JMS on CompuServe (Mar 21, 1996) *POSSIBLE SPOILERS*

[Brent Barrett]

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   CIS.  He encourages all of us to wait for the
   moderated USENET group, to which he plans to
   subscribe. ]
   
 [ Summary: Wants to know if any of the First Ones predates life on Earth and
   if there were any "space traveling races in our galaxy as long ago as 1
   billion years?" ]

 #: 473738 S5/Babylon 5: General
    20-Mar-96  22:26:50
Sb: #473304-First One's Age
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

       Well, to some degree you're limited by the amount of time it takes to
evolve life per se, then into intelligent life, then into spacefaring life. You
need time after the Big Bang for planets to be formed, cool, develop
environments capable of supporting life...then the long haul begins.

       So yes, on the one hand, you've got races that are millions of years
older than humans, who were prowling around while we were still furred, fanged,
and slamming bones together.  But they're not as old as the universe, because
they can't be.

                                                                       jms



 [ Summary: Wants to know if the CGI is done in wide-screen as well. ]

 #: 473739 S5/Babylon 5: General
    20-Mar-96  22:26:50
Sb: #473306-#Babylon 5 - Widescreen
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

       We'd pretty much have to re-render the CGI for important shots, while
more mundane stuff where there's nothing in the upper and lower parts of the
frame could be safely cropped and lose nothing.

                                                                       jms




 #: 473536 S5/Babylon 5: General
    20-Mar-96  15:59:40
Sb: #472723-#JMS:B5 on WB Network?
Fm: TOM KNUDSEN

Joe,

        <The WB network wouldn't take a PTEN show.>

        With PTEN going away, doesn't that mean that B5 is no longer a PTEN
show?  Or is it just that WB won't take a show that didn't originate on the WB?
Sounds like a stupid emotional response as opposed to a business decision.

Tom^^^^

Guardian of the Republic
General Pain in the Butt
Ranger


 #: 473740 S5/Babylon 5: General
    20-Mar-96  22:26:51
Sb: #473536-JMS:B5 on WB Network?
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

       We're now pretty much the province of WB syndication, a very different
arm than WBN, so the dichotomy persists.

                                                                       jms




 [ Summary: Wants to know if Turhan's death was actually caused by murder,
   and thinks Talia did it.  Also wants to know if there are any more
   characters that are under the influence of an "implanted personality." ]

 #: 473741 S5/Babylon 5: General
    20-Mar-96  22:26:52
Sb: #473590-#Death of Turhan Again
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

       No, Turhan's death was exactly as stated, natural causes.  If it were
anything else, we'd have at least nodded in that direction at some point. It's
not fair to do so otherwise.  Ditto re: any other implanted person; there isn't
one.  At least not that *I* know of.

                                                                       jms




 #: 473643 S5/Babylon 5: General
    20-Mar-96  19:52:26
Sb: #472722-#B5 Reruns
Fm: DAVID SCARPA

  That one was The Parliament of Dreams.>>>>


Any chance of a video release soon???


 #: 473742 S5/Babylon 5: General
    20-Mar-96  22:26:54
Sb: #473643-B5 Reruns
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

       We hope to do videos in the fullness of time.  Don't worry; when it
happens, you won't have to ask, the info will be everywhere.

                                                                       jms




 #: 473657 S5/Babylon 5: General
    20-Mar-96  20:08:49
Sb: #Vorlon space
Fm: JAMES R. KAPESIS

Now that Sheridan is allied with Kosh, does he plan to ask Kosh what happened
to the Earth ships that went into Vorlon space?  Or does he believe what the
Vorlons said about the ships having accidents?


 #: 473743 S5/Babylon 5: General
    20-Mar-96  22:26:58
Sb: #473657-Vorlon space
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

       He would probably ask that of Kosh, if there were time, and circumstance
to think of it.  It's hard to bring that sort of thing up unless it ties into
an episode; otherwise it's just a forced sort of thing.

                                                                       jms



	
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