JMS on CompuServe (Dec 09, 1996) *POSSIBLE SPOILERS*
Brent Barrett
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Mon Dec 9 14:47:33 EST 1996
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[ Summary of subjects in this section: ]
Sb: #623118-#B5 merchandise
Sb: #623164-First ones again
Sb: #623289-ISDN Lines
Sb: #623296-Diseases in B5?
Sb: #623111-Attn JMS <Dust>
Sb: #623382-Mysterious Four
Sb: #623427-Irony on Review/Vorlons
Sb: #623460-B5 merchandise
Sb: #623471-Job Description
Sb: #623518-#<Mira's Head>
Sb: #623519-<Arc Prequel>
#: 623118 S5/Babylon 5: General
08-Dec-96 00:18:30
Sb: #622222-#B5 merchandise
Fm: CARL CANTARELLA
>>They do not have credit-card capabilities yet, so any transactions must be
conducted via snail-mail.
I can almost feel the rustling-in of some kind of enchantment already.<<
Well, this is an interesting turn of events --B5 merchandising! This is
something I'm enthusiastic and in favor of, but it's something the B5 franchise
has said it wasn't interested in from the beginning. There was even a stabbing
comparison to Trek's *over* merchandising factor. Peter David poked fun at it
with his, "This is no Deep Space franchise!" remark on the part of Ivanova in
one episode. <g> However, now they're going that route. There's no way I can
blame JMS for wanting to profit off of his well conceived, well thought out,
very entertaining universe. After all, what's wrong with this? It's the fruits
of his labor, so why not? He's earned, for cryin' out loud! <bg> I guess you
can say that my mind is made up on this. <bg>
I take it you read the announcement, presumably from Netter Digital,
which spoke about the coming line of merchandise.
#: 623448 S5/Babylon 5: General
08-Dec-96 19:54:08
Sb: #623118-#B5 merchandise
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Never said I never wanted to do *any* merchandising...what I've always
said was that I wanted to do a little, here and there, adding a bit as we go
along, but doing so gradually, so we could control the quality of the items, to
make sure that fans didn't get stuck with crummy stuff.
Mainly, I approve to merchandise anything that I think is either very
cool, or which I'd like to have myself.
jms
#: 623164 S5/Babylon 5: General
08-Dec-96 07:26:21
Sb: #First ones again
Fm: DANA WRIGHT
We have seen a total of 4 first one species, I believe so far. Will we see
more? Will we learn more or what the others chose to do rather than nurture the
second ones?
Dana
#: 623451 S5/Babylon 5: General
08-Dec-96 20:03:49
Sb: #623164-First ones again
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Yes, you'll see more of them.
jms
#: 623289 S5/Babylon 5: General
08-Dec-96 13:44:10
Sb: #623127-#ISDN Lines
Fm: SYSOP DUPA T PARROT
>> but apparently you can't run ISDN on Win3.1, only Win 95, so it sits there
useless.... <<
Joe,
It depends upon the adapter. Which one do you have?
I'm running a US Robotics Sportster ISDN board (internal) that came with Win
3.1; Win95 and WinNT drivers. Updated drivers are posted on USR's Web site. I'm
running Win95 primarily these days with OS/2 Warp 3 as an alternate (no OS/2
support from USR).
My old ISDN adapter is an IBM WaveRunner which only supports Win 3.1 (but since
IBM sold it to a third-party, they've been promising Win32 drivers Real Soon
Now). IBM's OS/2 support for the WaveRunner is terrible. The worse part is the
WaveRunner plus the NT-1 cost twice as much as the USR Sportster ISDN and does
half as much!
-Dupa T. Parrot, Team SF/F [Tech. Supp. SysOp]
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dupa
OzWin 2.11 O-
#: 623452 S5/Babylon 5: General
08-Dec-96 20:03:51
Sb: #623289-ISDN Lines
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
I'm using a Motorola Bitsurfer, external. No one seems to know how to
make the damned thing work with win3.1 or 3.2.
jms
[ Summary: Asks about the B5 reference in "Captain Power" and if it really
is in there. Also, wonders why we don't hear more about cross-species
diseases. ]
#: 623453 S5/Babylon 5: General
08-Dec-96 20:03:53
Sb: #623296-Diseases in B5?
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
The B5 reference in Captain Power was just a nod to something I was
working on...and definitely shows that it was in the works as far back as 1986.
Yes, we have shown diseases, particularly in "Confessions and
Lamentations," a 2nd season episode. But in general, my sense is that the
biologies of aliens are sufficiently different to minimize most transmitted
diseases.
jms
#: 623111 S6/Babylon 5: Spoilers
07-Dec-96 23:02:48
Sb: #Attn JMS <Dust>
Fm: JON WOLF
In the thread entitled "In Defense of Vorlons", we're rehashing the debate over
the identity of the speaker in G'Kar's dream in "Dust to Dust". Was it G'Kar's
father, or G'Lan? Thanks.
jon
#: 623454 S6/Babylon 5: Spoilers
08-Dec-96 20:03:55
Sb: #623111-Attn JMS <Dust>
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
It was his father in the first part, G'Lan in angelic form, since after
all that was G'Lan's form.
jms
#: 623382 S6/Babylon 5: Spoilers
08-Dec-96 16:52:45
Sb: #Mysterious Four
Fm: BRENT BARRETT
Howdy, Joe;
Okay, time for my monthly futile appeal. :-)
What's the title for the fourth season?
