ATTN: JMS- Severed Dreams (SMALL SPOILER)

Mon Apr 8 02:07:59 EDT 1996

Subject: ATTN: JMS- Severed Dreams (SMALL SPOILER)
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+  1: Apr  6, 1996: "Kevin L. Karuntzos" <kevinkar at deltanet.com>
+  2: Apr  6, 1996: cortese at netcom.com (Janis Maria C. C. Cortese)
*  3: Apr  6, 1996: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
+  4: Apr  6, 1996: tittle at netcom.com (Cindy Tittle Moore)
*  5: Apr  7, 1996: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)

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From: "Kevin L. Karuntzos" <kevinkar at deltanet.com>
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Joe, 

Let me add another quick congratulations for Severed Dreams.  I 
have watched it 4 times already and think it is the absolute best
episode of B5 so far.  Very well done.  Quite tight, engrossing,
"fun to watch" and I think the embodiment of what your show is all
about.   When you said "Tell your friends to watch Severed Dreams
and we'll take it from there..." I laughed, but I see now that you
were 100% right on the money.  If Star Trek could have been 
this good........

I want to also say that I think that using Bruce McGill was a small
coup.  He is in a lot of Bellisario productions and is always great.
I think (or at least hope) that you can bring him back in the future.

SMALL SPOILER BELOW
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>JUST SOMETHING THAT SHERIDAN SAID
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>NO PLOT GIVE AWAYS...
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(That ought to do)

The line from Sheridan "You pays your money, you takes your chances" 
is something that I have seen you say a lot from time to time in your
posts.  Was there a conscious decision to use that line?  I almost
dropped on the floor laughing at that one!

I like the changes (finally) in Delenn and G'Kar. 

If Jerry Doyle broke his arm, why was Garibaldi's leg hurt?

Lastly, where might Marcus have been during all this?  

Thanks for this episode.  

Kevin 
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kevinkar at deltanet.com

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From: cortese at netcom.com (Janis Maria C. C. Cortese)
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In article <3165E9C7.4FFE at deltanet.com> "Kevin L. Karuntzos" <kevinkar at deltanet.com> writes:
>Joe, 
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>Let me add another quick congratulations for Severed Dreams.  I 
>have watched it 4 times already and think it is the absolute best
>episode of B5 so far.  Very well done.  Quite tight, engrossing,
>"fun to watch" and I think the embodiment of what your show is all
>about.   When you said "Tell your friends to watch Severed Dreams
>and we'll take it from there..." I laughed, but I see now that you
>were 100% right on the money.  If Star Trek could have been 
>this good........

Indeed.  When I got back and logged on after watching it, I found a
three-line message from a friend of mine who is a very recent convert
that consisted of *gasp* *gasp* *gasp*.  I think EVERYONE'S buzzing over
this one.  I knew it would be good, but JEEEEEZ.

Practice your Hugo acceptance speech, Joe.  Start now.

>I want to also say that I think that using Bruce McGill was a small
>coup.  He is in a lot of Bellisario productions and is always great.
>I think (or at least hope) that you can bring him back in the future.

He was marvelous -- but I was more than slightly stunned when Tim
informed me that the last time I had seen that actor, he was playing the
William Tell Overture on his face . . .

>SMALL SPOILER BELOW
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>>IT ISN'T REALLY A SPOILER AT ALL
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>>JUST SOMETHING THAT SHERIDAN SAID
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>>NO PLOT GIVE AWAYS...
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>I like the changes (finally) in Delenn and G'Kar. 

Talk about *stunning.*  Things have been happening so seamlessly that it
was lost on me until Delenn said what she said about G'Kar.  I had
gotten so used to seeing him as pretty sympathetic (and had seen so
little of the first season) that I forgot about the red satin panties,
etc.  I think Andreas Katsulas has just joined Nick Park and Andrew
Robinson as God.

>Lastly, where might Marcus have been during all this?  

Locked safely away.  O:-)

Take care,
Janis
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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Lines: 26

spoilers...

We shot that last scene with Garibaldi *after* we'd shot the sequence
showing his injured leg.  We don't shoot in sequence.  So we had to cover
it in the next episode.

 jms

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From: tittle at netcom.com (Cindy Tittle Moore)
Lines: 36

jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5) writes:

>spoilers...

>We shot that last scene with Garibaldi *after* we'd shot the sequence
>showing his injured leg.  We don't shoot in sequence.  So we had to cover
>it in the next episode.

I cannot imagine what it takes to track all of the pieces and snippets
filmed out of order!  This is a fascinating glimpse into what goes on
making a show...

I saw Severed Dreams Thursday night.  I'm still gasping...

--Cindy
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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Lines: 26

"I cannot imagine what it takes to track all of the pieces and snippets
filmed out of order!  This is a fascinating glimpse into what goes on
making a show..."

Cindy: that's why a producer must be a good multitasker.  You've got to
keep not just the one episode in your head, but more.  For instance,
dailies from the day's shooting before come in, for 5 scenes that are out
of sequence, and you have to be able to look at them, knowing what was
shot before in your head, and know intuitively if it's going to match. 
Then a CGI 8-second shot for another episode comes in, and you have to
know how it'll match up with the live action which is still being
edited...and the director has a question about scene 28 in the next
episode to be shot...the editor wants to know if you meant what you said
about reversing scenes 34 and 35 in last week's episode....

It can make you totally and completely nuts.

At that point, it's all Darwinian producing: evolve or die.

 jms

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