry died 6 years before the pilot was screened. I wonder to what extent this was 'created' by him. Morwen 20:21, Dec 24, 2003 (UTC)
: I seem to recall hearing that the plot for the pilot episode was written by Gene Roddenberry, however the following episodes were written by other people. I could be wrong, though. Mike Peel 07:48, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Variously explained as Majel Roddenberry collecting source material together after Gene's death (including a pilot script) Voideater 21:08, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

text: Read Childhoods End by Arthur C. Clarke.  The first chapters lay out the series initial season almost word for word.  There may be Rodenberry, but it would not exist without Clarke's novel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood%27s_End  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Steelhoof (talk • contribs) 19:48, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: "created by" Roddenberry?

message: nb, newly created article Taelons is on VfD.  Could someone who's actually watched enough of this stuff for it to make sense pop by that article and improve it a bit. -- Finlay McWalter |  Talk 11:56, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Taelons on VfD

message: Wouldn't it be a good idea to move the list of episodes here? Or is this uncommon in the english wikipedia? -- 80.238.207.152 08:48, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know if there is an official policy, but I've generally found that episode lists are kept separate to keep page size down, especially if they add little to main article. Perhaps a more prominant link to the list of episodes would be in order? --Lox (t,c) 12:10, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Move the "List of Episodes" to this page

message: In the Season 5 section it is spelled both ways numerous times, such as from this excerpt:
...Atavus chambers, fighting off the Avatus...
Which one is it? Someone please correct and provide a source.
:It is Atavus.  The series itself is the source ("Avatus" is not used at all in the series), but this page shall do: http://www.efc.com/episodes/ep501.html Luis Dantas 12:37, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually three versions - Season 2 shows one as the result of a Taelon being separated from the Commonality, Season 4 shows one as a (temporary) melding of a Taelon and a Jaridian, and Season 5 shows an "ancient colonial" version Voideater 21:08, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Atavus or Avatus?

message: As requested by FrankWilliams in the page history, I'm putting this comment here to explain my removal of the quote box containing the season 1 introduction to the show from the top of the page (this time - the previous times it was removed by Otto4711). There are three reasons for this.
* First, I've just rearranged the page a fair bit, and have moved the introductions to each of the seasons to the start of the sections on those seasons - this means that they are closer to the top, and thus will be read by the reader earlier.
* Second, the 'setting' section gives a much better introduction to the show than the 'official' introduction - it explains the back story better, and explains exactly who the 'they' is in 'Three years ago they came'. The 'official' introduction did this by displaying images of the Taelons.
* Finally (and thirdly), having a quote box in the centre of the page, with an infobox to the right and text to the left, just seems un-wikipedian to me.
Mike Peel 07:57, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of quote box 

message: The statement:  The distributer of these DVDs, ADV Films, currently only has the DVD rights for these seasons; they have made the statement that "negotiations are underway for the remaining seasons". was made by me FrankWilliams from a phone conversation with ADV Films.  FrankWilliams 19:43, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No offense to your credibility, but Wiki user quotes are really not enough to warrant being official.  If that were the case, there would be edits all over the place saying this person or that person spoke to this producer or that studio and everyone would just have to take their word on it.  If it doesn't come from a reliable, credible, widely accepted and verifiable source, it really shouldn't be added. --P shadoh (talk) 14:31, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Citation Explaination

message: Did the series ever establish when it was set apart from "in the 21st century" or "in the new millenium"? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 218.214.143.84 (talk • contribs) 6:45, 14 July, 2006 (UTC).
: No Voideater 21:08, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The smart and cunning viewer will discover that the series must be set around 2010 to 2015. Why? Boone is around forty years old. He was around his mid to late teens in the mid to late 80s. So he was born in the early 70s. Thus 2010 to 2015 ish. - Augur  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Augur (talk • contribs) 05:48, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not necessarily. The series never established a specific date, and in-universe evidence is often contradictory. For example, in the fifth season episode "Guilty Conscience," a one-off character (Zachary Winslow) was described as being "on the Nobel shortlist in '22 for his work in genetics." That implies that the fifth season at least is set after 2022. On the other hand, the fourth season episode "Trapped by Time" focuses on three time travelers retrieved "thirty years ago" by the top secret Apollo 20 mission. The real-world Apollo 20 was scheduled to launch in 1972 before being canceled. This would place the events of the fourth season around 2002, the actual air date. The writers never set a date for the series in stone, and I believe that was intentional, so that the events would always be just around the corner. YardsGreen (talk) 12:38, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dates? 

message: How long are the episodes?  I assume that there are ads and episodes aren't really an hour long like the infobox says.  --Arctic Gnome 21:25, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Most episodes are now available on Youtube and other sites. They are typically about 45 minutes each. 173.180.197.244 (talk) 11:06, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  60 min.? 

message: I don't think Ra'jel needs to be added to the main page.  Logic is that other characters have their own articles such as: Da'an, Zo'or, and Juda.  If no one objects after a reasonable amount of time I propose the merge statement in the main article be removed.  FrankWilliams 14:39, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Keep - While the Ra'Jel article is sparse, it should have its page per other similar subjects and potential reference-ability Voideater 21:08, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ra'jel

message: I'd like to see quote boxes around the opening narration intro just prior to the each of the season intros.  It has been proposed that this leaves too much white space but having viewed the page in both Internet Explorer and the Firefox browser I don't see excessive white space.  Furthermore I think the boxes make the intro's stand out and it helps separate each of the season summaries. FrankWilliams 17:01, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Quote Boxes

message: I am going to remove the link on the article page to the official website since it has been down since early march and as such is leading to a blank page, if the page returns feel free to put it back on but for now I don't see any reason for it to be there. Doctoroxenbriery (talk) 02:17, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  official website 

message: Why are there checks and xs that are cycling back and forth in the table? ~Auzemandius {talk/contrib} 14:47, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Check/X cycling graphics 

message: Looking at this article, I would like to make some improvements. WP:NOT suggests that a short, concise plot summary is beneficial to the article. All of the plot summary sections, especially that of the first season, are overly long. Some people have interpreted WP:NOT to mean that its alright to just shorten or remove long summary sections without discussion, this has been controversial and even resulted in a discussion at WP:AN/I, so I figured i'd bring it up here first and see if anyone objects. Is it alright if I condense the plot summaries somewhat so that they don't overwhelm the article? Firestorm (talk) 01:13, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot summary 

message: I remember watching the entire first season of this series when it initially came out. At the time, I stumbled on its Web site. The Web site was set up as a tie-in to the series, where fans could sign up as part of the "Resistance." It was quite extensive. 
Question: Is this the first show to use the Web in the way that it did, as an extension to the show itself?
mariox19 (talk) 19:50, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Web component to show 

message: Boone's wife is killed in episode one. In episode 2, Sandoval reveals that he killed her so Boone would not have to go through what he went through, where the process that enhanced him made him see her as far less than him, so he lost interest in her. 
However Boone said he did not want to join the companions. It was the death of his wife that changed his mind. (Cyberia3 (talk) 13:41, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: A slight mistake, with spoiler

message: The following bullet point under the Alien Species section strikes me as particularly bad:
Firstly, this has nothing to do with the alien species in the series. Secondly, this does not seem to have a neutral point-of-view style to me, it's more like something from a bad review. Thirdly, none of it is even sourced. I suggest we remove this point entirely. ChibiKareshi (talk) 06:47, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Style/NPOV?

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