You can not select more than 25 topics
Topics must start with a letter or number, can include dashes ('-') and can be up to 35 characters long.
1195 lines
48 KiB
1195 lines
48 KiB
Subject: ATTN JMS: Permission to Use B5
|
|
Date: 9 May 1995 01:20:23 -0400
|
|
|
|
Alas, for contractual reasons, all that stuff has to go through
|
|
Warner Bros.,and I suspect they'd turn it down.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: ATTN JMS: ANFaW "Cold Equation
|
|
Date: 9 May 1995 01:28:54 -0400
|
|
|
|
I don't see *any* similarity whatsoever. "Cold Equations" was most
|
|
definitely NOT about a "teenager who accidentally 'spaces' himself." For
|
|
starters it was a girl, but MOST important, in "Cold Equations," it was a
|
|
deliberate *choice* to walk out the airlock. The whole premise of the
|
|
story is that the young girl stows away on a ship bringing vaccine to a
|
|
colony world. Only other person on the ship is the pilot. The ship is
|
|
stripped down for speed; there's only enough fuel for the pilot, the ship,
|
|
and the landing. If she stays, the ship will run out of fuel on or just
|
|
before re-entry, they'll die and the colonists will die. If the pilot
|
|
sacrifices himself, she can't land the ship on her own, same result. So
|
|
she must make the conscious decision to sacrifice herself to save the
|
|
others, because you can't argue with math.
|
|
|
|
That is absolutely different from somebody screwing around and
|
|
accidentally getting blown out an airlock.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: ATTN: JMS: Has the Arc Changed
|
|
Date: 10 May 1995 00:37:04 -0400
|
|
|
|
Actually, no, believe or not the arc really hasn't changed much; it's
|
|
gotten filled out a bit in places, but the direction hasn't altered. I
|
|
had always had kind of a (?) in the thing as to how to transition clearly
|
|
from Sinclair to the Shadows, because I needed some way to connect the
|
|
stories, but having Sinclair have a hook to the shadows just strained
|
|
credulity past the breaking point. Gradually I figured out a way to do
|
|
that, and that (?) was filled. Other than that, no; it's going where it
|
|
was always going.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: SPACE BATTLES (some spoilers)(
|
|
Date: 10 May 1995 00:37:23 -0400
|
|
|
|
Actually, all sides in battle use ECM (Electronic Counter Measures)
|
|
to throw off the targeting systems on the "enemy" vessels. But usually
|
|
it only takes a couple of quick firings to compensate (which is what we've
|
|
done).
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Harlan Ellison on TV Tonight
|
|
Date: 10 May 1995 00:47:18 -0400
|
|
|
|
B5 conceptual consultant Harlan Ellison will be on Politically
|
|
Incorrect tonight at 11 pst, check your local listings for local times.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Why Is Babylon 5 So Bad?
|
|
Date: 10 May 1995 04:19:15 -0400
|
|
|
|
Dear S.S. (an appropriate acronym, assuming this is indeed your real
|
|
name) ...there is a quote about books which applies just about as well to
|
|
televsion. I pass it on to you as the sole reasonable reply to your
|
|
missive.
|
|
|
|
"A book is like a mirror. If an ass peers in, you can't exactly
|
|
expect an apostle to peer out."
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: To JMS: Stop the Conspiracy St
|
|
Date: 10 May 1995 05:04:16 -0400
|
|
|
|
Short answer: No.
|
|
|
|
Medium answer, from Rod Serling, when a device he created for a
|
|
fictional story (a bomb wired to a plane set to detonate when the plane
|
|
dropped below a given altitude) ended up being used in real life: "A
|
|
writer cannot be held accountable for the pathology of fools."
|
|
|
|
Long answer....
|
|
|
|
Fiction ain't the problem. To say that it is "immoral" for SF
|
|
writers to tell stories about government conspiracies is not only contrary
|
|
to the very nature of fiction and SF in particular, it also misses the
|
|
point by a thousand miles.
|
|
|
|
It isn't that folks in the backwoods have been watching TV shows or
|
|
reading novels about fictional government conspiracies...it's that some
|
|
folks have been making "documentaries" and writing tracts that are
|
|
supposed to be THE TRUTH about what's going on.
|
|
|
|
It isn't fiction that's the problem...it's G. Gordon Liddy telling
|
|
people that if they're going to shoot at ATF officers they ought to aim
|
|
at the head because they wear flak jackets...it's Jesse Helms who told
|
|
the press that if Clinton ever came to his state the Pres better bring a
|
|
bodyguard with him...it's Rush Limbaugh and his other ilk who for years
|
|
have been making the distinction between Liberals and Americans...it's
|
|
fanatical elements within the Religious Right who feel the need to create
|
|
vast government conspiracies that say the government is going to come and
|
|
stamp the Number of the Beast on their forehead any moment now....
|
|
|
|
A climate of fear and paranoia and disloyalty for the crime of
|
|
disagreement has been created and fostered by those who have most to
|
|
gain from it. And now they are trying to run from what they have done.
|
|
It ain't TV shows about stuff happening in the far future. I don't think
|
|
anyone out there watching B5 has any belief whatsoever that this stuff is
|
|
real, and present, and can be responded to. If there are one or two
|
|
lunatics who might possibly read something into it, they could do so to
|
|
ANY program, regardless of content. People have committed crimes and
|
|
murder and gone insane because of things in the Bible...should we therefore
|
|
ban the Bible? One recent movie-goer was killed because he got the last
|
|
bag of popcorn at a movie theater, and another patron was pissed off
|
|
about it. Should we ban popcorn? There's nothing you can do that someone
|
|
won't read something into. Should we destroy all storytelling out of the
|
|
fear that somewhere, someone MIGHT be provoked by it? You can't live in
|
|
fear.
