ATTN JMS: You Seem Disillusioned

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From: gkarfan at webtv.net (Tammy Smith)
Date: 2 Sep 1999 18:54:45 -0600
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..and I can't blame you.  I am so tired of the entertainment-industry &
how they reward mediocrity & try to destroy anything that actually means
something.  I spent a long time trying to bring back ABC's Max Headroom
series because I didn't want to give in & go back to those silly
sitcoms.  I finally became disillusioned & gave up that fight.  But when
B5 came along, it made me believe a good series could make it.  You did
a pretty incredible thing there.  It doesn't mean that I'm not really
upset with TNT right now.  They are no different than ABC.  They want
viewers to accept mediocrity.  Well, I won't ever accept it!  What TNT
did was wrong!

Tammy



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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 4 Sep 1999 08:00:36 -0600
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Logging on from Australia....

Actually, I'm not disillusioned.  Disappointed, sure, in how TNT chose to treat
the show...but understand that a 5 year run is the anomaly in TV, even more so
in SF.  B5 was the first non-Trek space-based SF series to go more than 3
seasons in 30 years.  So the record ain't great.

But if anything, I've been just as busy on other projects since Crusade ended,
and all of it is what Crusade was not during the last half-year of its
production: they're fun again.  I'm enjoying myself, and that's what I got into
this thing for in the first place.

There's plenty of room to do good work; you just have to find proper vessels
into which to place your work.

 jms

(jmsatb5 at aol.com)
B5 Official Fan Club at:
http://www.thestation.com




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