JMS on AOL: 03/09/96 to 03/10/96
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b5jms-owner at cs.columbia.edu
Tue Mar 12 14:03:57 EST 1996
Forwarded message to B5JMS list.
Originally From: Kevin P Mooney <kpmooney at acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
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The following is a compilation of the posts of JMS on AOL. If you have
comments or suggestions, please e-mail me at <kpmooney at acsu.buffalo.edu>
WARNING: Possible spoilers may lurk below.
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Subj: Re:Misunderstanding
Date: 96-03-09 05:15:12 EST
From: Jms at B5
How big was the San Diego Nuke? Big enough, and dirty enough, to make the
area officially uninhabitable for a long time.
jms
Subj: Re:Hi again, JMS, thanks & a
Date: 96-03-09 05:16:44 EST
From: Jms at B5
I can't send you a copy of the ep; but if you use the www jumpgate at the top
of the B5 area here, it will take you to the Lurker's Guide at hyperion.com,
and you'll find all you need there.
jms
Subj: Re:No, no! Don't touch...ACK
Date: 96-03-09 05:18:09 EST
From: Jms at B5
I think you're misremembering; Bester nudged up his right sleeve with his
left hand and held it out; Franklin stuck the needle in. I don't believe he
held his hand (which was gloved in any event).
jms
Subj: Re:To: JMS
Date: 96-03-09 05:19:56 EST
From: Jms at B5
The syndicated market is changing so much I don't think it'd be feasible in
anothr year or two.
jms
Subj: Re:Harlan Ellison
Date: 96-03-09 05:20:50 EST
From: Jms at B5
Harlan is generally quite jovial and funny in person; but he feels outrage
deeply when it takes place, and isn't afraid to do a deserved Jeremiad when
necessary....
jms
Subj: Re:Lennier (mis)information?
Date: 96-03-09 05:22:35 EST
From: Jms at B5
I have no idea where that came from; not from me (re: Lennier). As for
Sinclair, I think you'll get what you're asking for in the two-parter.
jms
Subj: Re:To: JMS Re: Renewal?
Date: 96-03-09 05:24:33 EST
From: Jms at B5
I won't know until April/May. The main issue, I think, is going to be the
second-runs in most markets. It wasn't a problem the first two years, but
now with so much new syndicated product on the market, the logical and
understandable reaction is, "Why should I rerun an episode of one show when I
can put on a *new* episode of *another* show and make *more money*?" But the
advertising is sold based on double-runs in some cases, or at least a certain
percentage of double runs. So we'll have to see. I am, for now, cautiously
optimistic.
jms
Subj: Re:Questions, Schmestions!
Date: 96-03-09 05:25:22 EST
From: Jms at B5
B5 orbits Epsilon Eridani.
jms
Subj: Re:Just Thinking
Date: 96-03-09 05:26:59 EST
From: Jms at B5
"Since Warner Brothers does not seem to have an understanding of what they
have on their hands, (Don't they realize the cash potential they have?!)
Would you object to us, (loyal following) writing to them (Snail or E-Mail)
and expressing more promotions or recognition be given the show? If so, can
you publish the CEO's name and address here? (preferably, E-Mail address)"
That would be Robert Daly, at WB in New York; don't have his address at hand.
jms
Subj: Re:Att'n JMS: The Equalizer
Date: 96-03-09 05:28:47 EST
From: Jms at B5
I enjoyed the Equalizer, though I didn't see all the episodes, and it wasn't
anywhere in my head when I was coming up with the show.
The key to *any* good character is to make them real. You have to invest a
lot of yourself into that process, differentiating how they move, walk, talk,
think, believe. It's a lot of work, but the result is worth it.
jms
Subj: Re:Other aliens in backgroun
Date: 96-03-09 05:29:30 EST
From: Jms at B5
It does sorta look like that, on reflection, but it ain't Sandman-esque.
jms
Subj: Re:Susan's revelation- a ?
Date: 96-03-09 05:30:29 EST
From: Jms at B5
That information was sent to Earth, where it's led directly to the series of
current investigations that were launched...and which forced Clark's hand
into declaring martial law to distract from all that.
jms
Subj: Re:Z'ha'dum
Date: 96-03-09 05:30:56 EST
From: Jms at B5
{Why didn't the Vorlons destroy the Shadows on Z'ha'dum}
It's not that easy; you'll figure out why soon.
jms
Subj: Re:Religion on B5
Date: 96-03-09 05:39:46 EST
From: Jms at B5
I've always been a writer. Even when I was just a kid, I was "preparing,"
always checking out different kinds of writing instruments, collecting the
artifacts of writing...took 3 years of typing in high school until I got to
120 wpm...but I didn't start writing until mid-high school, when I finally
decided I had read enough, thought enough about it, and was *ready*.