|
|
|
|
Your concern obviously grows out of the Oklahoma situation, but this
|
|
has no bearing upon that whatsoever. The problem is poverty, and
|
|
ignorance, and political rhetoric, and manipulation in the real world,
|
|
not the fictional one.
|
|
|
|
A TV writer can turn an audience against a killer, a stalker, a
|
|
criminal.
|
|
|
|
It takes a politician to turn us against ourselves.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Garabaldi's Eyes??!
|
|
Date: 11 May 1995 01:09:21 -0400
|
|
|
|
(sigh) Our rotoscope EFX guy was waiting for a bunch of PPG EFX to
|
|
finish rendering in that battle scene, and was bored, and like many such
|
|
EFX types, filled in the eyes of Garibaldi with weird stuff while waiting
|
|
around. When the other scene finished rendering, he got out, believing
|
|
that he had not saved that one frame. Unknowingly, he had.
|
|
|
|
Nobody caught it until after broadcast.
|
|
|
|
We talked.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Re: In the Shadows of Z'Ha'Dum
|
|
Date: 11 May 1995 16:23:01 -0400
|
|
|
|
When Delenn underwent the chrysalis, it modified the epidermal layer
|
|
at the back of the head, making it somewhat smaller, more human; this left
|
|
a gap between the bone (which grows out from the temples and joins at the
|
|
back, like antlers in reverse), and the hair comes through this gap.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: New Vegas
|
|
Date: 11 May 1995 16:24:48 -0400
|
|
|
|
New Vegas is on Mars.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: JMS! WWII/Za'ha'Dum Question
|
|
Date: 11 May 1995 16:25:57 -0400
|
|
|
|
Correct; Delenn and Kosh have said nothing about G'Kar's claims
|
|
because they're trying to keep a low profile.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: JMS: Delenn's Hair???
|
|
Date: 12 May 1995 01:38:34 -0400
|
|
|
|
I had her hair changed. I felt it was starting to make her look VERY
|
|
severe, and arch. I much prefer the new version.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: ATTN JMS: Taking No Prisoners,
|
|
Date: 12 May 1995 01:38:44 -0400
|
|
|
|
Thanks. Certainly the last 4-5 episodes of the season are totally
|
|
uncompromising and unflinching. Very tough stuff in places. But that's
|
|
kinda the fun.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: From jms re: Internet Gateway
|
|
Date: 17 May 1995 22:22:21 -0400
|
|
|
|
To those who've inquired: my regular GEnie internet gateway is down
|
|
and has been for the last several days. This happens periodically, for
|
|
whatever bizarre reason. I can still get private email, but not the
|
|
usenet. It generally comes back up again in a bit.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Good writing Bad writing in Za
|
|
Date: 17 May 1995 18:24:31 -0400
|
|
|
|
Except, of course, that Earth identicards use genetic fingerprints,
|
|
which they have access to, and the idea that the ID is forged or a fraud
|
|
could be dispensed with in, oh, about ten seconds by just checking his
|
|
DNA against the file.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Enough of this "B5 is this and
|
|
Date: 18 May 1995 01:09:56 -0400
|
|
|
|
What I find fascinating in this whole discussion is that, whenever a
|
|
novel comes out, people don't generally go through page by page and say,
|
|
s"Oh, I think Niven was ripping off/drawing from "Lensman" when he did this
|
|
part." They generally only do this to TV people...because it's assumed
|
|
that TV people don't have an original idea in their head, and can ony
|
|
(only) borrow from other people.
|
|
|
|
Though I may sometimes nod to one or another landmark of SF, I'm not
|
|
doing the Prisoner, Lord of the Rings, Childhood's End, MacBeth, the
|
|
Illiad, The Mountains of Madness, or any of the thirty other works that
|
|
I'm supposed to be doing, all mutually contradictory. I'm telling this
|
|
story, my story, and though it's nice to be compared to such other works,
|
|
it does become bothersome after a while when everybody tries to pin down
|
|
which work I'm supposed to be "doing" when they NEVER do this to novelists,
|
|
because this is TV. C'mon, people, I've written published novels, and
|
|
short stories, and plays, and radio dramas, and I *do* have a brain in my
|
|
head to maybe make up something on my own, y'know.
|
|
|
|
(And yes, my server is back up again, though I think it doesn't have
|
|
anything from the days in which I wasn't online, and just picked up from
|
|
today.)
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Attn JMS: a few background que
|
|
Date: 18 May 1995 02:42:29 -0400
|
|
|
|
Security personnel are part or EA, but primarily hired by and work
|
|
for B5. Garibaldi is part of Earthforce proper, and is ranked a Chief
|
|
Warrant Officer, correct. And the Narns did help us during our last war.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Vir's Comments: ItSoZ Spoilers
|
|
Date: 18 May 1995 02:42:59 -0400
|
|
|
|
Then again, there's always the character of God's Fool, who wanders
|
|
in and out of the most dangerous situations, is reckless with his life,
|
|
yet in the end is the only one to survive. Just a thought....
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: JMS: You kids are warped, you
|
|
Date: 18 May 1995 02:43:17 -0400
|
|
|
|
Yeah, the air freshener was a cool touch....
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Shadows must be incompetent! (
|
|
Date: 18 May 1995 02:43:34 -0400
|
|
|
|
The shadows are only incompetent if there is not a reason why they
|
|
have not chosen to pass beyond the rim. There is. And they *are*
|
|
currently playing it slow and patient; they *have* learned.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: ATTN JMS: Worldcon in August
|
|
Date: 18 May 1995 02:42:44 -0400
|
|
|
|
At this point, no, no one from B5 is slated for Worldcon or Nasfic.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: ATTN: JMS - Anna *Sheridan*?
|
|
Date: 18 May 1995 02:44:04 -0400
|
|
|
|
Anna chose to take Sheridan's last name. Her decision. You have the
|
|
option. Some do, some don't. If you start to pass rules that no woman
|
|
CAN take her husband's name or she's betraying something, then you're being
|
|
just as restrictive as those who insist a woman MUST take her husband's
|
|
name. Me, I'm pro-choice on every level. She felt like it.
|
|
|
|
(And I note that my own spousal overunit kept her own name. But then,
|
|
who in her right mind WOULD take Straczynski...?)
