Transcript of real-time chat session with J. Michael Straczynski on August 12, 1995 on Delphi. This transcript has been shuffled around somewhat to make it wasier to follow. |.John Z.> I'd like to welcome J. Michael Sttaczynski to our group.. |.John Z.> He's the creator and exec producer of Babylon 5. |.Straczynski> Thanks glad to be here. |.John Z.> I'd like to start by telling you all that B5 has recieved three Emmy | nominations. |.Straczynski> With a possibility of a fourth announced Monday, we'll see. |.John Z.> JMS do you think that the acdemy ignores SF shows? |.Straczynski> ..............it's SF. |KLEVE> Which categories, please? |.Straczynski> Hair, cinematography, makeup. |GREATSARGON> is jms here yet? |.Straczynski> No, no sign of him yet. |GREATSARGON> hahah!! great to meet u!! |.Robert> ::chuckle:: |.Straczynski> Anyway, yes, the TV academy never takes SF seriously for the big | awards. |.High Res> - signed off - |KLEVE> Why were actors changed for the commander on Bab5? |.Straczynski> Because it let me do stuff with the story that would've been | difficult.... |.Straczynski> otherwise; before we could do a, b and c, now we can do a,b,c, and | D, and... |.Straczynski> D is very cool; I needed someone with a personal connection to the | shadows... |.Straczynski> which Sinclair didn't have, but Sheridan could. It made things | easier. |.John Z.> Will we see Sinclair this season? |.Straczynski> Tentatively, yes, in a two-parter in which Ambassador Sinclair | comes to B5. |** .High Res just joined "JMS Conference" (17 members now) ** |GREATSARGON> jms: how important were the Amiga's in the production? |.Straczynski> Amigas were important, then they went bye-bye, and now we're on a | dos platform. |GREATSARGON> ohwell |KLEVE> Great to have you here! |.Straczynski> Thanks. |.Straczynski> We're now 2 days into shooting episode 2, season 3, "Convictions." |.Straczynski> Going very well indeed. |.High Res> - signed off - |.John Z.> Will we learn more about Kosh and his interest in humans? |.Straczynski> Oh, very definitely. |KLEVE> Will there be new additional Bab5 crew members? |.Straczynski> Not crew members, no, but a new recurring character, a ranger | named.... |KEKKER> Bob? |.Straczynski> Marcus Cole, portrayed by Jason Carter, a terrific young British | actor. |** .High Res just joined "JMS Conference" (19 members now) ** |.Straczynski> (Young = late 20s/early 30s...I just turned 41, and everyone's | young to me.) |.John Z.> grin |GREATSARGON> Unfortunately we are in an area which pre-empts B5 frequently, any | plans for video? |.Straczynski> We're leaning on WB to releasd video; they're not sure anybody'd | want to buy the tapes. |.Robert> You're joking. |.Straczynski> They never really know what they've got with this show. |.Straczynski> Nope. |SCRIPTESE> Let's write letters folks! |KLEVE> Could Kosh's ship be the real ambassador? |.Straczynski> Nopers. |.Robert> Well it's getting more respect here. |.Straczynski> Slowy but surely, yeah. |KEKKER> What kind of support would a small model production run get from the | show? |.Straczynski> Total support, assuming it was licensed. |ALLBELL> Do WB executives monitor the newsgroups at all? |.Straczynski> They didn't before, but they do now, for one reason.... |.Straczynski> somebody sent WB faxes with everybody offering massive videotaping | of the... |.Straczynski> final four eps from the UK, and that... |.High Res> - signed off - |.Straczynski> sent Legal Affairs into meltdown...so now they're here. |ALLBELL> Why doesndon't the studios allow the formation of a legal company that | would make small runs |ALLBELL> of videotapes? |.Straczynski> Small runs aren't profitable, and any distribution of tapes would | be through... |.Straczynski> Warner Bros. Home Video, per contractual obligations. |.Straczynski> ga |** .High Res just joined "JMS Conference" (20 members now) ** |.Straczynski> high res is having some low res modem problems. |ALLBELL> Somehow this sounds rather shortsighted. |.Straczynski> no shit |.High Res> yes >: |.John Z.