[B5JMS] Attn JMS: Intros to non-JMS scripts?

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From: Amy Guskin <aisling at fjordstone.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 02:02:07 +0000 (UTC)
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Hey, Joe, on another thread, Methuselah Jones posted a list of the scripts 
that will _not_ appear in the script books, because they are not yours.  They 
are:

S1
Born to the Purple      - Larry DiTillio
The War Prayer          - D. C. Fontana
Deathwalker             - Larry DiTillio
Believers               - David Gerrold
Survivors               - Mark Scott Zicree
By Any Means Necessary  - Kathryn Drennan
TKO                     - Larry DiTillio
Grail                   - Christy Marx
Eyes                    - Larry DiTillio
Legacies                - D. C. Fontana

S2
A Distant Star          - D.C. Fontana
The Long Dark           - Scott Frost
A Spider in the Web     - Larry DiTillio
Soul Mates              - Peter David
GROPOs                  - Larry DiTillio
There all Honor Lies    - Peter David
Knives                  - Larry DiTillio

S5
Day of the Dead		    - Neil Gaiman

Any chance we could get intros to these episodes, in lieu of your being able 
to sell us the actual scripts?  I'm thinking you must have _some_ interesting 
stories about them, like how they came to be solicited, how you came to be 
working with that particular writer, what interesting or funny things 
happened during the redrafting process, what they brought to the table after 
they digested your initial idea, etc.

Since some of these scripts have already passed in their rotations, maybe you 
could pop the intros for them into the final book of their respective season.

Thanks in advance,

Amy



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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 05:34:32 +0000 (UTC)
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Amy Guskin wrote:
> Hey, Joe, on another thread, Methuselah Jones posted a list of the scripts
> that will _not_ appear in the script books, because they are not yours.  They
> are:
>
> S1
> Born to the Purple      - Larry DiTillio
> The War Prayer          - D. C. Fontana
> Deathwalker             - Larry DiTillio
> Believers               - David Gerrold
> Survivors               - Mark Scott Zicree
> By Any Means Necessary  - Kathryn Drennan
> TKO                     - Larry DiTillio
> Grail                   - Christy Marx
> Eyes                    - Larry DiTillio
> Legacies                - D. C. Fontana
>
> S2
> A Distant Star          - D.C. Fontana
> The Long Dark           - Scott Frost
> A Spider in the Web     - Larry DiTillio
> Soul Mates              - Peter David
> GROPOs                  - Larry DiTillio
> There all Honor Lies    - Peter David
> Knives                  - Larry DiTillio
>
> S5
> Day of the Dead		    - Neil Gaiman
>
> Any chance we could get intros to these episodes, in lieu of your being able
> to sell us the actual scripts?  I'm thinking you must have _some_ interesting
> stories about them, like how they came to be solicited, how you came to be
> working with that particular writer, what interesting or funny things
> happened during the redrafting process, what they brought to the table after
> they digested your initial idea, etc.
>
> Since some of these scripts have already passed in their rotations, maybe you
> could pop the intros for them into the final book of their respective season.
>


I think there's room to talk about some of the other episodes in the
general introduction to a given book, in terms of anecdotes and the
like, but to do a full-scale commentary on one of them seems wrong to
me in that a) it would go to lengths about something not available in
the book, and b) given that it's someone else's script, it feels
vaguely presumptuous of me.  Good question, though.

jms