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JMS CompuServe messages for December 1998. Collected by John Hardin
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<jhardin@wolfenet.com>.
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Date: 30 Nov 1998 12:18:10 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: Steve Ringley <73727.1202@compuserve.com>
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Subject: Crusade Start Date Slips
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{original post had no questions}
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No, Call is still slated for January 3rd.
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Date: 30 Nov 1998 22:25:11 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: (blocked)
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Subject: Thanks JMS!
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{original post unavailable}
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Thanks, I very much appreciate the generous words.
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jms
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Date: 30 Nov 1998 12:29:00 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: George Gillburg/CA <73137.1733@compuserve.com>
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Subject: Hugo?
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George Gillburg/CA <73137.1733@compuserve.com> asks:
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> Speaking of which, in the scene where General Ivanova (and thanks
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> for getting her back for this last episode) receives here
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> summons, was that a Hugo award on her desk?
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Yeah, that was our first Hugo...just sorta slipped it in with
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Ivanova's other awards. It was kind of a nod back to our fans...and I
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think the first time that a Hugo has been shown on-screen in a series
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that has *won* a Hugo.
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Date: 30 Nov 1998 22:46:06 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com>
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Subject: SiL
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Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
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> We LOVED SiL, BUT, my newly converted office mate fans of B5
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> asked me to query you regarding this ep - why did you leave SO
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> many questions unanswered? The Drak and Centari Prime?
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> Londo?
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> Lyta?
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> Bester and the Psi Corps?
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> G'Kar?
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> Garibaldi and Bester?
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> B5's seemingly needless and useless destruction?
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> Sheridan's son - we guess he survived the Drak and their intended
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> keeper? Are we to assume we'll never know the answers to any of
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> these questions?
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The Drak and Centari Prime?
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Vir is Emperor now. Londo asked Sheridan to free his people; we
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can assume he did this...but we will also be showing this in the
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Centauri Prime trilogy of books in more detail.
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Londo?
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We saw Londo's fate in War Without End Part 2.
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Lyta?
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The telepath crisis and events surrounding it will provide a lot
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of the background to Crusade.
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Bester and the Psi Corps?
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Ditto.
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G'Kar?
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We saw his fate in WWE2 also.
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Garibaldi and Bester?
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This will be covered in the Psi Corps trilogy, of which volume 1
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is out now, and volume 2 is in my hands for editing.
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B5's seemingly needless and useless destruction?
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Neither needless nor useless. It was built cheapest of all the
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stations, and it takes a lot of money to maintain it. With trade
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routes now going around it, there isn't enough income to support it.
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So do you leave it intact, for others to occupy or raid for weapons
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systems and other systems too difficult to yank out? Or take it out,
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the same way we implode buildings now?
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Sheridan's son - we guess he survived the Drak and their intended
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keeper?
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This will also be covered in the Centauri Prime trilogy...but if
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you sit back you can do some of the work to figure out a large part of
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this. As Londo states, his situation in WWE2 (Sheridan and Delenn
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captured on Centauri Prime) takes place 18 years after the events in
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2260, which would put it at 2278. The urn, given to Sheridan in 2262,
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is supposed to be given to the heir at the occasion of his/her 16th
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birthday, by Centauri tradition.
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That would put the urn presentation at...ding!...2278.
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In 2278, Sheridan and Delenn have been drawn to Centauri Prime.
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We know their son is involved, because Delenn says "David is safe." So
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they were somehow able to save him, because we know that in 2281, David
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is alive and well and serving in the Rangers (SiL).
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You can see the shape of the events there...once again the clues
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are more or less in plain sight...but again, this will be drawn out in
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the books in more detail.
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jms
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Date: 02 Dec 1998 15:32:01 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: Bruce Scandariato <72571.1722@compuserve.com>
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Subject: SIL - Babylon 5
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{original post had no questions}
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Thanks, I appreciate it.
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Date: 02 Dec 1998 15:32:01 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: Bruce Scandariato <72571.1722@compuserve.com>
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Subject: SIL - Babylon 5
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Bruce Scandariato <72571.1722@compuserve.com> asks:
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> Since SIL was filmed in season 4, was there anything that you
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> would have changed had you known ahead of time that B5 was
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> renewed for season 5 with respect to Ivanova and Lochley and
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> others?
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I had the option to change stuff if I'd been so inclined...but
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felt it was right as it was.
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jms
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Date: 02 Dec 1998 15:32:02 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
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Subject: <SiL> - ship
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T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
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> JMS, the ship that Sheridan took, is that the new Earth/Minbari
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> ship? is it still a White Star?
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It's a smaller, personal version of a White Star.