> Londo made a Faustian deal with the Shadows and seems to realize he's | a pawn now.Will we learn more about the shadows and the results of that deal | this season? |.Straczynski> Londo is going to have to deal with the consquences of his | arrangement with Morden, no mistake, and try to get out of it; but that isn't | going to be as easy as he thinks. |.Straczynski> He's caught in a web of his own making, and that's going to | isolate him bigtime over this season. |KEKKER> How obvious to the average viewer will it be what Kosh is when he (it) | is finally revealed? |.Straczynski> I'd say...pretty obvious. |.Straczynski> Well...each to his own. |.Straczynski> It depends on your perspective. |.Straczynski> Have I obfuscated enough? |KEKKER> Almost! |.Robert> Nope. |.High Res> - signed off - |.John Z.> Will we be seeing more of Zack Allen? |.Straczynski> Definitely. He's getting dper into Nightwatch, and that's going | to catch up with him. |."T"> Will we be seeing "Lou Welsh" getting more airtime, too? |.Straczynski> The actor is off doing other stuff, and has been for a while; | depends on availability. |.Straczynski> We don't have, and can't get under SAG rules, locked optoions on | recurs. |ALLBELL> What about Mira Fulan (sorry if I mangled her name)? |.Straczynski> What about her? |ALLBELL> It seemed like she was missing from some episodes last year. Was that | planned or |ALLBELL> because she was doing other projects? |.Straczynski> No, I generally use people as they're required for the story, | neither more no less; but Delenn's part of the story... |.Straczynski> is getting much more...intense as we go into year three, so we'll | be seeing a lot more of her, in more active ways... |.Straczynski> she kinda had a crisis of conscience to go through this season, | and now having done that.. |.Straczynski> she's able to move on and be more active. |ALLBELL> Maybe she can get a perm. |.John Z.> Will Talia's no psi abilities affect the people on B5 soon? |.Straczynski> Wait and see. |.John Z.> grin |.Straczynski> We have something interesting planned for Talia. |.Robert> Good. |SCRIPTESE> Anything interesting gor Garibaldi? |.Straczynski> Yeah, mainly (in three) in making him more active again, more | directly involved in crimes on the station, investigations.... |.Straczynski> he sometimes fell into becoming an expository tool, and that needs | to be adjusted. |KEKKER> Good. He's a great character. |.Straczynski> Yeah, he's a hoot. |."T"> Any comments on comic #9? |.Straczynski> ....................it's out? |.Straczynski> (that as comment.) |.Straczynski> It's kind of a whacky issue, which David Gerrold is good at. |.Straczynski> We figured, let's bend the format a little, take a chance. |.Robert> Oh no, not tribbles on B5. |ALLBELL> Is there some one who manages the station at a level below Sheridan, | Garibaldi, etc., or do th people we see manage it all by themselves? |.Straczynski> Yes, there are, and yes, we see them from time to time; we saw a | bunch of them in... |.Straczynski> "Confessions," we see them in other major meetings of full command | and support staff... |.Straczynski> it's just hard to work them into stories unless they've got | something to DO, you don't just have someone wander in.... |.Straczynski> without having a purpose in the story, and we've got 14-16 | recurring characters as it IS who don't get nearly... |.Straczynski> enough screen time. |KLEVE> My daughter (10 yrs.) asks "Are there going to be any new love affairs?" |.Straczynski> Tell your daughter yes, and then some. |.Straczynski> I try to avoid creating relationships/love affairs between crew | members. |CASI> Will the relatWilll the relationship between Delenn and sheridan escalate | this season? |.Straczynski> I should think so. |.High Res> A number of months ago you said in Usenet that someone was going to | "buy it" soon. Will that be in the next batch of new eps, or has it been | postponed? |.Straczynski> Actually, depending on how you define "buys it," there could be | TWO, both in the final four eps. |ALLBELL> When B5 characters "die," do they necessarily stay dead? |.Straczynski> They stay dead. |.John Z.