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Skriven 2007-06-29 20:37:43 av Mac Breck (2134.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: Shouldn't We Be Getting Hyped Up?
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"JanMSchroeder" <janmschroeder@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1183144267.278358.92280@k29g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...
> On Jun 29, 2:45 pm, "Mac Breck" <macthevor...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Not sacrilege, a little too "Oh, do anything and we'll like it."
fannish
> > for me, but not sacrilege.
>
> Except that what you posted is NOT what I said at all, nowhere near
> what I meant, and gives it a twist that I don't like in the least.

You posted, and I'm not sure why you snipped it when I quoted it:

"I know this might be sacrilege to some but I want JMS to write whatever
he pleases, and lots of it, for our reading/listening/viewing pleasure."

To me, that (the stuff immediately above, which are your own verbatim
words), comes across as undiscriminatingly fannish, and I'm not quoting
anything out of context because that was the entire paragraph.



> If
> you can find any post anywhere that says that I lovelovelove

I said "like" and you read lovelovelove?  You're mixing up breadth (Do
anything and we'll buy and like it.) with depth (lovelovelove).




> everything JMS does, I invite you to post it here.  Because you
> won't.  I like a lot, love a lot and simply am indifferent to a few
> things.  That's kind of the way it is with any writer I follow.

I am not researching all of your posts, and I am not trying to remember
everything you've ever written here and elsewhere.  I AM just replying
to ONE of your posts and pointing to something you said in it that, to
me, *looks* undiscriminatingly fannish.




> Thing is, when I ask for more of something it's something that JMS has
> indicated that he's likely to do (Book of Lost Souls, for instance)
> and Crusade doesn't fall into that category.

If the B5:TLT DVDs are a big hit, who knows?  Maybe the Crusade story
could be told a little at a time in Direct-to-DVD form.




> The question comes up
> regularly at conventions as to whether Crusade might be completed in
> some form other than TV and, with the exception of the possibility of
> some of that story being told in TMoS, the answer's always been no.

That was before the Warner Bros. Direct-to-DVD B5:TLT route became a
reality.  That was back when we were talking about Crusade novels,
graphic novels, comic books, i.e. the written word.  I'd have been
satisfied with Crusade novels, but JMS doesn't want to do that.  He
wanted (wants? Who knows?) to tell the Crusade story in a visual form.
Well, the Direct-to-DVD route fits the bill.  Maybe it won't be
workable, I don't know, but at least it's visual storytelling.




> So when does it go beyond expressing a preference over to railing
> against reality?  I think that we're well beyond that point and have
> been for a while.

Back on September 1, 1999, who would have guessed that on July 31, 2007,
reality would be us getting new B5 from Warner Brothers in Direct-to-DVD
form?  For me, that would have been to much to hope for.  Never thought
I'd see the day.


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