From:   Mike W. Loader[SMTP:mloader@scs.unr.edu]

  PLEASE, please give me an opinion on this, or I'm gonna hafta take one

or the others advice; and I don' for the life of me know which is right. <<

I read about something like this on the net before. It was by the creator of
Babylon 5. He said figuring out clues is like a bell curve, some people can
figure it out easily, some can't. I've tracked down the passage for you to
read.

Thanks.

The best case scenario is a bell-shaped curve. Some don't have a clue what's
coming, some manage to figure it out, and the majority have a kind of vague
sense where it's going, but there are still surprises along the way. If the
bell-curve shifts one direction or the other, then you're in trouble.

This makes sense. Obviously, not everyone has the same abitity of 
insight. The big problem here is that in b5 everyone has had their 
questions cleared up by the end of the episode, and I don't know if that 
happened in the dream bit, which was out of necessity rather abstract. 
Problem 2 is that I'm working blind here, I don't know how many 
people understood the meaning of the dream. This is why I asked the ML.

    So far, B5 seems to be hewing right to the bell-curve. For every person
who says "okay, this was expected," there's been another saying, "I had no
*idea* this was going to happen here, or so fast."

Think about it. I hope this helps.

   It does, but what will really resolve the issue for me is people 
telling whether it was too transparent, too subtle, or even if they 
understood what it was supposed to represent. Until I know that, I can't 
"plot the curve", so to speak. Again, I'd really like input on this.

Thanks, 

-Mike of No Particular Title or Handle

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