> Is Morden analygous to Mordred in the Arthurian legend or Mordor in | Tolkien . |.Straczynski> No, John, neither. I don't deal in 1to1 analogies like that. |.Andy> SO, all of the new season's storylines are already locked? |.Straczynski> All this season's storylines are locked, yes, but then, all five | years are |.Straczynski> pretty muchlocked. |KLEVE> On the first episode with Sheridan, who thought up that crazy "fruit | fetish theme"? |.Straczynski> Kleve: whose name is on the episode as writer? |KLEVE> Sorry, didn't do my homework |.Straczynski> Okay...mine. If it's in my script, I thought of it. |.Straczynski> This seems to me something puzzling... |.Straczynski> there seems to be this notion of TV writing as somehow a bunch of | people just sorta throw stuff in there... |.Straczynski> and I'm always being asked, "In this episode of yours, who | tjhought up the idea of X?" Well, I did... |.Straczynski> anway, onward.... |KLEVE> Well my family enjoyed the fruit theme in a strange way it gave the | developing character some dimension |.Straczynski> Yeah, it actually makes sense, if you're ship-bound that long, to | start dreaming about fresh fruit. |.Straczynski> Space travel is very isolating, and difficult, and we need to get | back to that concept. |.Straczynski> It ain't like going to the nearest 7-11 for pepsi. |.Straczynski> ga |JIMFLEXX> As you are more than half way through your 5 years, what has been the | most difficult aspect of this project for you? |.Straczynski> The most difficult aspect, really, is pushing the quality of the | show forward a step each season... |.Straczynski> we try and get more ambitious, we need to make the writing better | constantly, and to try and always top yourself every time is tough |.Straczynski> and a little scary sometimes. |WAJ106> When will final four begin airing? |.Straczynski> The final four air starting in October, then new season 3 eps air | right after, starting in November. |KLEVE> No replicators in the real world? |.Straczynski> Nossir. |MFK> Any chance Babylon Squared will be shown again? |.Straczynski> They've said they're holding off on year three episodes in reruns | because... |.Straczynski> they're afraid the different commanders will confuse audience | members. |.Straczynski> (I just report the news, folks, I don't make it.) |.Straczynski> ga |KLEVE> Again my daughter asks "Will there be any exotic pets on B5?" |.Straczynski> Not planned, no. |KLEVE> She loves your show! |.Straczynski> Your daughter has infinite taste. |KLEVE> and infinite questions! |.John Z.> What to do think as a writer of the Canadian law that prevent US | writers from writing for US productions filmed in Canada? |.Straczynski> Did the laws change? Originally, I thought they said you could | have an American writer OR an American director, but not both. |.Straczynski> Anyway, it's their country, and they have the right to make what | laws they choose. |.Straczynski> (Waitaminnit...in fact, on Kung Fu, an American show, they have | American writers, so the rule hasn't changed.) |.John Z.> Grin... I wasn't aware that it only excluded both. |.Straczynski> Not both, one or the other in combination. |.Straczynski> Opening episodes for year 3: Matters of Honor, Convictions, A Day | in the Strife, A voice in the Wilderness... |.Straczynski> ooops...Voices of Authority (the previous was a year 1 ep)... |.Straczynski> Passing through Gethsemane, and Dust to Dust. |KEKKER> There was mention that Gesthemane was also the name of a cheese. |.Straczynski> I don't believe it's a cheese. |ALLBELL> Were labor disputes a one-time problem or could they crop up again? |ALLBELL> I was thinking of the big strike. I thought there was just the one big | strike. |.Straczynski> No, we've had no labor disputes. And we're shot in the US. |.Straczynski> Oh, you mean the WGA strike, no, that's a dead issue, there won't | be a strike, and SAG and DGA seem fine just now. |ALLBELL> I meant the strike on the show. (I can't figure out the ZSEND command, | sory) |.Straczynski> Oh...well, there will be some interesting *changes* regarding | labor and employee stuff in the show per se. |.John Z.