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: ATTN JMS: Official... or not!
|
|
Date: 18 May 1995 19:33:21 -0400
|
|
|
|
Unless they're dealing with the Dell books, no, this Starbooks thing
|
|
definitely ain't legit.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: ATTN: JMS, The Word ZaHaDum. S
|
|
Date: 18 May 1995 19:31:26 -0400
|
|
|
|
A very good analysis of the name. And no rest, as we're still in
|
|
post production, and hopefully gearing up soon. (Well, a little rest.)
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: ATTN JMS: Foul Balls in "KNIVE
|
|
Date: 18 May 1995 20:53:11 -0400
|
|
|
|
Actually, Sheridan WAS hitting fair and home run balls in the front
|
|
of the show; later, though, when he was more rattled, they were all foul.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: ATTN:JMS--Thanks for Vir
|
|
Date: 18 May 1995 20:52:51 -0400
|
|
|
|
Thanks. I like Vir a lot. Many folks were willing to write him off
|
|
in the beginning, not understanding that there was more beneath the
|
|
surface (a problem Vir has also had in his "life"). But you gotta be
|
|
careful; characters have a way of surprising you. And I like that, and
|
|
intended that, Vir be the first one to stand up to Morden.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: JMS: Icarus Problems
|
|
Date: 18 May 1995 20:57:43 -0400
|
|
|
|
The Icarus is a zero-g interior vessel while in spaceflight; the crew
|
|
just has to deal with it. It piggy-backs on larger, jump capable ships,
|
|
making arrangements for pickup after X-days or weeks with the same or
|
|
another ship.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: JMS: Icarus name connection in
|
|
Date: 18 May 1995 20:58:02 -0400
|
|
|
|
No, I picked Icarus because I was up to I in the Name Dictionary.
|
|
|
|
Yes, unless I've been unknowingly receiving spirit messages, table
|
|
tappings or divine revelation, it was an intentional connection.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: I hate this damn Greek dichoto
|
|
Date: 18 May 1995 20:54:27 -0400
|
|
|
|
Of course, you're assuming the shadows are evil sui generis. May not
|
|
be that simple.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Congratulations to JMS! (Was R
|
|
Date: 18 May 1995 21:13:07 -0400
|
|
|
|
Let me clarify this. We have not -- NOT -- been officially renewed,
|
|
nor is PTEN looking for money. Every year, the two parts of PTEN (the
|
|
stations, and Warner Bros.) engage in negotiations over that year, in
|
|
terms of deal points, commercial times available to sell, number of runs
|
|
per week and other areas. They have indicated to us that they would like
|
|
the PTEN shows to continue, but that is all contingent upon both sides
|
|
working out their differences on deal stuff. That is where we stand at
|
|
this moment. It's taking a while for them to nail all this stuff down.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: JMS : CGi in "And Now For a Wo
|
|
Date: 18 May 1995 21:13:33 -0400
|
|
|
|
"Whoever thought up the idea of *security cams* for FX shots...."
|
|
|
|
That's how it was scripted.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Left hand?
|
|
Date: 18 May 1995 21:13:50 -0400
|
|
|
|
I'm right-handed. Most of our cast are lefties. Who knows why...?
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: JMS: What rastB5 means to me..
|
|
Date: 18 May 1995 21:14:04 -0400
|
|
|
|
That's wonderful, and I appreciate seeing it. It's been fun here,
|
|
too, all things considered.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: JMS: Now you did it!!!
|
|
Date: 18 May 1995 21:14:21 -0400
|
|
|
|
The balance of season two eps will show up in reruns between the end
|
|
of May and the next batch/last batch of year two eps...which I've learned
|
|
will be held until *OCTOBER* to (in theory) help folks get a running start
|
|
on year three (still awaiting final word). Also, WB is concerned about
|
|
running year one reruns because it might confuse people to see a different
|
|
CO running the place.
|
|
|
|
(I just report the news, I don't make it.)
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: One question answered, anyway
|
|
Date: 18 May 1995 21:28:24 -0400
|
|
|
|
Again, look at the Kosh/Morden scene in "Signs." A light is
|
|
suddenly blown out off to one side. Morden didn't move. So who did
|
|
it...but his constant companions?
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: What happened to Harlan's voic
|
|
Date: 18 May 1995 21:28:40 -0400
|
|
|
|
All the voiceovers on PTEN shows were dropped this season, us, Kung
|
|
Fu, and Pointman. Corporate decision.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: why ask the question at all?
|
|
Date: 18 May 1995 21:29:15 -0400
|
|
|
|
Because the story's not just about causing conflict.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: The one problem my gf has with
|
|
Date: 19 May 1995 01:58:46 -0400
|
|
|
|
Your girlfriend is a yak? This seems very strange to me. But if it
|
|
makes you happy....
