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Subj: Re:When to Bring in New Peop
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Date: 96-04-02 01:34:32 EST
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From: Jms at B5
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{What episode would be best to bring new peoplein to watch the show?}
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I strongly suggest you try this week's episode, "Severed Dreams." I showed
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it at a small con/fan gathering here in LA on Saturday, before the uplink,
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and there were several folks there who hadn't seen or been moved to check out
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B5...and by the time it was over, they'd turned around.
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jms
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Subj: Re:To JMS:RE: The One
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Date: 96-04-01 18:37:46 EST
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From: Jms at B5
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No, the Triluminaries are simply not that important. This isn't a story
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about a mcguffin, a thing that has to be acquired or protected or regained;
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also isn't a quest story. If you look at any work of an epic, mythic or
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saga-based construction, certain elements are universal. Those themes show
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up in all such sagas...if you look for any kind of real story correlation
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between B5 and LoTR you won't find them. They're not in any way parallels.
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jms
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Subj: Re:Keep up the RAD Work!
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Date: 96-04-01 18:39:24 EST
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From: Jms at B5
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The show will eventually be stripped daily on TNT when the show's finished.
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jms
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Subj: Re:Previews
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Date: 96-04-01 18:43:36 EST
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From: Jms at B5
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I don't know what the situation is, but will inquire.
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jms
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Subj: Re:Dolby Stereo
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Date: 96-04-01 18:45:01 EST
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From: Jms at B5
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Hrmm...usually we're pretty good about that stuff...I know there was *so
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much* audio we were mixing for "Dreams" that that one element may have been
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placed center simply because we were so busy with everything else that it
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didn't get noticed.
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jms
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Subj: Re:Kung Fu, The Legend Ends
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Date: 96-04-01 18:46:02 EST
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From: Jms at B5
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I haven't heard anything more on this, but would doubt that we'd end up on
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the WB network because of jurisdictional considerations.
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jms
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Subj: Re:Insane?
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Date: 96-04-01 18:46:57 EST
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From: Jms at B5
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That depends on how you define "the real thing." Check back with me after
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the next 2 episodes.
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jms
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Subj: Re:Life force...
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Date: 96-04-01 18:48:25 EST
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From: Jms at B5
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No, I wouldn't say there's a corrolation to life force and the shadow ships;
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they need a living organism as the central processing unit because an organic
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unit can think faster than most computer systems, and react faster in terms
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of formulating strategy and the like.
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jms
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Subj: Re:ATTN JMS: Extra
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Date: 96-04-01 18:49:24 EST
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From: Jms at B5
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You need to be a member of the Screen Actors Guild, belong to Central
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Casting, and be on their lists for extras.
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jms
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Subj: Re:Minbari friend quote
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Date: 96-04-02 01:31:26 EST
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From: Jms at B5
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Hrmm...I'd have to drag out the script for that, and it's tucked away in
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storage. Will try to drag it out when I get a chance.
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jms
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Subj: Re:Gun camera
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Date: 96-04-02 01:32:45 EST
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From: Jms at B5
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The images continued to be broadcast to the distress probe after it was
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jettisoned. The ISN team mentioned on-air they were attracted to the
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time-delay distress beacon on the probe.
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jms
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Subj: Re:JMS: Headline in New Sci
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Date: 96-04-02 01:33:12 EST
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From: Jms at B5
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I think the case is greatly overstated.
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jms
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Subj: Re:JMS - WOW! - and a ?
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Date: 96-04-03 02:25:37 EST
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From: Jms at B5
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{What type of guns are used on B5, and how do they function?}
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The guns are Phased Plasma Guns, PPGs, which fire superheated helium bursts
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(in limited amounts, you have to swap out energy caps after a fairly brief
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period) rather than slugs to avoid puncturing the hull.
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jms
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Subj: Re:SD: Author! Author!
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Date: 96-04-03 02:26:38 EST
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From: Jms at B5
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{Severed Dreams was the best episode to date}
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James: thanks...I'm just endlessly pleased by the reaction to this episode;
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we worked *awfully* hard on it.
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Subj: Re:SEVERED DREAMS
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Date: 96-04-04 01:18:32 EST
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From: Jms at B5
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{When will there be models for purchase?}
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Nothing's been firmed up yet about models that I know about; soonish, though.
