JMS on CompuServe (Sep 18, 1996) *POSSIBLE SPOILERS*
Brent Barrett
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Wed Sep 18 14:25:07 EDT 1996
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[ Summary of subjects in this section: ]
Sb: #578738-#Creature CGI
Sb: #578767-Late "Avalon" question
Sb: #578865-Season 4
Sb: #578714-#Radio Times
Sb: #578930-#<<Shadow Dancing>> [ Not a spoiler. -- BB ]
Sb: #578940-#I Finally got it! <G>
Sb: #578941-B5 visibility/popularity
Sb: #579006-I Finally got it! <G>
Sb: #578991-Thank you from the uk
Sb: #579117-#I Finally got it! <G>
Sb: #579119-B5 game?
Sb: #579120->> Z'HA'DUM << [ Not a spoiler. -- BB ]
#: 578738 S5/Babylon 5: General
17-Sep-96 07:07:57
Sb: #578227-#Creature CGI
Fm: SIMON GRIERSON
>> Actually, no, the equipment now in hand is equal to or better than the
previous stuff, so that's still a very viable option. I just gotta find the
story to go with it.<<
Will Netter Digital (?) be using Sillicon Graphics workstations? - Lightwave 3D
is currently out on that platform. Another question concerning CGI: - I noticed
the planet graphics are considerably better than they used to be. Did
Foundation use KPT Bryce? (A Fractal renderingpackage that produces EXCEEDINGLY
good terrain based renderings).
TIA,
simon Grierson
#: 578888 S5/Babylon 5: General
17-Sep-96 11:57:48
Sb: #578738-#Creature CGI
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
You've just passed beyond the envelope of my expertise....
jms
#: 578767 S5/Babylon 5: General
17-Sep-96 07:46:42
Sb: #Late "Avalon" question
Fm: MARLYN BUMPUS
Hi!
My brother was wondering into my ear about whatever happened to the sword that
Michael York's character gave to Delenn in "A Late Delivery from Avalon" --
what *did* she do with it? Does she still have it -- use it as a back scratcher
or vermin control like Londo's kutare or what????? I know you may have answered
this one before, and if so I'm sorry but I missed it...
Thanks...
Marlyn
#: 578889 S5/Babylon 5: General
17-Sep-96 11:57:49
Sb: #578767-Late "Avalon" question
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
It went back to our prop department....
jms
[ Summary: Thanks JMS, cast and crew for a fantastic show. Asks when
filming on year four begins. ]
#: 578890 S7/Babylon 5 in the UK
17-Sep-96 11:57:50
Sb: #578865-Season 4
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Thanks. We started filming 3 weeks ago, and will be finished sometime
in May.
jms
[ Summary: Comments on an article in the Radio Times about the end of year
three of Babylon 5. ]
#: 578897 S7/Babylon 5 in the UK
17-Sep-96 12:06:08
Sb: #578714-#Radio Times
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Anything there worth repeating?
jms
[ Summary: Complains about Channel 4 in the U.K. not running Babylon 5
later in the evening. This poster believes that they cut less of the
episodes and the ratings would go up. ]
#: 578947 S7/Babylon 5 in the UK
17-Sep-96 14:36:48
Sb: #578930-#<<Shadow Dancing>>
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Apparently there's some sort of rule at C4 about showing American
produced shows in the watershed prime-time hours.
jms
[ Summary: Absolutely loves the new fan club poster. ]
#: 578948 S5/Babylon 5: General
17-Sep-96 14:36:49
Sb: #578940-#I Finally got it! <G>
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Thanks. Yours is the first detailed feedback I've gotten back on the
poster. I designed it myself, with Jim Lockett then doing the actual work of
putting the darned thing together from the various bits and pieces. The
feeling I wanted was of these old scrolls, found long, long after the fact, and
when you unroll them, looking up at the stars, there are the faces of our
characters, and the scroll tells their stories....
jms
[ Summary: "New York Newsday's TV critic, Marvin Kitman, awarded B5 the
Second Annual Marvy Gold for Best Sci-Fi Series of 1996." ]
#: 578949 S5/Babylon 5: General
17-Sep-96 14:36:50
Sb: #578941-B5 visibility/popularity
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Cool, I didn't know this...thanks.
jms
#: 579006 S5/Babylon 5: General
17-Sep-96 17:23:10
Sb: #578948-#I Finally got it! <G>
Fm: TOM KNUDSEN
Joe,
<Yours is the first detailed feedback I've gotten back on the poster.>
I liked the poster too. I especially liked the symbol in the middle
and the "To strive, to seek, to find....and not to yield" quote. I do have one
question though. What does the alien text (Minbari) in the sword logo say and
what race's script is it?
Tom^^^^
"The avalanche has ALREADY started. It is too late
for the pebbles to vote." - Kosh Naranek
#: 579010 S5/Babylon 5: General
17-Sep-96 17:36:00
Sb: #579006-I Finally got it! <G>
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
The Minbari script on the left says the same thing as the English
sentence on the right.
jms
[ Summary: Wants to thank JMS, cast and crew for the show. Goes on to say,
"What you are all working on will be remembered, for the next 100 +
years as a classic, as there were classic books before TV." ]
#: 579013 S5/Babylon 5: General
17-Sep-96 17:39:58
Sb: #578991-Thank you from the uk
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Thanks. If we come even close to someday being classified as
literature, that would be a good thing; a chance to show you can tell a quality
SF story for television. But the day they put out a Cliff's Notes version of
the series, I'm leaving for the Arctic Circle.
jms
#: 579117 S5/Babylon 5: General
17-Sep-96 21:30:45
Sb: #578632-#I Finally got it! <G>
Fm: REBECCA ESCHLIMAN
<< The logo in the center of the new poster is the one that now hangs in
the Council chambers for the League of Non-Aligned Worlds. >>
I doubt you'll be willing to answer this until after the final season, but why
would a Minbari/Human heraldic image be central to the Council of the League of
Non-Aligned Worlds?
The poster just gives me the feeling of "wheels within wheels." I've got in on
the wall in my office where it's in direct line-of-sight for contemplation
breaks from the computer. It's a treasure.
- rje - Beware the Revenge of Unanticipated Consequences...
#: 579145 S5/Babylon 5: General
18-Sep-96 00:02:47
Sb: #579117-#I Finally got it! <G>
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Basically, it's the symbol that went up when the various sides began to
join under Sheridan and Delenn against the shadows.
jms
#: 579119 S5/Babylon 5: General
17-Sep-96 21:30:58
Sb: #578634-#B5 game?
Fm: REBECCA ESCHLIMAN
If what is meant by B5 war-game is the Chameleon Eclectic RPG, the Diamond
Distributors Catalog for comic/sf stores is featuring the first playbook in
their November release catalog.
- rje -
#: 579146 S5/Babylon 5: General
18-Sep-96 00:02:49
Sb: #579119-B5 game?
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
No, this is another game.
jms
#: 579120 S6/Babylon 5: Spoilers
17-Sep-96 21:31:04
Sb: #578637-#>> Z'HA'DUM <<
Fm: REBECCA ESCHLIMAN
<< (to paraphrase Christopher Fry). >>
(further paraphrase) After all, what is a halo? It's just one more thing to
keep clean...
- rje - There are times you remember and times you forget, but your life
is made up of the times you remember.
#: 579150 S6/Babylon 5: Spoilers
18-Sep-96 00:02:55
Sb: #579120->> Z'HA'DUM <<
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Now that's writing....
jms
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