> Will Babylon 5 be open to free lance writers through their agents? |.Straczynski> Not at this time, no. If there's a writer I want, I go after him. |MFK> Who keeps the jumpgates out on the Rim in repair, like the one were the | narn ship checking out the shadows was destroyed? |.Straczynski> They're pretty sturdy, made to last for a very long time. |MFK> No one tries to destroy the jumpgates? |.Straczynski> Sure, and some are destroyed, some aren't. That one wasn't. |.Straczynski> (Actually, keep this question in mind in episode one, you'll see | this in action.) |DDEBBIE> Hi JMS! Thanks for appearing on Delphi live! ? B5 reminds me of | "Blade Runner." I was wondering what you thought of that movie? |.Straczynski> I *love* Blade Runner; as it happens, I recently saw/bought the | director's cut, and have to say it's infinitely better... |.Straczynski> than the one they futzed with, minus the narration and other dumb | stuff. It works greast. |.Straczynski> great. |.Straczynski> Or like greast lightning. |.Straczynski> Or something like that. |.High Res> My Dad heard somewhere that somewhere on the show there's a reference | to "Prestident Clinton being impeached in her third term." I can't place this | at all. Is there any truth to it? |.Straczynski> Absolutely no truth to that whatsoever |.High Res> I'm glad. |ALLBELL> Yeah. Don't want Chelsea screwing up in office. |.John Z.> What's the best way to give you imput about the episodes? |.Straczynski> Watch them, and speak frankly. |.Straczynski> Also, define input. |.Straczynski> Story suggestions are a *big* no-no. |.John Z.> Critiques. |.Straczynski> The show is constantly critiqued on the nets. And in letters. | Believe me, at 500+ messages per day... |.Straczynski> I never lack for critiques. |.Straczynski> ga |ALLBELL> How do you decide which free-lance writers to pursue? How do you spot | them? |.Straczynski> We have a sniper on the roof. |ALLBELL> :-) |.Straczynski> Mainly, it's writers I know from other shows, whose work I have | enjoyed, and I track them down. I'd kill for a script by... |.Straczynski> Neil Gaiman, for instance, and I'm going to keep after him until | he surrenders. |SCRIPTESE> Did you like the writeup in TV Guide? |.Straczynski> I thought the TV Guide piece was very fair, all things considered. |.Straczynski> In a way, Star Trek has given SF fans a wrong and bad idea... |.Straczynski> as to how TV shows work; the idea of fans submitting story ideas | and scripts... |.Straczynski> is absolutely not representative of how all the other shows work, | that's only how ST works, because they're constantly... |.Straczynski> running out of ideas, and that's not a slam, that's what they | themselves say about the issue. We just don't have that problem. |.Straczynski> ga |.High Res> This has probably been asked before, but will Delenn be having a | crossbreed baby? (Please tell me it won't look like Tasha Yar.) |.Straczynski> An excellent question. |.Straczynski> Next question. |KLEVE> Frankly initially I thought there would not be enough room for TWO space | station shows! |.Straczynski> So did every other studio in town. |.Straczynski> Nobody thought we'd get past 6 episodes. They figured ST would | wipe us out.... |.Straczynski> but the truth is, we can't challenge ST for budget, for PR, for | history, studio support, but... |.Straczynski> we can challenge the *hell* out of them artistically. Behind the | keyboard, we're all equal. |HESIGMAN> I'm sure I missed the answer since I just gat her but what is | happening with Talia's sexuality? |.Straczynski> Talia's interests are better defined in the final four. |.Straczynski> ga |.John Z.