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Okay, here's my end-of-con report. Nothing really in the way of spoilers, I
don't think. Also posting it to JMSNews and B5TV.
The only B5 related thing on Thursday was a signing by JMS. Being mid-day on a
weekday, there was a pretty small but steady line. Several people had sent me
things to get signed so I got that accomplished right off.
Friday afternoon was a group signing for the Lost Tales folks. I understand
that a goodly number of people missed it because Wed. and Thurs. nobody at the
WB booth knew anything about it. By Friday they'd finally started putting up
schedules of events for the current day and the next. A little more than an
hour before the signing was scheduled to start, I stopped at the Warner's booth
to find out when and where the line would be forming. As luck would have it,
the woman I asked decided that the line would form right then and there with me
at the head. In less than a minute there were ten more people behind me and
they soon moved the line up closer to where the actual signing would take
place.
As is his wont, JMS arrived a few minutes before time along with Samm Barnes
(producer of the Diaries and TLT extra features) and Bruce Boxleitner. There
was a bit of a wait for Tracy Scoggins and Doug Netter who, I understand got
stuck behind a train out in front of the convention center. While waiting, JMS
went out and talked to fans for a few minutes. When Tracy and Doug arrived,
the
booth people started trying to call "Michael" back. Once the line was
complete,
the signing began and it was my pleasure to finally get to thank Doug Netter
for
his part in bringing B5 to reality.
There was a con exclusive mini-comic for the TLT folks to sign. I understand
that they'll also be available for people who get their copy of Lost Tales at
Best Buy as an exclusive. It's just a lovely, touching piece if you can get
it.
A couple of hours after the signing was the highly anticipated Babylon 5: The
Lost Tales panel moderated by writer/interviewer Joe Nazzaro who did a
wonderful job. Before the panel began, Joe N. handed out some homemade sock
puppets to the front rows of the audience. Just before starting time several
people went out into the audience to give out Babylon 5: The Lost Tales
flashing
necklaces also. After introducing the panel (JMS, Doug Netter, Bruce
Boxleitner, Tracy Scoggins, Peter Woodward and Samm Barnes), the first order of
business was to play an extended clip of one of the segments. Then played the
trailer that's been available online and then Joe N. had the player stopped but
JMS wouldn't let him and wanted to continue to the third segment.
That segment was about how JMS tried desperately to convince WB liaison Gregg
Maday of his fresh, original idea to use sock puppets in place of the live
actors. It'd be artistic, innovative and certainly within budget. He
demonstrated a Londo puppet (in purple), a Sheridan puppet (including a
necklace), a Lochley puppet (with hair) and a Galen puppet (in black with a
cowl
and a Sharpie as a staff). They filmed a scene with the puppets but Gregg
seemed unimpressed...or was that horrified...definitely speechless...and simply
turned away. At the end of that, Joe N. assured JMS that all of the fans were
behind him and his artistic vision 100% and asked for a show of hands at which
time we all raised our sock puppeted hands.
This was the beginning of a bout of give-and-take among the cast and crew that
was a lot of fun. Joe N. did a great time with questions and kept things going
nicely and at least some semblance of order, a not inconsiderable task. I'll
be
able to transcribe it at a later time. Everybody wants to know if there'll be
more Lost Tales disks and at this point no decision has been made.
Saturday was JMS's spotlight. He updated everybody on 'The Changeling'
starring
Angelina Jolie and being directed by Clint Eastwood and that he's writing the
screenplay for 'World War Z' for Brad Pitt's production company. He said that
he got some really great news about WWZ but that he can't share it yet. He
also
mentioned that he's turned in the screenplay for the Silver Surfer movie.
Before turning things over to questions, JMS said that he's had three stages to
his career that he likened to a three stage rocket. First he started writing
at
17 and was writing articles and news and everybody told him that as a New
Jersey
street kid he had no business thinking he'd be a writer. Then he started
writing for TV and comics and was told that he'd never make it without the
right
connections. Now he's writing amazing movies for amazing talent and suddenly,
at
last, he no longer hears the roar or feels the push of the rocket. When asked
if he'd ever consider doing another TV series, JMS replied that he also had
something going on there that we might be able to hear word on around
September.