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: ATTN JMS: References
|
|
Date: 19 May 1995 02:05:43 -0400
|
|
|
|
Securecam is NOT a reference to Max Headroom. It is a work formed
|
|
out of Security and Camera, which is the function of the ones mounted on
|
|
the station, as Maintcam goes on the maintainance bots. The Psi Corps
|
|
line in the commercial is not a reference to Paranoia.
|
|
|
|
Not everything in this show is a reference to some other show. We
|
|
do have some interest in doing our *own* story, rather than nodding to
|
|
every series on the face of the planet, and not all concepts started in
|
|
the other shows that used them.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Attn JMS Who do we write about
|
|
Date: 19 May 1995 02:06:01 -0400
|
|
|
|
Airing schedule decisions are made by Warner Bros.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: ATTN JMS: Neurotic Question
|
|
Date: 19 May 1995 02:06:15 -0400
|
|
|
|
He said stop because Zack had found the right wavelength (at least
|
|
briefly) and didn't want him to go further and lose it again.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: This is going too far
|
|
Date: 19 May 1995 02:05:27 -0400
|
|
|
|
Then again, you are assuming that you are being told the truth about
|
|
the bothersome phone call. I'm not saying it *ain't* true, or that it is,
|
|
only that I've seen this gag pulled before, where somebody comes in, posts
|
|
a message that gets an argument going, gets ganged up on, and then says
|
|
he or she is being "threatened" or intimidated in some way, in order to
|
|
play the victim (and also win an unwinnable argument) and get people on
|
|
his/her side.
|
|
|
|
In all the years I've been on the nets, I haven't encountered one real
|
|
case of this, and given the nature of discussion on this forum, there have
|
|
been *real major* flamewars which cause this one to pale into
|
|
insignificance, and if THOSE didn't provoke such calls, I don't see why
|
|
this one would, all of a sudden.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Re: JMS says PTEN wants to del
|
|
Date: 19 May 1995 02:19:07 -0400
|
|
|
|
There are NO "production time restraints" involved in delaying the
|
|
last 4 episodes until October, which can be easily verified by the fact
|
|
that we'll be delivering all the finished episodes in time for the UK to
|
|
air these same last 4 episodes in June/July. They'll just sit on a shelf
|
|
here in the US until October.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: ATTN JMS: Season 2 Delay/18 we
|
|
Date: 19 May 1995 02:19:20 -0400
|
|
|
|
Warners is reluctant to rerun season one episodes because they're
|
|
afraid of confusing the audience with a different CO on B5.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: ATTN JMS: When Will He Put It
|
|
Date: 19 May 1995 02:25:59 -0400
|
|
|
|
Remember, we the audience have information withheld from Sheridan.
|
|
But he'll have it all pretty much together by season's end.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Notes from jms
|
|
Date: 19 May 1995 04:04:44 -0400
|
|
|
|
Some quickies....
|
|
|
|
1) Claudia Christian, Bill Mumy and I will be appearing (on various
|
|
days/times) at the Creation MegaShow to be held at the Anaheim Convention
|
|
Center, in California, May 27-28. I don't know when they'll be up, but
|
|
I'm slated for Sunday. (Plus Mark Hammil, Stan Lee and some Voyager
|
|
folks.)
|
|
|
|
2) Parents with small kids who watch B5 may want to consider
|
|
screening the next episode, "Confessions and Lamentations," first, in
|
|
order to determine how to talk to your kids about it. It's a *very*
|
|
intense episode and uncompromising.
|
|
|
|
3) Yes, as discussed elsewhere here, Warners has scheduled the last
|
|
four episodes of this season to run in October, to build momentum toward
|
|
what (we hope) will be the season three debut, though no official word
|
|
has yet been given on year three.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: More "Old Friends?"
|
|
Date: 20 May 1995 04:57:57 -0400
|
|
|
|
No plans for Ironheart just now. We will be seeing Draal again this
|
|
season.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Re: Attn JMS Who do we write a
|
|
Date: 20 May 1995 04:46:27 -0400
|
|
|
|
I cannot make a formal statement on this in either direction.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: ATTN JMS: Z'Ha'Dum pronumciati
|
|
Date: 20 May 1995 19:17:08 -0400
|
|
|
|
The difference is just in accent. ZA HA DOOM is the way I pronounce
|
|
it, but ZA cHA DOOM is also acceptable (from someone who's learned to
|
|
more or less accept the 47 different ways in which one may pronounce
|
|
straczynski).
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: B5 Book 3: Blood Oath
|
|
Date: 21 May 1995 03:59:12 -0400
|
|
|
|
As stated, all of the B5-related items -- books, comics, merchandise,
|
|
you name it -- go through my hands. Usually I have only minor notes; in
|
|
some cases, I have more substantive notes. Nobody's fault, it just
|
|
happens. When you've got diverse hands tugging the B5 universe in various
|
|
directions, sooner or later someone's going to go down the wrong road. It
|
|
is my job, and responsibility, to pull it back when that happens. That's
|
|
the whole point.
|
|
|
|
Book #3 had, as stated, gone down some wrong roads, and needed to be
|
|
brought back into alignment with the series. I had a substantial number
|
|
of notes. Not John's fault, it just Is. Or Was. The revisions required
|
|
to bring the book back into line were going to be enough to push back the
|
|
publication date by a month or two. Dell wasn't exactly thrilled with
|
|
the idea. I insisted. We went back and forth. Finally, the revisions
|
|
were implemented. Hence the slight delay. (The revised manuscript has
|
|
already come and gone through my office, and been approved, thanks to
|
|
John's careful revisions.)
|
|
|
|
No relation to the other PTEN stuff; this is just jms being a pain in
|
|
the ass. But that's part of the process, so that when you see something
|
|
with the B5 name on it, you know it's been done reasonably right.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Re: C&L reaction: spoilers
|
|
Date: 23 May 1995 01:26:06 -0400
|
|
|
|
Re: Lyta and G'Kar...G'Kar *specifically* stated in that scene that
|
|
there would have to be substantial genetic manipulation to make the
|
|
mating work.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: ATTN JMS - Alternate Distribut
|
|
Date: 23 May 1995 22:49:33 -0400
|
|
|
|
Due to the nature of our contract with PTEN, which in essence owns
|
|
the copyright to B5, I don't think there *are* any alternatives.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Screw the plague! (possible sp
|
|
Date: 24 May 1995 00:51:14 -0400
|
|
|
|
Next time I will try and locate every other producer in town and
|
|
see what they plan to produce, so I can plan accordingly. When I wrote
|
|
the episode, Outbreak hadn't been promoted yet or known about, Voyager
|
|
hadn't aired, ER hadn't told me what they were going to do...if I'd
|
|
known there would be such a glut...well, I probably would've done so
|
|
anyway, because this isn't so much about the plague and saying its'
|
|
dangerous, but about our attitudes when we are confronted by this, which
|
|
really hasn't been dealt with that much in SF. (And I'm sorry, but
|
|
don't even *try* to bring the Voyager story into this; the ship is
|
|
threatened by a cheese contamination? I almost fell off my chair.)
