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Hi, all. I got the Academy on the phone today about this. Andreas is on the list of people they're considering for inclusion in the reel, but it's not the 'short list' yet. They need to hear from a lot of people for us to make any impact at all on their decision. Please, if you haven't...

According to the Lurker's Guide's complete list of actors, the only actor who is in "Avalon" and a handful of other episodes is a guy playing a med tech in all of those episodes. It's likely you mean Robert Schuch (who's credited as "lurker" in "Avalon"). In "Necessary," there are a number of...

Re: Actual B5:TLT News Okay, I didn't think you were -- I just didn't want this to be seen as a case of yet another JMS fan who doesn't think anything but original B5 is acceptable, when they've never even sampled his other stuff. (That kind of fan is the diametric opposite from the ones who...

I did pretty well on the test: Soldier You scored 60 physical, and 50 mental You're pretty good at killing zombies, but you really ought to find someone to take orders from. I apparently got higher than the 99th percentile on both physical and mental scores based on my age and gender. Go, me! :D

Re: Actual B5:TLT News Well, just to be clear, this was an informed opinion on my part. I've read JMS's short stories, seen a couple of the TZs, and I just don't think that his short form work is up to the same level as his arc and long-form work. So, certainly, he can do more than one...

Just to clarify, I told Jan there was no backlog of messages when I went in to moderate, which was after that initial glob of about ten or fifteen messages posted. Probably those were all that were in there when Jay 'fixed' the newsgroup and initially moderated; the rest must be lost in the...

Re: Actual B5:TLT News Speaking for myself, if I haven't been jumping up and down over the idea of additional, potentially-one-minute-long adjunct content, it's because I'm primarily interested in stories. Yes, certainly, when Rangers came out and I had a little one-minute extra snippet of...

Re: Actual B5:TLT News Ah, yes -- now that you say that, I'm sure that's correct. Thanks for the reminder. No, we're talking about Whedon's desire to manipulate the audience's perception of his characters. Big ol' geek he may be, but he is also a television writer, writing for a (roughly)...

Re: Actual B5:TLT News I wouldn't necessarily take that as meaning that Whedon is a B5 fan; after all, the point with Xander and Jonathan (although I think it was Andrew, actually), is that they were terrifically big ol' geeks. Not that there's anything wrong with that from where we sit, but...

And, Jan corrected me in fact: it's actually day four or five, depending on how you count it (the last message posted on the morning of the 2nd). I say this was our fifth day without the mod. Sob! It really _does_ figure, damn Murphy; JMS was posting, people were chatty, traffic was lively...

Day Six of no posts over there. :-(

Re: Actual B5:TLT News I didn't know there was an anti-puppet/muppet faction in sf fandom. My dislike of Farscape had nothing to do with puppets or muppets! And, fyi hypatia, the bug creature was "N'Grath." KoshFan (Mac?), what do you mean by "It was also explicit that there were no aliens...

Re: Actual B5:TLT News Part of what's going on is simply fashion, based on budget. Big-budget space-based-with-aliens SF went out, and Earth-based conspiracy-format sf stories started getting made (Odyssey 5, Heroes, The 4400, etc.). Even on the Stargates, all of the planets look like Earth...

I've gotta say: I don't think you can judge someone's ability to write a novel from their postings on a message board. There's more required than simply the ability to express oneself cogently. I know some extremely eloquent people who write boffo business letters, monographs, arguments...

My only gripe with this is that you listed Robin Sachs as "Hedronn" rather than "Na'Kal," which was, I think a better part for him.

Re: Actual B5:TLT News Jan makes an excellent point, and it's definitely a hot-button issue for me, too. One of the reasons I think there is this perception of a bunch of die-hard JMS fans who even think that what he does in the bathroom doesn't stink <g> is because of the existence of the...

Re: Actual B5:TLT News I didn't have a problem with the Rangers pilot; it didn't look any worse (or better) than the original broadcast version of "The Gathering," IMHO. And in the case of the Rangers pilot, we at least had history with JMS and knew about his abilities and talents. Which is...

Thanks, Joe -- that was beautiful. Now, hopefully whatever is ailing the moderated newsgroup will clear up quickly, because I'm still waiting for this same message to appear there. (One of the advantages of being a moderator is being able to moderate your own new threads as quickly as you...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present the Oscar awards on February 25. At every Oscar awards ceremony, they show a short film of selected people in the industry who have passed on since the last Oscars. This reel isn't just for big-name stars: they often highlight the...

Jan, I'll bring mine, too -- I'd love to compare. I have seen really shoddy ones available online, but mine looks pretty good to me! And mine came from Intergalactic Trading. Ah, now I happen to have a set-used one of those. But I don't like to take it out, because the sign, it hurts us. :)