Attn JMS: Question (& mild SPOILER) concerning the Long, Twilight Struggle

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Subject: Attn JMS: Question (& mild SPOILER) concerning the Long, Twilight Struggle
+  1: Oct 17, 1995: Groover_B at mediasoft.net (Brian Groover)
   2: Oct 17, 1995: philb at codd-date.win-uk.net (Phil Boswell)
   3: Oct 18, 1995: Robert Holland <rholland at triton.mayfield.hp.com>
   4: Oct 20, 1995: ronp at netcom.com (Ron Peterson)
+  5: Oct 20, 1995: Groover_B at mediasoft.net (Brian Groover)
*  6: Oct 21, 1995: straczynski at genie.geis.com

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From: Groover_B at mediasoft.net (Brian Groover)
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Attn JMS Attention JMS

I have a question about one of the characters in "The Long,
Twilight Struggle." There is a change in something, and I want to
know if it was intentional.  

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The new Draal seems much more brash and dramatic than the older
one, whose demeanor was gentle and humble, even as he was
destroying ships. Here is my question:  Is this an intentional
difference, or am I reading too much into the stylistic
differences between one actor and another?

Thanks,
Brian
Brian Groover (Groover_B at mediasoft.net)



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From: Groover_B at mediasoft.net (Brian Groover)
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Robert Holland <rholland at triton.mayfield.hp.com> wrote:

|Groover_B at mediasoft.net (Brian Groover) wrote:
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|>I have a question about one of the characters in "The Long,
|>Twilight Struggle." There is a change in something, and I want to
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|>The new Draal seems much more brash and dramatic than the older
|>one, whose demeanor was gentle and humble, even as he was
|>destroying ships. Here is my question:  Is this an intentional
|>difference, or am I reading too much into the stylistic
|>differences between one actor and another?
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|That's ACTING! Har!
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|Actually, Draal summered at the Leo McKern school of acting, and has
|returned in the role of Rumpole.

Hah! <VBG> 
Looking at it again, it *has* to be intentional.  I can't imagine
JMS letting something that melodramatic go by as bad acting.  In
fact, I was trying to place why his speaking style sounded so
familiar, when I realized he sounded just like the Wizard of Oz
trying to bluster when Toto pulled the curtain back.  Just as I
realized this, Draal said, "the Great and TERRIBLE [pause]
secrets" in what sounded like the *same* voice phrasing as the
Wizard's "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!  The
Great and TERRIBLE Oz has [pause] uh spoken."

It makes me wonder if the planet is really all it's cracked up to
be.  Draal is certainly a wizard now, as well as the "man behind
the curtain."  *Nothing* in this show is accidental, I think.


Brian Groover (Groover_B at mediasoft.net)



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From: straczynski at genie.geis.com
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     In part it's John's take on the character, but what I indicated to him
was that Draal's gone through some considerable changes by entering the
heart of the machine; it's given him greater understanding, and the freeing
aspects of greater humor.  It's almost like -- and I hate to even use the
reference because somebody'll say "Oh, that's what he's doing," and I ain't
it's just a point of comparison -- Tom Bombadil in LoTR...quite funny, but
also someone not to be trifled with.
 
                                                                    jms