Attn JMS: When others write B5 episodes

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From: galileowho at aol.com (GalileoWho)
Date: 17 Jan 1998 13:19:10 -0700
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How much influence do you have when others write the occasional B5 episode?  I
am particularly curious about the Kosh scenes.  Do you write up a thorough
outlines and assign them out, or are the writers give the guidelines and told
to think something up?



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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 21 Jan 1998 06:29:12 -0700
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>
>How much influence do you have when others write the occasional B5 episode?
>I
>am particularly curious about the Kosh scenes.  Do you write up a thorough
>outlines and assign them out, or are the writers give the guidelines and told
>to think something up?

Kosh often tended to get revised in-house to make him consistent, mysterious
rather than a fortune-cookie, which often happened.

Writers got variously verbal notes, a page or two, or in some cases, several
pages of notes/outline material on an episode.  But a script is very long, so
they had to come up with a lot to fill in the gaps.


 jms

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