JMS on CompuServe (Aug 02, 1996) *POSSIBLE SPOILERS*
Brent Barrett
bbarrett at speedlink.com
Fri Aug 2 18:42:45 EDT 1996
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[ Summary of subjects in this section: ]
Sb: #550032-#B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
Sb: #551384-#Old SciFi series
Sb: #551527-Kosh & Kyle/pilot
Sb: #551670-Eng Lit & B5
Sb: #551601-#Voice in the Wilderness
Sb: #551610-Voices of Experience
Sb: #551532-#B5 New Season
Sb: #551735-Old Archives
Sb: #551675-<IaE in UK>
Sb: #John Copeland on SFC
Sb: #551789-B5 New Season
Sb: #551814-Doom and Despair
Sb: #551822-B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
Sb: #551967-B5 Tech & Other Stuff
Sb: #552104-Info please!
[ Summary: States that he sent in his fan club money and hasn't
recevied anything. ]
#: 551673 S5/Babylon 5: General
01-Aug-96 20:39:00
Sb: #550032-#B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
We don't know who did or didn't receive stuff until we hear back; send
email to jplb5 at aol.com...he's sending out batches of stuff all this week to
those whose deliveries got screwed up.
jms
[ Summary: Asks exactly what JMS means by "can't" when he says he knows
what The Prisoner is about but can't tell anyone. ]
#: 551678 S5/Babylon 5: General
01-Aug-96 20:51:15
Sb: #551384-#Old SciFi series
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
That would be telling.
jms
[ Summary: Thinks he saw horror in Dr. Kyle's reactions to having seen
Kosh in his true form in the pilot movie. ]
#: 551679 S5/Babylon 5: General
01-Aug-96 20:51:17
Sb: #551527-Kosh & Kyle/pilot
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
No, from where I sit, he looked and spoke pretty awed. So I can't
account for your interpretation; certainly I think the general concensus was
that he was massively impressed.
jms
#: 551670 S5/Babylon 5: General
01-Aug-96 20:32:28
Sb: #551339-#Eng Lit & B5
Fm: REBECCA ESCHLIMAN
<< I go from the classics to the obscure, >>
Have you tried some of William Blake's epic stuff or Charles Williams' (I think
that's the author, but at least one of C. S. Lewis and Tolkien's cronies)
"Taliesin Through Logres?" Bits of magic there...
- rje - Beware the Revenge of Unanticipated Consequences...
#: 551680 S5/Babylon 5: General
01-Aug-96 20:51:20
Sb: #551670-Eng Lit & B5
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Yes, I'm very fond of William Blake's work.
jms
#: 551601 S5/Babylon 5: General
01-Aug-96 18:39:42
Sb: #Voice in the Wilderness
Fm: BRENT BARRETT
Hi, Joe,
I was just re-watching "Voice in the Wilderness" and noticed a sly little line
you dropped in there that has *so* much more meaning now that we're a lot
deeper into the story. When they first find Varn, he says:
"Help me! Or your people . . . all of your people . . . will die."
:-) He wasn't just talking about the people on B5, *was* he?
Thanks,
-- Brent
#: 551681 S5/Babylon 5: General
01-Aug-96 20:51:22
Sb: #551601-#Voice in the Wilderness
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Who can say...?
jms
#: 551610 S5/Babylon 5: General
01-Aug-96 19:06:25
Sb: #Voices of Experience
Fm: REBECCA ESCHLIMAN
While watching the repeat of the Rod Serling documentary on PBS the other
night, a question occurred to me (no way to retrace the original stimulus -- it
was a mental slalom-run):
Do you find it more of a challenge to write from the perspective of one
(individual, society) who is less experienced than yourself (regain lost
innocence) or one who is more experienced (project 1,000 to 1,000,000 forward),
or is there no difference?
- rje -
#: 551682 S5/Babylon 5: General
01-Aug-96 20:51:24
Sb: #551610-Voices of Experience
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
I don't think there's really a difference. (Also, philosophically, I
think one can be experienced and still retain a certain measure of innocence,
but that's another discussion for another time.) I think we all have that part
of ourselves which wishes to believe, needs to believe in a cause or in other
people , however many times experience slaps us in the face with the contrary
position...and there is always the part which is tired and weary and burned out
and refuses to trust again. We are all these things at different moments. The
difference with writers is that we must be those different things on command,
and articulate those feelings through the voices of our characters as they
experience them in new contexts.
jms
[ Summary: Asks when the next new episodes of Babylon 5 will air. ]
#: 551690 S5/Babylon 5: General
01-Aug-96 21:01:04
Sb: #551532-#B5 New Season
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Expect new eps around the first week of October, at which point there
will be 9 new shows aired in a row.
