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Babylon 5 posts by JMS for Oct, 1992
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This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
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Straczynski in the Babylon 5 topic. The posts are copyright by JMS
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(and compilation copyright is by GEnie).
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NOTE: This is when the GEnie category was being reorganized.
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Undoubtable there were more posts in October... but they have
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apparently been sacrificed to the bandwidth gods.
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Category 18, Topic 22
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Message 681 Thu Oct 01, 1992
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STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 01:23 EDT
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In my copious spare time, and obviously unofficially, I've been laying
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out the first season or two, sketching out which episodes would hypothetically
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go first, where to lay in the saga, and I find that I keep getting dragged
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more to saga-episodes rather than the stand-alones. It's as if, having had
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this thing waiting to be told for so long, there's the overwhelming desire to
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just GET IT ALL OUT...sort of projectile storytelling. But you can't do that,
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you've got to parcel it all out a bit at a time, just like the information
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here (which, he reminded himself, I've generally released far more quickly and
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in more detail than I'd originally anticipated).
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What interesting is how some things expand in your mind once you've
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filmed a pilot like this. Here's Character X, who you always saw a certain
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way, had a few stories in mind...and suddenly the *performance* and the
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casting makes you realize that there's a MUCH broader potential here than
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you'd originally thought...a character likely to steal the show...and now
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suddenly you begin spinning out new stories for that character...but if you
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emphasize THAT person, how does it affect a) the over-arching storyline, and
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b) the other characters?
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My first impulse is to give every major character an episode right up
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front, give everyone a chance to establish him- or herself. But on the flip
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side of the argument, that means (since we have 9 regular or recurring
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characters) spending as many as 8 episodes with our PRIMARY character,
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Sinclair, less involved or held at some remove. Which seems counter-
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productive.
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Telling the stories...that ain't hard. Putting it all in the right
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sequence, now that we have the benefit of having cast, THAT's the challenging
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part.
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BTW, for those who are curious, there are two photos of Yr Obdnt Srvnt in
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the new Hollywood edition of WRITER'S DIGEST. And if, as they say, every
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picture tells a story, these tell quite a story (though one I just can't look
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at any more, it's too painful).
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jms
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