[B5JMS] ATTN JMS: Workload?

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From: "Sir Thomas" <sirthomast at poczta.onet.pl>
Date: 20 Apr 2001 18:26:55 -0700
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John W. Kennedy <jwkenned at bellatlantic.net> wrote:

> >         Your recent post suggested that you were pretty
> > much exhausted when "Crusade" was in production (after
> > Babylon 5 and the TNT suits its amazing you didn't just
> > collapse).  However, with all the new projects underway
> > (Rising Star, Secret Project, B5:Rangers and the possibility
> > of a Crusade revival) won't your workload be even greater than
> > ever? and thus risking serious burnout.
>
> He's gone into this before, saying that the strain of doing "B5" was far
> greater than he anticipates for the new shows, because the heavy, heavy
> arc work meant that he had to watch over _everything_.  Every costume
> design, every set design, every new piece of make-up....  And, of
> course, he had to write every script for most of the run.  The new shows
> will be less stressful.

Besides JMS once said that he would wrote only 50 (or less) % of Crusade
episodes while he wrote something around 80% of B5. I suppose what he was
going to do with Crusade he will do with the "Rangers".

--
Sir Thomas
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Co jest madrzejsze od madrosci
I rozumniejsze od rozumu."
               -- Leopold Staff "Znad ciemnej rzeki..."




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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 20 Apr 2001 20:35:08 -0700
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>Besides JMS once said that he would wrote only 50 (or less) % of Crusade
>episodes while he wrote something around 80% of B5. I suppose what he was
>going to do with Crusade he will do with the "Rangers".

Yeah...I have no desire to write every ep of a series again, ever.  That was
the real killer of the thing, on top of the rest.

 jms

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