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JMS' Reaction to the AICN Review
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Re: JMS\' Reaction to the AICN Review
Actually, it seemed to me that this reviewer knew more about the B5 universe than the other reviewer who actually liked the movie. From what I gathered of his review, it appeared that he honestly just didn't like it. As far as HOW he wrote his review, I didn't see it as anything too different from the other sort of reviews that they have. That's just what they are ... if you want to read pulitzer-prize winning stuff then I would definately not go to AICN.
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
Actually, it seemed to me that this reviewer knew more about the B5 universe than the other reviewer who actually liked the movie. From what I gathered of his review, it appeared that he honestly just didn't like it. As far as HOW he wrote his review, I didn't see it as anything too different from the other sort of reviews that they have. That's just what they are ... if you want to read pulitzer-prize winning stuff then I would definately not go to AICN.
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Mutai Sho-Rin
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Re: JMS\' Reaction to the AICN Review
As a relatively active member of the TrekBBS, the Sho-Rin saw much the same type of heated exchange prior to the airing of Enterprise. If somebody found a gum-wrapper behind the Paramount studio, it got disected for content and canon purity before the sun set that day. People with a huge bias, positive or negative, spoiled the show for themselves before it ever hit the screen.
Let's just choose to fart in the general direction of the self-appointed "reviewer" and move on to better use of our time (and better control of our blood pressure
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"I'm not saying what I'm thinking. I'm not even thinking what I'm thinking." John Sheridan
As a relatively active member of the TrekBBS, the Sho-Rin saw much the same type of heated exchange prior to the airing of Enterprise. If somebody found a gum-wrapper behind the Paramount studio, it got disected for content and canon purity before the sun set that day. People with a huge bias, positive or negative, spoiled the show for themselves before it ever hit the screen.
Let's just choose to fart in the general direction of the self-appointed "reviewer" and move on to better use of our time (and better control of our blood pressure
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Into the sands of blood comes the Sho-Rin, master of the Mutai
"I'm not saying what I'm thinking. I'm not even thinking what I'm thinking." John Sheridan
Re: JMS\' Reaction to the AICN Review
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by PsionTen:
To be completely honest, AICN is a much better source for breaking news on B5 than this place could ever hope to be.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>So... I was just imagining it, when this site was the first to reveal the name of the director and the returning B5 character? Or the character/plot info and scripts snippets that appeared here months before AICN's first review? The news archive link is just a big lie?
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR>That's not a knock, just the truth.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>No Psion, we've been over this before. The truth tends to be supported Real Actual Facts. "Because I say so" isn't one of them.
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You are not entitled to your own opinion. You are only entitled to your own informed opinion.
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[This message has been edited by drakh (edited October 19, 2001).]
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by PsionTen:
To be completely honest, AICN is a much better source for breaking news on B5 than this place could ever hope to be.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>So... I was just imagining it, when this site was the first to reveal the name of the director and the returning B5 character? Or the character/plot info and scripts snippets that appeared here months before AICN's first review? The news archive link is just a big lie?
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR>That's not a knock, just the truth.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>No Psion, we've been over this before. The truth tends to be supported Real Actual Facts. "Because I say so" isn't one of them.
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You are not entitled to your own opinion. You are only entitled to your own informed opinion.
-- Harlan Ellison qouting Gustave Flaubert
[This message has been edited by drakh (edited October 19, 2001).]
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**DONOTDELETE**
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Re: JMS\' Reaction to the AICN Review
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by PsionTen:
To be completely honest, AICN is a much better source for breaking news on B5 than this place could ever hope to be.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Well, you can have your news express-lane fast or with standards for competency. A rumor served hot off the griddle is still a rumor.
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Joe Medina (neargrai@aol.com)
"...that which are, we are"
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by PsionTen:
To be completely honest, AICN is a much better source for breaking news on B5 than this place could ever hope to be.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Well, you can have your news express-lane fast or with standards for competency. A rumor served hot off the griddle is still a rumor.
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Joe Medina (neargrai@aol.com)
"...that which are, we are"
Re: JMS\' Reaction to the AICN Review
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Kribu:
It was on the moderated newsgroup.
