[B5JMS] Writer's you simply can't stand

[b5jms at cs.columbia.edu]

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From: "Franklin Harris" <franklin at pulpculture.net>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 06:59:57 -0500
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"Jms at B5" <jmsatb5 at aol.com> wrote in message
news:20030801045108.00723.00000902 at mb-m25.aol.com...

> Oh, lord, where does one *begin*?  Hell, the first season of B5 was full
of
> ponderous foundation-laying that just went on and on and on until you
wanted to
> stick a fork in your own eye just to stop it...a thousand years ago this,
a
> thousand years ago that, blah blah blah end of the known universe and do
you
> fasten or zip?

Oh, obviously you've never even seen the show! That first-season dialog was
Shakespeare compared to the damn singing telepaths in season 5!
Shakespeare!!!

-- 
Franklin Harris
Pulp Culture Online, www.pulpculture.net
"The truly psychotic don't need to cop an attitude." -- Poppy Z. Brite,
alt.horror, 2/21/03



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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 01 Aug 2003 20:52:49 GMT

>Oh, obviously you've never even seen the show! That first-season dialog was
>Shakespeare compared to the damn singing telepaths in season 5!
>Shakespeare!!!

Also over-rated.  "To be or...not to be?"  This is writing?  I think he just
wrote himself into a corner.  "To be or..." and he didn't have anything good to
put in there, having used it all up on "what light through yonder window
breaks" or somesuch, so all he could do was throw up his hands and say, "or NOT
to be."  

WhatEVer.

 jms

(jmsatb5 at aol.com)
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