JMS on AOL: 05/11/96 to 05/13/96
Kevin P. Mooney
kpmooney at shell.girn.net
Fri May 17 15:59:40 EDT 1996
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:JMS: Delenn/G'Kar in Tea
Date: 96-05-11 05:11:59 EDT
From: Jms at B5
In most cases, if it's a critical scene, I make it a point to be there to
make sure it's correct. If, however, it's a very emotional scene, I tend to
stay away, and let the actor find the emotional core of the scene without
seeing me lurking in the BG.
jms
Subj: Re:Curious About Writing
Date: 96-05-11 05:13:49 EDT
From: Jms at B5
No scripts are in hand for next season, in any form; this is always the case
each year as we wrap production. We wait for WB to renew the show, then
provide a script order. Once we have the script order in hand, scripts get
going. If it's a freelance script, going from first meeting through 2 drafts
of the outline, 2 drafts of the script, it takes about a month, plus the time
I spend revising it; if I write it myself, it's a lot less time, because I
know the show more than any freelancer can be reasonably expected to.
jms
Subj: Re:I&E Spoiler Q's
Date: 96-05-11 05:14:49 EDT
From: Jms at B5
I think Kosh realized that some things have to be, and that as we've said
from the start, there is always a price to pay.
As for writing letters, copying WB as well as the local station is always a
good idea.
jms
Subj: Re:Some Questions
Date: 96-05-11 05:15:33 EDT
From: Jms at B5
No plans for Takashima; the highest rating is a P12; and the Vorlons still
have their part to play.
jms
Subj: Re:Rangers obsolete?
Date: 96-05-11 05:16:11 EDT
From: Jms at B5
The job of the Rangers takes on a different aspect now that stuff is in the
open, at least to some extent; you'll find it by season's end.
jms
Subj: Re:Ivanova's Emblem
Date: 96-05-11 05:17:18 EDT
From: Jms at B5
It's certainly a return to more traditional Russian history; the Russian
Consortium is pretty much no longer socialist in any way, though it's still
vastly inefficient.
jms
Subj: Re:Keeping Track
Date: 96-05-12 04:12:19 EDT
From: Jms at B5
Freelance writers know stuff on a need-to-know basis. Yes, there's a general
outline for the whole series, but as a rule, I just kinda keep it all in my
head...a dark and scary place that nobody'd ever enter anyway.
jms
Subj: Re:JMS: About Franklin . .
Date: 96-05-12 04:13:09 EDT
From: Jms at B5
Franklin would be off the council for a while; he has to go and figure his
life out first.
jms
Subj: On Questions, from jms
Date: 96-05-12 04:19:52 EDT
From: Jms at B5
If I can make a suggestion....
Please try to avoid packing a message with 5, 7 or 10 questions or more; the
odds are that I won't be able to answer all of them, or even most of them.
The problem with the AOL interface is that if I use the Read New command,
once it pops up, if I log off the point where I came in is lost. If I take a
long time to answer 7 questions in one message, the odds are good that I'll
either get bumped or have to go do B5 stuff and won't get to the other
messages/questions, and it's hard to backtrack afterward. It's also a bit
more than I find manageable, given that when you combine all the services I'm
on, about 500 messages per day flit in front of my corneas.
So if we could keep the questions down to just a couple per message, it'd
help me a lot.
jms
Subj: Re:Questions
Date: 96-05-12 23:43:26 EDT
From: Jms at B5
I've never operated from any other perspective other than that we will finish
this story.
jms
Subj: Re:Questions
Date: 96-05-12 23:44:08 EDT
From: Jms at B5
We might run into the technomages again, yes....
jms
Subj: Re:JMS: A few more questions
Date: 96-05-12 23:44:51 EDT
From: Jms at B5
The vorlons will become more active, but in a curious way...and there are
some more White Star class ships, yes....
jms
Subj: Re:JMS: Contingency plan
Date: 96-05-12 23:45:22 EDT
From: Jms at B5
See my note two messages up.
And yes, all filming for this season is done.
jms
Subj: Re:Lyta
Date: 96-05-12 23:45:51 EDT
From: Jms at B5
Lyta was off-station running an errand for Kosh.
jms
Subj: Re:A three-edge sword
Date: 96-05-12 23:46:19 EDT
From: Jms at B5
The three edges: your side, my side, and the truth in between.
jms
Subj: Re:Question and other Stuff
Date: 96-05-12 23:46:55 EDT
From: Jms at B5
No, Centauri women are bald by choice, to show their disdain for the
showiness of the males.
jms
Subj: Re:A Tell JMS mess.
Date: 96-05-12 23:47:36 EDT
From: Jms at B5
Thanks...it's an obsession, and the encouragement helps.
jms
Subj: Re:Kudos and Question
Date: 96-05-12 23:48:32 EDT
From: Jms at B5
Humor is where we find it.
jms
Subj: Re:one of...
Date: 96-05-13 03:54:16 EDT
From: Jms at B5
{Are the Shadow Ships more sensitive to pain than the Vorlon
ships?}
I suppose you could say they are, yes....
jms
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