JMS on GEnie / December 14, 1995 Compilation
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Originally From: dstrauss at netcom.com (David Strauss)
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*** Some spoilers for "Passing" are included. ***
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Message 76 Thu Dec 07, 1995
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 04:04 EST
Yes, from what Ivanova tells Lyta, about two weeks have passed since the
apprehension of Edward's killer; and yes, with slight modifications to prevent
mindwipes from running into one another, they usually use preset templates in
creating a basic history for the person to be wiped.
jms
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Message 870 Fri Dec 08, 1995
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 04:06 EST
Jose: "glad to have you back on rastb5 again"...huh? I'm not on rastb5,
in limited fashion or otherwise. Are you perhaps referring to the info group?
Re: inspiration...in general this has meant people coming to me and
saying that because of the show, they've chosen to get involved in charities,
or social causes, or to register voters, or work in shelters; in Dallas at a
small convention I was at, a young man stood up in the seminar and said that
he was changing his major to social work because of the show...in email I
received a note from a fellow who, inspired by the notion that you can choose
a better life, relocated with his wife halfway across the country, against the
"advice" of everyone else, and created a new and better life doing *exactly*
what he wants to do with his life.
jms
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Message 879 Fri Dec 08, 1995
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 21:38 EST
Hrmmm...it was my understanding that the reposts/answers would go on
the rastb5-info group. I'll have to check this out.
jms
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Message 616 Sun Dec 10, 1995
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 00:48 EST
Yes, "CoS" is a deliberate mirror-image of "Midnight," partly to
illustrate the notion that "the wheel turns," as G'Kar says...yes, it does,
and if you forget that it eventually turns on *you*, you'll be ground beneath
it.
I enjoyed Wing Commander 3, and will almost certainly buy WC3, but won't
play it until I've finished writing for the season, for obvious reasons....
jms
(oops, meant to say WC4 above)
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Message 642 Mon Dec 11, 1995
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 03:34 EST
jms does not do christmas, that's correct.
BTW, B5's own conceptual consultant Harlan Ellison will be signing copies
of his new CD Rom game, "I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream" at Tower
Records/Video in two locations this week: from 6-7:30 p.m. on Wednesday,
December 13th, at 8801 Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, and in San Francisco
on Thursday, December 14th, from 6-8 p.m. at 3205 20th Avenue.
jms
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Message 648 Mon Dec 11, 1995
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 19:32 EST
Haven't tried the game yet, or ANY of the games now in my hands, or that
I'm intending to buy, 'cause if I get into them (like Mechwarrior 2) I know
that it'll take hours and hours from the writing; when the season's over, then
I can do that.
jms
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Message 661 Tue Dec 12, 1995
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 03:18 EST
Jeff: yep, that was you I was thinking of...thanks for leaping up and
helping indicate I'm not senile (well, yet, anyway).
Re: Mechwarrior 2...I don't have any first-hand experience with the game,
so don't take my purchase as recommendation; I'd just read some of the
reviews, and figured I'd check it out.
Re: Sinclair as the One...funny how all this time very few folks have
really commented much on how it was that Zathras could look right into
Sinclair's face and say, "NOT the One."
jms
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Message 670 Tue Dec 12, 1995
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 17:47 EST
Basically, she doesn't have any one style; it's whatever she feels like
that day. The military rule is that the hair has to be kept either off,
above, or away from the rank insignia.
jms
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Message 687 Wed Dec 13, 1995
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 01:27 EST
Actually, I tend to spend the same amount of time here as anywhere else;
more, in fact. I inevitably log onto GEnie minimum of twice a day; I
sometimes go a couple/three days without logging onto AOL, for instance,
though then I post several messages at a time, so you get a flurry. As for
CIS, bear in mind that I've been on that service LONG before GEnie even came
along, since 1984/85, and that has the benefit of using an offline
reader/posting program, Tapcis...I've tried Aladdin, and can't get it to do
the stuff I want...this isn't an invitation to teach me, I don't have time for
the learning curve right now...so everything you see from me here on GEnie is
written live, on-line. That sometimes mitigates a *bit* against the number of
posts, but no more so than at any time before.
The video thing didn't come out as an announcement, but rather as an
aside to an ongoing discussion that touched into this area. It wasn't a case
of, "Aha! I have this to announce, so I'll do it HERE rather than on GEnie."
That's just where it occured to me in the natural progression of messages.
Just like stuff gets mentioned here that sometimes doesn't get mentioned
elsewhere. Which is why there are a number of folks out there collecting my
posts on various services and reposting them onto other services, because I
don't generally talk about the same stuff in all these different places. If I
just did redundent postings, there'd be no need for that.
Finally, if there *is* any numerical difference in postings -- and I
dispute that premise -- it may come from the fact that in general, on the
newer places, I tend to get a lot more specific questions than here; and most
of the ones here, or in general, tend to be "is this going to happen," or
asking for details on upcoming stuff, which I really can't answer often or in
great specificity.
I still consider GEnie and CIS my two primary services, having been here
the longest...but let's not get proprietary here....
jms
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Message 692 Wed Dec 13, 1995
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 15:12 EST
The actor who plays Pinky, Maurice LeMarche, is a friend, so that may
explain the connection.
jms
(Maurice also did the voice of Egon Spengler in TRGBs)
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Message 704 Thu Dec 14, 1995
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 01:04 EST
I won't be finished writing this season's scripts until...right around
the first week in March, give or take. At the end of a season, you generally
get an advance script order while you're waiting around for the official word,
usually for maybe 2 or 3 scripts tops, which comes around early April. The
official writing season starts the day after the formal pickup, which is late
May.
So while the writing goes on to some extent year round, the really
intense period is from June through March. Ten months, or about 42-44 weeks,
so you're looking at one script every ten days to two weeks; we usually like
to start filming with 4-6 finished scripts in-hand so that we have sufficient
lead time to prep.
jms
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Message 524 Thu Dec 14, 1995
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 01:07 EST
Bear in mind that the Agamemnon now has a captain of its own, and that
captain isn't going to just turn over command of his destroyer every time
Sheridan wants to take it out on a joy ride. Also, the really important
missions Sheridan might use it for are probably things that the EA military
division might not be comfortable with, and would never let him just take out
a destroyer just like that.
jms
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Message 105 Tue Dec 12, 1995
STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 03:14 EST
The Centauri did not steal the bag; he had left long before Edward lost
it (we see him drop and leave it behind in the hallway). AS Garibaldi said,
someone found it and tried to sell it.
jms
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