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- Message 465 Thu Feb 01, 1996
- STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 00:51 EST
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- Richard Biggs is pictorialized in the new issue of Playgirl hitting the
- stands now.
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- Message 32 Fri Feb 02, 1996
- STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 05:56 EST
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- Brett: it's nothing to do with the editor. We deliver nice, clean fades
- to black. When the show is delivered, we often get clipped by the local
- stations (sometimes, we suspect, when the national spots are slugged in),
- because if you clip a couple seconds here and there, you get enough time to
- slip in another blipvert/promo.
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- Message 557 Sun Feb 04, 1996
- STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 03:13 EST
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- Other than GEnie...hrmmm...probably Compuserve. As of this time, it's
- the one area I tend to post about equal to GEnie; it has a decent offline
- reader (Tapcis) that'll help save you lotsa dough...the science fiction media
- area (sfmedtwo) has 2 areas set aside for B5 in messages and library...it's a
- friendly place, absent the occasional troll, which is generally dealt with
- fairly well. Once the moderated rec arts b5 area is created, I'll be there as
- well quite a bit. In the interim, with GEnie long the unofficial home of B5
- online fans, the first place that "noticed" us...I'll be here until they turn
- off the lights.
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- Message 73 Mon Feb 05, 1996
- STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 02:35 EST
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- My sense was that basically Ivanova jumped onto the wrong path as she
- fled...the shadows were in proximity, and she ended up briefly on their path,
- which took her to the interception of the transmission.
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- The one comment that I find most interesting, repeated here a few times,
- is that they didn't buy the Nightwitch (as some have dubbed her) because in
- her address to the Nightwatch, she was not exactly what you might call subtle,
- and thus nobody'd believe her, and see her for what she was.
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- I find it interesting because we always think we're smarter than that,
- when history proves *exactly* the opposite. The Big Lie, spoken not just
- openly, but loudly, firmly and with conviction, has been one of the most
- successful tactics in history. When Hitler and Goebbels stood before a crowd
- and blamed jews for destroying society, circulated pamphlets with ugly
- cariacatures, indicated that they weren't *really* human (this in actual
- newsreels provided to the medical profession members charged with eliminating
- "mental defectives and jews")...when Joseph McCarthy stood up in front of the
- nation waving a list of names of commies in the state department, the
- military, congress, showbiz, and the sciences...the public didn't suddenly
- wake up, hear the voice of the fanatic, and say, "Hey, this guy's nuts!"
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- They bought it. Because they were primed to believe it. Because they
- wanted to believe it. Because they were afraid *not* to believe it. No, she
- wasn't subtle. Because there's a time for subtlety, and there's a time to
- perform grandly for your hand-picked audience and go for the Big Lie. If she
- were addressing a larger audience, she might softpedal her message. To the
- Nightwatch, she's got to hammer them, just as the Hitler Youth were hammered,
- as the Anti-Communist Youth meetings were hammered about the Red Peril, as
- Croatian or Serbian soldiers were hammered about the need to rape women of the
- other "race" to make the resultant babies more ethnically pure...which
- happened.
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- Most of her dialogue was paraphrased from actual speeches given over the
- decades, or longer, by fanatical leaders to their followers. There's bits of
- Hitler, of Goerring, of Goebbels...bits of McCarthy, bits of Stalin, bits of
- Pat Buchanan and Rep. Dornan.
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- Because people fell for it. It did work
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- It does work.
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- And it will *continue* to work...for as long as people think that THEY
- would NEVER fall for such a thing....
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- Message 601 Tue Feb 06, 1996
- STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 20:03 EST
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- We're negotiating to try and maybe get some episodes on in March or early
- April.
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- Message 468 Tue Feb 06, 1996
- STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 03:19 EST
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- We like to vary the music on the bumper. Just for the hell of it. And
- sometimes (often, actually) to match the music in the bumper to the tone of
- the episode. We have, I think 4 or 5 variations. Congrats, you're the first
- to notice this.
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- You'll see Walter again this season after "Dust," and I'm trying to work
- in one more before the end of the season, but it's tough, given what's been
- going on in the latter half of 2260.
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- Message 474 Tue Feb 06, 1996
- STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 21:49 EST
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- Why didn't we do the music change in the end credits at the very start
- of the season, you ask? Why, what a silly question, it was all planned, all
- intentional, it means...er...it means....
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- It means we *forgot*. More correctly, *I* forgot. We were all so busy
- getting the new main titles done, we just kinda forgot about it until the
- first mix...and then we sorta looked around and said, "....oops."
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- Message 91 Tue Feb 06, 1996
- STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 00:43 EST
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- Well, Mike, then you're bound to be disppointed because one of those
- things is going to be dealt with for sure. Some things can get by without
- resolution; some things can't. Otherwise people get frustrated because
- nothing means anything, it's just random threads, and you get Twin Peaks.
- (And then they turn around and, because you didn't resolve something, say it's
- a "plot hole" and gig you for bad writing).
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- Message 93 Tue Feb 06, 1996
- STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 03:16 EST
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- Where was it said Sheridan didn't recognize the voice...?
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- Message 95 Tue Feb 06, 1996
- STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 04:40 EST
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- Never said they're all convinced of it. Just as all Germans weren't
- convined of the views advanced by Hitler.
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- You don't need all of them. You just need *enough* of them.
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- Preferably, enough of them with guns.
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- Remember, too, that we just came out of the Earth/Minbari War about ten
- years ago, when we stood at the edge of extinction. The threat of a new alien
- race makes a good device.
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