[B5JMS] JMS: Jerry Doyle and crew wanted to revive Babylon5?!

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From: "Rob Scott" <spamagnet at lagrangepoint.com>
Date: 15 May 2001 14:55:22 -0700
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"Anna Hayward, Alien Visitor" <Anna at ratbag.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:5SQmGCAwKRA7EwCq at ratbag.demon.co.uk...
> You'd end up with one of those dreadful shows that doesn't seem to know
> when to stop, with interminable storylines that can never be brought to
> a decent conclusion (because if they did, the show would come to an
> end). For instance, we knew that ST:Voyager would never actually find a
> way home in that episode, because we'd already seen the ad for next
> week's episode and they were still going; and we knew that Mulder and
> Scully were never going to find "the Truth" that was "Out There" and for
> the vast majority of the series, never actually get together, for all
> the hinting. It's very irritating when you know beforehand what will and
> will not happen.

It depends on how well it's done. It's annoying on ST:V because every week
they hit the "reset" button.

There are several times during B5 that we *do* find out what is going to
happen. But it's not annoying, it's gripping, because we have no idea how or
why.

It's the difference between lazy writing and real writing.

 - Rob Scott




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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 15 May 2001 16:32:15 -0700
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To answer the question...yes, Jerry had some ideas, and tried to put something
together, but the resources just weren't there.

 jms

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