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- JMS CompuServe messages for November 1998. Collected by John Hardin
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- Date: 02 Nov 1998 15:43:12 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: John Morgan <71513.2510@compuserve.com>
- Subject: Londo's Tragic Fate
-
- {original post had no questions}
-
- Yes, the capital was getting beat up, but there's a difference
- between thousands of dead and billions dead...Londo sacrified himself
- to save the lives of billions.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 02 Nov 1998 15:43:12 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: JonathanKass > [JEKass]
- Subject: Who's going to V.O.R.
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- No actors were ever told they could not attend; never happened.
- And my problem with the Wolf conventions and some of their organizers
- is their *lack* of organization, and their refusal to honor such ideas
- as not using clips without permission, and otherwise making a mess, and
- refusing (after promising to make them available) to provide copies of
- the books to verify that the charities they say they promote actually
- received any of the profits from the con.
-
- jms
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
-
-
- Date: 04 Nov 1998 15:18:12 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
- Subject: Another two cents....
-
- Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
- > Heard that Jeri Taylor left Star Trek, any chance that she'll
- > come and work with you on Crusade? Any chance that you will work
- > with Angela Landsbury on Crusade? Do you know what a vacation is?
- > Have you ever owned, been owned by or currently residing with any
- > cats and if so, got any good stories for us? Is that just on the
- > 'Net or here as well? Is there anyone in the business (actor,
- > director, writer, etc) that you haven't yet worked with, but
- > would like to?
-
- 1. Heard that Jeri Taylor left Star Trek, any chance that she'll come
- and work with you on Crusade?
-
- No, she's hoping to move to Northern California and enter
- semi-retirement with her husband, also a friend of mine. After X-
- number of years in the business, we're all entitled to escape.
-
- 2. Any chance that you will work with Angela Landsbury on Crusade? I
- think she's pretty cool.
-
- I don't think she does cable episodic.
-
- 3. Do you know what a vacation is?
-
- Does it have fur?
-
- 4. Have you ever owned, been owned by or currently residing with any
- cats and if so, got any good stories for us? (you write about them as
- if you know them well)
-
- Yes, but the cat cabal is very chary of its secrets, and if I
- betray them they will come after me.
-
- 5. I know that you plan on pulling back regarding your online
- presence. Is that just on the 'Net or here as well?
-
- Mainly pulling back on the newsgroups, somewhat here.
-
- 6. Is there anyone in the business (actor, director, writer, etc)
- that you haven't yet worked with, but would like to?
-
- Yeah, but it wouldn't be fair to name folks.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 04 Nov 1998 17:31:08 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
- Subject: Another two cents....
-
- Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
- > Are you going to stick to pretty much writing your own stuff or
- > will you still consider guest writing for any other shows? Would
- > you consider asking Chris Carter to write and episode of Crusade?
- > Have they asked you yet?
-
- I don't believe anyone has spoken to me about Icon yet...as for
- other shows, I'm kinda spoiled...I don't like to have my words mucked
- about with, and on somebody else's show, that's inevitable.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 04 Nov 1998 17:31:09 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: (blocked)
- Subject: Another two cents....
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- Organized? If they had an opposable thumb and could hold a
- screwdriver, we'd all be doomed.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 04 Nov 1998 23:34:07 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: (blocked)
- Subject: Moving Out
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- That's a good way of looking at it.
-
- jms
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
-
-
- Date: 05 Nov 1998 11:53:01 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Janetch <112013.1636@compuserve.com>
- Subject: Using snips and quotes
-
- Janetch <112013.1636@compuserve.com> asks:
- > How is this accomplished?
- > Is there some giant archive somewhere where people can type in
- > key words and get a list of movies where that word/phrase is
- > used? Are there experts who just know all this stuff?
-
- "How is this accomplished? Is there some giant archive somewhere where
- people can type in key words and get a list of movies where that
- word/phrase is used? Are there experts who just know all this stuff? It
- seems like finding a character saying exactly the right sentence out of
- the thousands of movies in existence would be a difficult and laborious
- task."
-
- No, none that I'm aware of. You just happen to know something,
- and if you can license that snip, you acquire the rights to use it.
- The DD stuff was just stuff that I knew 'cause I'm a cartoon nut.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 05 Nov 1998 16:27:04 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Rebecca Costello <71045.3050@compuserve.com>
- Subject: <WoF> Lyta
-
- Rebecca Costello <71045.3050@compuserve.com> asks:
- > Can we interpret from this that teeps in general aren't her
- > people; just those who aren't willingly Corps?
