JMS CIS Digest: 22-May-99 16:49 through 23-May-99 00:15 (4 msgs)

[John D. Hardin]

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J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644 at compuserve.com>
22-May-99 16:49 through 23-May-99 00:15 (4 messages)

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Subjects in digest:
        Crusade promo in Canada
        B5 on PBS show

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Date: 21 May 1999 10:20:03 -0700
From: T.P.Chai <104674.3064 at compuserve.com>
To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644 at compuserve.com>
Subject: Crusade promo in Canada
Message-ID: <forum.babylon5.65813 at compuserve.com>

JMS, the Space channel in Canada has started airing a promo short for
Crusade (premiering June 19). Do they give you copies of this stuff?
Maybe I'll see if I can catch it on tape.

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Date: 22 May 1999 16:49:04 -0700
From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644 at compuserve.com>
To: T.P.Chai <104674.3064 at compuserve.com>
Subject: Crusade promo in Canada
Message-ID: <forum.babylon5.65840 at compuserve.com>
References: <forum.babylon5.65813 at compuserve.com>

      Haven't seen it, no.  Interesting....

                                                                  jms

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Date: 21 May 1999 16:48:14 -0700
From: (blocked)
To: David L Trahan <110714.3375 at compuserve.com>
Subject: B5 on PBS show
Message-ID: <forum.babylon5.65819 at compuserve.com>
References: <forum.babylon5.65815 at compuserve.com>

> I didn't mean to say that I thought JMS ripped off Lucas. 

I understand that, but it's just a sensitive spot. And of course, now
B5 is established enough that we're starting to see stuff like "X
ripped off JMS" which is every bit as annoying.

I'm not talking about the apparent copying of story lines which has
been discussed here - that's a different issue. But there are people
around who seem to be totally unaware that SF has a long history
outside of movies and TV, and that many things in these new media first
showed up in print *decades* ago in print SF... and that's without even
getting into the things drawn from mythology and classic literature.

> And then I somehow thought it wasn't in SW, and then found out AGAIN
> that it was.  Confusion runs rampant! 

Yeah, I remembered it from SW too, and it's very easy to get confused
with all these different universes... <g>

 -- Marty     http://idt.net/~mroth1/
   PPG Director of Information, Forum Resident Know-It-All
   "The only completely consistent people are the dead."

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Date: 23 May 1999 00:15:00 -0700
From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644 at compuserve.com>
To: (blocked)
Subject: B5 on PBS show
Message-ID: <forum.babylon5.65853 at compuserve.com>
References: <forum.babylon5.65819 at compuserve.com>

      What's interesting is that there was an apparent incident
reported in the news lately where some Star Trek fans showed up en
masse to picket and pick a fight with a line of Star Wars fans waiting
to get into a screening of TPW because they didn't like the publicity
SW was getting.

                                                                  jms


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