JMS on Genie August 1996 SFRT II RoundTable Category 18, Topic 1 Message 416 Thu Aug 01, 1996 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 14:50 EDT Congrats, Tom, great news. RE: Electronic Arts...no, they do not have ANY rights to any B5 games whatsoever. There was a deal in the works about 2 years ago, but it fell through. The area is wide open. jms ------------ SFRT I RoundTable Category 44, Topic 5 Message 294 Wed Aug 07, 1996 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 23:51 EDT Actually, the jackets you generally see me and members of the cast and crew wearing are *only* for those folks, who've earned them in the trenches. We'll never license out anything just like them, in order to keep them special for the crew. We'd make a mint if we did...but that ain't what matters here. Technically, the first B5 related con I did was LosCon, where I screened about 15 seconds of animation for the project, and first went public with the name. jms ------------ SFRT II RoundTable Category 18, Topic 1 Message 517 Thu Aug 08, 1996 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 03:13 EDT Yes, in the fairly near future we'll be spending some more time back on Mars. Working title for #404: "Falling Toward Apotheosis." jms ------------ SFRT II RoundTable Category 18, Topic 1 Message 525 Thu Aug 08, 1996 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 16:33 EDT Good, one should look up words, add to one's vocabulary. Who does this involve? Well, we'll see. Yeah, I wrote the Scripts column for Writer's Digest for almost exactly 10 years...definitely enough for a book, but since the new version of my writing book is coming out in October, no point to it, really. Actually met Chris Roberts last year, when we were in some preliminary discussions about us doing a Wing Commander movie or series. He definitely wants to be a film-maker. jms ------------ SFRT II RoundTable Category 18, Topic 1 Message 547 Sat Aug 10, 1996 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 01:37 EDT Virtually all food used is real, for health reasons. The liquid drunk by G'Kar and Arthur in "Avalon" is Yoo-Hoo; the mountain of stuff Garibaldi's eating in the Zocalo in first season is piled meatloaf; the spaghetti and bagna cauda was real; the only problem is that no matter what you do, it's going to get cold after 18 takes, even with reheating, and by the 17th take...well, it's an ugly sight. jms ------------ SFRT I RoundTable Category 44, Topic 5 Message 302 Sat Aug 10, 1996 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 01:40 EDT Michael is generally reserved, soft-spoken, very intelligent; he reads quite a great deal, and has a background in NY theater, so he's up on all kinds of plays. He's also very observant and a good listener. He tends to find the one person in the line who's been shoved back, and go to that person the most, or to the kid in the audience. He has a somewhat philosophical bent as well. jms ------------ SFRT II RoundTable Category 18, Topic 1 Message 568 Mon Aug 12, 1996 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 17:09 EDT BTW, I should mention that Patricia Tallman (aka Lyta Alexander) is joining the cast as a regular character in year four, and will be included in the main title sequence. jms ------------ SFRT II RoundTable Category 18, Topic 1 Message 588 Tue Aug 13, 1996 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 14:42 EDT Zrath: you're the first person to catch the subtext in that; one is falling toward something which is rising, therefore promising imminent conflict. jms ------------ SFRT II RoundTable Category 18, Topic 1 Message 603 Wed Aug 14, 1996 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 03:53 EDT Actually, we put the station site online so we could run some final tests at the site itself, and hadn't yet announced it online as being up and ready. That should be happening shortly, so it's still being finalized a bit. jms ------------ SFRT II RoundTable Category 18, Topic 1 Message 639 Sat Aug 17, 1996 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 19:29 EDT Pat's said she'd like to do her own stunts, but she constitutes a valuable commodity, and I'm not sure I want to risk that. jms ------------ SFRT II RoundTable Category 18, Topic 1 Message 727 Wed Aug 21, 1996 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 23:13 EDT Kris: no, it was an original TZ, I didn't write any remakes, don't believe in it. Mike: yeah, might be impossible to do that on TV...then again, maybe not.... We picked our cast members because they were the best ones to walk in the room. Nothing much there to say. jms ------------ SFRT II RoundTable Category 18, Topic 1 Message 737 Thu Aug 22, 1996 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 15:13 EDT It's real simple, Kwick. I sit in a chair in the office as actors come in to audition. Most times, an actor comes in, and an actor goes out. Sometimes, on rare occasions, the actor comes in and the character comes in with him. You don't see the actor, you see the character. And that's the one you hire. jms ------------ SFRT II RoundTable Category 18, Topic 1 Message 441 Thu Aug 22, 1996 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 23:21 EDT Don: some of it's deliberate, I'm not averse to using an actor's background to inform something in the character (i.e., Jerry's vehemently pro-death penalty, so I used that in Garibaldi) to add verisimilitude to the personality at hand. jms ------------ SFRT II RoundTable Category 18, Topic 2 Message 366 Sat Aug 24, 1996 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 23:08 EDT I have *no* idea why this should be...there's no reason why the writers can't contact me, unless Dell is telling them not to, and if that is true someone at Dell is going to be tarred and feathered. As Tim can confirm, if someone writing the B5 DC comic had a question, they just sent me an email, and if I could confirm it, I would. Regarding Jeanne's specific story...when the spec outline came in, I went over it with a fine-toothed comb and made notations on certain elements to bring it into line with canon. The script she will be receiving will answer about 95% of the questions in this regard. It has nothing to do with kindness; when Stephen Smith needed to finish the new card set from Fleer, I made sure he read the final 5 scripts so he'd know what to include/exclude. With Dell, after I approve the outlines, I rarely hear from the writers until the first draft comes in, and then I have to go over it with little time and try and correct it. It'd be better if they checked in with me during the process but I assumed they wanted to get it out first, then correct what needed correcting. If they're not being allowed to ask me questions, if somebody there is putting him- or herself in the way for reasons of controlling information or preserving authority, somebody's going to be in *serious* dutch. I will check on this on Monday. jms ------------