-
- This is, of course, the key to the whole reason for the Byron
- thing. If it had not gone on as long as it had, had not had the impact
- it had on her, she would not be where she is now in the storyline. You
- really needed something *major* to bring her to this point, and that
- was it. Some couldn't figure why the emphasis...well, now they know.
-
- Everything points somewhere.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 05 Nov 1998 22:25:07 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Rebecca Costello <71045.3050@compuserve.com>
- Subject: <WoF> Lyta
-
- {original post had no questions}
-
- If you saw the arrows initially, then they would have been 'way
- too obvious.
-
- And yeah, the wheel of fire visually has spokes proceeding out
- from a central flame; the center burns outward. And several of the
- fires smoldering lately have done that; with Byron it was a literal
- flame that has now gone out along the spokes and had substantial
- repercussions, with more to come years down the road.
-
- It's also a Shakespeare quote, "I am bound upon a wheel of fire,
- that mine own tears do scald like molten lead." Which tends to
- describe Londo's situation as well. (King Lear)
-
- jms
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
-
-
- Date: 06 Nov 1998 17:06:05 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: (blocked)
- Subject: <WoF>Sheridan's memory
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- Y'know, this discussion kinda baffles me to some extent.
-
- For starters, Sheridan was only in the future briefly; he was
- being beaten and was confused and not sure how much of it was real; he
- doesn't know if his going to Z'ha'dum *changed* any of that
- future...the events he did see were 20 years down the road, and there's
- no way for him to know (as we know, the audience) what connects to
- what...he sees only destruction, and that could have happened two weeks
- before (there's no rule that says a capital city can be bombed only
- once)...no way to know if the keeper may have been implanted days or
- months before. To try and impose a quick understanding of events 20
- years down the road on things happening right now, without knowing the
- context, would be madness...you don't need a keeper to start a war, or
- half our own leaders here would have had keepers on them.
-
- As for Delenn...yes, he heard her talk about their son, but at
- the same time, again, that's 20 years down the road. Their son could
- be any age, so the news that she's pregnant will still be a shock
- whenever it comes; you may know that you're planning to have kids, that
- the doctor says its possible, but when you actually hear the news, it's
- a stunner every time.
-
- His question is a natural one...he doesn't know if the kid in
- the future had to be taken out of utero to be sustained until it came
- full term, doesn't know if extreme measures had to be taken...his
- question is a sensible and justifiable one.
-
- People are assuming that what *they* know as the audience,
- Sheridan knows, which he does not...and assuming that he knows
- everything that is to come, or what it means, or how it happens, or in
- what context, which he does not.
-
- His memory is not faulty.
-
- jms
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
-
-
- Date: 09 Nov 1998 12:15:07 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: WizOp Wes Meier <76703.747@compuserve.com>
- Subject: River of Souls: Shyster
-
- {original post had no questions}
-
- Oh, and then some....
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 09 Nov 1998 16:56:01 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
- Subject: <<WOF>> Garibaldi
-
- Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
- > So the question is, are we going to see in the last 2 episodes
- > before SIL what Franklin's answer to that question was?
-
- Franklin's solution really wouldn't have worked...only a teep
- can undo the damage here.
-
- jms
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
-
-
- Date: 10 Nov 1998 12:28:00 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com>
- Subject: Hey, Joe! <ROS>
-
- Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
- > ...What did Tracey say when she saw the lengths you went to to
- > get her into a bustier and garters?
-
- Her reaction on reading the script was to go on an immediate
- crash diet, saying, "I want to make the boys cry."
-
- jms
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
-
-
- Date: 11 Nov 1998 14:10:09 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com>
- Subject: Hey, Joe! <ROS>
-
- {original post had no questions}
-
- Actually, nobody seemed to think twice about it...and it's
- another nod to the reality that there are all kinds of people out there
- of divergent interests.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 11 Nov 1998 20:47:13 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: (blocked)
- Subject: Another two cents....
-
- (blocked) asks:
- > Why is the inevitable always a surprise when it happens?
-
- Thanks, I appreciate that...the characters are a lot of fun to
- play with.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 11 Nov 1998 20:47:13 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Susan C Wiederhold <110630.603@compuserve.com>
- Subject: River of Souls: Shyster
-
- {original post had no questions}
-
- Cool...thanks.
