SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
> What else would beings with eight legs want except to "shake"
> 'em? So when can we expect to see Garibaldi in a white Disco-suit
> singing "Staying Alive" <g>?

Never have I seen a better reason to log off and never, ever
turn my modem on again.

jms

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Great, thanks, good to hear.

jms

Arwel Parry <100336.623@compuserve.com> asks:
> A cute kid appears on B5 and it _survives_?!?
> or was the kid getting spaced in the 7 seconds that C4 cut?

Yeah, the Minbari greeting is a hoot...there's a lot in that
episode I just like a lot.

jms

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Great, thanks, good to hear.

jms

Arwel Parry <100336.623@compuserve.com> asks:
> A cute kid appears on B5 and it _survives_?!?
> or was the kid getting spaced in the 7 seconds that C4 cut?

Yeah, the Minbari greeting is a hoot...there's a lot in that
episode I just like a lot.

jms

Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
> I ask you if the perspective was that of Anne Sheriden?
> If it was, then why did the extra's behave as if they'd seen a
> ghost? Is she gonna re-appear next week?
> Or was she credited purely to allow a credit before Anne?
> ie was the character important or was it artistic licence?

The script said the extras shouldn't make a big deal about
seeing her. The director did that on the set. That's not what I had in
mind, but it isn't that big a deal...I figure she's a striking looking
woman, maybe that's a good justification.

The ordering of credits was done to de-emphasize and hide (as
much as possible) the appearance of Melissa.

jms

Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
> I ask you if the perspective was that of Anne Sheriden?
> If it was, then why did the extra's behave as if they'd seen a
> ghost? Is she gonna re-appear next week?
> Or was she credited purely to allow a credit before Anne?
> ie was the character important or was it artistic licence?

The script said the extras shouldn't make a big deal about
seeing her. The director did that on the set. That's not what I had in
mind, but it isn't that big a deal...I figure she's a striking looking
woman, maybe that's a good justification.

The ordering of credits was done to de-emphasize and hide (as
much as possible) the appearance of Melissa.

jms

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Yeah, the channel 4 reference was a nod to the UK. Wondered if
it'd get noticed....

Good point, when you do a battle like that...what do you do
next that won't seem anticlimatic? Usually you save something like
that for your last episode of the season, not your next-to-last, or
you've blown your big EFX show 1 show early. It makes for a real
challenge...what do you do to follow THAT up?

I think we figured it out....

jms

Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
> Are they now lying low due to the loss of Kosh, or is there some
> other reason for their apparent lack of interest in the affairs
> of the other races? And if there is another reason, will it be
> addressed soon?

There are other reasons, which yes, will be addressed soon....

jms

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There was a combination of reasons, including production
schedules, for the decision.

jms

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Thanks, glad you decided to join the family....

jms

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No, Sheridan isn't the man in the middle...the man in the
middle is the one out there who sent Anna. As Ivanova says, his
opposite number.

jms

{original post had no questions}

They cut that? How curious...I didn't know that. From what
I'd seen of British TV, some shows use the word bastard like I use a
comma, they're ubiquitous....

jms

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Thanks. What matters for me is that it should feel like a real
future, that this is happening somewhere, and these are a series of
reports back from that place. It's certainly real enough in my head
some days....

jms

{original post had no questions}

Thanks. With "Shadow" my hope is really to erase most (though
obviously not all) suspicions or predictions on how the last one will
go. If we already had our big EFX battle, it won't be that...Anna's
here, so it can't be that...it can't ever be a return to tabula rasa,
an empty slate, but by doing what's normally done in the season closer
one episode prior to that, it may help ease the way for a different
tonality to come in.

And thanks again...you definitely won't be disappointed.

jms

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Apparently there's some sort of rule at C4 about showing
American produced shows in the watershed prime-time hours.

jms

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Under SAG rules, you must put guest stars of a certain calibre
in the opening credits; also, for Melissa to take back-billing would
have been a break in her work to date elsewhere. We had no choice in
this, it's all stuff regulated by the guilds.

jms

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No, since it was my idea re: Melissa. It was a scheduling
situation involving availabilities. If it wasn't her, it would've had
to be someone else...so I figured, why not?

jms

{original post had no questions}

Unfortunately, SAG rules limit your options when it comes to
actor placements.

jms

{original post had no questions}

Thanks...we try.

jms

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Well, certainly Kosh was accessing that which he could, in part
to prove he knew what he knew, in part to set things up. Although who
knows, there may be more to it...that that's what they came up with
doesn't necessarily mean that is the full extent of it.

jms