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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:23:21 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: www.babylon5scripts.com now online
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Pardon the repost...the other iteration of this message ended up buried
in another thread....
The first volume of Babylon 5 scripts is now up via
www.babylon5scripts.com, with all the features noted elsewhere (as well
as on the site itself).
According to an email I got from those putting this together, within
two hours of being online orders had poured in from the US, Australia,
New Zealand, France, Austria, Great Britain, Germany, Ireland and
several other countries.
(Funny story...when they were ready to launch the site, before sending
out the email notifications or letting word out, they put it online
just long enough to do a test order...only to discover that by the time
they put in that one test order, four other orders had come in before
them.)
And just as an aside, if you miss reading the faq file...you miss some
fun.
jms
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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:20:46 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: $0.00 off dvd sales? So downloading is okay? was: JMS:
Re: Babylon 5 Universe Novels?
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Troy Heagy wrote:
> But in any event...it's a moot point. I've never
> received a dime off the DVDs and likely never
> will.
>
> jms
> =======================================
>
> In that case, why does it matter if we download,
> instead of buy the dvds? You don't lose
> anything.
>
> (I'm asking because of genuine curiosity. NOT
> because I endorse downloading/stealing.)
>
The implication being that if one does not have a personal, vested
interest, then it's okay to steal from somebody else.
That I got the deal that I got is a side issue from that of piracy.
Lots of other folks have lots of other deals and *do* get to benefit
from their work. That should not be denied to them. So I'm foursquare
against downloading. Just because we all *want* everything free does
not mean that we should *get* everything for free.
jms
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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 08:09:37 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: Babylon 5 Scripts Site Nearly Ready, And More!
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
I got an email saying that about 80% of the notifications went through,
others hit walls of one sort or another. They may go ahead and re-send
the things.
jms
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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 07:02:22 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: Babylon 5 Scripts Site Nearly Ready, And More!
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Wendy of NJ wrote:
> >I'm told it may all go on-line later tonight at some point.
>
> Not yet :-/
>
>
It's up now!!!
jms
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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 06:17:21 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: www.babylon5scripts.com is now live!
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
The site is now live...volume one is up and available, containing the
alternate script for "The Gathering," as well as the scripts for
Parliament of Dreams, Midnight on the Firing Line, Infection, Soul
Hunter, and Mind War...with 50 pages of intro, commentary and behind
the scenes stories, 30 pages of memos, photos...it's all there.
jms
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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:49:19 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: Babylon 5 Scripts Site Nearly Ready, And More!
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Jan wrote:
> >
> Wasn't there supposed to be an environment tech at one point?
I think so...haven't come across that yet.
> And is that Mr. Jones the same sort as we met in Crusade?
>
Oh, no...very, very different kind of person...more in the mold of Mr.
Morden, but much darker.
jms
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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 00:33:06 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: Babylon 5 Scripts Site Nearly Ready, And More!
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
That should be FIFTH season, not FIFTY season. That would've killed me
for sure.
jms
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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 00:30:37 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: Babylon 5 Scripts Site Nearly Ready, And More!
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Stefan wrote:
> Concerning completely forgotten stories...
>
> You wrote in a rastb5m posting (09-08-2000):
>
> "When Claudia left, I roundfiled (trashed) the few scripts I had been
> working on with her character because they could not be used. They
> were first and in some cases second drafts, or partial scripts."
>
Not thus far, no...I've come across a few script fragments that I
started and abandoned ("Festival!" which I think is about halfway
written, before being totally set aside and reworked as "The Parliament
of Dreams"), and a couple of others, but thus far not the fifty season
stuff, which I think I actually may have erased, given how upset I was
at the time. But I'm still going through it all...there's just
hundreds of memos, mostly private or of no real outside interest, but a
lot of them have some pretty cool stuff.
In terms of the premises written, I found the original premises for
"The Long Night of Susan Ivanova," "The Commander's Hour," and a bunch
of others, as well as the Season 5 Christmas letter I sent to the crew,
which I'd forgotten about but is very moving, as well as the letter
sent to all of the cast and crew when the script for "Sleeping in
Light" came out, which spells out our options for the future...if there
were to be one.
There's also stuff in the memos and in my intros about characters we
were going to introduce in the series but ultimately couldn't fit in,
including an ISN reporter I wanted to embed on B5 full time...the
mysterious Mr. Jones...others.
As far as the script fragments are concerned, though, I'm not sure if
they're worth including or not, except as oddities...still thinking
about that one. At this point I'm inclined to leave them out.
jms
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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 00:18:55 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: Babylon 5 Scripts Site Nearly Ready, And More!
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Cornholio wrote:
> I really do not want to sound greedy, but... what happened with the
> production draft for "The Gathering"? Wasn't it supposed to be included
> in the 15th volume too? Did you simply forget to mention it, or was it
> dropped to include something else?
>
It's there, I simply forgot to mention it.
> And wasn't the S1-script included in the 15th volume supposed to be
> "And the sky, full of stars"?
>
Yeah, another brain-glitch.
> Anyway, great news, I'm really looking forward to it, and I think it's
> really great that the publisher will even SHIP the 15th volume for
> free. Can't wait until the site goes online and I'm able to order the
> first volume.
>
I'm told it may all go on-line later tonight at some point.
The full length on the first book has just continued to balloon, it's
now about 454 pages all in, with about 52 pages of intro, 28 pages of
memos that were written before, during and after "The Gathering" that
establish the rules of the B5 universe, costumes, prosthetics, set
design, the history of various alien races, production elements, CGI,
on and on, and a clutch of photos on top of that.
The first few volumes are more writing-oriented, I wasn't planning on
this being a real Making Of series of books, but that's what they're
turning into, so I've given into it and we start getting even more real
hard-core "making of" stuff starting with the third book. As it is,
there's lots of stuff in the first volume alone on production, casting
(the other choices we were considering for Sheridan, for instance), my
initial casting notes on The Gathering, who my prototypes were, how the
show was sold, the reason Lyta was in "The Gathering" but not the first
couple of seasons, the day B5 almost died...it's crammed with
behind-the-scenes stuff.
Interestingly, in my memos, I discovered the premise-notes that I gave
to WB at the start of the first few seasons. I told them that I don't
do outlines, but they still wanted some sense of what the stories would
be, so I'd write out about eight or nine stories for them in one- or
two-paragraph form, and some of those were never written into full
episodes, so it's been fun to read these lost (if rather short) B5
stories (which will be included starting around volume 3).
This is going to be pretty much THE definitive story of the making of
B5, told from the inside, with all the stuff nobody's ever heard
before.
jms
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Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 07:58:25 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: from jms re: script book info
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Now that the first books have gone out and begun to arrive at their
destinations, I thought I'd jump in with a quick update on all this.
Regarding the delay of two days on the first copies getting out...it's
the B5 tradition. You can tell someone about B5 folks, but until they
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