Perhaps you just missed it amongst all the other posts on the same topic?
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yeah. it's within the large LOTR review up at AICN thread.
JMS posts there as much as he can considering his busy schedule.
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Kribu:
It was on the moderated newsgroup.
Perhaps you just missed it amongst all the other posts on the same topic?
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
yeah. it's within the large LOTR review up at AICN thread.
JMS posts there as much as he can considering his busy schedule.
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No one here is exactly what he appears.
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Nothing's the same anymore.
Commander Sinclair - Michael O'Hare
Babylon 5
Re: JMS\' Reaction to the AICN Review
Frankly, I don't understand the hostility. So what if some dude didn't like the movie? In a prior review on AICN, another guy loved it. I've always thought that there was a nice balance of reviews over there. To be completely honest, AICN is a much better source for breaking news on B5 than this place could ever hope to be. That's not a knock, just the truth.
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Frankly, I don't understand the hostility. So what if some dude didn't like the movie? In a prior review on AICN, another guy loved it. I've always thought that there was a nice balance of reviews over there. To be completely honest, AICN is a much better source for breaking news on B5 than this place could ever hope to be. That's not a knock, just the truth.
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Re: JMS\' Reaction to the AICN Review
PsionTen-
It wasn't the matter of the review itself that got the board mad. We understand if something gets a bad review. (Hell, we *give* bad reviews. Talk to me about The Gathering.)
It was how it was presented - in an unimpressive, sloppy, slightly derogatory Trek fanboy fashion totally unintegrated with a professional demeanor.
All you have to do is keep your eye on the moderated newsgroup, Cinescape, and Scifi.com for breaking Rangers news...
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Channe, the next JMS, who lives for the One and dies for the chocolate cheesecake
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OnlineDude: I suppose now would not be the time to bring up the old one about the starlet who was so new to Hollywood she slept with the writer...
JMS: But that was only because she heard that in Hollywood, *everyone* screws the writer.
PsionTen-
It wasn't the matter of the review itself that got the board mad. We understand if something gets a bad review. (Hell, we *give* bad reviews. Talk to me about The Gathering.)
It was how it was presented - in an unimpressive, sloppy, slightly derogatory Trek fanboy fashion totally unintegrated with a professional demeanor.
All you have to do is keep your eye on the moderated newsgroup, Cinescape, and Scifi.com for breaking Rangers news...
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Channe, the next JMS, who lives for the One and dies for the chocolate cheesecake
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OnlineDude: I suppose now would not be the time to bring up the old one about the starlet who was so new to Hollywood she slept with the writer...
JMS: But that was only because she heard that in Hollywood, *everyone* screws the writer.
Re: JMS\' Reaction to the AICN Review
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR> No Psion, we've been over this before. The truth tends to be supported Real Actual Facts. "Because I say so" isn't one of them.
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That's funny... I was about to say the same thing as a response to your response. Funny huh?
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR> No Psion, we've been over this before. The truth tends to be supported Real Actual Facts. "Because I say so" isn't one of them.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
That's funny... I was about to say the same thing as a response to your response. Funny huh?
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
Re: JMS\' Reaction to the AICN Review
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by PsionTen:
That's funny... I was about to say the same thing as a response to your response. Funny huh?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>...without making any attempt to actually support your statement. Or dealing with my criticisms of it.
I see you haven't changed.
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You are not entitled to your own opinion. You are only entitled to your own informed opinion.
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drakh@spamcop.net
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by PsionTen:
That's funny... I was about to say the same thing as a response to your response. Funny huh?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>...without making any attempt to actually support your statement. Or dealing with my criticisms of it.
I see you haven't changed.
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You are not entitled to your own opinion. You are only entitled to your own informed opinion.
-- Harlan Ellison quoting Gustave Flaubert
drakh@spamcop.net
Re: JMS\' Reaction to the AICN Review
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR>....
I see you haven't changed.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Nor do I see that the quantity of overbearing, know-it-all, knee-jerk reactionists have dwindled on this board. Pity.