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And thanks.
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jms
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Subj: Re:Next episodes
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Date: 96-04-04 01:18:59 EST
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From: Jms at B5
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You'll have new episodes all through April and May.
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jms
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Subj: Re:Next episodes
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Date: 96-04-04 01:20:02 EST
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From: Jms at B5
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Oh, I've got plenty of ideas for other shows after B5...just don't know if I
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want to do them; if I'd've said all I want to say for TV in B5. It's very
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tempting to go back to writing novels and plays.
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Subj: Re:Hyperspace vs.Normal Spa
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Date: 96-04-04 01:21:26 EST
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From: Jms at B5
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Once in hyperspace, you can ride the navigational beams between beacons
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(narrow beam stuff, to cut through the interference, as noted in "Distant
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Star"), and by corrolating the beacons, know where you have to come out.
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That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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jms
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Subj: Re:PPGs
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Date: 96-04-04 01:22:15 EST
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From: Jms at B5
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{How many shots to an energy cap?}
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I'll have to check my notes, but I seem to recall you get about 12 PPG shots
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to a standard cap, with some recharge time. A PPG rifle gets about 20-25
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shots, with faster recharge.
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jms
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Subj: Re:Technical Manual?
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Date: 96-04-08 04:29:12 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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Thanks. Eventually we'll do a tech manual, but probably not until after the
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show has run its course.
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jms
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Subj: Re:Getting the word out
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Date: 96-04-08 04:30:32 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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A lot of local promotions is done by the stations, with co-op funding from
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WB, so they all get to determine how it's done individually.
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jms
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Subj: Re:SD and cold chills
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Date: 96-04-08 04:31:36 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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Thanks. Those are rank insignia on the epaulets; and G'Kar's always been
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pretty strong.
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jms
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Subj: Re:what Susan said...
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Date: 96-04-08 04:33:08 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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Yes, I do know what you mean, and you're welcome.
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No, as far as I know, no one from B5 will be at the big Creation con since
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it's a ST con.
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jms
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Subj: Re:Severed Dreams
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Date: 96-04-08 04:34:00 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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No, her exact line was, "No human captain has ever survived battle with a
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Minbari fleet." Sinclair wasn't a captain.
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And thanks.
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jms
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Subj: Re:Twilight Zone
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Date: 96-04-08 04:35:21 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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I think you're primarily speaking of the CBS version; I did only one script
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for that version, and then 10 for the syndicated version. "By His
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Bootstraps," I understand, was too expensive to film.
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jms
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Subj: Re:DirecTV?
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Date: 96-04-08 04:36:12 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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Thanks, and no, there are no plans for not for any WB stuff on DTV that I
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know of.
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jms
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Subj: Re:INCREDIBLE!
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Date: 96-04-08 04:36:46 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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The third caste is the Worker caste.
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jms
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Subj: Re:JMS: Severed Dreeams/Mira
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Date: 96-04-08 04:37:53 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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We found Mira through the casting process, when she came in along with many
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others. And we've been happy ever after that she did.
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jms
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Subj: Re:Speechless!
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Date: 96-04-08 04:40:02 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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The best thing to do is mail your local station and show your support there.
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And thanks....
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Subj: Re:SD Questions
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Date: 96-04-09 04:35:32 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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"Why was it impossible to jump into hyperspace (in the beginning of the show)
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and not take the Starfuries with the ship? We've seen it done before."
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No, I don't believe so. You've seen a jump GATE used, but that's different
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from a jump POINT which basically closes right behind the ship like a rabbit
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pulling its hole in after it. If the ships stayed behind to protect its
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rear, they'd be left behind. Ships coming out of a jump point into normal
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space sometimes will let their fighters zip out AS they're coming out,
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alongside the main ship.
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Subj: Re:B5 Merchandising?
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Date: 96-04-09 04:36:41 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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1) ALL of the B5 models currently being advertised are 100% illegal and
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unauthorized, and we are taking aggressive legal steps to shut them down.
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2) There will be a B5 RPG out sometime late this year/early next year.
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Subj: Re:2 parter Title Change?
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Date: 96-04-09 04:37:14 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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"Wasn't the upcoming 2 parter once entitled "World Without End" instead of
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"War Without End?""
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Nope.
