JMS posted in rec.arts.sf.tv yesterday

[iamsheridan]

Hi,
I don't know how you find JMSs posts, but I just wanted you to know that he posted an answer to the question "What would have happened if you skipped the notes from TNT" yesterday 17/3 at 23.37 in rec.arts.sf.tv.

/I am Sheridan

[LytaaaarGh]

Can you post what he wrote?

/I am a TechnoWeeny

[Jan]

Check in the Babylon 5 folder and look for the thread titled "JMS Cleans Someone's Clock". Both the original post and JMS response are on there.

Jan

[iamsheridan]

Originally posted by Jan
Check in the Babylon 5 folder and look for the thread titled "JMS Cleans Someone's Clock". Both the original post and JMS response are on there.

Jan

I think this is the correct one:

From: Jms at B5 ([email protected])
Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Re: CRUSADE was about Earth & Shadow minions & Technomages!


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Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Date: 2004-03-17 14:38:00 PST


>Just curious JMS, what would have happened if you *ignored* TNT's
>suggestions, and just continued business-as-usual? We engineers
>sometimes do that, because the suggestions coming from marketing can
>not be implemented with current technology! (i.e. non-engineers
>trying to engineer a product and failing miserably)
>

I did ignore a great number of them, including all the really egregious ones
cited earlier.

>Was ignoring TNT's notes possible? And what would the consequences
>be?

The consequences were that we only got 13 episodes.


jms

([email protected])
(all message content (c) 2004 by synthetic worlds, ltd.,
permission to reprint specifically denied to SFX Magazine
and don't send me story ideas)

[LytaaaarGh]

Cheers Guys.
I apologise for my laziness in this matter

[iamsheridan]

Re: JMS posted in rec.arts.sf.tv yesterday

Hi again!

Isn't it an automated script that finds JMSs postings and places them at this site? I'm asking because yet another posting from rec.arts.sf.tv is missing here. Ok, it was just an answer to someone who kept complaining about the guy who made the first erroneous assumptions (and who had apologized personally to JMS) in the posting referred to above, but still...

/IamS

[DougO]

Thanks for letting me know about the JMS posts to rec.arts.sf.tv. This is the first time I'm seen him post to that newsgroup.

The site message importer doesn't currently monitor that newsgroup. I'll either change it so it does or manually add the two messages he posted.

-DougO

[iamsheridan]

Originally posted by DougO
Thanks for letting me know about the JMS posts to rec.arts.sf.tv. This is the first time I'm seen him post to that newsgroup.

-DougO

Yes, me too!
I thought he stayed out of all non-moderated groups (except for a comics newsgroup) out of fear of story ideas.

/IamS

[Andrew_Swallow]

Originally posted by iamsheridan
Yes, me too!
I thought he stayed out of all non-moderated groups (except for a comics newsgroup) out of fear of story ideas.

/IamS

JMS used the unmoderated group when the moderated group broke down a few years ago.

Someone may have emailed JMS copies of these postings, who then went to the unmoderated group to reply.

[CRONAN]

JMS also said at one point that the content of the show had little to do with the reasons they dropped it, in comparison to TNTs take on the shows audience. Apparently the Crusade people would only tune in to Crusade, then ditch all the other programming TNT had lined up. They wanted programming that contributed the overall audience.

Since TNTs philosphy is based more on sex and violence/action, than content and intellect, its easy enough to see where people who insist on appealing to the lowest point of psychology/common denominator lose interest.

Frankly, these people make me sick.