He was very excited about the people he'd be working with.
The questions for this spotlight were really good, ranging from B5 to comics to
writing questions. Again, I'll post a transcript at some point but it was a
really good panel.
Sunday was one more signing. The line was quite a bit larger this time but not
nearly as long as I've seen at some cons. Before JMS arrived, some friends and
I observed that across the hall was a group of young people screaming over a
celebrity and we got the group in line to join us in giving JMS a rock star
greeting, too. He pretended to turn around and go away but came back and
started signing.
It was really great touching base with some of the people on the moderated
newsgroup and on JMSNews.com and meeting new people who just love B5. Seeing
the stars and crew of the new DVD was a lot of fun and it's obvious that they
enjoyed being involved with B5 again.
The only B5 related thing on Thursday was a signing by JMS. Being mid-day on a
weekday, there was a pretty small but steady line. Several people had sent me
things to get signed so I got that accomplished right off.
Friday afternoon was a group signing for the Lost Tales folks. I understand
that a goodly number of people missed it because Wed. and Thurs. nobody at the
WB booth knew anything about it. By Friday they'd finally started putting up
schedules of events for the current day and the next. A little more than an
hour before the signing was scheduled to start, I stopped at the Warner's booth
to find out when and where the line would be forming. As luck would have it,
the woman I asked decided that the line would form right then and there with me
at the head. In less than a minute there were ten more people behind me and
they soon moved the line up closer to where the actual signing would take
place.
As is his wont, JMS arrived a few minutes before time along with Samm Barnes
(producer of the Diaries and TLT extra features) and Bruce Boxleitner. There
was a bit of a wait for Tracy Scoggins and Doug Netter who, I understand got
stuck behind a train out in front of the convention center. While waiting, JMS
went out and talked to fans for a few minutes. When Tracy and Doug arrived,
the
booth people started trying to call "Michael" back. Once the line was
complete,
the signing began and it was my pleasure to finally get to thank Doug Netter
for
his part in bringing B5 to reality.
There was a con exclusive mini-comic for the TLT folks to sign. I understand
that they'll also be available for people who get their copy of Lost Tales at
Best Buy as an exclusive. It's just a lovely, touching piece if you can get
it.
A couple of hours after the signing was the highly anticipated Babylon 5: The
Lost Tales panel moderated by writer/interviewer Joe Nazzaro who did a
wonderful job. Before the panel began, Joe N. handed out some homemade sock
puppets to the front rows of the audience. Just before starting time several
people went out into the audience to give out Babylon 5: The Lost Tales
flashing
necklaces also. After introducing the panel (JMS, Doug Netter, Bruce
Boxleitner, Tracy Scoggins, Peter Woodward and Samm Barnes), the first order of
business was to play an extended clip of one of the segments. Then played the
trailer that's been available online and then Joe N. had the player stopped but
JMS wouldn't let him and wanted to continue to the third segment.
That segment was about how JMS tried desperately to convince WB liaison Gregg
Maday of his fresh, original idea to use sock puppets in place of the live
actors. It'd be artistic, innovative and certainly within budget. He
demonstrated a Londo puppet (in purple), a Sheridan puppet (including a
necklace), a Lochley puppet (with hair) and a Galen puppet (in black with a
cowl
and a Sharpie as a staff). They filmed a scene with the puppets but Gregg
seemed unimpressed...or was that horrified...definitely speechless...and simply
turned away. At the end of that, Joe N. assured JMS that all of the fans were
behind him and his artistic vision 100% and asked for a show of hands at which
time we all raised our sock puppeted hands.
This was the beginning of a bout of give-and-take among the cast and crew that
was a lot of fun. Joe N. did a great time with questions and kept things going
nicely and at least some semblance of order, a not inconsiderable task. I'll
be
able to transcribe it at a later time. Everybody wants to know if there'll be
more Lost Tales disks and at this point no decision has been made.