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Subj: Re:JMS: SD, All Alone / Nigh
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Date: 96-04-09 04:38:58 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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"Hmmmm....I'm not really sure I want to know the answer to this...."
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Darn, and I was just about to spill the beans...ah, well....never mind.
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Subj: Re:JMS:RE:Grey Council & Duk
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Date: 96-04-09 04:40:41 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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"Why was the Grey Council always to be found on a cruiser? Were they ever
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located on Minbar itself? Or was the cruiser orbiting Minbar? Was it for
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their protection, or secrecy? Or has this already been answered?"
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We've hinted at it...the Grey Council always stays on its ship, being part of
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the universe, giving it an exotic, distant feel for its people...as though
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among the gods.
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Subj: Re:SD:How did Delenn know?
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Date: 96-04-09 04:44:47 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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She already knew that civil war had broken out between EA ships and forces,
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and that B5 had already faced one takeover bid, and that whether or not it
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happened today or the next day, it was definitely coming. That was
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unmistakeable. Also, bear in mind that Lennier stayed behind. She would
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have checked in with him en route and found out what was going on, or picked
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up the radio broadcasts of the battle in progress. I could've shown this,
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but that would''ve blown the surprise of her arrival.
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Subj: Re:ATT JMS: Renewal situatio
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Date: 96-04-09 04:45:46 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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I responded in both forums. I doubt any such memo exists. And nothing has
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been said.
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Subj: Re:JMS-Morden & Videos Quest
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Date: 96-04-09 19:55:37 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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Folks have already tried writing WB to change their minds about videos;
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hasn't worked. We're working at it from this end.
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jms
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Subj: Re:The rim of known space
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Date: 96-04-22 22:43:20 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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Who's behind the shadows? Nobody. The shadows are the shadows (though
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that's not the name by which they call themselves), a race of their own.
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Question is, why are they doing what they're doing?
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You'll find out by season's end.
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Subj: Re:If I were Sherridan:I wou
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Date: 96-04-23 03:11:40 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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"I would round up all the destroyed EA/centauri/narin hulls/ships I could
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find.(Especially the burned out Agrippa) to intimidate others who come with
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hostile intent. Also it would serve as a parts depot."
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What's there are burned, blackened husks, which you do NOT want floating
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around as they become hideous dangers to navigation, and the "spare parts"
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would eventually start banging into your station, hitting incoming ships and
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starfuries. What can be salvaged, has been.
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"I would construtively use my communication command athourity to send letters
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to the families of the dead."
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EA has cut off access to Earth; they don't want Sheridan getting information
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from back home, or relaying instructions to forces there.
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"I would rig the jump gate to explode on my command."
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Good idea; cut off the only means of escape for the quarter million people
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there who don't have jump capable ships. You won't stop an invasion by
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hostile ships which can make their own jump points, you just end up killing
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all your civilians.
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"Make a deal with Drall on the defences, and learn of all his capabilities
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also the Minbari's."
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This is already in process, as has been established.
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"Arrange an accident to happen to one of the shadow creatures on board and
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get it to Dr. Franklin or Drall."
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You have to find them first.
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"Start a propagada campaign against Clark."
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Better to tell the truth. And, again, home-communications are down.
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"Unite the renegade ships and offer a home to the missing Narin ship."
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This is an obvious step already in process.
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"Have the Minbari make a clone of Morden."
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They don't have that technology.
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"Start a spy network."
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They're doing all they can to get info.
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"Start propaganda working the non-aligned worlds."
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See above.
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"Get some answers from Kosh or kill him(information is everything)."
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Yessir, that'll work out great. The vorlons are important to winning this;
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let's torture or kill their ambassador, REAL good idea.
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"Have Lyta scan all the crew members for spyes and loyalties."
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When you become obsessed with the enemy, you become the enemy. This would be
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a Bad Thing.
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"Move the minbari ships out of sight(behind the planet)."
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Another good idea; let's put them where they have to come all the way around
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the planet, by which time B5 is a burned cinder.
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"Start gathering intelegence on the shadows ships. How many, were are they
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made, how long to make"
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Where would you get that information? The only real source is on Z'ha'dum.
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Basically, everything that can be done, *is* being done. But people have to
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have some moments to live, or there's nothing worth fighting for. And
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sometimes a relationship can remind us what we're fighting for.
