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Agrre 100%. Franke's music is just JMS's core concept transmitted straight to the heart. JMS himself noted that the emotional impact was there in SiL once the music was added, even though the special effects weren't added for almost another year. If Chris doesn't do the score it isn't really...

Thank you. I didn't express this idea as well as you. The Vorlons love to be mysterious and seem quite willing to make an extra effort in this regard. "Familiarity breeds contempt" and they didn't want anyone to hang around them long enough make them familiar (which means "like family"). I...

i think it is worth remembering that we don't have any evidence that the Vorlon homeworld has a methane atmosphere. All we know is 1) Vorlons want the other races to believe that the Vorlon homeworld has a hostile atmosphere, and 2) that they can live in the atmosphere they impute to their...

True, but the other important point lost in this representation is that symbology is much more info-dense than actual visual sightings. The method used by the show left the WO unable to determine except by visual clues such vital things as range, range related to weapons range, probability of...

Any chance you could cut and paste it here? I cannot get to it: when I complete the registration process after clicking on the story, I end up on some random page that doesn't have the story.

They are both now available. And no "www." in front of jmsnews.net (at least, not in beta form).

I have had problems with that board on an occasional basis, so am not surprised it is down. Most server maintenance is done on weekends.

The TeepWar and the unfinished Crusade arc are not mutually exclusive. If I had to guess, i would say the movie encompasses the TeepWar but forshadows the Crusade arc by introducing the concept of the "shadowy" Earthgov/EA military/PsiCorps struggle to be the masters of leftover shadowtech...

Ya know, I was going to post something along these lines. Remember how Ironheart said something along the line that humans would see him again in a million years? JMS doesn't through those lines in for laughs. JMS news is down so I cannot verify it.

Exactly. Having been a ship's weapons officer, I know the dangers of fixating on one target, even when all targets can be seen. Restricting what can be seen to what is within the viewpoint of the WO is asking for that in spades. First-person perspective is a poor idea, especially when the WO...

How many folks at the Q&A?

I just finished dredging my brain to try to think of how I could invoke the mages in TMoS for a post in another thread right here, and then I read this! :lol:

No, it isn't written in stone, but it seems the likeliest prospect for many reasons: 1. This is presumably JMS's most thoroughly-thought-out concept, since he said while B5 was on the air that he wanted to do a feature on it, and has not allowed it to be told in any other form. 2. It is a...

Re: G\'Kar...Afraid? I think Ninja Squirrel had it right in the second post: G'Kar wasn't afraid or not afraid, he was filling the role Gaiman needed as a "Cassandra" to build up the tension. His role in this ep could have been filled by anyone, so I don't think we can say anyhting about...

But the final product was more complex than just having the seat drop into the 3D VR display! All they did different in the film from what was described in the script was have her move her legs and not just her arms (if, indeed, the script was a complete description of the action intended)...

Yes it is, and furthermore it is possible to have people in the same job wearing the "same" uniform look completely different, as uniform changes are made. Back in the early 1980s, the US Navy switched from the "business suit" look back to the "crackerjack" uniforms. Those who had the existing...

My issues with LotR were "concerns" not "complaints." The thing was done and filmed before I ever saw it, so complaining wouldn't do any good. But the concerns I had were that JMS was either not soliciting, or not listening to, advice (because anyone could have told him about the overuse of...

"Who was the original owner of the helmet General Ivanova picks up in the deleted scene from Sleeping in Light?"

KoshN, three examples (one of which you admit to be incomplete) doesn't equal "all that stuff" wrong with the series. The bullet train travels at a peak speed of 120MPH or so, but the average is far, far less, due to acceleration and deceleration. Helm orders didn't make sense to me at all...

So the system portrayed in the movie (3D VR) was the one intended all along? That's kinda what I thought from the way JMS described it. JMS approved of its charactorization as "taking advantage of the close-combat skills of the Rangers" though he didn't quite charactorize it that way himself...