about X-Files? It's a great show, why hasn't anyone started an X-Files board. I
live in Memphis, and would appriciate if any other fellow Memphians have
discovered one that maybe I've over looked.
i also wouldn't mind someone becominf g sort of and X-Files penpal. If you are
just write me your opinion on the show, hopefully a positive one. Catch ya
later.
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Msg : 90 of 322
From : Chris Baugh 1:105/290.5 .ņp 06 .žķ 95 19:45
To : ROBERT LIDGREN
Subj : White Dwarf
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
On (23 May 95) ROBERT LIDGREN wrote to ALL...
RL> If Al Pacino turns up I wouldn't be shocked though.
Ain't he too tall to play a White Dwarf? (Maybe not, with the magic
of special effects!)
... I am Perot of Borg: You will be assimilated with a giant sucking sound
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Msg : 91 of 322
From : Ecarey 1:101/230 .pä 07 .žķ 95 17:59
To : Dkimmel
Subj : B5 RERUNS???
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
> EC>Warner/PTEN had a brainstorm, and decided to HOLD those last four
> episodes
> EC>until October, starting the "third season" four weeks early with
> the last fo
> EC>episodes of season two, and thus getting a jump on some of the
> other shows -
> EC>hopefully building the audience a bit right before the sweeps in
> November, b
> EC>getting people in the habit of watching B5 while other things
> it's up agains
> EC>are still in reruns.
>
> EC>Many people, for reasons which are mysterious to me, regard this
> as a Bad
> EC>Thing.
>
> From a *fan's* point of view it is a Bad Thing for several reasons:
>
> a.) The four shows will air this month in England, which means that
> those of us getting B5 notes via the Internet may inadvertently pick
> up
> spoilers.
A) Apparently they WON'T be airing in England this month - they're being held
'til October in the UK as well as here. Saw this on the Internet today.
B) The fact that it's syndicated results in many people either seeing, or having
to take fairly active steps to avoid seeing, spoilers in any case.
> b.) The series is conceived in five seasons with each season
> constructed
> in a particular way. It would be like a magazine editor arbitrarily
> moving the last ten pages of part II of a serial to part III. Thus
> the
> climactic season finale will immediately be followed by the new
> season
> while the "de facto" season finale, while dramatic, was not the note
> the
> second season was to end on.
This is a genuine drawback, but hardly a disastrous one. The "average" viewer
won't be too distressed because they're likely not to \notice\ the disruption to
the intended flow of the series - it's not as the episodes are being shown in
different \order\ than intended, after all. And the hooked-in fannish viewer
\knows\ what's happened, and will watch the "first four episodes" next season
\knowing\ they're actually the last four episodes of the second season, and
derive from them much of the intended effect.
> c.) Because of syndication scheduling this will happen again NEXT
> year.
> Why not simply start season three in October, so that it can END at
> the
> conclusion of the May sweeps?
>
> From a business point of view, moving four first run episodes from
> July
> to October makes perfect sense because of increased viewership and,
> hence, increased ad rates.
Thus making it FAR more likely that we'll actually get to SEE all five seasons.
Puttting the episodes where they have the best chance to build viewership for
the series is A Good Thing for the fans who want to see JMS'
novel-for-television complete. It would have been better if Warner/PTEN had
understood the potential viewership for the show to begin with, and scheduled it
accordingly, but they didn't, and now they're stuck with working with the
original schedule and \making\ things fit.
But July would have been a lousy time to run the episodes, and everyone should
be GLAD Warner/PTEN has rethought that particular bit of idiocy.
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Msg : 92 of 322
From : Ecarey 1:101/230 .pä 07 .žķ 95 18:08
To : Richard Yamagata
Subj : B5 CATCH-UP
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
> It is fortunate that dreams do take form and become reality.
> Babylon 5 has been renewed for season 3 and Micro-Machines have
> produced 4 sets of B5 models. Of course this is only fraction of
> the number of Trek Micro-Machines, but it is a healthy start! What
> I feared is that JMS would put a kabosh on the whole deal with his
> view that marketing and fanchising can be demeaning -- one of the
> messages found in one of the recent episodes. I think this is a
> very good sign that we will see all 5 years of Babylon 5. Ry
For all the talk about JMS finding "this sort of marketing" "demeaning", he does
not yet appear to have said NO to \anything\ that will generate more B5-related
income - so far we have B5 Micromachines, comics, novels, and I've seen
advertisements for caps and t-shirts.