Saturday was JMS's spotlight. He updated everybody on 'The Changeling'
starring
Angelina Jolie and being directed by Clint Eastwood and that he's writing the
screenplay for 'World War Z' for Brad Pitt's production company. He said that
he got some really great news about WWZ but that he can't share it yet. He
also
mentioned that he's turned in the screenplay for the Silver Surfer movie.
Before turning things over to questions, JMS said that he's had three stages to
his career that he likened to a three stage rocket. First he started writing
at
17 and was writing articles and news and everybody told him that as a New
Jersey
street kid he had no business thinking he'd be a writer. Then he started
writing for TV and comics and was told that he'd never make it without the
right
connections. Now he's writing amazing movies for amazing talent and suddenly,
at
last, he no longer hears the roar or feels the push of the rocket. When asked
if he'd ever consider doing another TV series, JMS replied that he also had
something going on there that we might be able to hear word on around
September.
He was very excited about the people he'd be working with.
The questions for this spotlight were really good, ranging from B5 to comics to
writing questions. Again, I'll post a transcript at some point but it was a
really good panel.
Sunday was one more signing. The line was quite a bit larger this time but not
nearly as long as I've seen at some cons. Before JMS arrived, some friends and
I observed that across the hall was a group of young people screaming over a
celebrity and we got the group in line to join us in giving JMS a rock star
greeting, too. He pretended to turn around and go away but came back and
started signing.
It was really great touching base with some of the people on the moderated
newsgroup and on JMSNews.com and meeting new people who just love B5. Seeing
the stars and crew of the new DVD was a lot of fun and it's obvious that they
enjoyed being involved with B5 again.
The only B5 related thing on Thursday was a signing by JMS. Being mid-day on a
weekday, there was a pretty small but steady line. Several people had sent me
things to get signed so I got that accomplished right off.
Friday afternoon was a group signing for the Lost Tales folks. I understand
that a goodly number of people missed it because Wed. and Thurs. nobody at the
WB booth knew anything about it. By Friday they'd finally started putting up
schedules of events for the current day and the next. A little more than an
hour before the signing was scheduled to start, I stopped at the Warner's booth
to find out when and where the line would be forming. As luck would have it,
the woman I asked decided that the line would form right then and there with me
at the head. In less than a minute there were ten more people behind me and
they soon moved the line up closer to where the actual signing would take
place.
As is his wont, JMS arrived a few minutes before time along with Samm Barnes
(producer of the Diaries and TLT extra features) and Bruce Boxleitner. There
was a bit of a wait for Tracy Scoggins and Doug Netter who, I understand got
stuck behind a train out in front of the convention center. While waiting, JMS
went out and talked to fans for a few minutes. When Tracy and Doug arrived,
the
booth people started trying to call "Michael" back. Once the line was
complete,
the signing began and it was my pleasure to finally get to thank Doug Netter
for
his part in bringing B5 to reality.
There was a con exclusive mini-comic for the TLT folks to sign. I understand
that they'll also be available for people who get their copy of Lost Tales at
Best Buy as an exclusive. It's just a lovely, touching piece if you can get
it.
A couple of hours after the signing was the highly anticipated Babylon 5: The
Lost Tales panel moderated by writer/interviewer Joe Nazzaro who did a
wonderful job. Before the panel began, Joe N. handed out some homemade sock
puppets to the front rows of the audience. Just before starting time several
people went out into the audience to give out Babylon 5: The Lost Tales
flashing
necklaces also. After introducing the panel (JMS, Doug Netter, Bruce
Boxleitner, Tracy Scoggins, Peter Woodward and Samm Barnes), the first order of
business was to play an extended clip of one of the segments. Then played the
trailer that's been available online and then Joe N. had the player stopped but
JMS wouldn't let him and wanted to continue to the third segment.