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, arial">quote:</font><HR>....
I see you haven't changed.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Nor do I see that the quantity of overbearing, know-it-all, knee-jerk reactionists have dwindled on this board. Pity.
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AngelSummers
Beyond the rim
Re: JMS\' Reaction to the AICN Review
You mean the reviewers have actually seen the movie? Forgive my ingonrance but does that mean the movie has finished production?
If it isn't and all the reviewers are getting worked up because of a damn 2 minute trailer, then I say to hell with them. How can they build a review over bloody trailer?
So the movie is out for reviewers?
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You mean the reviewers have actually seen the movie? Forgive my ingonrance but does that mean the movie has finished production?
If it isn't and all the reviewers are getting worked up because of a damn 2 minute trailer, then I say to hell with them. How can they build a review over bloody trailer?
So the movie is out for reviewers?
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May you all be well and happy, free from suffering, free from sickness.
B5_Obsessed
Regular
Re: JMS\' Reaction to the AICN Review
Yes, Angel, the final cut of the movie was shown to producers, executives, the cast, and *ahem* spies about 3 weeks ago, I believe.
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Yes, Angel, the final cut of the movie was shown to producers, executives, the cast, and *ahem* spies about 3 weeks ago, I believe.
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Galahad
Regular
Re: JMS\' Reaction to the AICN Review
REALLY DUMB SUGGESTION ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What if someone in the Rangers ranks probably the promotion department is sending out these duff reviews to get Rangers in the headlines. As hostility towards the reviews increases, the bigger media giants turn their heads wondering what all the fuss is about, seeing if there is a story and maybe doing a review themselves. Reverse psychology!
I'm not biting this one guys, really, just offering a new slant. I am in no way implicating anyone I just thought I'd do a jms, or as he said once "so what now, you've pulled a rabbit out of the hat, if you keep doing that the audience will lose interest, sooner or later you have to pull a crocodile out of the hat!" That was the gist so don't pounce on me if I got the wording wrong, it was in a magazine years ago!
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"We Live for the One. We die for the One!"
REALLY DUMB SUGGESTION ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What if someone in the Rangers ranks probably the promotion department is sending out these duff reviews to get Rangers in the headlines. As hostility towards the reviews increases, the bigger media giants turn their heads wondering what all the fuss is about, seeing if there is a story and maybe doing a review themselves. Reverse psychology!
I'm not biting this one guys, really, just offering a new slant. I am in no way implicating anyone I just thought I'd do a jms, or as he said once "so what now, you've pulled a rabbit out of the hat, if you keep doing that the audience will lose interest, sooner or later you have to pull a crocodile out of the hat!" That was the gist so don't pounce on me if I got the wording wrong, it was in a magazine years ago!
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"We Live for the One. We die for the One!"
Re: JMS\' Reaction to the AICN Review
*Watches with a bag of popcorn*
Oh, continue, continue.
Pay no attention to me.
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- Captain Matthew Gideon, The Needs of Earth
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*Watches with a bag of popcorn*
Oh, continue, continue.
Pay no attention to me.
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"There's Snow White and the Seven Narns, Who's Your Little Pak'ma'ra, others..."
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TheInfection
Regular
Re: JMS\' Reaction to the AICN Review
Same here. Do whatever you were doing.
*crunch crunch*
Regards,
TheInfection
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Things change... long time gone by.
Same here. Do whatever you were doing.
*crunch crunch*
Regards,
TheInfection
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Things change... long time gone by.
Re: JMS\' Reaction to the AICN Review
I think this topic is well and truly over. Closing.
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"Love isn't brains, children, it's blood. Blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it." -- Spike, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
"Evil's still afoot. And I'm almost out of that nancy-boy hair-gel I like so much. Quickly, to the Angel-mobile, away." -- Spike, as Angel, in Angel
I think this topic is well and truly over. Closing.
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"Love isn't brains, children, it's blood. Blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it." -- Spike, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
"Evil's still afoot. And I'm almost out of that nancy-boy hair-gel I like so much. Quickly, to the Angel-mobile, away." -- Spike, as Angel, in Angel
