Episode Titles

 Posted on 11/15/1996 by J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com> to CIS


Michael R. Brehmer <75303.2242@compuserve.com> asks:
> At what point do you come up with the title - before you write
> the episode, during, or at the end? Yeats poem (the title escapes
> me - too many years since college English literature) that refers
> to "shadows" and "slouches toward Bethlehem"? Also, have you ever
> read the book "Slouching Toward Bethlehem" by Joan Didion, circa
> 1968, which, I believe, contains a fragment of the Yeats poem?

I always have to have the title before I begin writing, since it
sets the whole tone for the episode. I can labor for hours just coming
up with the right title...other times it just hits me.

And I've read the Yeats poem...even had G'Kar quote that passage
in "Revelations."

jms