JMS on CompuServe (Jun 01, 1996) *POSSIBLE SPOILERS*
Brent Barrett
bbarrett at speedlink.com
Sat Jun 1 20:22:06 EDT 1996
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RESPECTIVE MESSAGE AUTHORS AND CANNOT BE
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Note that JMS has expressed his public permission
that all of his messages may be reproduced freely.
I give permission for my summaries to be reposted in
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[ Summary of subjects in this section: ]
Sb: #515981-Spoiler Vorlon Question
Sb: #516107-WWE - Beginning???
Sb: #516165-B5 essential episodes
Sb: #516278-<<WWE2>>
Sb: #516281-B5 Renewal!!?
Sb: #516603-#Hour 25
Sb: #516523-<<UK Dust 2 Dust>>
Sb: #516431-How Time Flies
Sb: #516407-Just curious...
Sb: #516334-#Trading Card Game???
Sb: #516371-#B5 Renewal!!?
Sb: #516370-<<War & Delenn>>
Sb: #516518-<War...2> Aftershocks
[ Summary: Asks if the transfer between Kosh and Lyta in "Passing Through
Gethsemane" is important to the arc at some point. ]
#: 516320 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
31-May-96 16:10:35
Sb: #515981-Spoiler Vorlon Question
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Yes, primarily because what Kosh was doing with Lyta (that sounds
vaguely suggestive) wasn't a one-time event. There was a transference going
on, and that aspect will be heard from again.
jms
[ Summary: Asks which came first, the Sinclair or the Valen? ]
#: 516321 S5/Babylon 5: General
31-May-96 16:10:36
Sb: #516107-WWE - Beginning???
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
The storyline began millions of years ago.
We're coming in in the middle of the story.
But then, that can be said of all of us.
jms
[ Summary: Asks if JMS can repost the list of B5 episodes for new viewers. ]
[ NOTE: I already e-mailed this chap a copy of the original message. ]
#: 516322 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
31-May-96 16:10:37
Sb: #516165-B5 essential episodes
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
I did it off the cuff, I don't actually have a list; somebody else here
may have it offhand.
jms
[ Summary: Asks if the "keeper" on Londo's neck was a "shadow host." ]
#: 516323 S5/Babylon 5: General
31-May-96 16:10:39
Sb: #516278-<<WWE2>>
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
It's not a shadow host, no, but one of the many things that work for
them.
jms
[ Summary: Asks if JMS knows if B5 will be renewed. ]
#: 516324 S5/Babylon 5: General
31-May-96 16:10:41
Sb: #516281-B5 Renewal!!?
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
We'll know soon. We're cautiously optimistic.
jms
#: 516603 S5/Babylon 5: General
01-Jun-96 01:36:28
Sb: #Hour 25
Fm: TIMOTHY R. GREEN
JMS
I enjoyed your appearence on Hour 25 last night very much. However you
continue to leave one key mystery unsolved. How do you find the time to do
everything you do? No normal human being I know can do so much in so little
time. Unless you have some way of slowing down the time flow somehow?
Thanks for everything, especially your openness to the customer.
Tim
#: 516604 S5/Babylon 5: General
01-Jun-96 02:03:41
Sb: #516603-#Hour 25
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
It helps to be an obsessive-compulsive personality....
jms
[ Summary: Asks if Londo's cough in "The Long, Twilight Struggle" was a sign
of one of the two previous chances at redemption Lady Morella spoke of him
wasting. ]
#: 516605 S5/Babylon 5: General
01-Jun-96 02:03:43
Sb: #516523-<<UK Dust 2 Dust>>
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
No, that has nothing to do with the redemption.
jms
[ Summary: Asks if JMS will ever put Babylon 5 into a novel form. ]
#: 516606 S5/Babylon 5: General
01-Jun-96 02:03:44
Sb: #516431-How Time Flies
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
This is probably the most commonly asked question, and the answer
remains...I dunno. Right now, the sheer task of getting this show made now,
for TV, is sufficiently daunting, that the idea of telling it again in print is
enough to make me tip over. Also, this show was *designed* for TV; if I'd
wanted to write a nove, I'd've written a novel.
So for now, the answer remains "I dunno."
jms
[ Summary: Points out to JMS that he is "a writer, and no one would call the
works of Homer, or Shakespeare, or Locke, or Twain, or Serling, ephemeral.
The works of a writer are important, because they inspire people. They
stir and light the soul." He goes on the cite instances in B5 that cause
people to *think*. "This is not a simple shoot-em-up-in-space you are
creating. You are creating a world where people come face to face with
their own humanity (despite some of them not being human), making hard
choices, and confronting their weaknesses. It is having an effect on
people *now*, and I suspect will continue to do so for a good many
years." ]
#: 516607 S5/Babylon 5: General
01-Jun-96 02:03:46
Sb: #516407-Just curious...
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Thanks, I can only hope you're right.
jms
[ Summary: Asks about the new Fleer cards and the new Role Playing Game. ]
#: 516609 S5/Babylon 5: General
01-Jun-96 02:03:50
Sb: #516334-#Trading Card Game???
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Fleer's coming out with a brand new card set, but not a card game set.
The RPG will be out from Chameleon later this year.
jms
[ Summary: Thanks JMS for making B5 and asks if there will ever be a way to
get videos. ]
#: 516610 S5/Babylon 5: General
01-Jun-96 02:03:52
Sb: #516371-#B5 Renewal!!?
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Thanks; and we hope to have the videos out eventually.
jms
#: 516370 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
31-May-96 17:04:17
Sb: #<<War & Delenn>>
Fm: BRENT BARRETT
Joe,
When Delenn has her time-flash, does she just see what happens in the future,
or is she actually there, like John's trip?
Thanks!
#: 516611 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
01-Jun-96 02:03:54
Sb: #516370-<<War & Delenn>>
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
No, she more just saw it as a passive recipient, whereas he was actively
There.
jms
#: 516518 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
31-May-96 21:59:59
Sb: #<War...2> Aftershocks
Fm: REBECCA ESCHLIMAN
"War Without End, Part 2" was one of those episodes that had so much in it that
little questions keep showing up like landmines left over from Vietnam.
I just realized that there has been no commentary here about Delenn's statement
to Sheridan in 2277 that they tried to make her tell them, but they couldn't
get anything out of her. Is whatever it is they tried to make her tell them
something that concerns B5 in 2260-2262?
The other thing I realized is that Kosh may have done Delenn a weird sort of
favor in Sebastian's little test. After what Sebastian put her through, any
attempt at torture by the Centauri might be greeted with "Been there, done
that, got the Vorlon Goodhousekeeping Seal of Approval..."
- rje -
#: 516612 S6/Babylon 5: Upcoming
01-Jun-96 02:03:57
Sb: #516518-<War...2> Aftershocks
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
No, what they were after from Delenn was info relevant to that time, some
of it related to their son.
jms
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