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

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From: warlock at es.co.nz (Matthew Vincent)
Date: 15 May 2001 19:56:14 -0700
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On 15 May 2001 03:39:33 -0700, =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E5l?= Are Nordal
<a_blip at bigfoot.com> wrote:

>Dear Mr. Straczynski,
>
>you are a one-trick-pony. I think it's time you faced that, stopped
>trying to delude yourself that you have any real talent. You got one
>lucky break. Please don't throw it away.

Uhhhh, are you actually asserting this yourself, or merely quoting it?
Whoever made this absurd claim, it couldn't be further from the truth.
Although he tends to be rather modest about it himself, JMS is a
highly creative, intelligent and resourceful scriptwriter and producer
(among other things) who is dedicated to producing genuine and
thorough work. Much of his work has a lot of educational and
philosophical value, and drops in subtle hints about society's
problems, in addition to being great entertainment (far better than
most of the cheesy crap on TV these days, that's for sure). 

JMS hasn't had much in the way of lucky breaks; OTOH, he's been
stonewalled rather a lot. He has persevered and persisted, producing
much interesting and varied work along the way, and in the end his
talent has won through and he has managed to secure his autonomy more
these days. It is about time that one of the few people who truly
understand the art of storytelling has a chance to contribute to TV
media in this way. The above criticisms are entirely misjudged. 

Matthew 



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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 15 May 2001 20:48:00 -0700
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>>you are a one-trick-pony. I think it's time you faced that, stopped
>>trying to delude yourself that you have any real talent. You got one
>>lucky break. Please don't throw it away.

I just love psychopaths that write this kind of thing.  It's so easy to
deflate.

So, Murder She Wrote, and Twilight Zone, and Nightmare Classics (which got me a
Writers Guild nomination)...those don't exist, because a one-trick pony either
HAS only one thing, or DOES only one thing, and just that alone discredits the
thing.

And there's the comics, that range from top ten to top twenty sellers, the
Rising Stars book that is en route to becoming a feature film, the other
project that is a go order for a new series....

People like to think that simply saying something like the above will make it
true.

And by harping on this endlessly, they become the one-trick, or the one-note,
pony...a pony that will fade into obscurity and be utterly forgotten...where
those shows will go on forever.

 jms

(jmsatb5 at aol.com)
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