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Skriven 2007-04-27 11:52:33 av Mac Breck (471.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: JMS: Legend of the Rangers question
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"Jan" <janmschroeder@aol.com> wrote in message
news:f0rkj205sb@drn.newsguy.com...
> In article <1177601034.897418.171850@r30g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
> masonReloaded says...
> >
> >>
> >The idea in of itself is not stupid, but the execution was terrible:
> >
>
> Funny how some subjects seem positively viral the way they show up on
every
> board at almost the same time.  I recently transcribed this from the
Legend of
> the Rangers script:

And where did you get the script?  Hmm?  :-)



> ---------------------begin---------------
>
> [David orders "Weapons, prepare to fire!] Script pages 36-37.
>
> INT. GUNNERY POD
>
> --A round, black space that suddenly LIGHTS UP with the view of
surrounding
> space in a complete 360 display, her seat

Aha!!!!!!!!!!! A seat.  Not standing suspended in mid-air, punching,
kicking and doing flips.


> suspended in the center of it all.
> (visually it's a cross between a WW2 flying fortress tail gunner,

Hmmm, thought it would have been more like the belly (ball turret)
gunner, since I thought JMS once mentioned the chair being motorized.
Maybe that was just the chair dropping into the round black space that
was motorized. <shrug>  The tail gunner was more like a plexiglass
bubble that the tail gunner stuck out into, and the guns just swiveled
on their mounts (not motorized).


> and the
> circular readouts on the fighters in the Lost in Space feature.)
>
> <snip dialogue>
>
> INT. GUNNERY POD
>
> Sarah's chair and the display swivels with her --
>
> ANGLE - ON HER EYE
>
> reflecting the display and the alien ships...the system tracking the
movements
> of her ehes. She locks on, CLENCHES a fist and
>
> EXT. LIANDRA
>
> The ship's guns FIRE.
>
>
> [Fast-forward to the mine field. Script page 71-72. David orders Sarah
to clear
> the road.]
>
>
> INT. GUNNERY POD
>
> As Sarah swings around, facing the incoming mines. She FIRES madly,
BLASTING the
> mines as she goes.
>
> EXT. LIANDRA
>
> The weapons FLASH in a blur of movement, BLASTING the mines barely
feet from the
> ship.
>
> INT. GUNNERY POD
>
> Sarah is firing with everything she's got, spinning and firing,
spinning and
> firing, pinpointing and hitting one mine after anothere,
fast-fast-fast.
>
> SARAH: (a growing yell)
>
> It becomes a PRIMAL YELL as she scrambles to keep up with it all.
>
> EXT. MINES
>
> They're HIT over and over, EXPLODING into a FIERY CLOUD.
>
> INT. GUNNERY POD
>
> TIGHT on Sarah's eyes, frenzied, half-mad with effort.
>
> EXT. LIANDRA
>
> As if finally COMES THROUGH the cloud of fire which dissipates at
their passing.
> ----------------------end--------------
>
> One yell.  One clenched fist.  Not a single punch or kick anyplace to
be found.
>
> Jan

Well, that's certainly much, MUCH better than what we got on the screen.
Budgetary reasons are behind one of the worst B5 scenes I've ever seen
on the screen.  Were it not for that money problem, it could have been
cool.  Maybe one day, they'll fix this in a new version, like they did
with The Gathering (originalvs. TNT version).  Until then, I'll just
imagine the script version happening. ;-)


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Mac Breck (KoshN)
-------------------------------
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Eddie: Out of the kitchen?
Fiona: Out of the kitchen, out of the flat, out of London, out of the
world. It's full. Get out.
Eddie: I can't get out of the world. I didn't pull the kind of math
grades you need to qualify for the space program.

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Angel: Oh, there's one more thing you should know. Your fate was never
determined until you killed Gilbert Jax. All in all, you've led a good
life, Ezekiel. Have faith. Your work's appreciated.
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