J. Michael Straczynski doc Babylon 5 - The Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski Volume 2

SCRIPTS And the Sky, Full of Stars Signs and Portents A Voice in the Wilderness (Part One) A Voice in the Wilderness (Part Two) Babylon Squared The Quality of MercyAnd the famous first-season finale... Chrysalis FEATURING A brand new 57 page, 15,000 word introduction and commentary written exclusively for this volume! (That's two thousand words longer than volume one.) 37 pages of memos describing for the first time the design of B5's guns, links, and the alien sector...the creation of new regular characters later omitted from the series (The Boss and The Mysterious Mr. Jones).In a special feature, the memos also include story development notes and recently-rediscovered premises for such lost season one Babylon 5 episodes as The World Below, The Resurrectionist, The Commander's Hour, In Their Image, Debt of Honor, Target Unknown and many, many more! 8 pages of B&W photos of cast and crew taken by Straczynski, drawn from his personal archives, seen here for the first time. In this extensive analysis, you will also -- DISCOVER what ster diving, living in a cult's religious commune, and sixties coffeehouses had to do with the creation of both the Joe Straczynski Memorial Mandala and the Babylon 5 five-year arc, a bit of personal history jms has never shared before. HEAR for yourself the consequences that followed when Claudia Christian was left strapped into a Starfury during an earthquake. UNRAVEL the truth behind Londo's hair once and for all...who is REALLY to blame for this, why, and where it all started to go completely out of control. WITNESS the process that led to Morden's famous "What do you want?" questions. LEARN the secrets of production that kept Babylon on-course and on-budget for five years, and turned the B5 cast and crew into one of the tightest families in television. FIND OUT what Warner Bros. said when it came time to reveal Londo Mollari's...attributes...on camera, and even more horrifying, what happened when the prop department had to actually build the darned things. UNDERSTAND how the Babylon 5 sets and costumes were designed, and what made them different from nearly every other TV series. LAUGH with hysterical dementia as you discover what happened the night the network LOST the next episode of Babylon 5 and decided to put it together themselves. SEE with your own eyes the Amazing Snackie Bowl Incident that saved the day while filming "And the Sky, Full of Stars" SLOG THROUGH jms's over-wrought and breathtakingly inaccurate observations on culture, history, Gandhi, warfare, sacrifice blahdee-blahdee-blah he's SO into this stuff, but it helped shape the future history of Babylon 5 so we had no choice but to include it. We apologize profusely. UNCOVER why and how the "fasten/zip" scene came to be written, and the horrors that followed thereafter. PREPARE TO BE SHOCKED when you learn who Zathras was modeled after (you'll never guess this one!) BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! Hidden plot details, revealed! Secrets of production, exposed! Untold stories of the cast, unearthed! Centauri hairlines, apologized for! High-priced writing advice, freely given! The June Lockhart Rainbow Break, explained! And what the HECK is "The Hokey Pokey" doing in Babylon 5?