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: So-- how much does it cost to
|
|
Date: 24 May 1995 03:22:53 -0400
|
|
|
|
The budget for B5 is classified, but I can say it's under one
|
|
million per episode. (ST is generally $1.4 to $1.6 million.)
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: which comes first...
|
|
Date: 24 May 1995 04:47:55 -0400
|
|
|
|
Actually, the chronological order was *supposed* to be "Knives," THEN
|
|
"Z'ha'dum." In "Knives" you get the reminder about Anna, then in
|
|
"Z'ha'dum" you get the payoff. That was originally how they were intended
|
|
to be aired, but there was *so much* CGI work and rotoscope work and
|
|
creature animation involved in "Knives" that it got flopped to second in
|
|
that order. So while it works *best* the way it was intended, it still
|
|
works okay in this order.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Some technical questions
|
|
Date: 24 May 1995 04:54:42 -0400
|
|
|
|
The majority of those questions are best left to Ron to one day
|
|
explain in a tech manual, as he has more of the hard-science info at his
|
|
fingertips than I do. Certainly, both tachyon and ansibles are part of
|
|
an instantaneous communications system. And yes, there was some amount
|
|
of conscription during the wars.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: "Rip-Offs" and Con Organizing;
|
|
Date: 24 May 1995 20:51:23 -0400
|
|
|
|
I would venture that there has been some change in the tone and
|
|
attitude of some conventions over the years, not always favorable. Now,
|
|
bear in mind, I've been a fan of SF for all my life, I've gone to cons
|
|
for well over 15 years as Just Another Guy, so in some of this I have my
|
|
Fanboy hat on, though from time to time my Producerboy hat may slip on
|
|
as well.
|
|
|
|
There are some conventions I never miss; LosCon here in LA, and San
|
|
Diego Comic Con, because both have a sense of real fun about them, and
|
|
the people running them are generally swell (absent one or two years of
|
|
LosCon when, I dunno, something went weird at the ConCom level). As a
|
|
rule, Westercon is great, Icon is great, and though I haven't had that
|
|
much exposure to Chicago ComicCon, that seems pretty nifty as well.
|
|
|
|
But over the years, at some other conventions (not all of them, but
|
|
a growing number), you start to run into a problem in fan/pro
|
|
relationships. One convention I know of (no names) didn't bother to send
|
|
out invitations to the pros or offer guest passes because "Well, they
|
|
always come every year ANYway, so why spend the money on stamps? BECAUSE
|
|
IT'S POLITE TO BE ASKED, YOU NUMBSKULL. Consequently, a number of pros
|
|
passed and didn't come.
|
|
|
|
I've had a real problem with a couple of recent WorldCons, where I
|
|
shelled out my own money as a pro with a whole lotta TV SF credits to
|
|
fly up, paid for my own room, transportation, everything...and was told
|
|
upon arrival that even having done all this, and after they'd used my
|
|
name to bring in more people, they WOULDN'T EVEN GIVE ME A GUEST PASS to
|
|
the convention. I had to pay to get in. When they pulled this one on me
|
|
in San Francisco, I chewed those involved several new orifices, and only
|
|
went to the one panel I really wanted to do, and otherwise said "screw
|
|
it."
|
|
|
|
More and more, it seems, conventions which rely on pros to draw
|
|
attendees adopt a give-a-shit attitude toward those pros, as though tyey
|
|
(they) are *expected* to perform, and should be happy for the chance to
|
|
appear anywhere. I cannot tell you the number of calls I get from people
|
|
putting cons together *right now* that explain, "Yes, we want you as our
|
|
GoH, but you'll have to pay your own way at every step," often including
|
|
buying admission. When you protest, they get snippy and say, "Well, you
|
|
know, we're doing this for YOUR benefit, to give you exposure to your
|
|
show to the fans, we're doing you a favor."
|
|
|
|
At which point I usually hang up the phone hard enough to shatter
|
|
phone lines from here to New Orleans.
|
|
|
|
Now let me repeat...this is not the standard, but it has been
|
|
happening enough, and growing, that a lot of pros are having second
|
|
thoughts about the whole convention idea. A number of 'em just won't go
|
|
anymore...and where that's unfortunate is that it hurts the goodly number
|
|
of great conventions put on by terrific people, and there are many.
|
|
|
|
It's caused me to be very selective in the conventions I attend, and
|
|
I work hard with my cast, who are new to all this, to try and help them
|
|
avoid any that I know are going to be trouble.
|
|
|
|
I'm not sure what the root of the problem is, whether it's some fans
|
|
taking pros for granted, or the growth of cons as Big Business rather than
|
|
just a chance to have fun and hang out, or what. So I can't even begin to
|
|
describe what needs to be done, only to agree with Paul that there is a
|
|
problem, but to disagree with him on the notion that there aren't good ones
|
|
out there. Yes, you can be taken advantage of, and that happens more than
|
|
it should in every area, and SF cons are no exception. But I don't think
|
|
it's time yet to throw the proverbial baby out with the proverbial
|
|
bathwater.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Scientific Progress goes BOINK
|
|
Date: 24 May 1995 21:42:07 -0400
|
|
|
|
Tom, we *do* have a medical/biological advisor, whose primary
|
|
comment on the notion that a virus couldn't pass between one species
|
|
and another..."We have yet to contact one other alien life form to make
|
|
an analysis. We do not know for a fact that their biology will be
|
|
radically different than our own. Until we actually make contact, it's
|
|
as likely as not." A biologist works from what's known; unless you've got
|
|
a specimen of alien life somewhere and aren't showing it to anyone, or
|
|
you're simply making a guess, which is neither more nor less correct until
|
|
we have something testable in our hands.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Re: Take my Biologist, please!