That segment was about how JMS tried desperately to convince WB liaison Gregg
Maday of his fresh, original idea to use sock puppets in place of the live
actors. It'd be artistic, innovative and certainly within budget. He
demonstrated a Londo puppet (in purple), a Sheridan puppet (including a
necklace), a Lochley puppet (with hair) and a Galen puppet (in black with a
cowl
and a Sharpie as a staff). They filmed a scene with the puppets but Gregg
seemed unimpressed...or was that horrified...definitely speechless...and simply
turned away. At the end of that, Joe N. assured JMS that all of the fans were
behind him and his artistic vision 100% and asked for a show of hands at which
time we all raised our sock puppeted hands.
This was the beginning of a bout of give-and-take among the cast and crew that
was a lot of fun. Joe N. did a great time with questions and kept things going
nicely and at least some semblance of order, a not inconsiderable task. I'll
be
able to transcribe it at a later time. Everybody wants to know if there'll be
more Lost Tales disks and at this point no decision has been made.
Saturday was JMS's spotlight. He updated everybody on 'The Changeling'
starring
Angelina Jolie and being directed by Clint Eastwood and that he's writing the
screenplay for 'World War Z' for Brad Pitt's production company. He said that
he got some really great news about WWZ but that he can't share it yet. He
also
mentioned that he's turned in the screenplay for the Silver Surfer movie.
Before turning things over to questions, JMS said that he's had three stages to
his career that he likened to a three stage rocket. First he started writing
at
17 and was writing articles and news and everybody told him that as a New
Jersey
street kid he had no business thinking he'd be a writer. Then he started
writing for TV and comics and was told that he'd never make it without the
right
connections. Now he's writing amazing movies for amazing talent and suddenly,
at
last, he no longer hears the roar or feels the push of the rocket. When asked
if he'd ever consider doing another TV series, JMS replied that he also had
something going on there that we might be able to hear word on around
September.
He was very excited about the people he'd be working with.
The questions for this spotlight were really good, ranging from B5 to comics to
writing questions. Again, I'll post a transcript at some point but it was a
really good panel.
Sunday was one more signing. The line was quite a bit larger this time but not
nearly as long as I've seen at some cons. Before JMS arrived, some friends and
I observed that across the hall was a group of young people screaming over a
celebrity and we got the group in line to join us in giving JMS a rock star
greeting, too. He pretended to turn around and go away but came back and
started signing.
It was really great touching base with some of the people on the moderated
newsgroup and on JMSNews.com and meeting new people who just love B5. Seeing
the stars and crew of the new DVD was a lot of fun and it's obvious that they
enjoyed being involved with B5 again.
The only B5 related thing on Thursday was a signing by JMS. Being mid-day on a
weekday, there was a pretty small but steady line. Several people had sent me
things to get signed so I got that accomplished right off.
Friday afternoon was a group signing for the Lost Tales folks. I understand
that a goodly number of people missed it because Wed. and Thurs. nobody at the
WB booth knew anything about it. By Friday they'd finally started putting up
schedules of events for the current day and the next. A little more than an
hour before the signing was scheduled to start, I stopped at the Warner's booth
to find out when and where the line would be forming. As luck would have it,
the woman I asked decided that the line would form right then and there with me
at the head. In less than a minute there were ten more people behind me and
they soon moved the line up closer to where the actual signing would take
place.
As is his wont, JMS arrived a few minutes before time along with Samm Barnes
(producer of the Diaries and TLT extra features) and Bruce Boxleitner. There
was a bit of a wait for Tracy Scoggins and Doug Netter who, I understand got
stuck behind a train out in front of the convention center. While waiting, JMS
went out and talked to fans for a few minutes. When Tracy and Doug arrived,
the
booth people started trying to call "Michael" back. Once the line was
complete,
the signing began and it was my pleasure to finally get to thank Doug Netter
for
his part in bringing B5 to reality.
There was a con exclusive mini-comic for the TLT folks to sign. I understand
that they'll also be available for people who get their copy of Lost Tales at
Best Buy as an exclusive. It's just a lovely, touching piece if you can get
it.
