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Skriven 2006-05-24 23:18:00 av Robert E Starr JR (829.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: An Open Plea to Mr St
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"Matthew Sprange" <spare@mongoosepublishing.com> wrote in message
news:lMWdnTqvNuQl7fHZRVny1Q@bt.com...
> Hello to all.
>
> I would like to start by saying that I am very, very sorry to have to
> conduct any sort of discussion in this manner.  I feel I have been
forced to
> do so because Mr Straczynski has not answered any of our direct emails
for
> some time.  If it turns out they have merely been lost in the ether,
then I
> sincerely apologise.  From our perspective, there is nothing we would
like
> better than to be on speaking terms with Mr Straczynski, whose work we
have
> the deepest admiration for and, indeed, we have been immersed within
for the
> past four years.
>
> However, given his replies to this Newsgroup, there are some items I
would
> like to address publically.
>
> >>>Not having heard the podcast, I really can't say.  All that I can
say
> is that there has been zero coordination or approvals between Mongoose
> and anyone else that I know of.  To date, again as far as I know, WB
> hasn't been shown what they're doing, certainly I haven't seen it,
>
> I fully understand that Mr Straczynski may be unaware of the processes
> involved in the approval process at Warner Brothers for publishers
such as
> ourselves, particularly after the recent changes in their procedures.
> However, everything (and I mean _everything_) we publish or
manufacture for
> Babylon 5 is approved by Warner Brothers, via their Burbank offices.
>
> >>>decided, in essence, "screw you, we don't need you," which has been
my
> perception of their approach from early on, when they first approached
> me to try and (in my view) reluctantly get me involved...an initial
> approach that was absurd, and insulting.  When they came back, the
>
> I am not 100% sure as to what you are referring to here.  Our first
contact
> was for the first RPG book, during which we asked you to pen a
foreword.  We
> offered to send you copies of the manuscript and were informed that
Fiona
> Avery would be the first point of contact, which we accepted.  For the
life
> of me, I cannot think what was absurd or insulting - our contact was
> intended to be neither.

I think he's talking about:
http://www.jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-17407



> >>>situation did not measurably improve and the attitude was one of,
and
> I'm admittedly characterizing it here, sod off, we don't need you, we
> can go directly to the fans, who don't need you, we can do it better.
>
> This was most certainly not our intent and, if you consider it just
possible
> that we are not the most miserable human beings on the Earth, this has
to be
> an unlikely position for anyone to seriously take.  From our
perspective, we
> have been a voice in the wilderness for the past three years, trying
to
> carry the Babylon 5 torch - and aside from the core fanbase that has
arisen
> from our work, there have not been too many people who have seemed to
give
> much of a damn.  Even the original creator seemed to ignore us - now,
if
> that was because of some slight you feel you received from us at the
> beginning, then I cannot apologise enough.  Let;s bury the hatchet and
begin
> to work together, as I have a feeling our goals are much the same.
The
> Babylon 5 fans are still out there.  Let us do something great
together for
> them.

If you and JMS can come up with canon Crusade novels to continue and
finish that storyline, I'm there for it and will buy them.  That's a
100% certainty.



> >>>Let me be clear: I have provided no outlines for novels to
Mongoose.
> Nor are there any outlines of episodes beyond what was shot plus the
> two scripted but not shot episodes.  There ARE no outlines to which
> they could have had access.  So this is false.
>
> We have access to three scripts, which we were planning to use as the
basis
> of the first Crusade novel,

The three unfilmed scripts:

To the Ends of the Earth (by JMS)
End of the Line (by JMS)

and

Value Judgements (by Fiona Avery) ???


The thing is you need more than that.  You need access to JMS's notes on
where Crusade was going, in detail.  I'm not sure how finely he had
Seasons 1 thru 5 of Crusade mapped out, but you need access to all of
that info. plus JMS himself, if you're going to tie up Crusade in canon
fashion.  And that's what I ,and a lot of other fans want.  We've been
left hanging for almost SEVEN YEARS on this.  Sure we got some of it in
the Del Rey novels ("The Passing of the Technomages" and "Legions of
Fire"), but that was only a smattering and doesn't really tell the story
in the Crusade timeframe (2267-2271).

-- 
Mac Breck (KoshN)
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"Babylon 5: Crusade" (1999)
Galen: "There is always hope, only because it's the one thing that no
one has figured out how to kill yet."
(Galen's obviously never met Warner Brothers, TNT-Atlanta or Sci-Fi.)

"Brimstone" (1998)
[Stone lights a candle for the dead in a Catholic church]
Gina: Who's that for?
Ezekiel Stone: Me.
                                                                            
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