Talk:Sleeping in Light

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Production details

==Production details== This episode was actually filmed at the end of the fourth season. Because of uncertainty whether or not there would be a fifth season, the story was written to play as either the fourth or fifth season finale. When it was confirmed that TNT had picked up the show for the fifth season, the first show for season five, "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars", was filmed and replaced "Sleeping in Light" as the fourth season finale. J. Michael Straczynski stated that the finished episode was never marked as complete and handed over to the studio for fear that it would leak at some point in the year before it would be shown. This episode is the only one of the series that was directed by Straczynski, the series' creator and showrunner. He also made a cameo appearance as the maintenance technician who shuts down the lights on the station. The title sequence for this episode appears at the very end, and shows the characters in their earliest and latest chronological appearances (excluding The Gathering, in which prosthetics and costumes were markedly different than they were in the series as well as TV-movies and flashbacks to the Earth-Minbari War). It also includes pictures of others not normally included, such as the crew and production staff (the end of the episode features a rapidly flashed montage of pictures of the staff). Because the episode was filmed at the end of season 4, the sequence reflects the season 4 cast; Marcus and Ivanova are both included while Lochley is missing. The 1996 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, won by "The Coming of Shadows", was used as a prop in Ivanova's office. Many of the cast and crew felt it was fitting that this episode should air the day before Thanksgiving, although this was not planned in any way.