> Sheridan is developing a relationship with Kosh. Will we see it | develope this season? |.Straczynski> Yes, there's something there, and a reason for it to be there, and | Kosh is part of Sheridan's journey, which is... |.Straczynski> the hero's journey, transformational in its way; he has to go | through hell to get to his goal. |ALLBELL> Who do you think is to blame for the Voyager script problems |.Straczynski> I won't comment on Voyager scripts, because I've only seen a | couple of episdoes, and more than that.... |ALLBELL> I guess it's too tragic of a subject. |.Straczynski> Jeri Taylor over there is a good friend, and one of the best | writer-producers in town. My only sense of things over there.... |.Straczynski> is that the writers are generally handicapped by the fact that | Paramount won't let them blow the doors off the show... |.Straczynski> by trying anything new or experimental, for fear of losing the | franchise. |.Straczynski> ga |GREATSARGON> are there any new storylines coming up featuring Ivanova? |.Straczynski> No, we plan to give Ivanova nothing whatsoever to do in future. |.Straczynski> .... |.Straczynski> OF COURSE there are. She's one of my favorite characters. |DDEBBIE> One of your 3 favorite things in the universe? ;-) |.Straczynski> All I can say on details, is that she continues to broaden out her | areas of responsibility... |.Straczynski> becoming again more active, as with all the other characters. |.Straczynski> My sense is that year one was galumphing around the galaxy; year | two was our |.Straczynski> characters taking it on the chin; year three is our characters | fighting back. So she will be an integral part of that. |CASI> Will we learn more of the shadows motives other then what we know nown |.Straczynski> Basically, you can't set up something and not pay it off; we have | to learn more avbout the shadows,a nd the vorlons... |.Straczynski> and grey up the vorlons and make the shadows motives more | interesting than just blowing stuff up, there's more at work than that. |.Straczynski> ga |KLEVE> Can you comment on the allegory of the current proposed space station | concerning international cooperation of former enemies and B% |.Straczynski> I don'tknow enough about the current space station situation to | comment intelligently. |.John Z.> Paramount has threatened us with violation of copyrite for uploading | Trek graphics. How do react to that considering the simularities between DS9 | and B5? |.Straczynski> As for uploading graphics...gee, we've made, and will continue to | make available, lots of B5 graphics, wav files... |.Straczynski> avi files, gifs, jpgs and bmps...we don't have a problem doing | this. Well, we're just a friendly bunch, y'know? |.Straczynski> Interesting comment re: ds9/b5 recently from Majel Barrett... |.Straczynski> where she said at a convention she went to talk to Rick Berman | about asking for my phone number, so she could... |.Straczynski> apologize for something that happened, and he said don't bother, | they're already pissed at us for stealing their show, they say.... |.Straczynski> and she said, "Well, *didn't* you?" This at a recent convention. | I find this very intersting that she would come out and say t |.Straczynski> this openly. |.John Z.> I love it and the lady's resonse! |ALLBELL> Speaking of copyright Nazis, what do you think of the Disney/ABC deal? |.Straczynski> Soon the entire world will be just one big Mouseschwitz. |HESIGMAN> ouch |ALLBELL> Sieg Mickey! |.Straczynski> ah doesn't like disney, ah doesn't. |.Straczynski> john: what was the lady's response? |.Straczynski> I haven't heard any reactions from fans in the audience. |.John Z.> "Well *didn't* you?" in regards to stealing the storyline. |.Straczynski> Oh, that part, I thought you referring to somebody in the | audience. |.Straczynski> ga |ALLBELL> You all stole from me because I developed a station like B5/DS9 when I | was 12. |ALLBELL> Only the story never left my drawer. |.Straczynski> Well, I think we'd all be happier if you left this stuff in your | drawers. |.Straczynski> You know what they say, youl'l go blind. |."T"> How's the B5 web page coming along? |.Straczynski> The B5 web page is going slowly, figure sometime late Fall. |.Straczynski> ga |HESIGMAN> after the 5 year arc is done. you are planning on taking B5 off, | right? will you be doing another show in that universe(if they let you) |.Straczynski> There's always been the potential for a follow-up show in the B5 | universe, as I've noted elsewhere... |.Straczynski> but barring that, my general sense is that B5 is my swan song in | TV, and I'll have said all I want to say in TV, so get off the stage. |GREATSARGON> OK, well I must be off now, but I want to THANK YOU for this forum | mr JMS!!! and B5 is my FAVORITE SHOW!!! |.Straczynski> Thanks, Sargon. |.John Z.