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Date: 02 Dec 1998 15:32:02 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: (blocked)
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Subject: SiL:Pakh'mara singers
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(blocked) asks:
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> BTW, did SiL remain completely untouched in the can during the
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> fifth year?
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Yeah...everybody figured the pak'ma'ra were just a waste...which
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is why this seemed so right.
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And yes again...SiL was untouched since I finished my producer's
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edit at the end of year 4. No need.
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jms
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Date: 02 Dec 1998 15:41:03 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: (blocked)
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Subject: JMS did not reply to me
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{original post unavailable}
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Understand: I get several HUNDRED messages a day. Every day.
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Day in and day out. Public and private. I cannot reply to all of
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them, and there is no requirement that I must reply to each of them.
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If I feel it requires a response, I do so; if not, I don't.
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Complaining about it to the forum is not the appropriate response.
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jms
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Date: 03 Dec 1998 21:11:09 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: (blocked)
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Subject: Dreaming in Light/Thanks
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{original post unavailable}
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Thanks...it's sometimes odd for me to consider that a number of
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folks have grown up on my work over the years...suddenly I feel old....
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Nonetheless: thank you for the kind words.
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Date: 03 Dec 1998 21:11:08 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: (blocked)
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Subject: SiL
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{original post unavailable}
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All three of the Psi Corps books are by J. Gregory Keyes, from a
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jms outline.
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jms
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Date: 03 Dec 1998 21:11:09 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: Andy Ihnatko <72511.204@compuserve.com>
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Subject: About Final Episodes
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Andy Ihnatko <72511.204@compuserve.com> asks:
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> No more, for they made the same frustrated laments: "But what
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> about Londo and G'Kar? Did Garibaldi...?
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> And will David...?"
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> (aside: Why is it that all of the shows in this last category
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> seem to have one-word titles and be about former standup comics?
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Thanks...and you're right on all counts. Additionally, you have
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to really decide *Who is the story about?* You can really only track a
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couple of characters to the end...here we tracked a number there or
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nearly there. This story is a history -- told from a future perspective
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-- about the events of the Babylon station, and those who passed
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through it, during a specific period in its history.
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jms
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Date: 03 Dec 1998 21:11:09 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: (blocked)
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Subject: JMS did not reply to me
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{original post unavailable}
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Over and done with them. We move on.
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jms
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Date: 03 Dec 1998 21:11:08 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: (blocked)
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Subject: Babylon 5
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{original post unavailable}
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Many thanks....
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jms
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Date: 03 Dec 1998 21:11:10 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
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Subject: SiL:Pakh'mara singers
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Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com> asks:
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> But, was that the same thing Sheridan heard during his "momement
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> of beauty?"
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No, that was something else.
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Date: 03 Dec 1998 21:11:10 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: (blocked)
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Subject: Garibaldi's Drinking
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{original post unavailable}
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Thanks...it's a point that can't be made too often.
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jms
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Date: 04 Dec 1998 13:42:14 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: (blocked)
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Subject: Dreaming in Light/Thanks
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{original post unavailable}
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Yeah? How'd the CP figures come out in the poll?
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(Knew I should've bought some more of them....)
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Date: 04 Dec 1998 13:42:14 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: (blocked)
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Subject: Babylon 5
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(blocked) asks:
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> Have you ever or will you ever do an interview with him?
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> Has he ever tried to make contact with you or any of the cast?
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We are proud of all our fans.
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Date: 04 Dec 1998 13:42:14 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
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Subject: B5 franchise?
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T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
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> your comments?
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They're nitwits.
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Look...first off, nobody *has* to buy anything. If you want to
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learn more about the characters after the duration of the show, and you
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want to buy the novels or whatever, fine, you have that option. But
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you didn't have to buy them to enjoy the series...and I'm working hard
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to make sure you don't even have to have watched the series to enjoy
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the novels.
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There are two fundamental choices here, given that fans want
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more stuff in the B5 universe. Either you do novels that have nothing
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to do with anything, or you make them canon. Fans wanted the books
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canonical, as do I. That's the point of a coherent, consistent,
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sustained universe.
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The Psi Corps novels, for instance, track Bester's life from
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birth to death, and the development of the Corps. Is that essential
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reading to follow any of the B5 episodes? No. Is it cool if you want
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to learn more about it and enrich the experience? Yes. So where here
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is the problem?
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Look...some folks have always looked for an excuse to rag on
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this show, so they could bug me and anybody who likes the show. First
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it was that B5 couldn't possibly be as good as Trek because there
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wasn't any merchandise; now there's merchandise and they say now THAT
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means it can't be good.
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If you never bought a single book or outside material, you could
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still enjoy the series. None of it is required. So the complaint is
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unjustified and silly.
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Should we not give fans of the show a chance to acquire more
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info about the B5 universe and characters because a few folks complain
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that it's a franchise? Nonsense. The problem is theirs, nobody
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else's.
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Date: 05 Dec 1998 22:11:01 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: (blocked)
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Subject: Thank you
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{original post unavailable}
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Thanks, and for the Crusade question...that's going to have to
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wait, but I've found a way to do it, in spades.
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Date: 05 Dec 1998 22:11:01 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: (blocked)
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Subject: SiL
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{original post unavailable}
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You couldn't tow something as massive as a 5 mile long station
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like this through hyperspace; it'd tear apart.
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Date: 07 Dec 1998 15:09:07 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com>
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Subject: More soggy tissues :-)
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Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com> asks:
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> What am I saying?
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That's wonderful, thanks.
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Date: 07 Dec 1998 15:09:08 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: (blocked)
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Subject: Thank you JMS
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{original post unavailable}
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Thank you for those terrific words, they're appreciated.
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Date: 08 Dec 1998 14:54:13 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
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Subject: missing Sil credits
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T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
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> Is it a problem with distribution?
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> separated out?
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I don't know...I'll have to check.
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Date: 08 Dec 1998 23:13:01 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com>
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Subject: SiL:Pakh'mara singers
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{original post had no questions}
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My sense was that in general, most folks didn't want to know,
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they just wanted it to happen as it happened.
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Date: 09 Dec 1998 13:41:07 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: Kirk Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com>
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Subject: SiL
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{original post had no questions}
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It can be moved, sure, but can it *survive* the move? Also,
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you'd have to bring B5 through a jump point in order to bring it
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anywhere, and the stresses involved in that would be hideous.
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Date: 10 Dec 1998 15:42:04 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: (blocked)
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Subject: B5 Swords?
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{original post unavailable}
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We just go for the coolest blades....
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Date: 10 Dec 1998 15:42:04 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: (blocked)
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Subject: Crusade
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{original post unavailable}
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Thanks.
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Date: 10 Dec 1998 15:42:04 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: (blocked)
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Subject: O.C.D in Babylon 5
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{original post unavailable}
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Yeah, all that stuff is still there. We're not going to evolve
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past all that in just 200 years, any more than we did from 1799 to
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1999.
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Date: 12 Dec 1998 18:25:12 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: Joseph Schierer <76326.3124@compuserve.com>
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Subject: level of satisfaction
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Joseph Schierer <76326.3124@compuserve.com> asks:
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> So, now that it is done - just how big a feeling of satisfaction
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> did it give you? with the benefit of hindsite, would you do it all
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> over again?
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It's an immense satisfaction to get it all done, and out the
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door, when nobody thought it could be done. Would I do it again? I
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don't know...I had no idea how hard this would be when I got into it.
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The only way it got done was that I didn't know it was impossible at
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the time. I think I would, though.
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jms
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Date: 12 Dec 1998 18:25:12 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: Ken Adams <74065.751@compuserve.com>
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Subject: Dropped Into The Abyss
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{original post had no questions}
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That's great, thanks...and if it does stimulate conversation,
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then the goal was achieved.
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jms
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Date: 15 Dec 1998 13:28:04 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: Mark McGehee <75720.2420@compuserve.com>
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Subject: Arragont Response
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Mark McGehee <75720.2420@compuserve.com> asks:
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> However, I receieved a very "flip" response from somebody named
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> Michael?????
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It wasn't me.
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And I didn't need to have this copied to me in email because you
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can't read an address line to see who sent you mail.
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And it's arrogant. Not arragont.
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jms
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Date: 17 Dec 1998 15:31:13 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: Brad Walrod <76702.1043@compuserve.com>
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Subject: B5 in Dec. Macworld mag
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{original post had no questions}
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Coolness....
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jms
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Date: 20 Dec 1998 23:45:11 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: Ken Adams <74065.751@compuserve.com>
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Subject: Re: IMage Laserdisks
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Ken Adams <74065.751@compuserve.com> asks:
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> Question: Is the cut of "The Gathering" the original version or
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> your re-mastered and re-edited version shown on TNT this past
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> year?
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I think it's the original....
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jms
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Date: 20 Dec 1998 23:45:09 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: Rob & Nancy Carr <73200.2754@compuserve.com>
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Subject: A little bit of history
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{original post had no questions}
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I appreciate hearing that...thanks.
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jms
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Date: 20 Dec 1998 23:54:12 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: (blocked)
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Subject: Got my Link & PPG!!!
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{original post unavailable}
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If you've purchased a PPG, it's unlicensed. And if the link
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came from aywhere other than the official B5 fan club, that, too, is
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unlicensed. Just FYI.
