Babylon 5 posts by JMS for July This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael Straczynski in the Babylon 5 topic. The posts are copyright by JMS (and compilation copyright is by GEnie). ************ Topic 22 Wed Nov 20, 1991 SOARON [Bio-Dread] at 19:41 EST Sub: Babylon 5 TWCNBN has been been named! J. Michael Straczynski has managed to bring a new quality to television and promises to do justice to TV and SF with a new action-adventure SF series of his own design. (NO story suggestions, please.) 826 message(s) total. ************ Category 18, Topic 22 Message 567 Wed Jul 01, 1992 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 13:58 EDT "Onward" is nice...and something that had simply not occured to me. There was one other earlier that I thought was good, and I'll have to go back and check it out. I hope to have the new disposition of the newsletter announced some time after I return from WesterCon, at which I'll be doing a full B5 presentation. As to the reference above to me as the Creator with a capital C... let's keep it lower-case. If I were the Creator with a capital C, I would have more hair, a deeper voice, and a *much* snappier wardrobe. jms ______ Category 18, Topic 22 Message 573 Thu Jul 02, 1992 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 01:09 EDT Well, if we go with that, it'd have to be ONWARD: The Official Newsletter of Babylon 5 (or somesuch). Still considering. We think we've locked down (in our own minds, at least) all but two of our main characters. Put their photos all up together on the wall of my office in the B5 wing, and they look good together...a nice mix of faces, varying age ranges, not a "pretty-boy" or bimbo in the bunch. They all have faces with character, the majority of them come from classical training, Juliard or the Royal Shakespearean company...really a good bunch. With luck, we'll have these nailed down by sometime next week, though I won't be able to announce anything until Warners is ready to do so...we have to coordinate this stuff. Had one minor production-heart-attack today, but I think it's nothing we can't get over. Meanwhile, the EFX are looking better and better and better. Next week I meet with the sound guys to start mapping out our strategies. And for those in the Phoenix area...the B5 presentation is scheduled for WesterColt on Saturday at 1 p.m. jms ______ Second SF&F RT Category 18, Topic 2 Message 717 Thu Jul 01, 1993 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 02:52 EDT Catherine Adair ended up with another gig, so we now have Ann Bruice, who was tied in our decision for a costumer for the pilot, but in that case she was busy on another project. Now she's available, and she is doing *terrific* work. Just amazing stuff...her work on the Grey Council is particularly nice. jms _____ Second SF&F RT Category 18, Topic 1 Message 189 Thu Jul 01, 1993 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 23:12 EDT Tim: no one's said a word about it to us, and I don't think it'll really have an effect on us, one way or another. jms _____ Second SF&F RT Category 18, Topic 2 Message 17 Thu Jul 01, 1993 STRACZYNSKI [Joe] at 23:13 EDT Probably late summer. We have an awful lot of time before airdate, so there's really no rush to get the cameras running, which is nice. jms