Compiled by David Strauss (dstrauss@netcom.com). ------------ SFRT II RoundTable Category 18, Topic 12 Message 465 Thu Feb 01, 1996 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 00:51 EST Richard Biggs is pictorialized in the new issue of Playgirl hitting the stands now. jms ------------ SFRT II RoundTable Category 19, Topic 30 Message 32 Fri Feb 02, 1996 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 05:56 EST 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. jms ------------ SFRT II RoundTable Category 18, Topic 1 Message 557 Sun Feb 04, 1996 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 03:13 EST 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. jms ------------ SFRT II RoundTable Category 19, Topic 30 Message 73 Mon Feb 05, 1996 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 02:35 EST 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. 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. 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!" 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. 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. Because people fell for it. It did work It does work. And it will *continue* to work...for as long as people think that THEY would NEVER fall for such a thing.... jms ------------ SFRT II RoundTable Category 18, Topic 1 Message 601 Tue Feb 06, 1996 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 20:03 EST We're negotiating to try and maybe get some episodes on in March or early April. jms ------------ SFRT II RoundTable Category 18, Topic 2 Message 468 Tue Feb 06, 1996 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 03:19 EST 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. 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. jms ------------ SFRT II RoundTable Category 18, Topic 2 Message 474 Tue Feb 06, 1996 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 21:49 EST 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.... 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." jms ------------ SFRT II RoundTable Category 19, Topic 30 Message 91 Tue Feb 06, 1996 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 00:43 EST 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). jms ------------ SFRT II RoundTable Category 19, Topic 30 Message 93 Tue Feb 06, 1996 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 03:16 EST Where was it said Sheridan didn't recognize the voice...? jms ------------ SFRT II RoundTable Category 19, Topic 30 Message 95 Tue Feb 06, 1996 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 04:40 EST Never said they're all convinced of it. Just as all Germans weren't convined of the views advanced by Hitler. You don't need all of them. You just need *enough* of them. Preferably, enough of them with guns. 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. jms ------------