==== FROM: ESTHER SCHINDLER DATE: WED 7 DEC 1994 1:00:10 I dunno. My first thought was to wonder how she washed her hair. --Esther ==== INTEL ON DELENN!?!? DATE: WED 7 DEC 1994 3:23:27 #48079 Hold that thought for two weeks. jms POINTS OF DEPARTURE DATE: TUES 22 NOV 1994 11:34:16 #36470 On the other hand, it was exactly this kind of discussion that the show was designed to provoke. Don't just state what one believes; WHY does one believe it, and what proof does one offer, and what level of proof does one require (two different issues). jms ======= Q #36092: ======= NARN RELIGIOUS HISTORY DATE: TUES 22 NOV 1994 11:15:19 #36434 No real connection, no. jms ======= CHRYSALIS - SORT OF DATE: WED 7 DEC 1994 1:08:05 #47775 Re: "Watch your back," and "You never did know how to watch your back," yep, that was a bit of deliberate foreshadowing for "Chrysalis." When the episode aired, I mentioned at the time that there was something in that episode that would later be seen to be ironic or ominous, but didn't seem so at first. One or two caught it, but most didn't. This show is layered very, VERY carefully. jms ================ FROM: Robert Miller DATE: WED 7 Dec 1994 8:54:09 #47899 >>When the episode aired, I mentioned at the time that >>there was something in that episode that would later be >>seen to be ironic or ominous, but didn't seem so at first. What would have been even more ominous is if "TKO" was actually the last episode aired before "Chrysalis", as was planned at one time. The "Watch your back" line is very nearly the last line of the episode, too. Another scene I'm wondering about was in "And the Sky Full of Stars", where Dr. Franklin is examining Delenn. At first I assumed the examination was Franklin's idea, but now I see it would have been very useful for Delenn to have her pre-Chrysalis health on record, so that Dr. Franklin would have a clue what he was dealing with when she came out of the chrysalis. Totally off topic, what was the race of that ambassador in "The Long Dark"? ================ DATE: WED 7 DEC 1994 3:20:30 #40878 I believe that was a Markab. jms ================ Q #48389: ...have all of us read *too much* into the episodes, or *too little*. ================ DATE: THUR 8 DEC 1994 1:22:01 #46828 Yes. jms DATE: WED 7 DEC 1994 1:11:26 #477779 "It does seem to be a thinking person's program, doesn't it?" Hey, check out TV Guide for the coming week. Jeff (Mr. Paramount) Jarvis indicates that Earth 2 is far more intelligent, putting SeaQuest and B5 in the same ranks and not very intelligent and derivitive. jms BEST SF ON TV DATE: THUR 8 DEC 1994 1:22:07 #48626 Thank you; we try very hard on the show, and always appreciate when it's noticed. Like yourself, many people figured when they first heard about the show that we were a dumb ripoff...in essence, we paid the price for other people's shows...which was very hard for a long time, but I'm happy that as time passes, more folks see us for what we ARE, not what they think we are. jms DATE: FRI 9 DEC 1994 2:54:10 PM #49836 Yes, the episodes to date, with the exception of "Soul Mates," were shot in the order they're being aired in. jms WPWR CUTS OFF B5 CREDITS DATE: THURS 8 DEC 1994 1:31:31 #48643 Basically, Garibaldi's third favorite thing...is whatever the member of the opposite sex is having.... jms B5 QUESTIONS DATE: THUR 8 DEC 1994 1:29:05 #48635 Re: Ivanova's foot still giving her problems down the road and needing help....even today, if it's a reasonable break, once it's fixed, it's fixed. jms DATE: THURS 8 DEC 1994 2:46:09 Re: symphonic forms...I think you've just found the outer edge of my knowledge of this stuff.... jms ================== Q #35294: Lance = Lance Henrikson (Aliens), Bruce = Bruce Campbell ================== ACTORS!!! DATE: TUES 22 NOV 1994 12:24:08 Bruce and Lance are strictly movie actors. (Bruce was offered many series after BRISCO, but declined, saying he wanted to do features only from now on.) jms ALIENS OR "NON-HUMANS"? DATE: WED 7 DEC 1994 9:28:08 #48373 Nope. Won't do it. I understand the reason for the suggestion, but to us, they're aliens. And that's what we call them. There ain't much room in B5 for PC. But there *IS* room for fairness...and as a result, while we are sometimes referred to as humans, more often we're referred to as aliens by the races. ~~~~~ We don't call them that to their face, and they don't call us aliens to our face, but among ourselves...that's what we call each other. (In fact, in one episode, someone mentions that the aliens call the oxygen-part of the station the alien sector.) jms DATE: FRI 9 DEC 2:54:09 PM #49835 Of course, on the other hand, one of the problems in the whole PC discussion is that PC has been over-generalized and often mischaracterized for purposes of debate. Some days it seems like any attempt at polite behavior is derided as just more PC. There is a difference between certain kinds of socialized thought-control and manners. Blurring the line makes the criticism of the former less useful. One must pick one's targets or waste good ammunition on collateral damage. jms CORTEZ SABOTAGE DATE: WED 7 DEC 1994 9:28:11 #48375 To get in and out of hyperspace you have to know where you are and where you're going, otherwise you'll come out even *more* lost, hundreds of light years from home; you jump in, and you're even further gone now. jms DATE: FRI 9 DEC 1994 2:54:03 PM #49831 I think the word galaxy is over-used, yes, particularly in the ads. I try to keep it out of the show, but it does slip in when I'm not looking. And the Cortez might've been able to locate some stars, but any fix on its position would only have been within a few light-years, not nearly precise enough for their purposes. They'd still be lost. jms THE LONG DARK DATE: TUE 6 DEC 1994 7:13:01 #47387 Well, on the theory that some words won't offend in 300 years, we could put them in, but our TV stations of today would bleep them out for the next 299 years, which seems somehow less than productive. (Nor do I entirely buy the premise; many of our swear words, the really effective ones, go back several hundred years. Check the Oxford English Dictoinary, and you can see the long history of these words.) jms DATE: WED 7 DEC 1994 1:00:04 #47755 Depends on whether it's done as simple invective or as art form; I've seen some people curse -- whole long strings of complex syntax, breathtaking terminology, impossible genetics and even less likely physiological recommendations -- in a way that is awesome to behold. And I'd note also that I have an entire *book* of curses and foul language appearing in Shakespeare's plays, some of which comes under this heading. "The fall of an ass is no great hurt;" "Thou whoresome little tidy Bartholemew boar-pig!" If it was good enough for old Will, it's probably good enough for me. jms DATE: TUE 6 DEC 1994 7:13:03 #47388 Yes, the tugs use grapplers. jms =========== Q: What are Londo's appendages called? =========== DATE: FRI 9 DEC 1994 7:32:07 PM #49960 Tentisticularites? jms ================================================== Q #49948: