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Here's a nice article about bagna cauda: https://www.seriouseats.com/2018/03/a-bagna-cauda-youll-want-to-bathe-in.html
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Now for a recipe for Minbari flarn.
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Apr 8, 2018 05:40
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JMS really, really wants to do the Lord Of The Rings TV show. https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/982770201136541696
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Apr 8, 2018 10:28
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All those jokes my friend and I made about Khazad-dum and Za Ha Dum sharing the same crevice where you can be reborn is a bit less funny now I guess.
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Apr 9, 2018 11:59
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I think he was pretty open about how many Tolkien influences and homages were visible in B5. “Lorien” is a really weird name to reuse in the way he did though
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Apr 9, 2018 13:31
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The Rangers are totally inspired by things like the Texas Rangers, totally, not any other sort of grand story about a mystic clash between light and dark in which the actions of normal people serve to end the era of ancient godlike beings dominating the course of history.
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Apr 10, 2018 02:15
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I'm pretty sure back in the day that JMS wavered between 'it was intentional homage' and 'how dare you accuse me of borrowing elements from lord of the rings' depending on his mood/audience.
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Apr 10, 2018 02:53
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I went to see if he had posted anything about it on Usenet back then and came across this instead which gave me a good chuckle.
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Apr 10, 2018 05:27
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Vavrek posted:The Rangers are totally inspired by things like the Texas Rangers, totally, not any other sort of grand story about a mystic clash between light and dark in which the actions of normal people serve to end the era of ancient godlike beings dominating the course of history. All things considered, I don't have a problem with the Rangers being directly inspired by LOTR within show continuity.
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Apr 10, 2018 08:16
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Eyud posted:I went to see if he had posted anything about it on Usenet back then and came across this instead which gave me a good chuckle. It's great when writers superimpose the reaction to their work onto the work of writers who have practically become legendary. They seem to not understand that they're basically saying "well, this world-renowned writer managed to craft his work in such a way as to avoid those criticisms, whereas I did not".
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Apr 12, 2018 10:31
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Well, or they could be alluding to how more renowned stuff wasn't necessarily all that well received when it first came out but then came to be much better regarded over time?
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Apr 12, 2018 10:44
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Saw 8 new posts, wondered who died this time.
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Apr 12, 2018 12:56
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evobatman posted:Saw 8 new posts, wondered who died this time. Tolkein... 
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Apr 12, 2018 14:46
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evobatman posted:Saw 8 new posts, wondered who died this time. Think we're pretty safe on that front until November 25th.
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Apr 12, 2018 14:49
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I just got past the end of the Shadow war in my rewatch. Its a great episode despite its odd placement in series four. In the next episode they celebrate stopping not one but two genocidal crusades by throwing the lamest party in the galaxy. I'm not being critical, I find that some how really charming. Especially Franklin throwing himself fully into the dancing despite being terrible at it.
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Apr 22, 2018 00:18
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Just in case there was any doubt... https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/987205484850524160
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Apr 23, 2018 14:01
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A drat shame. Warner Bros treatment of this show is really something.
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Apr 23, 2018 14:08
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I will buy the rights to it for $1. Whoever sells it to me will get credit for a profit and therefore a success. Going once, going twice....
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I am watching this for the first time. I just finished 3x16 War Without End (1). It's great except for the rear end in a top hat of the week episodes (that have mostly seemed to slowed down now that earthforce isn't sending random assholes anymore). I know you're all dying to hear my thoughts so here you are:
Sheridan took forever to grow on me (they frontloaded all the whiny eps), and his burgeoning love with delenn is the cutest thing ever, mostly because Delenn is the best There needs to be no more doctor eps, i hate his plots G'Kar's gone from okay to amazing Londo's done the opposite The king arthur episode was dumb as goddamn heck, but I sort of enjoyed it anyway e: I forgot the most important thing: Zathras is the best character on any show
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May 2, 2018 03:07
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Senor Dog posted:e: I forgot the most important thing: Zathras is the best character on any show Wait, do you mean Zathras, or Zathras?
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May 2, 2018 03:37
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Milky Moor posted:A drat shame. Warner Bros treatment of this show is really something. Yeah, don't ever let anyone tell you businesses or corporations are governed solely by the almighty dollar. There's plenty of people in charge who will happily shoot themselves in both feet out of utter pettiness and spite.
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May 2, 2018 06:21
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The complete series was broadcast on one of the UK freeview channels and after watching nearly all of it... I'd happily rewatch it again! They showed the movies too, but I missed a few episodes, it's a shame it's so hard to catch up on them due to WB's pettiness. Also weird how one of my final memories will be the Rangers weapons system. What the hell were they thinking? If they recut that movie and just removed that bit, I think it would actually be a decent enough film. But with it, wow, just wow.
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May 3, 2018 19:34
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I wonder if JMS had some grand vision of how the ranger VR weapon system would look on screen and gradually turned more and more pale as he watched the end result, or if he proudly thought "yes, this is what people will remember!" Which they did, but...
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Payndz posted:I wonder if JMS had some grand vision of how the ranger VR weapon system would look on screen and gradually turned more and more pale as he watched the end result, or if he proudly thought "yes, this is what people will remember!" Which they did, but... I think he's said it was the former. He had this vision in his head that didn't translate at all.
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May 4, 2018 00:15
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The goddang doctor is talking to himself while I'm tryna watch these shadow bitches get killed,
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Senor Dog posted:The goddang doctor is talking to himself while I'm tryna watch these shadow bitches get killed, "Why do I have to watch the good bit, it's interfering with my viewing!" 