A couple of hours after the signing was the highly anticipated Babylon 5: The
Lost Tales panel moderated by writer/interviewer Joe Nazzaro who did a
wonderful job. Before the panel began, Joe N. handed out some homemade sock
puppets to the front rows of the audience. Just before starting time several
people went out into the audience to give out Babylon 5: The Lost Tales
flashing
necklaces also. After introducing the panel (JMS, Doug Netter, Bruce
Boxleitner, Tracy Scoggins, Peter Woodward and Samm Barnes), the first order of
business was to play an extended clip of one of the segments. Then played the
trailer that's been available online and then Joe N. had the player stopped but
JMS wouldn't let him and wanted to continue to the third segment.
That segment was about how JMS tried desperately to convince WB liaison Gregg
Maday of his fresh, original idea to use sock puppets in place of the live
actors. It'd be artistic, innovative and certainly within budget. He
demonstrated a Londo puppet (in purple), a Sheridan puppet (including a
necklace), a Lochley puppet (with hair) and a Galen puppet (in black with a
cowl
and a Sharpie as a staff). They filmed a scene with the puppets but Gregg
seemed unimpressed...or was that horrified...definitely speechless...and simply
turned away. At the end of that, Joe N. assured JMS that all of the fans were
behind him and his artistic vision 100% and asked for a show of hands at which
time we all raised our sock puppeted hands.
This was the beginning of a bout of give-and-take among the cast and crew that
was a lot of fun. Joe N. did a great time with questions and kept things going
nicely and at least some semblance of order, a not inconsiderable task. I'll
be
able to transcribe it at a later time. Everybody wants to know if there'll be
more Lost Tales disks and at this point no decision has been made.
Saturday was JMS's spotlight. He updated everybody on 'The Changeling'
starring
Angelina Jolie and being directed by Clint Eastwood and that he's writing the
screenplay for 'World War Z' for Brad Pitt's production company. He said that
he got some really great news about WWZ but that he can't share it yet. He
also
mentioned that he's turned in the screenplay for the Silver Surfer movie.
Before turning things over to questions, JMS said that he's had three stages to
his career that he likened to a three stage rocket. First he started writing
at
17 and was writing articles and news and everybody told him that as a New
Jersey
street kid he had no business thinking he'd be a writer. Then he started
writing for TV and comics and was told that he'd never make it without the
right
connections. Now he's writing amazing movies for amazing talent and suddenly,
at
last, he no longer hears the roar or feels the push of the rocket. When asked
if he'd ever consider doing another TV series, JMS replied that he also had
something going on there that we might be able to hear word on around
September.
He was very excited about the people he'd be working with.
The questions for this spotlight were really good, ranging from B5 to comics to
writing questions. Again, I'll post a transcript at some point but it was a
really good panel.
Sunday was one more signing. The line was quite a bit larger this time but not
nearly as long as I've seen at some cons. Before JMS arrived, some friends and
I observed that across the hall was a group of young people screaming over a
celebrity and we got the group in line to join us in giving JMS a rock star
greeting, too. He pretended to turn around and go away but came back and
started signing.
It was really great touching base with some of the people on the moderated
newsgroup and on JMSNews.com and meeting new people who just love B5. Seeing
the stars and crew of the new DVD was a lot of fun and it's obvious that they
enjoyed being involved with B5 again.
The only B5 related thing on Thursday was a signing by JMS. Being mid-day on a
weekday, there was a pretty small but steady line. Several people had sent me
things to get signed so I got that accomplished right off.
Friday afternoon was a group signing for the Lost Tales folks. I understand
that a goodly number of people missed it because Wed. and Thurs. nobody at the
WB booth knew anything about it. By Friday they'd finally started putting up
schedules of events for the current day and the next. A little more than an
hour before the signing was scheduled to start, I stopped at the Warner's booth
to find out when and where the line would be forming. As luck would have it,
the woman I asked decided that the line would form right then and there with me
at the head. In less than a minute there were ten more people behind me and
they soon moved the line up closer to where the actual signing would take
place.