> Can you tell us about the new show you're developing with Doug Netter? |.Straczynski> Not at this time; when and if it goes further, yes, but not now. |.Robert> What if you're cancelled before season 5. Will we ever find out the | end of the arc? |.Straczynski> I can't even consider the notion that we wouled get canceled. I | can't allow that possibility in my brain. This show... |.Straczynski> has been an act of sheer will; I decided in 1987 that we'd get the | pilot, we'd get the series... |.Straczynski> and we'd run 5 years, and we're going to. |.Straczynski> ga |ALLBELL> Has anybody ever optioned Andre Norton's galactic empire books? |.Straczynski> I really don'tknow about Norton's books. |.Mike> Besides Jason Carter, any new guest stars that you can mention? |.Straczynski> Louis Turrene, who played Draal in our first season, but wasn't | able to reprise the role for various reasons, returns as a recurring... |.Straczynski> character whose name is Theo, and to tell you more than that would | be to give away a great addition to the show... |.Straczynski> so I'll have to leave it at that. Suffice to say it's a *great* | character. |.John Z.> Has WB shown more support for Babylon 5? |.Straczynski> Gradually, yes, but it's been a very slow, painful process of | getting them to understand and recognize what we're doing here.... |.Straczynski> we're not produced by WB in-house, so we're kind of the step-child | of the studio, and as a result, we get forgotten a lot... |.Straczynski> when it comes time for advertising and PR and the lot, but slowly | they've tipped to what we're doing, and how well we're doing it... |.Straczynski> and now, finally, we have a person assigned to B5 full-time from | the PR department, and getting more recognition inside the industry... |.Straczynski> so I think it's finally coming around. g |.Straczynski> ga |ASTRAEA> It's taken them long enough. Doesn't surprise me with that bunch. |KEKKER> Have you seen any of Fox's new "Space", I mean more than the | commercials, And what do you think of it? |.Straczynski> I haven't seen enough of Space to form an intelligent opinion yet. |PEREGRYN> Is the end of your story arc set in stone or do you a vague idea | that... |PEREGRYN> changes with time? |.Straczynski> I have a detailed outline, but as any writer knows, an outline | rarely survives contact with the actual book or script... |.Straczynski> so there's room to play around, but the overall direction of the | story line has not diverged from the outline at all. |PEREGRYN> thank you. |KLEVE> What or who do you credit for your career path into SciFi? |.Straczynski> Can you phrase that question a different way? There are various | answers to that, but I'm not sure which way to go. |KLEVE> Please pick one |.Straczynski> See, "career" is the work, and that's different from the interest | in SF. |.Straczynski> I go into SF via Bradbury, Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein, Lovecraft, | Ellison, Ashton-Smith, Dunsany, Russell, Simak and others. |.Straczynski> The career part is a long and detailed answer. |.Straczynski> ga |KLEVE> Highlights please? |.Straczynski> Started writing and selling at 17, got into articles, plays, go | them published and produced, started in radiodrama... |.Straczynski> then lurched back into journalism for the LA Times, TIME Inc., | others, then went straight, and got into TV via animation... |.Straczynski> which led to live-action with The Twilight Zone, Murder She Wrote, | other shows, then B5. |.Straczynski> ga |.John Z.