JMS on CompuServe (Feb 20, 1998) *POSSIBLE SPOILERS*
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[ Summary of subjects in this section: ]
Sb: #20485-Acting Question
Sb: #20149-<VftG> thoughts
Sb: #20434-VFtG
Sb: #20448-Price of Revell Starfury
Sb: #20447-Price of Revell Starfury
Sb: #20502-#Price of Revell Starfury
Sb: #20577-Mr. Bester
Sb: #20638-Turhan Bey (sp?)
Sb: <506: The Three>
Sb: #20581-#Price of Revell Starfury
Sb: #20557-Enjoying the series
Sb: #20710-<506: The Three>
Sb: #20669-<Speculation/Spoilers>
#: 20485 S2/Bab 5: General
17-Feb-98 18:01:02
Sb: Acting Question
Fm: MICHAEL ZITAGLIO
Hi Joe,
I saw The Coming of Shadows this evening. During the scene where everyone was
waiting for Turhan to come ( just before he fell ill ) all of the major
characters were talking in the background. What do they talk about? DO they
have little script to follow? I saw Londo and Refa chatting and it looks like
their plotting away. If there is not a script involved, man, they are all
great!
Thanks,
Mike
#: 20573 S4/Seas. 1-4 SPOILERS
18-Feb-98 12:45:14
Sb: #20485-Acting Question
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
When there's no dialogue written because it will never be heard, the
actors just wing it. Since it's all background stuff, from time to time I
hear it gets kinda...whacky.
jms
[ Summary: (See below.) ]
#: 20525 S5/Seas. 5 SPOILERS
18-Feb-98 03:37:00
Sb: #20149-<VftG> thoughts
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
"The "let them attack someone else, just not us" was actually a little
startling to me. If they were going to blow these guys up, I kinda wished
they'd put a little more effort into it rather than just foisting them off
onto the next, perhaps less-fortunate people."
Given that this is a little-known, distant, entire *race* out preying on
weaker races, of which this was just an expeditionary force, how (short of
planetary genocide) would you have stopped them? Moreover, is that really
Lochley's (or B5's) mandate, to eliminate every hostile race out there?
jms
[ Summary: "The great machine is a resource that could have greatly
reduced the losses both of people and hardware." ]
#: 20574 S5/Seas. 5 SPOILERS
18-Feb-98 12:46:00
Sb: #20434-VFtG
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
True, but is it *her* resource to do with any time she wants? It is a
separate institution and operation, that has said, politely and not terribly
politely, that on balance it would prefer to be left alone.
jms
[ Summary: "In this case, it's the price set by Revell-Monogram for
the UK, If I thought it was a local store trying to rip me off, I
would have confronted him directly and not bothered you." ]
#: 20576 S8/Bab 5 Merchandise
18-Feb-98 12:46:00
Sb: #20448-Price of Revell Starfury
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
I vaguely doubt that that's the case, but in any event...if I go to my
local comics store and buy stuff from the UK, it's always a lot more expensive
than when I buy it IN the UK, even with the exchange rate. It's the nature of
the export/import business.
jms
[ Summary: "How's your back, Joe?" and "Will any of the crew be attending
the movie showing of 'In The Beginning' in London?" ]
#: 20575 S8/Bab 5 Merchandise
18-Feb-98 12:46:00
Sb: #20447-Price of Revell Starfury
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
The back is better...I still have to be careful, but it's better.
Nothing's been formally set yet re: the UK screening.
jms
[ Summary: "The kit is a rip-off. The design of the kit is extremely
poor." ]
#: 20526 S8/Bab 5 Merchandise
18-Feb-98 03:37:01
Sb: #20502-#Price of Revell Starfury
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Well, then there we are going to have to disagree. Virtually every
other person I've heard from who's bought the starfury has thought it was
extremely well made. We worked very hard with Revell to assure the quality of
the model in every detail, and it's a solid, quality model.
jms
[ Summary: "Is B5's Mr. Bester an homage?" ]
#: 20656 S2/Bab 5: General
18-Feb-98 22:03:12
Sb: #20577-Mr. Bester
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Yep.
jms
#: 20638 S5/Seas. 5 SPOILERS
18-Feb-98 20:13:03
Sb: Turhan Bey (sp?)
Fm: DAVID & RITA MCLAUGHLIN
Another episode that makes you go "Hmmmm". Great little revelation there at
the end, and it looks as though Garibaldi now knows, too.
It was real nice to see Turhan Bey again. He is so good at "older and
wiser". You wrote him some great lines again. Will we see his character
again? Well, off to bed. I just had to comment<g>.
David
#: 20657 S5/Seas. 5 SPOILERS
18-Feb-98 22:03:13
Sb: #20638-Turhan Bey (sp?)