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Subj: Re:JMS: Harlan Ellison
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Date: 96-04-23 03:12:09 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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Harlan's doing much better; up and around and walking and in general in great
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spirits.
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Subj: Re:Status reports
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Date: 96-04-23 23:37:47 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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"So, JMS... how are *you* doing through all this (Harlan, renewal, season's
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end, taxes, etc.)."
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I'M FINE! ABSOLUTELY FINE! COULDN'T BE BETTER! I'VE ALWAYS WORN A RABBIT
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ON MY HEAD! IT'S A FASHION THING, OKAY? I'M FINE! YOU HEAR ME? FINE!!!
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jm(thud)s
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Subj: Re:In A Glass, Darkly
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Date: 96-04-23 23:40:37 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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Yes, there's a certain Jungian influence in the shadows, in that the shadow
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as Jung referred to it was unbridled want, unbridled need, and that's what
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they appeal to.
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Subj: Re:JMS: A few questions
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Date: 96-04-23 23:43:42 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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Thanks. As far as visual EFX, animators and visual artists are
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concerned...it's a world apart, one I barely understand. I don't know what's
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really required or designed to hep succeed...though I suspect the ability to
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converse freely with squirrels is partly involved. I couldn't advise you on
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this and have that advice mean much of anything, I'm afraid.
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For the rest, I can only offer my thanks.
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jms
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Subj: Re:JMS - Battle of Camlan
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Date: 96-04-25 00:28:41 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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I dug through a number of recent Arthurian texts, and that date come out the
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most often; I've heard the other date, which was about 20 years later, but
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the one most often used is the 515 date, at least in what I researched.
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jms
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Subj: Re:Wide-screen and fan club.
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Date: 96-04-25 00:30:36 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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I believe that France will be showing S3 in widescreen, and the episodes are
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being transferred to that format even as we speak.
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jms
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Subj: Re:Hugo
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Date: 96-04-25 00:31:18 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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I wasn't given the vote counts, but it was my understanding that "Coming of
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Shadows" had received the larger number of vote counts.
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jms
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Subj: Re:question
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Date: 96-04-25 03:46:44 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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The cold, hard and rather ruthless answer is...if you're not sure, if it's
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just something you're kinda thinking about...don't do it.
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The only ones who have a chance of making it as writers are those who can't
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*not* write.
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"I am trying to find out what I can do with my life and writing sound like
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fun." It's not fun, as you mean it. It's agony. It's the hardest thing I
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do. It takes *years* of work, every single day, day in and day out, before
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you get any good at it at all. It takes suffering and pain and paying your
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dues and fighting every single day first to prove you have talen to yourself,
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then to prove it to others, then to finally begin making a living at it.
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It's not a case of, "Well, look over there, *that* looks interesting, maybe
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I'll do that."
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Either being a writer means everything to you, or it doesn't. If it doesn't,
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you shouldn't do it. It's not a question of knowing "what you want to do."
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You *know* it. It's just a matter of the will and strength required to *do*
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it.
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Unless that describes you...try something else.
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jms
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Subj: Re:Earth history and B5
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Date: 96-04-25 03:51:37 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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"What period of history interests you the most?"
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All of them, really, for different reasons. The Middle Ages, the Victorian
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period, the Renaissance, pre- and post-numerical wars and a time in which we
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didn't have to number them...the present, the cruellest half of the cruellest
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century...right down to the earliest civilizations. We can learn something
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from all of them.
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jms
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Subj: Re:JMS-What a great guy!
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Date: 96-04-18 04:35:14 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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Gordon: thanks. As for the promos...the usual time allocated for B5 promos
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was taken by the contest, which ends this week. The promos will return
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shortly.
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jms
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Subj: Re:Severed Dreams
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Date: 96-04-18 04:37:26 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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Basically, the Marines burned through the outer hull, moved into the inner
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hull (like any good vessel, this one is double hulled), then came up at a
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right angle, looking for a good wall to come through. You *don't* want to
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come up through the floor, because then you have to climb out one or two at a
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time, which makes you a sitting duck. Better to move off a few feet, and
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come up via a section between walls and blow your way through so you can come
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out en masse.