|
|
Date: 24 May 1995 23:30:48 -0400
|
|
|
|
"...they are very similar in their cellular/biochemical makeup."
|
|
EXACTLY. That's why it was stated in those specific terms in the course
|
|
of the episode.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: ATTN JMS: B5 Video and Time Ou
|
|
Date: 25 May 1995 01:50:42 -0400
|
|
|
|
Yes, please, by all means, send a copy of both, actually, to me at
|
|
14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423. Thanks!
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Was that all? (spoilers for "C
|
|
Date: 25 May 1995 20:40:50 -0400
|
|
|
|
Suffice to say there's one more major hit yet to come, and I do mean
|
|
major.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: ATT JMS: other episodes out of
|
|
Date: 25 May 1995 20:46:49 -0400
|
|
|
|
I think there are one or two out of order, but at this point I'll be
|
|
damned if I can remember anymore....
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Re: "Rip-Offs" and Con Organiz
|
|
Date: 25 May 1995 20:57:55 -0400
|
|
|
|
Re: Tom C.'s statement that he "had to call in a lot of favors" to get
|
|
us into CapriCon is one of the -- no, make that THE -- most ludicrous
|
|
thing I have ever heard. More of his trying to inflate his position. I
|
|
suspect that if Michael O'Hare or I or anyone else showed up at a con, we
|
|
probably wouldn't have a hard time getting in, given the number of requests
|
|
that come in for their presence.
|
|
|
|
More CMC bullshit. Pure and simple, and as with all the CMC bullshit,
|
|
painfully obvious for what it is. Which is one of many reasons I withdrew
|
|
any endorsement from B5 for their "event." I wouldn't work with these
|
|
people if I were dying of cancer and they were paying in chemotherapy.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: For JMS: Cons and Con Jobs
|
|
Date: 25 May 1995 21:20:59 -0400
|
|
|
|
Dan'l...you make a lot of good points. The only one I'd argue with
|
|
is the "Worldcon is an exhibition, and all attendees at businsss
|
|
exhibitions pay to get in." (Paraphrase) Not true. Invariably, any
|
|
good exhibition of business convention allows for industry passes; I was
|
|
at E3, the big multimedia exhibition/convention in LA a week or so ago,
|
|
with 30-40,000 attendees, and media pros/industry types were comp'd,
|
|
because it's the presence of these individuals that brings in others. If
|
|
Worldcon is, as you say, more a business than a convention (which is
|
|
on one level kinda less than it was intended, he said wistfully), then
|
|
it should begin acting like one.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: New B5 CGI AVIs on AOL
|
|
Date: 25 May 1995 21:23:35 -0400
|
|
|
|
IF the clips are directly provided by Warner Bros., as is the case
|
|
with the avi's uploaded to AOL, then they may be re-uploaded anywhere.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: ATTN JMS Series 2, Channel 4 a
|
|
Date: 25 May 1995 21:28:01 -0400
|
|
|
|
The shows will continue to air weekly.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: C&L Analysis *SPOILERS*
|
|
Date: 25 May 1995 22:52:27 -0400
|
|
|
|
What you also have to do is step back for a moment and remember that
|
|
the dinner began prior to Keffer and the rest leaving B5; and was ending
|
|
about the time they got back. Add up the time indicated, and you've got
|
|
a ritual that has gone on for at LEAST 3-4 hours now, probably closer to
|
|
5-6; seated in a small room, legs crossed, after what was almost certainly
|
|
a busy day. Show me somebody who WOULDN'T doze off after a while.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: C&L (spoilers)
|
|
Date: 25 May 1995 23:10:04 -0400
|
|
|
|
John: you have made a very perceptive observation.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Re: "Rip-Offs" and Con Organiz
|
|
Date: 25 May 1995 21:27:40 -0400
|
|
|
|
1) Tom C. informed me that arrangements had been made with Capricon
|
|
for the bunch of us to appear there on Saturday, though explaining that it
|
|
"couldn't be put into the program because we didn't have an exact time."
|
|
Which seemed kinda funny to me at the time.
|
|
|
|
2) Upon arriving, at Tom's insistence (I at no time even knew about
|
|
the convention until Tom told us we were booked to stop by as a "goodwill
|
|
investment"), it did seem that *nobody* knew we were coming, which upset
|
|
me more than a little.
|
|
|
|
3) I did insist on a room rather than being stuck in the dealer's
|
|
room, at a table selling unauthorized merchandise.
|
|
|
|
4) As we left the convention, I had a very angry conversation with
|
|
Tom, in that insufficient groundwork had been done, no preparations or
|
|
arrangements had been made, and the entire thing was sloppily done, and
|
|
that it couldn't be allowed to be done this way again.
|
|
|
|
So Bruce, if you're going to start talking about "the net of a
|
|
thousand lies," I strongly suggest you get your OWN facts straight first,
|
|
because all of points 1-4 preceding can be verified by all the cast
|
|
members who were in that car. You, I note, were not present.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: JMS: and anyone else who knows
|
|
Date: 26 May 1995 02:20:03 -0400
|
|
|
|
To answer your questin: I will be at the Anaheim Convention Center on
|
|
Sunday at the Creation MegaShow. Claudia and Bill Mumy will also be there
|
|
thoughI think Bill is Saturday only.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Big Bang Warning from jms
|
|
Date: 26 May 1995 02:35:47 -0400
|
|
|
|
I just received a message from someone I know that there is an ad for
|
|
the Big Bang Convention in the current issue of STAR WARS INSIDER that
|
|
just came out listing me as attending. I am in the process of getting my
|
|
hands on the actual ad to verify this, but since the source is a reliable
|
|
one, I wanted to alert anyone who might see this that I am most definitely
|
|
NOT attending, CMC/Tom Christofferson has known this for months now, and
|
|
the advertisement is absolutely false in that regard. He has been
|
|
forbidden to use any references or representations regarding me or Warner
|
|
Bros., and if this information turns out correct, and I have no reason to
|
|
doubt that at the moment, this will be turned over to lawyers.
