JMS on CompuServe (Aug 12, 1996) *POSSIBLE SPOILERS*
Brent Barrett
bbarrett at speedlink.com
Mon Aug 12 13:12:46 EDT 1996
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[ Summary of subjects in this section: ]
Sb: #557532-B5 : Writing is Art?
Sb: #557555-New Cast Addition
Sb: #557545-Grey Council Ship ??
Sb: #557663-EA Civil War
Sb: #557629-Disbarring a doctor
Sb: #557561-More UK Media Articles
Sb: #557665-No Kosh's body?
#: 557532 S5/Babylon 5: General
11-Aug-96 04:59:48
Sb: #556792-#B5 : Writing is Art?
Fm: JUANMA BARRANQUERO
> I write very passionately, and the show needs to feel passionate to be what I
need it to be. Otherwise what's the point?
Don't you think there are very few passion those days? Not only in TV, I'm
speaking about our society (yours, mine, all West) in general. We're afraid of
believing anything...
#: 557669 S5/Babylon 5: General
11-Aug-96 14:23:46
Sb: #557532-B5 : Writing is Art?
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Passion, as I've noted elsewhere, has become passe. It's old fashioned;
the proper attitude now seems to be detatchment and cynicism. It doesn't help
that so much of TV is done by rote, recycling the same stories from place to
place. Interestingly, I think we're seeing *less* of that in the last few
years than in the entire decade preceding, so maybe this is a good turn.
jms
#: 557555 S5/Babylon 5: General
11-Aug-96 06:55:27
Sb: #557405-#New Cast Addition
Fm: DARRAN WILLIAMS
<< Patricia Tallman, also known as Lyta Alexander on B5, will be joining the
regular cast in year four>>
Great news. TV Zone this month hints at a new recurring female character in
season 4, are they refering to Lyta or do you actually have an extra *new*
female character joining the cast.
Darran..
#: 557671 S5/Babylon 5: General
11-Aug-96 14:23:51
Sb: #557555-New Cast Addition
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
No, the item referred to Lyta.
jms
#: 557545 S5/Babylon 5: General
11-Aug-96 05:39:46
Sb: #Grey Council Ship ??
Fm: ANNE L. WARNER
Joe,
Do all the members of the Grey Council live permanently and exclusively on that
ship? Do they ever take vacations? Does the ship have a name and a class?
(Is it a cruiser, dreadnaught, passenger liner, or etc.?)
Anne
#: 557672 S5/Babylon 5: General
11-Aug-96 14:23:53
Sb: #557545-Grey Council Ship ??
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
They stay on the cruiser almost entirely during their tenure in the
council, only leaving for personal family crisis/situations and the like.
jms
#: 557663 S5/Babylon 5: General
11-Aug-96 14:10:21
Sb: #EA Civil War
Fm: ALAN P. BIDDLE
The EA civil war dropped out of the picture in the last few episodes aired. Can
you say when we will get some additional info without compromising anything? I
hesitate to ask as the Shadows seem to up to their ...... well anyway in deep.
Alan
#: 557673 S5/Babylon 5: General
11-Aug-96 14:23:55
Sb: #557663-EA Civil War
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
I'd say you can expect that thread to pick up again after about the first
third of year four.
jms
[ Summary: Asks if JMS has read the work of the author Mark Clifton. ]
#: 557674 S6/Babylon 5: Spoilers
11-Aug-96 14:23:58
Sb: #557629-Disbarring a doctor
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Nope. Actually, I don't think I've ever heard of his work before, let
alone ever read anything.
jms
** REMOVE **
[ Summary: A U.K. viewer comments on two recent articles in the British
press. In the magazine "Home Entertainment":
"Heading - 'Babylon (and On And On)'
The amount of people who've written to us about the lack of coverage
of Babylon 5 in this magazine just goes to prove how popular it has
become in this country. We don't feel guilty about the coverage,
though, becase we have run two large(ish) articles in the past about
the series; in fact, we interviewed the guy who does the sfx before
anyone had heard of Babylon 5. But we are not bitter,and to keep you
Bab fans happy, here is some good news: a new series (number 4) of
this hi-tech show is on its way, we'll update you when we have
more information."
And in the "Sunday Express":
"Science fiction rarely gets its due, but this show just gets better
and better. Capt. Sheridan is catapulted into the future while
Ambassador Cardboard - sorry, Sinclair - heads for the distant past."
]
#: 557675 S6/Babylon 5: Spoilers
11-Aug-96 14:24:00
Sb: #557561-More UK Media Articles
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Well...sort of backhanded compliments, but I'll take them.
jms
#: 557665 S6/Babylon 5: Spoilers
11-Aug-96 14:10:26
Sb: #No Kosh's body?
Fm: NEVILLE WHITE
I was wondering, when Kosh dies, and Garibaldi reports that there was no sign
of a body, Delenn says "You will not find one". Is this because she knows
something about the nature of Vorlons, or is it because she knows something of
the nature of Shadow attacks? Do the shadows consume their victims? The ally of
the shadows which appears in "The Long Dark" certainly consumed internal
organs.
Regards,
Neville White
(UK)
#: 557676 S6/Babylon 5: Spoilers
11-Aug-96 14:24:02
Sb: #557665-No Kosh's body?
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
More about the Vorlons than the shadows.
jms
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