Cin. / B5 Treatment

[Brandon]

Hoping to pick up that Cin. issue this weekend... it sounds good.

Another thing: I'm wondering about the B5 treatment and the Season 1
Bible from thestation. I'd really like to get them and they sound
great, but I'm wondering if anyone has them or Joe can you comment a bit
more on them than what thestation has to say? Because they're $35 each
which is $43 if you're shipping to Canada plus that's in America $ so on
top of that I have to convert from Canadian to American, which ends up
being A LOT of money. How are they bound? Are they actual books? What
info is in them? How many illustrations? Etc... I'm especially
interested in the B5 treatment Joe.. Is it worth me spending probably
upwards of 50$ Canadian?

Brandon.

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[Jms at B5]

The B5 bible and treatment are made *exactly* as the original documents were
made. They're not converted to typeset stuff or prettied up, they're the
*working documents* as handed out to writers for the show(s).

There are some pretty good reviews of them over on the babylon 5 section of
about.com if you want an objective analysis.

jms

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[SGBruckner]

John,
Sounds like what you were looking for is some glitzy edition of the B5
treatment or bible. These were never intended to be anything other than exact
reproductions of what writers were given as background on the series. To have
made them in any other way would have changed their nature considerably.

Sandy
Sandra Bruckner
Editor/Publisher
The Zocalo Today
http://zocalo.isnnews.net

[Mike Helba]

Jms at B5 wrote:
> There are some pretty good reviews of them over on the babylon 5 section of
> about.com if you want an objective analysis.

Thank you very much for the kind words, Mr. Straczynski.

If anyone is interested, here are the addresses for the reviews JMS
mentioned:

Babylon 5 Series Bible Review
http://babylon5.about.com/library/weekly/aa122199a.htm

Babylon 5 Series Treatment Review
http://babylon5.about.com/library/weekly/aa121299a.htm

Mike Helba
Babylon 5 Guide to About.com
http://babylon5.about.com/