-
- jms
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
-
-
- Date: 15 Nov 1998 23:18:09 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Rebecca Costello <71045.3050@compuserve.com>
- Subject: JMS/B5 Flashback - 1991
-
- {original post had no questions}
-
- "And just to make you all--and me!--feel old, I was only ten when that
- message was written <G>"
-
- If you need me, I'll be up on the roof....
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 15 Nov 1998 21:51:04 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com>
- Subject: River of Sheen
-
- Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
- > If this really was what Sheen was doing, was this something he
- > came up with or did you have any say with how you saw the
- > character of the Soul Hunter being approached?
-
- What we had discussed (actor, director and me) was that soul
- hunters don't generally get much chance to hang out and talk to people;
- they can empathically sense the language, however, when they encounter
- others. At first, he didn't know the language very well, and gradually
- became more able to express himself.
-
- jms
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
-
-
- Date: 18 Nov 1998 17:45:05 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Bancroft Gracey <100532.1747@compuserve.com>
- Subject: Soul Hunter q (SFLIT)
-
- Bancroft Gracey <100532.1747@compuserve.com> asks:
- > when, at the end of Soul Hunter (season 1), Delenn is releasing
- > 'souls', is she only releasing minbari 'souls', or all the
- > 'souls' in the renegade Soul Hunter's collection?
-
- It would be any and all so imprisoned.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 18 Nov 1998 21:39:13 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: DougP <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
- Subject: Objects at Rest
-
- DougP <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
- > when Sheridan and Lorien are together and Lorien asks him "do you
- > have any reason worth living?" Did you make any special notes in
- > the script of Objects at Rest?
-
- Yeah, my instructions to Chris were the same there as for
- another scene next week, "break our hearts." And the two themes are
- actually pretty much the same, since they proceed from similar
- contexts. That section of "Rest" just puts me away every time.
-
- jms
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
-
-
- Date: 23 Nov 1998 17:31:00 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
- Subject: Objects at Rest
-
- Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
- > Rest" be available to us on CD?
-
- Nothing's been set yet on the next CD.
-
- jms
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
-
-
- Date: 25 Nov 1998 22:14:05 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com>
- Subject: Babylon 5
-
- {original post had no questions}
-
- I have thoughts aplenty...but they are for the quiet moments
- tonight. Thank you....
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 25 Nov 1998 22:14:05 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
- Subject: It's over.
-
- {original post had no questions}
-
- No, thank you...
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 25 Nov 1998 22:14:06 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: (blocked)
- Subject: SiL
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- Thanks....
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 25 Nov 1998 22:14:06 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: (blocked)
- Subject: SiL - tears
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- Yeah, that's the scene that gets me too, every damned time.
-
- Thanks....
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 00:06:10 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Janetch <112013.1636@compuserve.com>
- Subject: SiL - tears
-
- Janetch <112013.1636@compuserve.com> asks:
- > Do you recall what was going on in your mind for that scene?
- > Is it not too personal that you are willing to share it?
-
- It's too hard to put into words...I looked around, knowing that
- this could well be it, the last time I'd see this place. It was just
- real hard.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 25 Nov 1998 22:14:06 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Thomas W. Rackers <72047.1207@compuserve.com>
- Subject: Well done, sir.
-
- Thomas W. Rackers <72047.1207@compuserve.com> asks:
- > Was that, or was that not, you as the tech who shut off the
- > lights?
-
- Thank you, I appreciate hearing all that...and yeah, that was
- me....
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 25 Nov 1998 22:14:06 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: DougP <70760.2440@compuserve.com>
- Subject: SiL
-
- {original post had no questions}
-
- "On a personal note, I have been dreading this last episode, not so
- much because of the story, but more because of it's being the end of
- Babylon 5. Now that I have watched it I must tell you that I don't feel
- depressed or sad. Yes, it was a very moving episode but also an
- uplifting story, and I actually feel good. Like I just finished a good
- book, which of course I have except that I watched it rather than read
- it."
-
- That's pretty much the reaction that others have had, which is
- what I was hoping for...because in a strange way, as much as it's an
- ending, it's also about hope and new beginnings and renewal.
-
- Thanks....