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May 4, 2018 08:18
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Milky Moor posted:I think he's said it was the former. He had this vision in his head that didn't translate at all. The number of bosses I've worked for who will insist that all their ideas are good and that the ones that turn out bad are solely due to the execution and not because the idea was bad.
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May 4, 2018 09:17
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Jedit posted:"Why do I have to watch the good bit, it's interfering with my viewing!" JMS and his walkabout bullshit is never the good bit of anything.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Yeah, don't ever let anyone tell you businesses or corporations are governed solely by the almighty dollar. There's plenty of people in charge who will happily shoot themselves in both feet out of utter pettiness and spite. Bear in mind, though, that any statement from Straczynski has to be taken with a grain of salt, because he has a long, long history of filtering the truth to make him look good; he's almost Roddenberry-esque in that regard. For all we know, he went to WB and asked for a Blu-ray release, but then added, "Also, I want the full rights to B5 back, I want you to resurrect Katsulas and Biggs and Conaway, and also I'd like a pony."
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Timby posted:Bear in mind, though, that any statement from Straczynski has to be taken with a grain of salt, because he has a long, long history of filtering the truth to make him look good; he's almost Roddenberry-esque in that regard. For all we know, he went to WB and asked for a Blu-ray release, but then added, "Also, I want the full rights to B5 back, I want you to resurrect Katsulas and Biggs and Conaway, and also I'd like a pony." He's admitted fault a lot more frequently than Roddenberry ever did. Then again, the number of professional relationships he's had that have gone utterly sour has been conspicuously high. We do have multiple other people corroborating his explanations of why WB has treated the show so poorly, and it certainly fits with other accounts of their corporate structure. The mess with the human weapons interface comes down to his statements about thinking audiences need identifiable human figures to identify with in space combat. I'd say that reflects a fundamental failure of imagination. I've watched Trek spin-offs where I identify with the ship more than with any of the actual characters. I have no doubt he'd imagined something different (tai-chi in the weapons pod, maybe?), but that's no indication either that this was a solution to the stated problem or that the problem needed solving in the first place.
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Flatscan posted:JMS and his walkabout bullshit is never the good bit of anything. The walkabout wasn't good, but Franklin vs Franklin was great.
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Narsham posted:He's admitted fault a lot more frequently than Roddenberry ever did. Then again, the number of professional relationships he's had that have gone utterly sour has been conspicuously high. I'm not saying he's explicitly wrong--I have no problem believing that WB doesn't want to throw one more cent at B5--I'm just saying that he's high on his own farts most of the time, so anything he says has to be taken with that in mind.
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Timby posted:I'm not saying he's explicitly wrong--I have no problem believing that WB doesn't want to throw one more cent at B5--I'm just saying that he's high on his own farts most of the time, so anything he says has to be taken with that in mind. You write as if that were unusual and unexpected? JMS wrote so drat much in relation to B5 that it's pretty easy to get a line on his particular brand of BS (like the grandiose Studio JMS plans) in comparison to other writer/producers. Ron Moore managed to string out the "they have a plan" thing for years and has since admitted that catch-phrase got inserted into BSGs opening by someone else and he knew quite well how big a lie it was. It's perpetually hard to tell whether Steven Moffatt is trolling, lying, or being completely sincere. And don't get me started on JJ Abrams. Unless you're the sort who doesn't get that people can offer distortions or lies on the Internet, JMS is generally much easier to decipher than most. I'm not sure why this particular line of discussion triggered a warning from you not to trust what he's saying, when this looks like an example (rare or not) of him being relatively straight. It is believable that the other obstacle to negotiations is that JMS is an obstinant control-freak with poor people skills. Then again, JMS doesn't exactly go out of his way to conceal that, either, and it's doubtful we'd have the show if he weren't.
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There's a lot of good media out there that ended up getting mostly abandoned by whatever organization wound up sitting on the rights for decades. It's not a particularly unique occurrence. Unless somebody important in Warner Brothers decides to put some effort into putting it out again or somebody buys off the rights, it'll stay in its little hole until it eventually enters public domain in about 150 years.
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Started my ... hmmm let’s see. 4th watch through of the series. This time reading the corresponding episode notes from the script books like I always wanted to. I agree with something said waaaaaay back that the 1st season really isn’t all that bad in retrospect. I used to think O’Hare to be awfully wooden and sometimes he is, but it’s not as bad as I thought. Goddamn this show is so loving good.
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Doctor Zero posted:Started my ... hmmm let’s see. 4th watch through of the series. This time reading the corresponding episode notes from the script books like I always wanted to. I agree with something said waaaaaay back that the 1st season really isn’t all that bad in retrospect. I used to think O’Hare to be awfully wooden and sometimes he is, but it’s not as bad as I thought. Knowing what he was going through mentally, his performance is actually fairly amazing. You'd only guess that he was suffering from paranoid delusions and hallucinations when that's in character!
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Narsham posted:Knowing what he was going through mentally, his performance is actually fairly amazing. You'd only guess that he was suffering from paranoid delusions and hallucinations when that's in character! It was interesting when O'Hare came back in season 3 seeming much more happy and relaxed. At the time I wondered if he was so chipper because he was getting a nice paycheque while not having to deal with the stress of working with JMS on a daily basis. Nope; turns out that he'd spent eight months filming before seeking treatment because he thought the show would be canned if he didn't complete the season. When he came back he was on anti-psychotic medication and didn't have to wonder if the weird looking creatures on set were real or not.
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i learned about O'Hare's schizophrenia during my last rewatch of the show last year, and drat if the plots of several season 1 episodes must have been trying for someone with his condition. sinclair gets mind-whammied some way or other every other episode
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Schizophrenia eh? Well never mind. Here's your role: THERE IS A HOLE IN YOUR MIND
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