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jms
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Date: 20 Dec 1998 23:45:11 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com>
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Subject: Crusade name
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T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
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> JMS, it is still "Crusade, the Babylon Project"?
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"JMS, it is still "Crusade, the Babylon Project"? just wondering what
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the "Babylon" is doing there if it doesn't deal with the station."
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It's just Crusade.
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jms
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Date: 20 Dec 1998 23:45:10 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: JudyL <72520.216@compuserve.com>
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Subject: Cross Stitch
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{original post had no questions}
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Gotta get there to look...thanks.
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jms
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Date: 20 Dec 1998 23:45:10 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: Rob & Nancy Carr <73200.2754@compuserve.com>
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Subject: what would you say?
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Rob & Nancy Carr <73200.2754@compuserve.com> asks:
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> This person asks you "What do I need to know?"
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> What would you say?
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I wouldn't even know where to begin....
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jms
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Date: 21 Dec 1998 21:46:03 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com>
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Subject: Re: IMage Laserdisks
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{original post had no questions}
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Sonuvagun...thanks for the info. I'd better go look at the
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darned thing myself. I've watched "In the Beginning" on disk, and
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thought it looked gorgeous...practically a luminous copy, struck from
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fresh masters.
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jms
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Date: 23 Dec 1998 18:04:13 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: Jeff Peterman <75361.430@compuserve.com>
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Subject: Crusade name
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{original post had no questions}
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The intro movie, "A Call to Arms," is still slated for January
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3rd; the series initiall was going to go in January, then they moved it
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to June 2nd to make room for the NBA playoffs, and now that it looks
|
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like the playoffs may not happen, I'm hearing March/April.
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jms
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Date: 23 Dec 1998 18:04:13 -0700
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
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To: (blocked)
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Subject: Re: IMage Laserdisks
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(blocked) asks:
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> *sigh* Any word on a possible DVD release?
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"Even more than the weekday strip, *this* is the way the series was
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made to be watched. Without interruptions, without a 24 hour (still
|
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less 7 day or several month) gap between episodes it becomes a whole
|
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different experience. And the earliest episodes look different when
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watched again after each season."
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This is pretty much the reaction of everyone who's sat and
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watched the show through in a concentrated form; it's a whole other
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show. It's all contiguous, even when it looks like it ain't, and the
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artificial breaks were pretty much ignored in the writing.
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"This is a staggering achievement, especially within the confines of
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American commercial television. I don't think anyone yet realizes what
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you've done here. And when they get the first dim glimmers of the idea,
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and try to copy it, they'll only see the surface mechanics of a
|
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continuing story and never see the sheer *work* that went into crafting
|
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almost every line and gesture of each of each show so that it could pay
|
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off two or three years down the road."
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I'm okay with that; I always said that B5 wouldn't really be
|
|
appreciated for what it is for several years down the line. This is a
|
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part of the reason for that. It has to run through several times, and
|
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become a part of the general consciousness, and be perceived for what
|
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it is.
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"This is the first series I've ever seen that *can't* be fully
|
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appreciated the first time through. Reruns aren't a commercial
|
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byproduct of this show, in a curious way they are the point. I'm
|
|
finally starting to see what you meant long ago when you mentioned a
|
|
"four dimensional hologram.""
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|
|
(Actually the term was holographic storytelling, but the point
|
|
obtains.) Usually, reruns are considered an aftermarket...here the show
|
|
was written with that in mind to some extent. It was written for the
|
|
long haul, so to speak.
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|
I'll be very curious to see the perception of the show ten years
|
|
hence.
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jms
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Date: 28 Dec 1998 23:39:08 -0700
|
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From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
|
|
To: (blocked)
|
|
Subject: Re: IMage Laserdisks
|
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|
|
{original post unavailable}
|
|
|
|
It might just be that particular disk; all the ones I've seen
|
|
are just gorgeous.
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jms
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------------------------------
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|
Date: 28 Dec 1998 21:17:07 -0700
|
|
From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
|
|
To: Ken Adams <74065.751@compuserve.com>
|
|
Subject: Re: IMage Laserdisks
|
|
|
|
Ken Adams <74065.751@compuserve.com> asks:
|
|
> Thanks, Joe. If you find it IS the TNT version, could you post a
|
|
> word here?
|
|
|
|
The Gathering is, apparently, the TNT version on disk.
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jms
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Date: 29 Dec 1998 15:17:00 -0700
|
|
From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com>
|
|
To: SysOp Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com>
|
|
Subject: Re: IMage Laserdisks
|
|
|
|
SysOp Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
|
|
> Okay, NEXT question - will Columbia ever have the TNT version of
|
|
> The gathering?
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|
|
Dunno...nobody tell me nathink....
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jms
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