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 25 Nov 1998 22:14:07 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Peter Kazmir <112055.402@compuserve.com>
- Subject: SiL, Z'ha'dum and Thanks
-
- {original post had no questions}
-
- Thanks for the kind words, and my best to your wife. What the
- eye sees is always second to what the heart sees in any event.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 25 Nov 1998 22:14:07 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Joseph Schierer <76326.3124@compuserve.com>
- Subject: unanswered questions?
-
- Joseph Schierer <76326.3124@compuserve.com> asks:
- > "Will we ever find out what happened to the missing day in
- > Sinclair's life, and will we ever find out what happened to
- > Babylon 4?" now, the show is over - but did I miss something?
- > the "little surprise" Londo left Sheriden & Delenn for their
- > child - whatever happens to it? does Londo & G'Kar meet their
- > mutual end, as "fortold" in War without end?
-
- Seems to me we answered all those questions except for the David
- one in the course of the show.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 00:01:07 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: (blocked)
- Subject: JMS Thank you
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- Thank you, and good luck with your own stories.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 00:06:10 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: (blocked)
- Subject: SiL - A Couple Things
-
- {original post had no questions}
-
- Thanks, and yeah, there's symmetry there, to be sure.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 00:06:10 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: (blocked)
- Subject: That was a good story
-
- {original post had no questions}
-
- Thank you...for the kind words and the flashback.
-
- jms
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
-
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:31:03 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: (blocked)
- Subject: Bravo!!
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- Thanks...it's been great.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:04 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Gar Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com>
- Subject: Babylon 5
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- No, Vir did not have a Keeper. He helped to free Centauri
- Prime.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:04 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Rick Shelton <72560.3114@compuserve.com>
- Subject: That was a good story
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- Thanks....
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:05 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: SysOp Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
- Subject: That was a good story
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- Thanks, and yeah, it was definitely pretty intense on-set for
- that ep.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:05 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: John Bendel <73447.741@compuserve.com>
- Subject: Many thanks
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- Thanks...it's been a terrific ride.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:05 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com>
- Subject: How did it feel?
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- As noted elsewhere here...it was just real hard.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:05 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: John Bovenmyer <73567.1341@compuserve.com>
- Subject: SiL
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- Thanks, and I suggested the wave 'cause it's what he would do.
- Stephen agreed.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:06 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
- Subject: SiL
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- "My boy toy was saying he couldn't believe that you had Sherridan go,
- but not have DeLenn with him; but I found it appropriate that he would
- do that. My guess was (correct me if I'm wrong), that like David, he
- didn't want anyone to remember him any other way. He wanted their last
- thoughts of him to be not of him dying but who and what he was before
- that."
-
- Exactly.
-
- And thanks for the kind words.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:06 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: WizOp Wes Meier <76703.747@compuserve.com>
- Subject: SiL - tears
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- Thanks...it's hard to let it go, but every book has a back
- cover.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:06 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Evan Zucker <73067.1455@compuserve.com>
- Subject: unanswered questions?
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- It'd be hard to pick up the David arc since he'll only be about
- 4 years old at the time Crusade starts.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:06 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: JonathanKass > [jekass]
- Subject: SIL / B5
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- Thanks...
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:07 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com>
- Subject: SiL and a Question
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- It was the station blowing up, and the shuttle leaving, and the
- coda, and the sunrise.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:07 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
- Subject: The End of a Dream
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- The thanks are all mine.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:07 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: (blocked)
- Subject: <SiL> - the story
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- Thanks, and you're right, it's in many ways the story of the
- station. Which is why it's such a moment when it goes up. That is the
- icon, and the way into so much of what happens in the show.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:03 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
- Subject: SiL
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- Thanks....
-
- Yeah, that was me...and rewriting somebody else is as easy or
- hard as the other person makes it.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:03 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Rebecca Costello <71045.3050@compuserve.com>
- Subject: The End of a Dream
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- Thanks, it's appreciated.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:03 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com>
- Subject: That was a good story
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- Thanks.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:03 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: (blocked)
- Subject: Giving Thanks for B5
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- Thanks; a lot of folks have come out of lurker-zone on this one,
- and it's been great to hear the voices.
-
- As for Eep, I guess I picked it because it's so small that you
- might miss it, it was vague enough not to get me in trouble, and it's
- kind of a mouse sound.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:04 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
- Subject: SiL broke my VCR!
