[B5JMS] The Final Battle for...the Teapot

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From: Timothy Fleming <fleming at astro.umd.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 2001 08:20:17 -0700
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	Well it looks as though the dreaded Teapot has returned
to "Midnight on the Firing Line".  I imagine that this problem 
will be corrected for the DVD release. 

	It is kind of funny though, there you are waiting to 
see this big ship and....a Teapot :)

				-Tim






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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 15 Mar 2001 15:28:33 -0700
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>Well it looks as though the dreaded Teapot has returned
>to "Midnight on the Firing Line".  I imagine that this problem 
>will be corrected for the DVD release. 
>
>	It is kind of funny though, there you are waiting to 

I'll be posting this to the scifi.com/babylon5 board in a bit, but the jist of
it is this....

I sat in the room with the editor while they corrected this error, and the
revised copy of the episode that I received on vhs was, indeed, corrected.

My suspicion is that they've put all their emphasis on getting the correct S2-4
widescreen eps delivered to SFC in a comparitively short amount of time, and
haven't sent them the new master yet.  (The closed captioning that appears
there now is a different process.)  

I have a call in to WB now about this, but I suspect that the above scenario is
correct.  I think they preferred at this stage to put all their efforts into
getting the big problems done first, focusing on the smaller problems later.

 jms

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