|
|
|
|
Meanwhile, to repeat: I will NOT be attending this convention, nor
|
|
is this convention in any way endorsed by Babylonian Productions or PTEN
|
|
or Warner Bros.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Re: "Rip-Offs" and Con Organiz
|
|
Date: 26 May 1995 21:20:32 -0400
|
|
|
|
It's very sad, Bruce, that you think the only way to get a response
|
|
is to insult people and use emotionally-laden "hot-buttons" to try and
|
|
inflame them.
|
|
|
|
I've generally found that a reasoned, simple, polite question gets
|
|
answered far more often. Perhaps next time you should try it.
|
|
|
|
Jerk.*
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
(*emotional hot-button #47, I knew you wouldn't mind)
|
|
|
|
Subject: Shadows and the facts of life
|
|
Date: 26 May 1995 21:20:59 -0400
|
|
|
|
Morden never said "wait" in the hall with Talia.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Re: JMS detractors take note
|
|
Date: 26 May 1995 21:22:14 -0400
|
|
|
|
Exactly. You will note that Macabee says, of the Ministry, "...or
|
|
Minipax, as we like to call it around the office." It's an in-house
|
|
joke, not the real name of the thing.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: ATTN JMS: Re: "Rip-Offs" and
|
|
Date: 26 May 1995 21:22:43 -0400
|
|
|
|
I've only heard back second- and third-hand, but from what I haer,
|
|
(hear), "da guys" had a great time at Marcon.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: ATTN JMS: More thumbs up
|
|
Date: 26 May 1995 21:21:47 -0400
|
|
|
|
Thanks; all support gratefully accepted. Welcome to the fold....
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Re: C&L Analysis *SPOILERS*
|
|
Date: 26 May 1995 21:51:04 -0400
|
|
|
|
Londo has not yet finished doing exactly what the shadows wish, though
|
|
he has made a good start of it; and no, there were very few others involved
|
|
in the Narn/Centauri war.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: ATTN JMS: C&L: NO Spoilers!
|
|
Date: 26 May 1995 21:53:46 -0400
|
|
|
|
Frederick: thanks....
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Re: "Rip-Offs" and Con Organiz
|
|
Date: 26 May 1995 21:50:13 -0400
|
|
|
|
Here's a dilemma I'd like to throw out to those who've run conventions
|
|
before, because I don't have a good answer for it, and maybe it'd help to
|
|
illuminate the discussion a bit.
|
|
|
|
I was talking to X, who is a prime mover behind one of the for-profit
|
|
convention companies. I noted, in the course of the conversation, my
|
|
surprise that Actor Y had not been invited to many conventions by that
|
|
company. X's response: "Well, that's because Actor Y keeps showing up at
|
|
fan conventions for free. How can we justify paying someone who's lowered
|
|
his/her market value like that?"
|
|
|
|
Initial reaction: that's rather odious thinking.
|
|
|
|
Secondary and tertiary reactions: you're an actor. You don't really
|
|
come out of the SF field, you don't know the ins and outs, or what the
|
|
diff is between a fan con and a profit con. Convention A asks you to do
|
|
their convention, and will pay $4,000 plus transportation and airfare.
|
|
Convention B asks you to their convention, but can't pay anything but the
|
|
hotel and a guest pass. Actors are not limitless pools of money; they
|
|
have the same fiscal nuts to crack as everyone else...mortgage, car,
|
|
alimony, kids, doctors, name it.
|
|
|
|
It does put things very much in the favor of the paying cons when it
|
|
comes to actors and the like. How does one tell an actor not to do it?
|
|
(Not that it is my job or anyone else's to do so, and I'm not entirely
|
|
sure it would be *right* to do so...any opportunity an actor has to
|
|
perform for an audience, and be properly compensated for that performance,
|
|
should be seized.) So maybe it isn't so much "don't do this one," as "be
|
|
OPEN to the other type as well." But then how do you counter the X/Y
|
|
conversation above?
|
|
|
|
It is, frankly, a real mess....
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: ATTN JMS: "Chrysalis" question
|
|
Date: 26 May 1995 22:25:27 -0400
|
|
|
|
As I recall, she intended primarily to tell him of the souls business.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: JMS: Home world destroyed? <S
|
|
Date: 26 May 1995 22:25:05 -0400
|
|
|
|
I didn't say destroyed, I said decimated; and no, this wasn't it.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: ATTN JMS: diversification of s
|
|
Date: 27 May 1995 01:38:04 -0400
|
|
|
|
I think it's more a case of those species who might find B5 a
|
|
habitable place, tend to go there. I think we'll continue to see more
|
|
diversification as the techniques to realize that dramatically continue
|
|
to increase.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: PC Babylon
|
|
Date: 27 May 1995 05:48:26 -0400
|
|
|
|
PC's got nothing to do with it. But 1) the syph epidemic didn't
|
|
occur to me, and 2) this was nowhere NEAR the level of plague that we were
|
|
addressing. It didn't occur to me while writing it, and if it had, I
|
|
probably would've excluded it because it wasn't relevant. I would also
|
|
add that *all* sides in this particular storyline acted with varying
|
|
degrees of irrationality, so if there was one side or the other held up
|
|
as wiser or better, I sure didn't see it. Or write it.