That day, I started writing finally. I wrote a story I placed with the
school magazine done out of one of the writing classes. The next thing I
wrote ended up in a small outside magazine. Then I began writing and placing
articles and plays and stories....
I took some writing classes in college, but the only ones of value were the
workshops, not the ones where you're taught to write the way the teacher
*wants* you to write. The whole theory of writing is to find your unique
voice; if you surrender that by writing the way somebody else writes, you've
sacrificed the only commodity you had to offer: your unique vision of the
world. In any event, as stated, I was writing and selling long before I took
my first writing class.
Since 1971, I have written 5-10 pages per day (the last 12+ years generally
10 or better) every day of the week, 52 weeks a year, except for my birthday,
christmas, new year's, and my spouse's birthday. On my first trip to
England, I swore I wouldn't write, I'd take some time off; I ended up
sneak-buying a small notepad and, by the time I got back, had outlined my
first novel, later published by Dutton.
I've written over 500 published articles, dozens of published short stories,
12 produced plays, a number of songs recorded here and there (including two
for a prime time ABC special), 2 published novels, 1 published anthology, a
number of screenplays (some made as TV stuff, some not produced), and 145+
produced TV scripts, among other stuff.
I write all the time. It's not what I do, it's what I *am*.
jms
Subj: Re:Levels we haven't conside
Date: 96-03-09 05:40:20 EST
From: Jms at B5
{Are there higher levels in the show that we aren't considering}
There aren't higher levels per se....but different levels. You'll see.
jms
Subj: Re:JMS: Question for a frie
Date: 96-03-09 05:42:03 EST
From: Jms at B5
Your friend needs to switch to a decaffeinated coffee.
jms
Subj: Re:Z'ha'dum
Date: 96-03-10 04:01:36 EST
From: Jms at B5
Delenn and Kosh told the truth as they knew it. And the trailer for Severed
Dreams won't be available until closer to airtime.
jms
Subj: Re:Actors imput
Date: 96-03-10 04:06:17 EST
From: Jms at B5
This is a hard question to answer. When you create a character in your head,
you always hear them a certain way. Sometimes, when you bring in an actor,
you hear it a different way, and you have to adjust. Sometimes the actor
sounds just like what you had in mind (as with Jason Carter and Claudia).
For me, what's interesting is when an actor finds something in the text that
was there, that I didn't recognize even though I'd written it, and
illuminates a corner of the character. (And sometimes I discover I've
revealed more about myself than I'd intended in a scene, only finding this
out when I see the actor saying the words.)
Probably the biggest impact in B5 terms was in seeing the humor that Claudia
could bring to the part, and the vulnerability that Peter summoned up. The
scene in the pilot movie where Londo goes to Garibaldi and says, basically,
yes, I messed up, and yes, I'd do it again, showed a great depth of feeling,
of conflicting emotions that lifted that scene way beyond what was on the
page, and showed me that I could take Londo anywhere I wanted, and the actor
behind the character could and would take it all the way without ever
stumbling.
jms
Subj: Re:Minbari Bone Ridges
Date: 96-03-10 04:07:36 EST
From: Jms at B5
Worker caste tend to fade into the background; we've seen them here and
there; pilots and traders (visible in "Strife") are worker caste, and others.
They don't have as much a stylized manner of bone-carving as the other
castes.
jms
Subj: Re:writer's block
Date: 96-03-10 04:11:23 EST
From: Jms at B5
No, I've never had writer's block. (I hate saying that; it's like saying out
loud at the top of the 9th inning that you've got a no-hitter going...the
universe loves to trip you up.)
I think it comes from being a generalist; if I don't have a script at hand to
think about, I flip over to writing a short story, a novel, an article,
something else. Also, I never sit down to write out a scene or a section
until I've "seen" it in my head so many times that it's practically
transcription at that point.
jms
Subj: Re:re wrists and stuff
Date: 96-03-10 04:12:03 EST
From: Jms at B5
Won't work. I've tried dictating, didn't work (despite allegations that I'm
a dictator). I write out of my fingers; I can't dictate the stuff.
jms
Subj: Re:Janet Greek
Date: 96-03-10 04:13:36 EST
From: Jms at B5
Janet just signed onto a series -- jeez, I just forgot the name, it fell out
of my head -- as a writer and director. If I can drag it out of my brain,
I'll post the name.
jms
Subj: Re:B5 the Series
Date: 96-03-10 04:16:14 EST
From: Jms at B5
"This is better than sex!"
Thank you.
Now keep those hands to yourself, mister.
jms
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