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