ATTN: JMS - production halted?
Tom Elliot
halted for approx a month for "revisions" to sets and costumes.
Is this OK or is it a sign that TNT is mucking where it doesn't belong?
I would hope that someone would suggest to Ted Turner that turning B5
into a t/a show means that he is just copying Fox (and Murdoch...and
Turner *hates* Murdoch). Maybe that will bring them to their senses (if
TV execs *have* senses).
Jms at B5
Yeah, actually I mentioned this in passing a couple of days ago on
Compuserve...wasn't that big a deal, but to recap for here:
In addition to the Christmas break, we have always taken a one-week hiatus in
the middle of shooting to avoid burning out cast and crew. This was true of B5
throughout its history. One week in the fall, one in the spring.
TNT has allocated additional money to build some major (large) new sets that we
had thought we'd have to wait until season 2 to implement, and to improve some
of the sets. (We were always fighting to spiff up sets throughout B5, and we
always had to bring in our new sets gradually, like Earharts and the War Room
and others.)
Since they're going to give us the money for that now, we figued we'd extend
the hiatus by a few weeks (a paid break for most of the actual shooting crew),
though we still have the art department, costume, construction, props and
several other departments still working away to build the sets and stuff.
We start shooting again October 19th.
jms
(jms...@aol.com)
B5 Official Fan Club at:
http://www.thestation.com
Bill Dugan
>According to Ain't is (not so) Cool News, production on Crusade has been
>halted for approx a month for "revisions" to sets and costumes.
>
>Is this OK or is it a sign that TNT is mucking where it doesn't belong?
JMS has already talked about this. Check the recent "JMS on
CompuServe" postings.
Glen Oliver
Tom Elliot <tel...@iex.net> wrote in article
<360439D8...@iex.net>...
> According to Ain't is (not so) Cool News, production on Crusade has been
> halted for approx a month for "revisions" to sets and costumes.
>
> Is this OK or is it a sign that TNT is mucking where it doesn't belong?
>
> I would hope that someone would suggest to Ted Turner that turning B5
> into a t/a show means that he is just copying Fox (and Murdoch...and
> Turner *hates* Murdoch). Maybe that will bring them to their senses (if
> TV execs *have* senses).
Well, I'm not JMS - but I'm Glen from AICN.
The halt in production...at this time...appears to be a genuine effort to
enhance the scope and quality of the series. I've heard no indication that
the "shutdown" is a precursor to the dreaded "memo changes". Think of this
downtime as a makeover or facelift.
By the way, these notions are expressed in the current "CRUSADE Update " at
AICN.
---- ------
Glen Oliver
Aint It Cool News
Laura M. Appelbaum
Would it be correct then to assume that whatever "changes" were made to
the series as a consequence of the infamous memo DID NOT effect the
series enough to require reshooting however many eps are already in the
can?
LMA
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Subject: Re: Silver Star = BOTL ?? Nah!
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Cynthia S. Wetzel wrote:
>
> Laura M. Appelbaum wrote:
> > Cynthia S. Wetzel wrote:
> > >
> > > Surely this has come up before... according to the trivia cards in the
> > > Special Edition trading card set, the Silver Star of Valor is the name
> of
> > > the medal given to the survivors of the Battle of the Line. Inherent
> in
> > > that honor is the fact that you had to *participate* in the battle to
> have
> > > survived, right?
> > >
> > > So why are we told in "And Now for a Word" that precious little Johnny
> > > Sheridan has been awarded the Silver Star for Valor during the
> > > Earth-Minbari War??? NO mention of Sheridan being at the Battle of the
> > > Line is ever made in the series (IIRC), and In the Beginning confirms
> the
> > > fact that he was not there.
> > >
> > > Perhaps ISN is wrong? We all know how those media types are, and we
> have
> > > remarks and rumors about EarthGov investing much effort in promoting
> > > Sheridan The War Hero.
> > >
> > You are correct in that there's no way that Sheridan can have a medal
> > from the Battle of the Line, so either the trading card is wrong -- most
> > likely answer, OR we can entertain some more amusing possibilities
> > within the story line to "correct" the problem. (We need to get SOME
> > kind of good argument going here besides that ugly photo and the memo
> > jms refuses to confirm or deny! ;D)
> >
> > So here's another idea along with your "historical revisionism" on the
> > part of EarthGov or the Clark-controlled media. (Yours is far more
> > likely, but mine is kind of fun in a perverse way).
>
> <snip>
>
> > Who's to say Sheridan didn't do
> > the same? I mean, yeah, he blew up a Minbari Cruiser ... but when it
> > REALLY COUNTED, for whatever reason (like an inconvenient assignment),
> > he wasn't In the Action. As they say on "King of the Hill;" "that's
> > GOTTA hurt!" So maybe he lied innocently at the start and by the time
> > of the ISN report "everyone KNOWS" he was actually at The Battle of The
> > Line. Stranger things have happened!!! ;D
>
> <snip>
>
> ROTFLMAO
>
> Oh my, LMA.. I knew you liked to live dangerously, but really!
Hey, I knew I'd be out of town for a few days ... what disappoints me is
that no one took me up on the bait!!!!
LMA
(Strangely disappointed at not being flamed ...)
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Subject: Re: sleeping in light suggestion
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Jms at B5 wrote:
>
> I was watching "Sleeping in Light" again today (I have a tendency to run the
> last ten minutes plus the credits over and over...to see if it'll stop getting
> to me, and so far it hasn't), and had some thoughts on it for folks out there.
>
> People often ask if there's anything they can do in return for B5, something
> I'd like and I do have some ideas, here at the end, regarding SiL.
>
> I think it would be a wonderful thing if more folks than usual got together for
> viewing parties on this one. Not newcomers, not folks who haven't seen the
> show, just the "family," if you will. If B5 has helped to create communities,
> then I think this last episode should be for that community.
>
> I also think you'll find some interesting tie-offs in this show...something
> about Minbari beliefs about souls born in the hearts of suns, and a pay-off to
> why the narrations of this series have always been in the past tense, and a
> gift to the crew of this show...to which end I *strongly* suggest that even if
> you don't normally tape this series, that you do tape *this* episode so you can
> go back and check some stuff at the end.
>
> "Sleeping in Light" airs in just a little over two months, and every time I
> look at it, it has the sense of something very special coming to its
> conclusion. It's so damned hard watching it...and yet there's something about
> it that is massively uplifting at the same time.
>
> Anyway, I was just thinking that often viewing parties are used to bring in new
> folks to B5, but this one, I think, should be for the family. Maybe local fan
> groups want to get together, find someone with a good-sized TV, and watch.
> It's one of those Moments, I think, that will be remembered a long time
> thereafter.
>
> And I've got TNT's promise not to run a voice-over or squish the credits at the
> end.
>
> jms
>
> (jms...@aol.com)
> B5 Official Fan Club at:
> http://www.thestation.com
The Maryland Gathering will be meeting here as usual and all rastb5mod
readers from the DC/Baltimore Megalopolos who won't be en route to
family elsewhere are welcome to attend ... as usual. Need details?
Contact me.
LMA