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Amen, brother! Preach on!

HA! YES! I'M RIGHT! Kinda. Remember upthread when I said the Sinclair/Caroline/Battle of the Line sequence felt like they just did one take? And it wasn't very good (On Caroline's side), so they just used what they could in the original pilot? That's consistent with what you just said about...

Willerth also wrote for Robotech, and Netter did a CGI demo reel for one of the failed attempts to revive Robotech, so I confused the two. My bad.

"Kane" was a bomb in the 'States, where it was kind of burried by Hearst publsihing and the studio's fear of lawsuits. Overseas it did great. It won the London Film Academy's "Best movie ever made" award in 1950 and 1960. In 1960, Americans got to wondeirng what this movie was that kept winning...

Catch 22 is werid. It's more like an hommage to the book than a movie based on the book. You kind of can't understand the film without reading the book. Which is good on the one hand as the book is AWESOME. On the other hand, upon watching the movie I kind of felt like the book must suck, so why...

American shows are generally signed to a minimum order of 13 eps, with an option for a "Back 9" to bring the season up to 22. Increasingly, high-concept shows like 24 or Dollhouse or Last Resort are written with the knowledge that they may not get another year, or even a back 9. So they tend...

Was Netter anyone of note at that point? I think he was vaguely tied to Robotech about a decade earlier, but apart from that [Checking] Nope, I'm thinking of Jeffrey Willerth (sp?) who was a writer on Robotech. And Netter was a suit at MGM for half a decade, then a producer/co-producer.

Anyone here like Orson Welles? I'm going through one of my periodic obsessions with the guy. Watched "The One Man Band" about him last night, "The Stranger" last week, and "F For Fake" a few days before that (Which I'd never seen before). Two weeks before that I watched a reeeeeeeeeeeeallly nice...

I don't think the problem was simplicity or padding, having reflected on it a bit. The scene where Bullock is talking to the guy on the ground in Chinese or whatever and he's making dog noises is really good, and nothing much happens in it. And her barely-there emotinal arc is probably enough to...

Everyone has an off day. And, hey, perhaps schlogging through all the mess to make the pilot impressed JMS with his sticktuitiveness.

I never said he didn't. He even got an academy award nod.

So are you excited about it coming back as a miniseries?

If you like. The question was "when somebody ways things like '...was poorly written..." could I suggest an example? Because chances are, without the kind of credentials to match the one who actually did write what you're complaining about, what you're actually saying is a grandiose "I just...

Yeah. Ivonova was SMART. She made it to full commander in about 10 years. Granted, JMS has always been a bit squishy about ranks and stuff - I don't know if he doesn't understand it, or if he's deliberately avoiding it - but if you compare that to promotions in the Navy or Air Force (Where she'd...

Sure! That's a good question! Ok, I already mentioned the scene from "A view from the gallery" where random guest stars inform us that we HAVE to like Lochley, and that she's a total badass. That's an example of bad writing because she hasn't earned that kind of regard from us yet. In fact...

We'll have to agree to disagree there. I'll be the first one to admit that Pat (no disrespect intended) isn't a master thespian, but neither is Andrea. Also, Pat was just more likeable, and Andrea had an icy bitch quality that I don't think was intentional. Basically, when Lyta said she couldn't...

Well, by then she's earned it, hadn't she? I mean we knew her, we knew him, it was an honest scene, it was well acted. It worked. It was real. It wasn't someone we've never heard of before and will never hear of again telling us how we're supposed to feel in a very ham-fisted way. Fair...

Lochley just didn't work on B5. I don't blame the actress, she was just badly written and her character seemed forced. I mean, in "A view from the gallery" one of the doofuses says "All I can tell you is this: If it came down to it, I'd want her watching my back" or some such drivel. It's the...

I'm gonna' put this down to my incomprehensible sense of humor again :) It's hard to explain as I'm of three minds about it. On the one hand, the story is the story is the story, and as a writer myself, you go with what you've established and don't go back and retcon or redo things. That's...

Yeah, Well, here's hopin'!