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Compiled by David Strauss (dstrauss@netcom.com).
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SFRT II RoundTable
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Category 18, Topic 12
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Message 465 Thu Feb 01, 1996
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STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 00:51 EST
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Richard Biggs is pictorialized in the new issue of Playgirl hitting the
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stands now.
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jms
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SFRT II RoundTable
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Category 19, Topic 30
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Message 32 Fri Feb 02, 1996
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STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 05:56 EST
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Brett: it's nothing to do with the editor. We deliver nice, clean fades
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to black. When the show is delivered, we often get clipped by the local
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stations (sometimes, we suspect, when the national spots are slugged in),
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because if you clip a couple seconds here and there, you get enough time to
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slip in another blipvert/promo.
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SFRT II RoundTable
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Category 18, Topic 1
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Message 557 Sun Feb 04, 1996
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STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 03:13 EST
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Other than GEnie...hrmmm...probably Compuserve. As of this time, it's
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the one area I tend to post about equal to GEnie; it has a decent offline
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reader (Tapcis) that'll help save you lotsa dough...the science fiction media
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area (sfmedtwo) has 2 areas set aside for B5 in messages and library...it's a
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friendly place, absent the occasional troll, which is generally dealt with
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fairly well. Once the moderated rec arts b5 area is created, I'll be there as
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well quite a bit. In the interim, with GEnie long the unofficial home of B5
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online fans, the first place that "noticed" us...I'll be here until they turn
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off the lights.
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SFRT II RoundTable
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Category 19, Topic 30
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Message 73 Mon Feb 05, 1996
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STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 02:35 EST
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My sense was that basically Ivanova jumped onto the wrong path as she
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fled...the shadows were in proximity, and she ended up briefly on their path,
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which took her to the interception of the transmission.
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The one comment that I find most interesting, repeated here a few times,
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is that they didn't buy the Nightwitch (as some have dubbed her) because in
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her address to the Nightwatch, she was not exactly what you might call subtle,
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and thus nobody'd believe her, and see her for what she was.
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I find it interesting because we always think we're smarter than that,
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when history proves *exactly* the opposite. The Big Lie, spoken not just
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openly, but loudly, firmly and with conviction, has been one of the most
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successful tactics in history. When Hitler and Goebbels stood before a crowd
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and blamed jews for destroying society, circulated pamphlets with ugly
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cariacatures, indicated that they weren't *really* human (this in actual
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newsreels provided to the medical profession members charged with eliminating
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"mental defectives and jews")...when Joseph McCarthy stood up in front of the
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nation waving a list of names of commies in the state department, the
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military, congress, showbiz, and the sciences...the public didn't suddenly
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wake up, hear the voice of the fanatic, and say, "Hey, this guy's nuts!"
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They bought it. Because they were primed to believe it. Because they
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wanted to believe it. Because they were afraid *not* to believe it. No, she
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wasn't subtle. Because there's a time for subtlety, and there's a time to
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perform grandly for your hand-picked audience and go for the Big Lie. If she
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were addressing a larger audience, she might softpedal her message. To the
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Nightwatch, she's got to hammer them, just as the Hitler Youth were hammered,
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as the Anti-Communist Youth meetings were hammered about the Red Peril, as
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Croatian or Serbian soldiers were hammered about the need to rape women of the
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other "race" to make the resultant babies more ethnically pure...which
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happened.
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Most of her dialogue was paraphrased from actual speeches given over the
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decades, or longer, by fanatical leaders to their followers. There's bits of
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Hitler, of Goerring, of Goebbels...bits of McCarthy, bits of Stalin, bits of
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Pat Buchanan and Rep. Dornan.
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Because people fell for it. It did work
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It does work.
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And it will *continue* to work...for as long as people think that THEY
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would NEVER fall for such a thing....
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SFRT II RoundTable
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Category 18, Topic 1
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Message 601 Tue Feb 06, 1996
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STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 20:03 EST
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We're negotiating to try and maybe get some episodes on in March or early
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April.
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SFRT II RoundTable
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Category 18, Topic 2
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Message 468 Tue Feb 06, 1996
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STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 03:19 EST
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We like to vary the music on the bumper. Just for the hell of it. And
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sometimes (often, actually) to match the music in the bumper to the tone of
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the episode. We have, I think 4 or 5 variations. Congrats, you're the first
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to notice this.
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You'll see Walter again this season after "Dust," and I'm trying to work
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in one more before the end of the season, but it's tough, given what's been
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going on in the latter half of 2260.
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SFRT II RoundTable
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Category 18, Topic 2
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Message 474 Tue Feb 06, 1996
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STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 21:49 EST
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Why didn't we do the music change in the end credits at the very start
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of the season, you ask? Why, what a silly question, it was all planned, all
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intentional, it means...er...it means....
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It means we *forgot*. More correctly, *I* forgot. We were all so busy
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getting the new main titles done, we just kinda forgot about it until the
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first mix...and then we sorta looked around and said, "....oops."
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SFRT II RoundTable
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Category 19, Topic 30
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Message 91 Tue Feb 06, 1996
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STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 00:43 EST
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Well, Mike, then you're bound to be disppointed because one of those
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things is going to be dealt with for sure. Some things can get by without
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resolution; some things can't. Otherwise people get frustrated because
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nothing means anything, it's just random threads, and you get Twin Peaks.
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(And then they turn around and, because you didn't resolve something, say it's
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a "plot hole" and gig you for bad writing).
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Category 19, Topic 30
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Message 93 Tue Feb 06, 1996
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STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 03:16 EST
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Where was it said Sheridan didn't recognize the voice...?
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Category 19, Topic 30
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Message 95 Tue Feb 06, 1996
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STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 04:40 EST
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Never said they're all convinced of it. Just as all Germans weren't
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convined of the views advanced by Hitler.
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You don't need all of them. You just need *enough* of them.
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Preferably, enough of them with guns.
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Remember, too, that we just came out of the Earth/Minbari War about ten
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years ago, when we stood at the edge of extinction. The threat of a new alien
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race makes a good device.
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