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davidreiss666 t1_j6ezjhy wrote

Reply to comment by _Middlefinger_ in Actors who were fired from the 1st or 2nd season of a hit show, even though they were good in it. by Lili_Danube

That was only made public after O'Hare passed away. So it was more than a decade after B5 wrapped up that the full story was made public. And so, a lot of people don't know unless they read online news about B5 years after it ended.

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TheElusiveFox t1_j6fz3c9 wrote

That being said fans must have known (at least I assumed) the decision was amicable, because he does appear in a handful of very late episodes IIRC, or maybe it was the movies?

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Marischka77 t1_j6hc2jq wrote

JMS, the writer always stated that the parting was amicable. Sinclair appeared in a cameo in S2 and in the two-part episode War Without End in S3, which closed Sinclair's story arc. In real life, the cameo for S2 was recorded before the actor got hospitalized to start treatment for his symptoms which were as severe as something alike schizophrenia and the two-parter was shot when his condition was stable enough for filming again, but the side effects of his meds were not all too obvious yet, although the viewers could feel something was wrong, he had some odd blinking at some scenes.

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