So very first draft. I do know that his writing of Byron and the teep cult was definitely inspired by his own time in a cult when he was in his teens and twenties, though; he talks about that occasionally in interviews and forwards but I don't know if he's ever written a lot about it.
Aha, I just found the quote about Ivanova and Byron:
"My thought at the time was that, having spurned Marcus and seen the results, Ivanova might hesitate when it seemed to come around again. He would also give her the guidance and ability needed to better understand her latent telepathy, a threat that would have been even further developed by season's end. The premise being that she didn't take affection from the right person, and screwed herself in the process, then on the rebound did accept affection from the wrong person, and got burned as a result.
"What can I say, Ivanova's love life was not a happy road.
"The relationship would have flared hot, complicated her life immensely, and been over in just a few episodes."
I also wish we'd had more telepath stuff. There's a reason The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father is one of my favorite Season 5 episodes, for all its flaws!
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Date: 2016-06-03 07:45 am (UTC)Aha, I just found the quote about Ivanova and Byron:
"My thought at the time was that, having spurned Marcus and seen the results, Ivanova might hesitate when it seemed to come around again. He would also give her the guidance and ability needed to better understand her latent telepathy, a threat that would have been even further developed by season's end. The premise being that she didn't take affection from the right person, and screwed herself in the process, then on the rebound did accept affection from the wrong person, and got burned as a result.
"What can I say, Ivanova's love life was not a happy road.
"The relationship would have flared hot, complicated her life immensely, and been over in just a few episodes."
I also wish we'd had more telepath stuff. There's a reason The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father is one of my favorite Season 5 episodes, for all its flaws!