And note that this is while B5 is only in its second season - the only shows
that have gotten tie-in products out faster have been shows that were conceived
for the \purpose\ of selling "tie-ins".
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Msg : 93 of 322
From : Ecarey 1:101/230 .pä 07 .žķ 95 18:14
To : Richard Yamagata
Subj : BABYLON 5 (PTEN)
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
> FE> BH>You said at the end that "unfortunately, B5 is not like Star
> Trek".
> FE> BH>There is nothing unfortunate about it. It is not supposed to
> be like
> FE> BH>Star Trek, and if it was, I certainly wouldn't watch it.
>
> FE> I think what Richard meant was that B5 is not as accepted as
> FE> Star Trek; therefore, it's future is always going to be
> tenuous...
>
RY> Thank you Frank for making it clear what I meant; it is unfortunate
> that B5 does not share in the "sure thing" mentality that Voyager
> seems to enjoy. I mean, I have not heard of any of the B5 cast going
> out and buying a condo in Malibu or a Porsche, like I heard some of
> the Voyager Cast did when they had their contract in hand. Ry
STAR TREK is nearly thirty years old now, and Voyager is the FOURTH Trek series,
not the first. It would be no credit to the intelligence of the actors in the B5
cast if they ASSUMED that a series that hadn't even gone on the air yet [at that
point] was as much of a sure thing as Voyager with its built-in audience and its
built-in Trek commercial credibility.
If B5 survives to finish its planned five-year run, it will have been
significantly more successful than the first Trek series. If the [hypothetical]
second Babylon series is also a success, then \perhaps\ actors signed to the
cast of the \third\ series will have the same confidence as the actors signed to
the cast of the fourth Trek series.
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Msg : 94 of 322
From : Ecarey 1:101/230 .pä 07 .žķ 95 18:19
To : Bruce Baugh
Subj : B5 BASEBALL
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
>MJ> Not necessarily--but the station *designers* may have been
>MJ> baseball fans. EarthForce seems to be strongly influenced by
>MJ> (if not descended from) the American government and culture.
>MJ> Americans, as a whole, are bigger fans of baseball than of
>MJ> zen.
>
BB> For that matter, baseball is also _tremendously_ popular in Japan,
> and in parts of the Third World. That part of the station could well
> have been designed by someone other than an American.
All through Latin America, the Philippines, Korea - European soccer snobbery
aside, baseball IS an international sport. It's just not popular in \Europe\.
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Msg : 95 of 322
From : Jeff Schlenker 1:288/19 .åņ 08 .žķ 95 00:04
To : Crah
Subj : Re: ST-Generations
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
-=> Crah was overheard speaking to Frank Glover <=-
PW>> Anybody know when GENERATIONS will be coming out on video?
FG> I've asked two local video stores. One had no idea, the other
FG> believed it would be on the shelves by fall, but available for
FG> rental before that....
Cr> Thanks! Strange that the rental places will have it before it's on the
Cr> shelf to buy. Kinda supports pirating copies, doesn't it?
Yes that is strange, but it was done that way with True Lies. You could
rent it long before it arrived in stores to buy.
I don't get it.
Jeff
Jeffrey A. Schlenker jeff.schlenker@lake-city.com
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Msg : 96 of 322
From : Paul Worley 1:2601/515 .åņ 08 .žķ 95 02:16
To : Joel Jessup
Subj : Generations Video
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
06 Jun 95 21:16, Joel Jessup wrote to Paul Worley:
JJ> I heard a July 11 release date for RENTAL, followed by a general
JJ> release later in the year, probably november or the holidays. JGJ
I heard a rumor that it'd hit the shelves, for rental and sales in August.
I;ve heard just about everything, including a new seven-movie commemerative set
with lots of goodies. What do the people who bought the 5 and 6 cassette
editions do with the old ones now?
Paul
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Msg : 97 of 322
From : Cyndi Edwards 1:324/116 .åņ 08 .žķ 95 10:36
To : Frank Glover
Subj : ST-Generations
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
I spoke to my video store here and they have been telling everyone to expect it
in the middle to the end of July. I hope that helps.
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Msg : 98 of 322
From : Cyndi Edwards 1:324/116 .åņ 08 .žķ 95 10:40
To : Tony Trujillo
Subj : Sliders Continuity
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
According to what I have been reading on USENET about Sliders is that it is not
quite cancelled but will be a mid-season replacement again next season. I don't