Hundreds of web page maintainers around the world await your response.
Thanks,
-- Brent
#: 623455 S6/Babylon 5: Spoilers
08-Dec-96 20:03:58
Sb: #623382-Mysterious Four
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
When I'm ready.
jms
#: 623427 S5/Babylon 5: General
08-Dec-96 19:08:56
Sb: #Irony on Review/Vorlons
Fm: REBECCA ESCHLIMAN
Rewatching "Walkabout" really brought home how much ironic foreshadowing there
is in any given episode, which is revealed only after viewing later episodes.
When N'Kal said, "If he's dead, he's dead," in reference to Sheridan, I was
struck by the knowledge that (given the history of S4:1-4), of course, when
he's dead, he's...not.
Also, I had an intriguing image of Vorlon society, based on "We are all Kosh."
I all of a sudden saw this vision of the bits of themselves that they send off
to scout the universe being some sort of inheritance to be passed on to another
Vorlon in the rare occurrence of a Vorlon death. In that fashion, given the
length of time they've been in existence, any given Vorlon would have bits of
many other Vorlons. So when the original Kosh's "Self-fragment" went missing,
it might have been an unprecedented occurrence which would be reflective of
"not reacting well to change."
The preceding image may have little or nothing to do with the Vorlons you have
created, but it was an interesting alien societal angle to ponder for a few
minutes...
-rje-
I can almost feel the rustling-in of some kind of enchantment already.
#: 623456 S5/Babylon 5: General
08-Dec-96 20:04:00
Sb: #623427-Irony on Review/Vorlons
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Good points, especially the vorlon stuff.
jms
#: 623460 S5/Babylon 5: General
08-Dec-96 20:28:28
Sb: #623448-#B5 merchandise
Fm: CARL CANTARELLA
>> Never said I never wanted to do *any* merchandising...what I've always said
was that I wanted to do a little, here and there, adding a bit as we go along,
but doing so gradually, so we could control the quality of the items, to make
sure that fans didn't get stuck with crummy stuff. <<
Gotchya.
Sounds reasonable enough to me.
>>Mainly, I approve to merchandise anything that I think is either very cool,
or which I'd like to have myself.<<
<G> Your taste goes, eh? hehehe. Hey why not? You envisioned
this whole thing. I'd probably do the same thing if I were in your place.
#: 623555 S5/Babylon 5: General
09-Dec-96 02:22:37
Sb: #623460-B5 merchandise
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
We're actually doing a few small things via the B5 fan club. We just
Friday took delivery of our first batch of t-shirts made in-house: they have
the B5FC logo on the front left breast, and come in three colors...one in black
with white lettering saying "No boom today, boom tomorrow, there's always a
boom tomorrow" black for Ivanova's mood...a white one (for the angelic seeming
vorlons) with black lettering, "We have always been here"... and a grey t-shirt
with "We stand between the darkness and the light" (the grey here is obvious).
We should be releasing these shortly.
jms
[ Summary: Asks if the "dominance" of the First Ones is waxing or waning. ]
#: 623556 S6/Babylon 5: Spoilers
09-Dec-96 02:22:40
Sb: #623471-Job Description
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
I'd say it's waning, and again, most have left our galaxy for whatever is
beyond. Only a handful remain.
jms
#: 623518 S6/Babylon 5: Spoilers
08-Dec-96 23:13:51
Sb: #<Mira's Head>
Fm: BRENT BARRETT
Joe,
Given what we know of the content of "Atonement," and given that it's known
that an actor has been signed to play Dukhat in that episode (presumably in
flashbacks), can we assume Mira is going to have to get back into that full
Minbari makeup again?
How does/did she like that idea? :-)
I suppose the same will be true of the movie, as you've told us it will
deal with the E-M War.
Thanks,
-- Brent
#: 623557 S6/Babylon 5: Spoilers
09-Dec-96 02:22:42
Sb: #623518-#<Mira's Head>
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Yes, Mira got into the original year-one makeup. It's funny...when I
walked out onto the set, and saw her in that prosthetic, the first words that
came out of my mouth were, "It's *you*! I haven't seen you in almost three
years, how've you been?"
I don't think Mira quite knew what to make of me.
jms
#: 623519 S6/Babylon 5: Spoilers
08-Dec-96 23:15:21
Sb: #<Arc Prequel>
Fm: BRENT BARRETT
Oh, and Joe, speaking of the movie: Since it will deal with the E-M War, do
you have plans to bring in Michael O'Hare to play Sinclair again?
Thanks,
-- Brent
#: 623558 S6/Babylon 5: Spoilers
09-Dec-96 02:22:43
Sb: #623519-<Arc Prequel>
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Nothing is set yet.
jms
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