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
We'll have to see. Thanks.
jms
[ Summary: My question, based on speculation, wasn't properly protected
from innocent eyes. ]
#: 20659 S5/Seas. 5 SPOILERS
18-Feb-98 22:08:11
Sb: <506: The Three>
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
I deleted this from the board because it had information that was not in
the episode that just aired, and that's unfair, since people would think this
would be a safe thread to read, having just aired, only to find out it
contained information from later episodes.
jms
#: 20581 S8/Bab 5 Merchandise
18-Feb-98 13:35:02
Sb: #20575-Price of Revell Starfury
Fm: DARRAN WILLIAMS
>> Nothing's been formally set yet re: the UK screening.
jms <<
Joe,
With this possibility of a UK screening of 'In The Beginning', does a film
print actually exist of the movie, as it's my understanding that although shot
on film all the post production stuff, editing, fx etc is done on video?
Darran..
#: 20658 S8/Bab 5 Merchandise
18-Feb-98 22:03:13
Sb: #20581-#Price of Revell Starfury
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Not at this time, no, it'd have to be a video projection system, same as
we had for the cast and crew screening.
jms
[ Summary: Asks about the scene in "The Paragon of Animals," in which Lyta
looks in on the celebrating Alliance members. Also asks a few more
questions that I think you can figure out from the responses. ]
#: 20749 S5/Seas. 5 SPOILERS
19-Feb-98 12:39:07
Sb: #20557-Enjoying the series
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
The Lyta-outsider view was to further reinforce her on the outside of
the group...Ardwight looks just like Kosh only slightly taller...thought
"Contact" was better than "The Arrival," but enjoyed both. I actually don't
get much chance to see movies at theaters, only one in the last year, so I
have to catch them on satellite.
jms
[ Summary: "I did not see the deleted message, but your statement, and
the one response, indicates that the original message was just good
guesswork! If so, the posting should not have been deleted - the only
reason readers of the message know that the guess was right is because
you deleted the message! Does your action mean that all accurate
speculations will be deleted? Of course, that would mean that all
remaining speculation is wrong, so therefore we can derive what's
really going on by the absence of information." ]
#: 20751 S5/Seas. 5 SPOILERS
19-Feb-98 12:52:03
Sb: #20710-<506: The Three>
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
It wasn't labeled as speculation, but rather as fact, and since this
info is out there on a spoilers page, that's where I assumed that it came
from. Had it been labled speculation, that might've been different...but it
was stated as fact, and that's a different situation.
jms
#: 20669 (C) S5/Seas. 5 SPOILERS
19-Feb-98 01:24:55
Sb: <Speculation/Spoilers>
Fm: BRENT BARRETT
WARNING: The following contains speculation based on what we saw in
tonight's episode, "Learning Curve." It seems to also be a spoiler for
upcoming episodes, so if you don't want to be spoiled, then please
don't read further. :-)
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(Well, I thought this was speculation, but you seem to have confirmed it...
Let me try this again...)
Joe,
Okay, let me back up a bit, then... Lochley clearly knows Sheridan well.
That's what got Delenn so interested in asking him how she knows him so
well. I can really only think of a few possibilities here: 1) They were/are
friends, 2) They were co-workers (ala Ivanova), 3) They are related, 4) They
were once a couple, or 5) They were once married. When I re-watch the season
five episodes to-date, you give us a few clues about a previous relationship
of some type.
Given Delenn's reaction, I simply can't imagine any of those being true
but number 5. Why would she be angry with him if any of those other
possibilities were true? I mean, she might suggest that he be a bit more
open with her, but she wouldn't be angry.
We've been wondering about this for a long time on the J&D Forum. Back
when you told us that you wanted to introduce friction in the inner-circle,
we ran through all sorts of possible ways to do it. One of them was to
introduce a former love of Sheridan's. Most of us quickly dismissed that,
but when we started reading rumors and other clues here and there, in
interviews and articles, that didn't contradict that guess, we started to
think that it might be true.
So, to my real question: Either you just had one hell of a stroke of ABA
or your love of symmetry is showing again (or both):
Sheridan has had three wives. One worker (Anna), one warrior (Lochley),
and one religious (Delenn). :-)
Neat. Was that planned on your part, or was it just an accident?
Thanks,
-- Brent
P.S. *sigh* I know there's no chance of you answering this now... Sorry that
I spoke out of turn previously. :-(
#: 20816 S5/Seas. 5 SPOILERS
19-Feb-98 23:07:05
Sb: #20669-<Speculation/Spoilers>
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Who knows where this stuff comes from? Sometimes I think it's all being
beamed into my head along with the Martian bozo-rays.
One thing, however, is that I have *no* intention of handling this in a
conventional soap-opera fashion, because that's precisely what will be
expected.
jms
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