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Skriven 2007-05-10 09:35:48 av Ed (719.babylon5)
  Kommentar till text 14343 av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated (713.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: Babylon 5 - The Lost Tales
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Richard Barrett wrote:
> Now trying to post this for the *third* time...
> 
> Attempting to post this again, since somehow it got lost on its way to
> moderation...
> 
> Jan wrote:
> 
> 
>> As for why he talked about it all again (ignoring for the moment that the
script
>> books have evolved into a history of the making of they show),
> 
> Well, no, we can't ignore that, because that's the point. This has
> turned into Monumentae Babyloniae Pente, the primary source document
> that's going to be cited in dissertations and sitting on reference
> shelves. Given that, and given that in the cases of Christian and
> O'Hare this was specifically advertised as "the last word", it hardly
> seems to me inappropriate to comment on the fact that in one case, he
> writes a couple of paragraphs and then explicitly says "There are
> elements of this you will *never* know and that's how we want it", and
> in the other, the charts and timelines come out for several pages. In
> one case, he is making it plain that, for whatever reasons (and I am
> not speculating on what those reasons might or might not be, much less
> subsequently attempting to make conclusions about his character, only
> suggesting that the case of Johnny Sekka *may* provide some insight as
> to the context), there are most definitely things he is *not* telling
> us and has no intention of ever telling us; in the other, he is making
> it plain that he is letting it all hang out in terms of what happened
> from his perspective. If there ever comes a day when textual scholars
> become interested in these books (assuming that hasn't already
> happened), that's going to be a hard thing for them to miss, and I
> hardly think it out of line to point that out.
> 

For me the difference between O'Hare and Christian's departures are
O'Hare and JMS have kept quiet. In the other Claudia has made many
public remarks so JMS responded. I believe if Claudia had not made
comments that, in my opinion, attacked JMS' reputation he would not have
responded in such detail.
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