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- We didn't have the 1997 Hugo when this was filmed. And thanks.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
-
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:31:03 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: (blocked)
- Subject: Bravo!!
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- Thanks...it's been great.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:06 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com>
- Subject: SIL / B5
-
- {original post had no questions}
-
- Thanks...
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:05 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: John Bovenmyer <73567.1341@compuserve.com>
- Subject: SiL
-
- John Bovenmyer <73567.1341@compuserve.com> asks:
- > Your idea or Stephen's?
- > Was it the producer, writer or director who talked the creator
- > into becoming an actor?
-
- Thanks, and I suggested the wave 'cause it's what he would do.
- Stephen agreed.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:06 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Evan Zucker <73067.1455@compuserve.com>
- Subject: unanswered questions?
-
- Evan Zucker <73067.1455@compuserve.com> asks:
- > I am purposely avoiding any spoilers for Crusade so I can enjoy
- > the episodes as I see them, but since I've read there is some
- > connection between B5 and Crusade, can you tell us whether the
- > David arc will be picked up in Crusade? Do you also appear in one
- > of the Producers photos just before the closing credits?
-
- It'd be hard to pick up the David arc since he'll only be about
- 4 years old at the time Crusade starts.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:04 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Gar Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com>
- Subject: Babylon 5
-
- Gar Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com> asks:
- > The sole remaining question is - did Vir have a Keeper?
-
- No, Vir did not have a Keeper. He helped to free Centauri
- Prime.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:07 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com>
- Subject: SiL and a Question
-
- Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
- > Was Delenn looking out at the sunrise this scene?
- > If so it why would it provoke that sort of reaction?
- > If this was not the final scene, what was it going to be?
-
- It was the station blowing up, and the shuttle leaving, and the
- coda, and the sunrise.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:06 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
- Subject: SiL
-
- Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
- > Um, that was you, right?
-
- "My boy toy was saying he couldn't believe that you had Sherridan go,
- but not have DeLenn with him; but I found it appropriate that he would
- do that. My guess was (correct me if I'm wrong), that like David, he
- didn't want anyone to remember him any other way. He wanted their last
- thoughts of him to be not of him dying but who and what he was before
- that."
-
- Exactly.
-
- And thanks for the kind words.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:03 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com>
- Subject: SiL
-
- Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
- > That was you that turned off the lights?
- > Knowing how much it bothers you to have your work edited and
- > rewritten by others, was it/is it tough for you when you have to
- > do that to a collegue? It must be a necessary evil in some cases,
- > yes? Do you tend to or try to keep it to a minimum?
- > Or does it depend on the story, writer's experience, etc?
- > Has it ever been an intimidating experience for you?
-
- Thanks....
-
- Yeah, that was me...and rewriting somebody else is as easy or
- hard as the other person makes it.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:04 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Rick Shelton <72560.3114@compuserve.com>
- Subject: That was a good story
-
- {original post had no questions}
-
- Thanks....
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:05 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: John Bendel <73447.741@compuserve.com>
- Subject: Many thanks
-
- {original post had no questions}
-
- Thanks...it's been a terrific ride.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:07 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
- Subject: The End of a Dream
-
- {original post had no questions}
-
- The thanks are all mine.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:03 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Rebecca Costello <71045.3050@compuserve.com>
- Subject: The End of a Dream
-
- {original post had no questions}
-
- Thanks, it's appreciated.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:05 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com>
- Subject: How did it feel?
-
- Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com> asks:
- > I am sure you got this message at least a 100 times, but how did
- > it feel to flip the switch that everything ended, after 4 years,
- > and how was the feeling after you could carry on with your Story?
-
- As noted elsewhere here...it was just real hard.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:06 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: WizOp Wes Meier <76703.747@compuserve.com>
- Subject: SiL - tears
-
- {original post had no questions}
-
- Thanks...it's hard to let it go, but every book has a back
- cover.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:05 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: SysOp Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
- Subject: That was a good story
-
- {original post had no questions}
-
- Thanks, and yeah, it was definitely pretty intense on-set for
- that ep.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:07 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: (blocked)
- Subject: <SiL> - the story
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- Thanks, and you're right, it's in many ways the story of the
- station. Which is why it's such a moment when it goes up. That is the
- icon, and the way into so much of what happens in the show.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:03 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com>
- Subject: That was a good story
-
- {original post had no questions}
-
- Thanks.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:03 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: (blocked)
- Subject: Giving Thanks for B5
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- Thanks; a lot of folks have come out of lurker-zone on this one,
- and it's been great to hear the voices.