> Will harlan Ellison write any scripts? |.Straczynski> We hope so. |ALLBELL> Other than youare there any other writers who will be working on the | coming season of episodes? |.Straczynski> That's still being determined. (RE: writers) |JIMFLEXX> How much input from the actors do you get while working on the | scripts/ characterations? |.Straczynski> While working on the script? Zero. The scripts are written | without comment or input from actors, directors, or anyone else.... |.Straczynski> once they're done, the director and I sit down and work out | production details, and that's about it. On the stage, if an actor... |.Straczynski> hits a line he has a problem with, they send back to my office 15 | feet away and ask if it can be modified with a word change, and if I |.Straczynski> say yes, it is, if I say no, it isn't. |CASI> Have you ever read Marion Zimmer Bradleys Darkover series, and what do you | think? |KLEVE> Speaking of animation have you seen "Reboot"? |.Straczynski> Haven't read Darkover, I'm afraid, just never jumped out at me. | Never seen Reboot, either. |.Straczynski> ga |.John Z.> Do you use outlines while writing a script? |.Straczynski> I sketch out the acts on one sheet of paper, divided into 6 | sections (4 acts, teaser and tag), so I can see... |.Straczynski> the whole episode ata glance, then start writing. Sometimes I'll | write without... |.Straczynski> an outline at all, if I can see it clearly enough in my head to | chance it. |.Straczynski> ga |ALLBELL> Do you find your experiences with WB affecting your portrayal of Psi | Corps? |.Straczynski> Not at all; they've been great, creatively; they let us do what we | want; I haven't |.Straczynski> had a script note since episode 3 of season 2, and haven't had a | note on a cut of an episode... |.Straczynski> since season one. So they leave us totally alone, and they've | been very supportive when we want to take chances. |.Straczynski> ga |KLEVE> What are the chances that you have already taken? |.Straczynski> The Believers script, the plague episode, others have been chancy. |CASI> Are thereany major twists to season 3? |.Straczynski> There are some *major* twists to season three, mainly in the form | of changes to the whole direction of the show.... |.Straczynski> every show has a "format," you know how it's going to be, but we | make a change that is absolutely radical in year three... |.Straczynski> to the very structure of the B5 universe, which totally, logically | grows out of what we've seen to date. |.Straczynski> Life is constant change. |.John Z.> Will we see more of Talia's Telekinetic abilities? |.Straczynski> We'll see. |.Straczynski> ga |KEKKER> Will you have a blooper reel making the rounds? |.Straczynski> WE've discussed releasing it vaiia the fan club once it gets | going. |DDEBBIE> JMS are the rumors re: Andrea Thompson and her character true? Or what | is the "story" here...? |.Straczynski> I'd rather wait to answer that after the show in question airs. |DDEBBIE> Arrghhh - ok |ALLBELL> Were the actors who wanted to be busy during hiatus able to get good | parts? What was demand like? I hope producers were smart enough to want them) |.Straczynski> I know Bruce did a miniseries with Melissa, Peter Jurasik did a | part for the HBO movie "Late Shift".... |.Straczynski> Jerry did an episode of Renegade, took some time off; Mira | traveled; Richard did a movie (I forget which one).... |.Straczynski> mainly they took the time to recoup, because a series is a very | grinding business. |KLEVE> Could you give a short background on the actress that plays Delenn, where | from etc.? |.Straczynski> Mira's from the former Yugoslavia, one of their premiere | actresses. |KLEVE> Her accent was too good to be acting! |.John Z.> I'd like to thank JMS for visiting us and welcome him back soon. |KEKKER> Thank you, JMS! More producers should do this! |.Straczynski> Thanks, John, not a problem. |JIMFLEXX> Thanks, JMS! Keep up the great work! |CHRISROSEANN> Good luck on season three!!!! |RAULER> Yes, thanks for creating some great entertainment! :) |.Robert> Does this mean that the fat lady sang?:) |.John Z.> We love that you came to visit us! |.Straczynski> Thanks, all. |ALLBELL> love love love love love |KLEVE> Thanks! |.Mike> If she tries to sing before year five, we shoot her |.George> Thanks, keep up the good work!! |CHRISROSEANN> The universe is a wonderful and strange place. |.John Z.> Thanks to everyone that came to visit too! |.Robert> You're welcome. |.Straczynski> By the way, did I mention that Kosh is revealed to be a |.Straczynski> - signed off - |.George> smartass!!! |DDEBBIE> lol |KEKKER> Arrrrrgh! |.John Z.> LOL |.Robert> Rumor is he's Daffy Duck.