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jms
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Subj: Re:JMS' Story
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Date: 96-04-27 04:33:11 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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The other thing to bear in mind about all this is the question of a "clean
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fight." If Sheridan were to bring in alien forces at his order to kill
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humans, it would pretty much destroy his credibility. Delenn came in at the
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end but only after he'd made his stand on his own.
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One of the things that kicked off the French Revolution was the allegation
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that the King had brought in or was bringing in Prussian troops to help put
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down dissenters. As long as it was all more or less in the family, that was
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one thing...but to bring in outsiders was an absolute affront to them. (One
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of the singular incidents that started the fighting itself was a group of
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Prussian soldiers sighted sitting in a cafe having lunch, which caused this
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rumor about outsiders coming in to spread like wildfire, and led to the some
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of the first major incidents of rioting.)
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Two brothers may fight one another, but let a third unrelated person come in
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and shove one of the brothers around, and they'll *both* turn on him.
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During the worst days of the civil war, even Lincoln was offered assistance
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in troops from at least one other country; he declined, because it was an
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internal matter, and had to be resolved by those involved, not outsiders.
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Sheridan's logic was exactly the same. It had to be a clean fight.
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jms
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Subj: Re:Questions Ad Infinitum
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Date: 96-04-27 04:34:31 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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No, Londo and the bugs had nothing to do with any notions about the Shadows.
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Sheridan is a war historian, with his main interests in the civil war, where
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one of his ancestors fought. He's very big on Lincoln.
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jms
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Subj: Re:Guest on Season Finale
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Date: 96-04-27 04:35:16 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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Melissa is in two episodes; light in one, heavy in the other.
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jms
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Subj: Re:Avalon references
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Date: 96-04-27 04:36:36 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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Yes, there were several books I consulted about this...unfortunately, they're
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nowhere near at hand, so I can't drag out the names just now. I'll try to
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remember to drag them out soonish.
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jms
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Subj: Re:JMS: 4 questions
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Date: 96-04-27 04:39:25 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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1. What gave you the idea to create a show with a time line?
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I wanted to do a saga; sagas take time to tell. The Lensman books, the
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Foundation books, Dune, others...they can take from a few years to hundreds
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of years to tell. (I love "A Canticle for Liebowitz," which compresses an
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amazing timeline into one volume.) Doing decades worth of story would be
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impossible for TV's format, but a one-to-one year-to-season structure was
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do-able.
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2. What were some of your first ideas for this series?
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I don't quite understand the question.
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3. How good of a chance does B5 have for being renewed?
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50/50.
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4. How is Harlan Ellison doing?
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Much, much better.
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jms
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Subj: Re:writing a wild ride!
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Date: 96-04-27 04:41:35 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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I write pretty much all the time, day or night. I prefer night writing
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because the phone rings less often, and I can blow through a lot of work
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without interruption. Lately, though, I find that I do get a little tired
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come around 2-3 a.m., which I didn't used to, so some of it has switched back
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to daytime or early evening. My advice is to just find what's most
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comfortable for you as a time to write, and stick to it.
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jms
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Subj: Re:Marshal Teague and Hard C
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Date: 96-04-27 04:43:02 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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I haven't seen the material, and thus can't comment. All I know of Marshall
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is what I see on the set, and he has always been a gentle, friendly, gracious
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performer.
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jms
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Subj: Re:SoT Question (Spoilers)
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Date: 96-04-28 19:22:50 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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Well, to follow the book, there still has to be a knowledge of the language.
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You need to have a dictionary around, which is what was used.
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The comparison, I suppose, would be those who say that Jorge Luis Borges'
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work can only be most truly appreciated in the original Spanish. There's a
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*translated* version, which someone has gone through and made the translation
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for you, written it all out in English...or you can learn the language, and
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then read the original manuscript.
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Garibaldi doesn't know Narn, so how other than with a dictionary could he
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read the original material, except by sleeping with it under his pillow and
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praying for divine intervention.
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jms
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Subj: Re:Two questions
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Date: 96-04-29 01:39:47 EDT
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From: Jms at B5
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"Avalon" and "Vir" were reversed in order to a) finish effects on Avalon, and
|
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b) to give a lighter episode after "Ceremonies" (also to hold York for
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sweeps). That may account for some of your feeling here.
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And yes, Earthgov sees B5 in much the way China now sees Taiwan. (Though on
|
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reflection that may not be the best metaphor....)
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jms
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