-
- As for Eep, I guess I picked it because it's so small that you
- might miss it, it was vague enough not to get me in trouble, and it's
- kind of a mouse sound.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:04 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com>
- Subject: SiL broke my VCR!
-
- SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
- > Where was the 1997 Hugo hidden?
-
- We didn't have the 1997 Hugo when this was filmed. And thanks.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
-
-
- Date: 29 Nov 1998 23:24:05 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Gar Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com>
- Subject: <SiL> - the story
-
- Gar Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com> asks:
- > Let's see, where's that Indian restaurant?
-
- It's never been done before; and likely won't again, at least
- for a long time. But the interaction, for me, has been worth it.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 29 Nov 1998 23:24:04 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: (blocked)
- Subject: Babylon 5
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- Thanks...and that's the desired sense of it, that this is a
- place that goes on, and we saw this part of it.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 30 Nov 1998 00:06:11 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com>
- Subject: Sleeping In Light
-
- Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com> asks:
- > Why was the station destroyed?
- > A hazard to navigation?
- > Why?
- > And why wouldn't it be kept as a permanent museum?
-
- Remember how much money and maintainance it would take to keep a
- 5 mile long station running. They could barely do it when there was a
- lot of tourism and business coming through; absent that, it's unviable,
- and you don't just want to leave it there for folks to come in and take
- over.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 29 Nov 1998 23:24:05 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: (blocked)
- Subject: Objects in Plain Sight
-
- {original post unavailable}
-
- Wasn't much else hid...few have noticed the Hugo so far...and
- yeah, that was a shot glass...just playing the irony of his finding it.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 29 Nov 1998 23:24:05 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com>
- Subject: More soggy tissues :-)
-
- {original post had no questions}
-
- Thanks....
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 30 Nov 1998 00:06:11 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: (blocked)
- Subject: The End of a Dream
-
- {original post had no questions}
-
- Thanks, to you and all the other folks up north who just got the
- end of the story.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 30 Nov 1998 00:06:10 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Janetch <112013.1636@compuserve.com>
- Subject: A little bit of history
-
- Janetch <112013.1636@compuserve.com> asks:
- > What's the moral of this?
- > Who knows?
-
- "The biggest difference I noticed in your old posts was the "tone" --
- you seemed more "upbeat". I guess the past 5 years of working 26 hour
- days, dealing with online jerks, and fighting with the various suits
- over renewal EVERY DAMN YEAR have taken a toll on your overall
- outlook."
-
- It was a number of different factors, really...those wars, the
- daily grind of writing and producing this show, the online experiment
- (which was 90% terrific and 10% nutcases)...over time, it all takes a
- real toll.
-
- (Somewhat related aside...I was redoing my list of credits the
- other day for the PR file, which goes to reporters, and started adding
- up how much of what I've written has been produced, on a per-hour
- basis. These are just the produced TV episodes -- half-hour and hour --
- and TV movies, nothing else.
-
- (Came out that if you started watching it all, no repeats, 8
- hours a day, it would take you slightly over 3 weeks to see it all. I
- went to lie down for a while after that one.)
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 30 Nov 1998 00:06:10 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Janetch <112013.1636@compuserve.com>
- Subject: From my husband...
-
- Janetch <112013.1636@compuserve.com> asks:
- > There were several years of wondering "who the hell are the
- > Shadows" (and the Vorlons) and what do they want? What else can I
- > say, but "a job well done"? Do you get tired of the constant
- > accolades from your fans? If this has been an experiment, after
- > seven years what are the results?
-
- Thanks for the kind words, and good luck with your ventures.
-
- What's the final result? I hope a document, thousands of pages
- long, that chronicles the making of a show on every level, so that
- average folks can better understand the process and, thus, better
- communicate what it is they want, on the theory that you can never have
- what you want until you know how to ask for it, and what your options
- are.
-
- That, and maybe making some people think...if even that is
- accomplished, then the experiment was worthwhile.
-
- jms
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 30 Nov 1998 00:06:10 -0700
- From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
- To: Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com>
- Subject: SIL Credits
-
- Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com> asks:
- > I was wondering is TNT not going to run a voice over or squish
- > the credits at the end of the broadcast?
-
- Dunno....
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
-
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