JMS Usenet Posts - 6/11/2002
Dirk A. Loedding
Jeremiah Programming Note: The 6/14 episode of Jeremiah will start at
10:50 p.m., instead of the usual 10:45 p.m.
>JMS quotes and answers about the previously-mentioned quote book:
:Didn't know just how fine a split was being put on submissions. It'd
:be nice to be able to use quotes from Babylon 5, Crusade and Rangers.
They're all equally valid for the book.
jms
>JMS quotes and answers:
:I went to Showtime's web site and found they have the schedule up for
:July. The very sad and disappointing thing that I noticed is that
:Jeremiah (and Odyssey 5 for that matter) are not on it. *sobs sadly*
I think the site may just be in error, because the airdate schedule we
have shows us going through July, with our last ep airing somewhere
around July 19th.
jms
>JMS quotes and answers:
:In the recently aired Jeremiah episode "Tripwire", I noticed that
:there were two writing credits (please forgive me if they aren't
:exact; I'm posting from memory) :
:Excerpts by J. Michael Straczynski
:Written by J. Michael Straczynski
:I suspect that the "excepts" credit was for the flashbacks from
:earlier episodes, but I'm a bit confused as to why they're credited
:separately, since they were all written by you.
It's apparently a rule under the Writers Guild of Canada, where we
shoot the series, to ensure that all prior work is properly credited,
whoever the author might or might not be.
jms
>JMS quotes and answers:
:I was wondering if there was something edited out that would have
:shown us more about the Damien character. By the time we saw him
:onscreen, he was already making Lee Chen nervous.
No, that's all there was. The nervousness was supposed to be more
Lee's unease because of the way Lee's eyes looked, but the director
shot the whole thing with his shades on, so you kinda lost that effect.
:Also, was that his glasses broken on the desk behind Samuel when he
:was turning Markus and the TM crew away?
Yes. The director basically shot it from as far away as possible
without leaving the building, so it was hard to tell. We blew up the
shot and repositioned it as best we can, but it was still kinda vague.
:BTW, did you write the episodes after Ring of Truth? I don't see any
:info on them yet.
My next ones will also be the last ones for this season, Things Left
Unsaid 1 and 2. Between then and now it's Sam Egan and one more from
Samm Barnes.
jms
>JMS quotes and answers. Great news about B5 DVD's!!!
>The jollies I'm getting right now is that it looks like DVD is for
>real....
Yeah, it's real...I was holding off saying anything until WB or
someone else could announce it, but since it's come up here via the
captioning institute...yeah, as noted, it's real.
Season One will be out in a boxed set this Fall, and they're going to
be including at minimum two commentaries from me, probably on Signs
and Portents and Chrysalis (it's a matter of how much time and energy
I can give to it given that there's no fees involved and I'm in the
midst of Jeremiah), and if possible, Babylon Squared, maybe Sky Full
of Stars. They'd also like to film an on-camera intro by me (but I
guess folks will buy it anyway, even with that particular horror
included).
They're pulling together a lot of stuff on this release so that there
are plenty of extras this time around, now that the value of the DVDs
has been shown by the first release .
jms
>JMS quotes and answers about DVD's:
:Have they decided on aspect ratio?
Widescreen.
jms
>JMS quotes and answers about DVD's:
:My question: True widescreen? The DVD of "The Gathering" and "In the
:Beginning" that we have is cropped at the top and bottom. I.e. -
:there are bits that are missing. I don't want the episodes with
:things missing. But if it is *true* widescreen, I'm there!
The only things that I'm aware of that were cropped in those were the
CGI and composite scenes, since we can't go back and re-render all
that stuff.
jms
>JMS quotes and answers about DVD's:
:What about the sound? Will they make me happy (and my neighbors mad)
:and give me Babylon 5 in Dolby Digital 5.1?
The sound is being remastered to 5.1.
jms
>JMS quotes and answers:
:Any chance of comentaries by any of the other writers? Or some of the
:cast or crew?
They're currently investigating all possibililties.
jms
>JMS quotes and answers:
:They're not paying you, ...anything? ???
No. It's WB's policy that they don't pay to have people do
commentaries. The problem here is that there's so *much* that they
want...an on-camera interview, two to four full commentaries, and
further analyses on the races, technologies, politics, all that
stuff...it's a huge amount of work. But their response was that if it
wasn't done for free, across the board, they'd just deliver a
foreshortened version, little to no extras, no publicity, little to
nothing without my commentary, which they feel is essential to the
set. Rather than have a lesser version go out to the fans, I figured
I'd just bite the bullet and do it.
jms
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