2009 Julius Schwartz Lecture at MIT
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I heard it was a very good and funny lecture. Here are a few blogs about the event:
http://jducoeur.livejournal.com/517679.html
http://danielcfox.blogspot.com/2009/…raczynski.html
http://sagawizard.livejournal.com/191333.html
Edmund would especially have loved the Psi Corps decorations !
Over at the forums at http://www.jmsnews.com there are links to quite a few writeups about the talk.
http://jmsnews.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3653&page=2
This is a great blog account of the event.
http://sagawizard.livejournal.com/191333.html
Also in an account from Jan over at jmsnews, THe hopes of anything but a movie should pretty much be dashed.
JMS responded that on one level it was a fun thing to do but in retrospect he should have refused to do any of them, even Crusade, that it was his own fear of failure that caused him to want to prove that it wasn’t just a one-time success, and want to hold onto the familiar. It was after the Lost Tales DVD that he looked at it all and asked if they’d added to the work or subtracted and concluded that they subtracted and he refuses to do any more until and unless it’s possible for him to do the series justice in a big-budget feature film.
For those interested, ebay has a number of script books up for sale at around the $50 price point.
Its a shame JMS sees Crusade the way he does. I understand that its perceived failure has made it harder for him to get the B5 Feature he has always wanted, but he has to see, that from a creative point of view Crusade was a success.
It was well acted, well directed, the effects where top notch, and barring a couple of the “more wordy” bits the scripting was tight and very good.
It may have had some problems, the music didnt fit all of the time, sometimes was very good, others detracted from what was on screen.
BUT on the whole the show was better than others that lasted longer, but thats TV unfortunately. Couple that with his own plans of what it would become, Crusade went before its time, and in my opinion he should be proud of getting it to TV even if it didnt stay on as long as he (and we) would have liked.