jms
[ Summary: Asks when the records of the last Shadow war were destroyed. ]
#: 551746 S5/Babylon 5: General
02-Aug-96 00:21:30
Sb: #551735-Old Archives
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Certainly it would've occured in the last days of the war.
jms
#: 551675 S6/Babylon 5: Spoilers
01-Aug-96 20:44:13
Sb: #550746-#<IaE in UK>
Fm: AL LIPSCOMB
The questions of the Shadows motives continue to be a subject I have given much
thought. While I belive that you have stated that when these motives brought
into the open a healthy percentage of us will agree that the movtives are not
wrong (although we may still not agree with the methods). I will go with the
assumption that you do not deem a large percentage of us evil, but that you
have assembled a moral dilema for us.
This also should mean that the Shadows have a reason for this, and it is not
that they are driven to chaos by their very nature.
The first question that needs to be asked is why did _most_ of the first ones
leave? Were they tired of thousands of generations of war with the Shadows?
Tired of this small galaxie? Or was there a general agreement to leave this
place to the Shadows? From there we have the Vorlon question. While the Minbari
feel that the Vorlon are 'first ones', the other first ones may not be willing
to grant that level of equality to the Vorlon.
Kosh indicated that the Vorlon were few in number, but gave a hint that they
were growing in numbers (a second possible interpretation of his statements
could lead to the conclusion that involvment in the war would mean some sort of
end to the Vorlon race: 'we are still few' and 'not our time'). We also have
some indication that the Shadows are few, at least in ships.
Now I would suspect that the 'need to survive' ploy to provide a moral grey
area could be a bit below what you have in mind. Could the Shadows be higher
levels of natural selection? If the clues we have about the death of a Vorlon
support Minbari theology then what do the Shadows want?
What is my bet? That the Shadows are the reason the Vorlon are what they are.
I hate reruns!
#: 551747 S6/Babylon 5: Spoilers
02-Aug-96 00:21:32
Sb: #551675-<IaE in UK>
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Some of the first ones just got bored after millions of years, and went
off in general. The rest, for the most part, went beyond the Rim for the same
reason you cut down old trees to make room for new ones.
jms
#: 551751 S5/Babylon 5: General
02-Aug-96 00:24:55
Sb: #John Copeland on SFC
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Babylon 5 Producer John Copeland will be on "Vortex," a new show on the
Sci-Fi Channel, tomorrow evening, along with Majel Barrett Roddenberry. Time
you got to seem some of the other friendly folks involved in making this show.
jms
[ Summary: Asks if there's been any progress in getting a station to air
Babylon 5 in Philadelphia. ]
#: 552196 S5/Babylon 5: General
02-Aug-96 14:49:04
Sb: #551789-B5 New Season
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Haven't heard anything yet.
jms
[ Summary: Asks if there's a light at the end of the tunnel for the
characters in Babylon 5. ]
#: 552198 S5/Babylon 5: General
02-Aug-96 14:49:08
Sb: #551814-Doom and Despair
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
There's always light at the end of the tunnel...but things have got to
get REALLY bad first, there has to be some major stuff for everyone to overcome
to make the light mean something.
jms
#: 551822 S5/Babylon 5: General
02-Aug-96 05:40:26
Sb: #551673-#B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
Fm: GERARD KEATING (IRELAND)
Joe,
Have all the Membership kits been sent yet? I've only gotten a mazagine so far.
Thanks
Gerard Keating (Ireland) 02-Aug-96 @ 13:21:30 BST
#: 552199 S5/Babylon 5: General
02-Aug-96 14:49:10
Sb: #551822-B5 FAN CLUB INFO!
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
They're going out.
jms
[ Summary: Asks if the diagram of Babylon 5 used in "Points of Departure"
has ever been posted anywhere. Also, wonders what the third disaster
was in "Interludes & Examinations," as trouble always comes in threes. ]
#: 552200 S5/Babylon 5: General
02-Aug-96 14:49:12
Sb: #551967-B5 Tech & Other Stuff
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
I don't think the diagram has been posted anywhere; and as for trouble
coming in threes...most definitely.
jms
[ Summary: A new viewer asks anyone to help her understand Babylon 5. ]
#: 552201 S5/Babylon 5: General
02-Aug-96 14:49:14
Sb: #552104-Info please!
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
It'd be hard to explain in a few paragraphs...may I commend to you the
lurker's guide on the internet: http://hyperion.com, which will bring you
wonderfully up to speed.
jms
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