Attn JMS: You Did It (WHt Mr. Garibaldi? *SPOILERS*)

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Subject: Attn JMS: You Did It (WHt Mr. Garibaldi? *SPOILERS*)
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s  1: Nov 12, 1996: ryoung at interlog.com (Richard Young)
*  2: Nov 12, 1996: jmsatb5 at aol.com

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From: ryoung at interlog.com (Richard Young)
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Spoiler Space "For Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" Brought to you by
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   I didn't think you could top Comes the Inquisitor, then Coming of
Shadows, then Severed Dreams, then And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding
Place, then Z'Ha'Dum, and now comes Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi? A
magnificent episode. So frightening at times, so liquid and insidious like
"black water seeping into reality" (not my phrase), then so bright with
human and alien hope, and so warm and so heartbreaking and so
transcendent. 
   I could only give it a 9.9 though, because I am not qualified to judge
perfection. But somewhere out there someone such as The First One may be
so qualified.
   I was emotionally spent after one viewing, then several hours later
watched it again and was equally spent. My list of highlights would run
from the opening with Doc Franklin setting the table to the closing
fade-out in the depths of Z'Ha'Dum. IOW, every damn scene! Not a false
note, not a bad line, not bad shadow (l.c. 's'), not a teetery joke, not a
creaky continuity, not a misplaced emotion, not a vague CGI. 
   My interests always lie with the processes of things. I wonder, if you
can remember, whether the script naturally fell into place because you've
spent so much time thinking of the series arc? It felt so right to me and
seem to penetrate me so deeply. Or did the script take a lot of mental
rewrites?
   Last but by no means least, my sincere thanks  to the outstanding
ensemble you have brought together to present this drama. Peter Jurasik,
Andreas Katsulas, Bruce Boxleitner and Wayne Alexander deserve special
credit in this episode, and Jerry Doyle for his brief but outstanding
display of fireworks. Oh, heck, like I said, this was a special episode
and everyone needs to be congratulated.

   rich

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Regards,      >If you see something THIS big, with eight legs, coming
Richard Young, >your way. Let me know. I have to KILL it before it 
Toronto       >develops language skills." Londo. 'Sic Transit Vir'.
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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com
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Thanks.  The script was easy to write story-wise, I think it only took me
a few days (in general, the faster the write, the better the script, when
it comes to something like this...writing in white heat is best), but
*very* difficult from an emotional standpoint.  I was just about as wasted
after writing it as you were after seeing it.  There's a lot of stuff in
there that's difficult or painful to touch, and you can only hope that it
comes out okay.  I'm happy it did.


 jms






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