Weiß nicht, ob es dazu schon einen Thread gibt, hab aber bei meiner Suche keinen gefunden. Ist schon etwas Länger her, da kam von JMS auf jmsnews.com folgendes Statement:
""Are we now reduced to hoping for a book once or twice a decade? Is
there any
reason to have hope for more of what we love so much?
Is Babylon 5, as we know it....dead?"
This question comes up periodically, and I'll give it pretty much the
same answer that I always give...that there is a difference between
*dead* and *complete*.
If a novelist writes a book, and he doesn't write five more books in
that universe, with those characters, is the book dead? Or completed?
When I embarked on B5, I wasn't out to create a franchise, wasn't
looking to springboard this out into a zillion other projects...I
resisted merchandising, and made it clear to all parties that this
would be five seasons, no more. Because that's I figured it would take
me to tell that story. The only thing I asked of the universe was that
I be able to tell the story to its end, and that I not die before
finishing it. That's all.
And somehow, both happened...and I'm happy with that.
I've said it a hundred times before...if something happens to come up
in the B5 universe that's fun to tell, and someone wants to provide a
venue, great...if not, also great. I told the story that I wanted,
needed to tell. When Zack says, in SiL, "We did what we said we were
gonna do, and nobody can ever take that away from us," that was the
author speaking through him.
What I set out to do with that show, I did, and nobody can ever take
that away. I told the story I wanted to tell. Everything else is
lagniappe.
jms"
Jetzt will ich mal wissen: was meint ihr dazu? Ist das eine glaubwürdige Aussage von ihm? An für sich hat er ja recht, er wollte anfangs nur eine Geschichte erzählen, aber wenn er diese nie ausbauen wollte, warum spendierte er der 5ten Staffel einen so offenen Schluss, der nie weitergeführt wurde? (Ich rede da von Londo`s Präsent für Sheridans Kleinen).
... Ich liebe B5 und alle, die diese großartige Sache belebt haben, aber dieses Statement klingt doch ein klein wenig als eine Ausrede dafür, das das B5-Universum momentan fessteckt.
Was meint ihr?
""Are we now reduced to hoping for a book once or twice a decade? Is
there any
reason to have hope for more of what we love so much?
Is Babylon 5, as we know it....dead?"
This question comes up periodically, and I'll give it pretty much the
same answer that I always give...that there is a difference between
*dead* and *complete*.
If a novelist writes a book, and he doesn't write five more books in
that universe, with those characters, is the book dead? Or completed?
When I embarked on B5, I wasn't out to create a franchise, wasn't
looking to springboard this out into a zillion other projects...I
resisted merchandising, and made it clear to all parties that this
would be five seasons, no more. Because that's I figured it would take
me to tell that story. The only thing I asked of the universe was that
I be able to tell the story to its end, and that I not die before
finishing it. That's all.
And somehow, both happened...and I'm happy with that.
I've said it a hundred times before...if something happens to come up
in the B5 universe that's fun to tell, and someone wants to provide a
venue, great...if not, also great. I told the story that I wanted,
needed to tell. When Zack says, in SiL, "We did what we said we were
gonna do, and nobody can ever take that away from us," that was the
author speaking through him.
What I set out to do with that show, I did, and nobody can ever take
that away. I told the story I wanted to tell. Everything else is
lagniappe.
jms"
Jetzt will ich mal wissen: was meint ihr dazu? Ist das eine glaubwürdige Aussage von ihm? An für sich hat er ja recht, er wollte anfangs nur eine Geschichte erzählen, aber wenn er diese nie ausbauen wollte, warum spendierte er der 5ten Staffel einen so offenen Schluss, der nie weitergeführt wurde? (Ich rede da von Londo`s Präsent für Sheridans Kleinen).
... Ich liebe B5 und alle, die diese großartige Sache belebt haben, aber dieses Statement klingt doch ein klein wenig als eine Ausrede dafür, das das B5-Universum momentan fessteckt.
Was meint ihr?
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