Can we just leave it alone?

[Jan]

Originally posted by grumbler
Since JMS already HAD the story of AVFTG written at that point (it was one of the script pushed back from the fourth to the fifth seasons)

Just a minor correction here...The story *idea* for A View from the Gallery might have been pushed back but the actual script was written (Final Draft) 8/21/97 whereas the script for Deconstruction was written (Final Draft) 8/4/97.

Jan

[Garibaldi's Hair]

IIRC, didn't Harlan Ellison suggest the idea that became AVFTG fairly early on in the show, and JMS always intended to do it but didn't really get the chance until the 5th season?

[Jan]

Originally posted by Garibaldi's Hair
IIRC, didn't Harlan Ellison suggest the idea that became AVFTG fairly early on in the show, and JMS always intended to do it but didn't really get the chance until the 5th season?

All I can find that suggests any kind of timing is this post:

From: J. Michael Straczynski <[email protected]>
Subject: ->402
To: CIS
Date: 8/8/1997 4:02:00 PM

{original post unavailable}

Harlan is working on something now, and suggested something that
I then based an episode on, so we share story credit on "A View from
the Gallery."

jms

...which is about 3 weeks before the Final Draft was written which suggests that there was probably a Writer's Draft or First Draft in the works at the time. To me it sounds like Harlan's suggestion was recent but I don't think we can tell for sure from this post.

Jan

[grumbler]

Originally posted by Jan
Just a minor correction here...The story *idea* for A View from the Gallery might have been pushed back but the actual script was written (Final Draft) 8/21/97 whereas the script for Deconstruction was written (Final Draft) 8/4/97.

Jan

Good point, but the idea was present earlier, if I remember my JMS commentary correctly.

Of course, I could also be completely wrong (for the first.... well, one of the first... times).

[bakana]

Good point, but the idea was present earlier, if I remember my JMS commentary correctly.

You could be thinking about the script Harlan was supposed to write that would have been a "sequel" to Harlan's script for The Demon with a Glass Hand from The Outer Limits.

That was talked about before season one started filming, I think.