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God bless you, sir! I have long maintained that "View" was the shittiest shit ever shat through a shitter. People really argue the hell out of it, though. People really seem to like it, and I have *never* figured out why. It's rare when you can compare something from B5 to something from TNG and...

The re-establishment of the Republic as a legitimate government under Vir. We'd presume that he was up to the task of running an underground and coordinating a revolution but apparently (Based on "SLeeping in Light") not up to the task of responsibly governing it afterwards. That could be fun...

That's pretty good, actually. I never would have thought of that. You could do a kind of Ruritanian romance thing, with an Earthforce officer or diplomat or something stuck in the middle of it. Would it be before B5, during, or after it? I vote for "After."

So what kinds of fan films would you guys like to see?

Re: Crusade – Unflimed Scripts I agree. Back when JMS first announced the novels, he said they were really going to count, really be canon, and that they'd involve his characters elsewhere in the universe, or maybe not his characters at all, and they'd tell the kinds of stories that...

Re: Crusade – Unflimed Scripts The "Bester" novels go into his fate, but are conspicuously absent as to what happened in the Telepath War and Crusade eras. Basically the first book is the discovery of telepathy and integration and strife surrounding it. Bester is born at the end. It's a damn...

Please, please. Call me "Kevin." And, yeah, getting paid for my work would be a VERY nice change of pace. (I earned $32 in royalties last year)

Honestly? If I had to guess? I think he asked for copies because it shows Earthforce pounding the everloving HELL out of Starfleet. Yeah, yeah, I know it's ultimately a draw, but Earthforce was ten-for-ten on style in that, and Starfleet just couldn't come across looking badass in that...

That's my cue! JMS is very, very big on "Writer's Rights." He takes basically the same stance that Harlan Ellison does: That the writer is the first and most fundamental part of the visual-medial creative process, but gets the smallest chunk of change out of it, and has the least legal...

Could be. I think he started writing comics in the late 80s, and he was doing a GREAT and popular and long run on Spiderman by 2001, but "Rising Stars" was 99-05. I'm not sure if that means anything one way or another.

Well then I am wrong. Dangit. I need to stop llistening to the people I listen to...they're just not reliable resources...

Back when he was doing the "Rising Stars" comic, he got sued by Howard Chaykin for having a character named "Flag" or "Flagg," which was viewed as an infringement on Chaykin's pre-existing "American Flagg" character (Despite there being no similarities whatsoever. Straczynksi's flag was a...

It does seem to weaken his position, and supports the idea that he's just blustering to scare people off. Well, if you asked HIM, he'd say 'no.' If you asked Warners, you'd probably never hear back from them again. They make the Byzantine Empire seem efficient and straightforward by...

Yeah, but different rules apply when a show is in production. If I give a story idea, and the show later uses more-or-less the same idea by coincidence later on, then I can sue and claim they stole it from me, and I have a fair chance of winning. So JMS always cautioined people not to give their...

Checking it out now. Thanks! And as I said, he was pretty nice about the whole thing.

Thank you, Triple F. Actually, the way I first got in touch with JMS was over this kind of thing. I found a copy of his "World War Z' script behind the cushions of a couch a friend gave me, and I reviewed it. I reviewed it exactly like it was a movie, but gave no spoilers, then gave my...

Yup. Star Wreck is as good as it gets, and as good as its likely to get. I think there's a couple factors working against B5 fan films: 1) It just never had the pop culture following Trek did. Far fewer people have ever heard of B5, and fewer still watched it, and fewer still were as...

He was also the voice of "Alfred the Butler" in all the DCAU shows in the '90s/'00s. Batman: The Animated Series, mainly, but he did cameos in all the shows excepting "Batman Beyond" which was set 40 years into the future. Even there, they did a nice little tribute to him, (Though the voice...

Hey, everybody! Shameless self-promotion time: My fourth book, "The Bones of an Angel," is now published and available at smashword: (Here: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/433927 ) and on Amazon (Here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K348VGI ) It's downloadable for Kindle or any other...

Well, he's a little bit dead at the moment, so that's an impediment.:confused: But I totally agree that SGU was among his best work (Way better than, say, "Laserblast" from 1978) MGM has never had terribly much interest in releasing thier soundtracks, alas. There's a lot of stuff I'd like to...