As is his wont, JMS arrived a few minutes before time along with Samm Barnes
(producer of the Diaries and TLT extra features) and Bruce Boxleitner. There
was a bit of a wait for Tracy Scoggins and Doug Netter who, I understand got
stuck behind a train out in front of the convention center. While waiting, JMS
went out and talked to fans for a few minutes. When Tracy and Doug arrived,
the
booth people started trying to call "Michael" back. Once the line was
complete,
the signing began and it was my pleasure to finally get to thank Doug Netter
for
his part in bringing B5 to reality.
There was a con exclusive mini-comic for the TLT folks to sign. I understand
that they'll also be available for people who get their copy of Lost Tales at
Best Buy as an exclusive. It's just a lovely, touching piece if you can get
it.
A couple of hours after the signing was the highly anticipated Babylon 5: The
Lost Tales panel moderated by writer/interviewer Joe Nazzaro who did a
wonderful job. Before the panel began, Joe N. handed out some homemade sock
puppets to the front rows of the audience. Just before starting time several
people went out into the audience to give out Babylon 5: The Lost Tales
flashing
necklaces also. After introducing the panel (JMS, Doug Netter, Bruce
Boxleitner, Tracy Scoggins, Peter Woodward and Samm Barnes), the first order of
business was to play an extended clip of one of the segments. Then played the
trailer that's been available online and then Joe N. had the player stopped but
JMS wouldn't let him and wanted to continue to the third segment.
That segment was about how JMS tried desperately to convince WB liaison Gregg
Maday of his fresh, original idea to use sock puppets in place of the live
actors. It'd be artistic, innovative and certainly within budget. He
demonstrated a Londo puppet (in purple), a Sheridan puppet (including a
necklace), a Lochley puppet (with hair) and a Galen puppet (in black with a
cowl
and a Sharpie as a staff). They filmed a scene with the puppets but Gregg
seemed unimpressed...or was that horrified...definitely speechless...and simply
turned away. At the end of that, Joe N. assured JMS that all of the fans were
behind him and his artistic vision 100% and asked for a show of hands at which
time we all raised our sock puppeted hands.
This was the beginning of a bout of give-and-take among the cast and crew that
was a lot of fun. Joe N. did a great time with questions and kept things going
nicely and at least some semblance of order, a not inconsiderable task. I'll
be
able to transcribe it at a later time. Everybody wants to know if there'll be
more Lost Tales disks and at this point no decision has been made.
Saturday was JMS's spotlight. He updated everybody on 'The Changeling'
starring
Angelina Jolie and being directed by Clint Eastwood and that he's writing the
screenplay for 'World War Z' for Brad Pitt's production company. He said that
he got some really great news about WWZ but that he can't share it yet. He
also
mentioned that he's turned in the screenplay for the Silver Surfer movie.
Before turning things over to questions, JMS said that he's had three stages to
his career that he likened to a three stage rocket. First he started writing
at
17 and was writing articles and news and everybody told him that as a New
Jersey
street kid he had no business thinking he'd be a writer. Then he started
writing for TV and comics and was told that he'd never make it without the
right
connections. Now he's writing amazing movies for amazing talent and suddenly,
at
last, he no longer hears the roar or feels the push of the rocket. When asked
if he'd ever consider doing another TV series, JMS replied that he also had
something going on there that we might be able to hear word on around
September.
He was very excited about the people he'd be working with.
The questions for this spotlight were really good, ranging from B5 to comics to
writing questions. Again, I'll post a transcript at some point but it was a
really good panel.
Sunday was one more signing. The line was quite a bit larger this time but not
nearly as long as I've seen at some cons. Before JMS arrived, some friends and
I observed that across the hall was a group of young people screaming over a
celebrity and we got the group in line to join us in giving JMS a rock star
greeting, too. He pretended to turn around and go away but came back and
started signing.
It was really great touching base with some of the people on the moderated
newsgroup and on JMSNews.com and meeting new people who just love B5. Seeing
the stars and crew of the new DVD was a lot of fun and it's obvious that they
enjoyed being involved with B5 again.
And now I'm going to go prop my poor abused feet up on a pile of soft pillows.
Jan
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