|
|
|
|
There are legitimate complaints one can bring of political
|
|
correctness. Unfortunately, it has gained such wide currency, and is
|
|
used so broadly in non-applicable areas, that the term has lost most of
|
|
its meaning and effectiveness. Nowadays PC is meant to mean anything one
|
|
disagrees with, anything with a possible moral or idea, to denigrate
|
|
anything and everything but absolute rudeness. It's a dismissive, nothing
|
|
more.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Re: JMS: Home world destroyed?
|
|
Date: 28 May 1995 01:51:03 -0400
|
|
|
|
Keith...re: decimated defined...that would be telling.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Pros at Cons
|
|
Date: 28 May 1995 01:51:20 -0400
|
|
|
|
Actually, I don't tend to use the hospitality suite much at cons;
|
|
I generally hang out in the halls or in the dealer's room or in going to
|
|
panels, rather than hiding out. I also don't tend to eat much before a
|
|
presentation as it kafuffles my synapses and all I can do is stand there
|
|
and belch (which, granted, is some small improvement over my usual
|
|
performance).
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Actor's addresses?
|
|
Date: 28 May 1995 02:19:37 -0400
|
|
|
|
Anyone involved in making B5 (actors, crew, others) are reachable at
|
|
14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: JMS: San Diego Comic Con
|
|
Date: 28 May 1995 02:19:52 -0400
|
|
|
|
I *believe* that I'm slated for both that Saturday and Sunday.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Attn:JMS- Any "Con's" on this
|
|
Date: 28 May 1995 02:20:14 -0400
|
|
|
|
Closest I'm coming is Chicago comic con in July; I think there may
|
|
be a Florida convention sometime next year. I don't get around a lot...
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Maybe have a B5 CGI competitio
|
|
Date: 28 May 1995 03:37:58 -0400
|
|
|
|
Only problem: all CGI for this show must be *created under contract*,
|
|
not purchased after the fact, as a work for hire. A competition is simply
|
|
not workable.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Re: "Rip-Offs" and Con Organiz
|
|
Date: 28 May 1995 03:46:41 -0400
|
|
|
|
It's probably a glitch in my brain, but I rarely evaluate conventions
|
|
in terms of how "useful" they are, but rather if I and folks seem to have
|
|
a good time. So in that sense, I probably enjoy the fan-cons more, because
|
|
there's more room for interaction.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Someone's Impersonating jms
|
|
Date: 28 May 1995 04:38:00 -0400
|
|
|
|
I recently received information that someone is impersonating me in
|
|
Internet Relay Chat. This person has been going under the handle of
|
|
straczynski@nwlink.com. I have just sent this creep a message privately
|
|
outlining the whole *host* of civil, criminal and related laws under which
|
|
I will prosecute him if he continues in this action. Be advised that this
|
|
person is out there, and if you see this address, or anything similar,
|
|
be advised this person is committing fraud. Anyone who wants to further
|
|
assist with tracking down this person is welcome, though we already have
|
|
quite a bit. Email replies only.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: ATTN JMS: C&S and Delenn (SPOI
|
|
Date: 29 May 1995 01:32:31 -0400
|
|
|
|
Re: why Delenn would do such a thing...hold out for "Comes the
|
|
Inquisitor"...it gets into her rationals on such things.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: JMS: Sandman reference in C&L?
|
|
Date: 29 May 1995 01:34:13 -0400
|
|
|
|
It's mainly an extrapolation on an alien breather based on WW II
|
|
style gas masks.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Attn JMS:Sheridan's helmet.
|
|
Date: 29 May 1995 01:51:01 -0400
|
|
|
|
We selected (with permission) the Flying Tigers logo for Sheridan out
|
|
of respect; not out of any sense of foreshadowing the nature of his
|
|
involvement.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: C&L,ItSoZ, and Quality of Merc
|
|
Date: 29 May 1995 01:51:15 -0400
|
|
|
|
Ah, about time; I was wondering when someone would get around to
|
|
remembering "Quality of Mercy" in this....
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: C&L Opinions
|
|
Date: 29 May 1995 19:57:24 -0400
|
|
|
|
The only thing wrong with this whole argument is that it doesn't touch
|
|
reality at any two contiguous points. I will not defend the notion that
|
|
the episode stated that all Americans felt that AIDS was a penalty from
|
|
god because it never said that. Ever. In any way, manner, shape or form.
|
|
The problem is that some people are so caught up in the current situation
|
|
that they lose all sense of perspective. Fact is, most people DID think
|
|
that the Black Death was a punishment from God, or the work of the devil,
|
|
as Franklin says. The Markabs had a similar belief. Nowhere was that
|
|
applied in dialogue to humans or the AIDS situation.
|
|
|
|
The whole point of the episode is NOT political; it says that if you
|
|
make a disease political on either side, you're gonna die. You have to
|
|
set aside all that crap and just Deal With The Problem. The only "side"
|
|
this episode took was in advocating compassion for those afflicted.
|
|
|
|
I have enough just dealing with what's actually *in* my series; don't
|
|
compound the problem by adding things that you saw only in your own head,
|
|
and which exist nowhere in dialogue or in the story. You are adding the
|
|
template of your own beliefs as an overlay, and seeing this story through
|
|
it. That ain't my problem. If you see this disease as political, that's
|
|
your lookout. This show says that ANY attempt to politicize a disease is
|
|
species-dangerous thinking. Period.
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: ATTN JMS: A wee note;)
|
|
Date: 29 May 1995 19:57:41 -0400
|
|
|
|
Jackie: thanks....
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|
|
Subject: B5 and CLaudia Adoration
|
|
Date: 29 May 1995 19:57:55 -0400
|
|
|
|
On behalf of meself and Claudia...thanks
|
|
|
|
jms
|
|
|