Is What The Hell Happened happening?

[Jan]

A few years back another audio group did a story based on Fiona Avery’s script for the unfilmed Crusade episode, “Value Judgements”. She even provided some additional dialog for the production, then it was pulled from their site at some point.

It’s called Devel’s Deal and can be found, and played/downloaded, from the wayback machine.

http://web.archive.org/web/200811170...il%27sDeal.mp3

Cool, thanks for sharing. I'd heard of this but never known how to access it.

[B5-Stefan]

Cool, thanks for sharing. I'd heard of this but never known how to access it.

Beside this really COOL info ...

When I came to this dead thread, the last post was on June 22.
When I did my post and came out there were three other.

Come on. who is the telepath?

B5 Stefan

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Kosh to Lyta: "All arranged, as is payment, we will meet in Red-3 at the
hour of scampering"
[Deathwalker]

[cornholio1980]

Since I just started Crusade again - any news on this?

[B5-Stefan]

Since I just started Crusade again - any news on this?

Nothing. Nada.

But iirc not far ago jms did an angryesque answer when asked s.th. similar on twitter...
Jan?

B5-Stefan

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But corporations go on and on, through good times and bad,
because it's all about profit."
[Crusade: "Racing the Night"]

[Jan]

Nothing. Nada.

But iirc not far ago jms did an angryesque answer when asked s.th. similar on twitter...
Jan?

Related, perhaps, but not really similar/the same. The post was about imagining re-doing the effects (iirc) and he pointed out that it's like asking somebody to imagine the cool clothes one's dead child could wear. In the past he's mentioned how he still got upset when revisiting that period.

[Apsu]

Hello,

up for this thread.
As mentionned on another thread :
- 3 of the 4 Crusade books have been reprinted
- The 4th, What the hell happened, hasn't

BUT

if you check the B5Books Catalog, it had an overall several days ago to reflect their complete catalog : https://b5books.com/babylon-5-books-catalog/
Now what is interesting is that the Crusade section was altered so that the order of the book was changed.
Until now, they were put chronogicaly by release date, BUT now, WTHH is put in last position, which is the logical position if... other books are coming soon

[JoeD80]

In case people missed it, Joe was asked about v2 on his twitter and mentioned that he ended up deciding to write the story into his autobiography instead.

https://twitter.com/straczynski/stat...72695358717952

Also that some day the scripts themselves will be published, but there will never be the audio drama:

https://twitter.com/straczynski/stat...04436903854080

[Ubik]

In case people missed it, Joe was asked about v2 on his twitter and mentioned that he ended up deciding to write the story into his autobiography instead.

https://twitter.com/straczynski/stat...72695358717952

Also that some day the scripts themselves will be published, but there will never be the audio drama:

https://twitter.com/straczynski/stat...04436903854080

Ah, that's a shame. Whilst the book held zero interest for me (I felt much of the material was already repeated and spread pretty thin in the previous volumes), I was fairly excited about the promised audio drama. Oh well.

[Jan]

The subject came up during JMS' recent AMA on Reddit:

The problem I ran into was that a lot of what would have ended up in that book was needed for the bio, and I didn't want to make fans pay twice for the same information. Coming at it with some new ideas to honor the intent of the fans.

[Ubik]

I think this a good move on JMS part.

[nottenst]

I just read the relevant chapter in the book. It has 4 pages on Crusade. I think some of that is information we already heard. Can't recall what was in Vol. 1. Maybe it would be too painful to go into the detail that a second volume would require. We got the short version, which may be all we need. From reading Becoming Superman, most of his TV projects appear to have some "What the Hell Happened?' moment.