ATTN JMS : Possible re-edit of Grey 17 *spoilers*

[B5JMS Poster]

Subject: ATTN JMS : Possible re-edit of Grey 17 *spoilers*
-----+-------------+--------------------------------------------------
 No. | DATE        |  FROM
-----+-------------+--------------------------------------------------
s  1: Sep 16, 1996: Glenn S Henley <Glenn at gshenley.demon.co.uk>
+  3: Sep 17, 1996: schillin at spock.usc.edu (John Schilling)
*  4: Sep 17, 1996: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

From: Glenn S Henley <Glenn at gshenley.demon.co.uk>
Lines: 49

Spoilers for Grey 17...






























Just as I was setting my video tape for "And The Rock Cried Out..",
I ended up watching the last 5 minutes of "Grey 17 is Missing" and
was wondering if it would be possible to re-edit the ending.
To be honest the monster looked like a throw back to a 50's B-movie,
I mean if the thing had been a Feeder or a Shadow minion or was
just... done better, it would have turned the episode around (IMHO).

So is this sort of level of editing possible, it was after all done
(although to a smaller extent) in Mind War and Believers?

-- 

Glenn S Henley - PSIDENT 096487






=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

From: schillin at spock.usc.edu (John Schilling)
Lines: 72

cortese at netcom.com (Janis Maria C. C. Cortese) writes:

>In article <842899350snz at gshenley.demon.co.uk> Glenn at gshenley.demon.co.uk writes:
>>Spoilers for Grey 17...

























>>Just as I was setting my video tape for "And The Rock Cried Out..",
>>I ended up watching the last 5 minutes of "Grey 17 is Missing" and
>>was wondering if it would be possible to re-edit the ending.
>>To be honest the monster looked like a throw back to a 50's B-movie,
>>I mean if the thing had been a Feeder or a Shadow minion or was
>>just... done better, it would have turned the episode around (IMHO).

>Or if the show hadn't descended into the worst of Star Trek
>Pseudoscience[tm] by having Garibaldi --

>1) dump a succession of cartridges down a PIPE that probably couldn't
>handle the pressure of gunpowder,
>2) use a pipe clearly too large for the frigging things, and
>3) have cartridges that, in flagrant violation of basic physics and
>chemistry, apparently don't have primer in the back but explode just
>when they get hot,


Actually, ordinary plumbing pipe of the appropriate diameter can handle
the pressure of a .38 special cartridge; I happen to have in my archives
a United States Army Field Manual which includes instructions on the
manufacture of such a weapon.  It does include several warnings about
testing the thing from a distance before trusting it in one's hand, of
course, but the idea of a plumbing-pipe zip gun in .38 special is not
fundamentally unreasonable.


Your second and third objection are, of course, right on.  But then,
the idea of *accurately* depicting the manufacture of a zip gun on
a television program watched by a great many children, doesn't exactly
feel good to me either.  The version Garibaldi made has the one saving
grace of being "mostly harmless" if someone were to try to duplicate
it in the real world.


--
*John Schilling                    * "You can have Peace,              *
*Member:AIAA,NRA,ACLU,SAS,LP       * or you can have Freedom.          *
*University of Southern California * Don't ever count on having both   *
*Aerospace Engineering Department  * at the same time."                *
*schillin at spock.usc.edu            *          - Robert A. Heinlein     *
*(213)-740-5311 or 747-2527        * Finger for PGP public key         *


=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Lines: 8

We did the best we could with what we had...we'd have to go back and
reshoot the whole sequence, and that we can't do.  


 jms



-***
-*** B5JMS SUBSCRIBERS: Replies to messages in this list go to the list
-*** maintainer, <b5jms-owner at cs.columbia.edu>.  If you want to reply
-*** elsewhere, adjust the "To" field.  The best way to reach JMS is to post
-*** to rastb5m, which can be done by sending email to <rastb5 at solon.com>.