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jms implies: Rangers would have been if..
Anyway this was on JMSnews.com:
>It looks like TLaDiS suffered from a lack of time to develop a script, a
>lack of resources (the B5/Crusade CGI files), and lack of time to re-develop
>the CGI that was lost. They were under time pressure to produce something
>before it could be affected by the looming strikes.
Not true.
The script worked fine, the CGI worked fine, the time constraints were not an
issue.
What killed us was the football playoffs. That is a matter of record.
They were hoping the show would do a 2.7 or 2.6 to get picked up. In *every
market* where we weren't up against the highest-rasted football game in ten
years, we pulled those numbers or better, in some places hitting a 3.1, which
is just about unheard of for SFC. Those numbers came in because the show
*worked*.
But we lost the east coast and most of the midwest to the game. When you
averaged it all out, we got a 1.7 or thereabouts. The SFC knows why, we know
why, it's not like that's an issue, and we *gained viewers* as the show went
along, which only happens if the show -- script, CGI, performances -- works.
But in TV, the overall number is the overall number, and it's hard for a
network to get past that, especially in dealing with advertisers.
If we'd aired on any other night of the week, there would be a LoTR series in
prep right now.
jms
and in an another message he says:
I set out to tell the story I wanted to tell, and I told it. If something else
in the B5 universe comes along, terrific, I'm there...but if not, that's okay
too. It's like Zack said in Sleeping in Light, which was meant as a sorta coda
to the production of the show...everything we set out to do, we did, and nobody
can ever take that away.
jms
sad that this turnad out in this way. the big football game was originally scheduled to be on an another date...
>It looks like TLaDiS suffered from a lack of time to develop a script, a
>lack of resources (the B5/Crusade CGI files), and lack of time to re-develop
>the CGI that was lost. They were under time pressure to produce something
>before it could be affected by the looming strikes.
Not true.
The script worked fine, the CGI worked fine, the time constraints were not an
issue.
What killed us was the football playoffs. That is a matter of record.
They were hoping the show would do a 2.7 or 2.6 to get picked up. In *every
market* where we weren't up against the highest-rasted football game in ten
years, we pulled those numbers or better, in some places hitting a 3.1, which
is just about unheard of for SFC. Those numbers came in because the show
*worked*.
But we lost the east coast and most of the midwest to the game. When you
averaged it all out, we got a 1.7 or thereabouts. The SFC knows why, we know
why, it's not like that's an issue, and we *gained viewers* as the show went
along, which only happens if the show -- script, CGI, performances -- works.
But in TV, the overall number is the overall number, and it's hard for a
network to get past that, especially in dealing with advertisers.
If we'd aired on any other night of the week, there would be a LoTR series in
prep right now.
jms
and in an another message he says:
I set out to tell the story I wanted to tell, and I told it. If something else
in the B5 universe comes along, terrific, I'm there...but if not, that's okay
too. It's like Zack said in Sleeping in Light, which was meant as a sorta coda
to the production of the show...everything we set out to do, we did, and nobody
can ever take that away.
jms
sad that this turnad out in this way. the big football game was originally scheduled to be on an another date...
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They always help!
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[b]Why don't they try showing it again?
[/b][/quote]
I was about to suggest that!
Stop reading my mind.
Worf
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Galen: I dont, I have no surviving enemies...at all
Ave Primo-Populi (Hail the Firstones)
[b]Why don't they try showing it again?
[/b][/quote]
Maybe that's what they want to do, show it again, in summer or fall, to see what the ratings are then, and then decide if they make a series or not.
That would explain why there's no statement what they are going to do, but wouldn't jms know about that?
[b]Do we have any hostages?
They always help!
Nothing is better than having the ability to strike a deal.[/b][/quote]
ummm...that can always be arranged...for a price.
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
[b]Flamers are too inprecise.
[/b][/quote]
Ahh, you mean they're random.
Perhaps you want a more elegant weapon from a more civilized age?
Tactical Nukes perhaps?
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No plan survives first contact with reality.
WHY?
First, Tactical nukes. The impact of a nuke (and I don't mean the physical damage. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/tongue.gif[/img]) would be pretty strong. Second, the "Nuke'em Johnny" references would be just great!
[b] Ahh, you mean they're random.
Perhaps you want a more elegant weapon from a more civilized age?
Tactical Nukes perhaps?
[/b][/quote]
Exactly. Tactical nukes all the way.
That or rail guns.
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
Beam cannons anyone? A BFGreen would do nicely... :drevil:
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
[b]Tactical nukes are more powerful than a BFG. Guass guns are more precise.
[/b][/quote]
Umm....since when did Sheridan's little 2MT nukes overpower beam cannons that have over a dozen [b]GT[/b] in KE alone? [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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"Isn't the universe a wonderful place? I wouldn't want to live anywhere else! Love to stay! Can't! Have to go. Kiss kiss, love love! Bye!" - G'Kar
[b] Umm....since when did Sheridan's little 2MT nukes overpower beam cannons that have over a dozen [b]GT[/b] in KE alone? [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/rolleyes.gif[/img][/B][/quote]
Yeah, but they have to be mounted on a great big huge starship. A tactical nuke can be carried in a suitcase.
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
"Grand Cannon ready to fire!"
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For more flexability, there's always my minature (human size) twin buster rifle. It can kill as many nameless, faceless hordes as you like, but its only weakness is that it can only wound regulars. Never quite kills 'em.
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras