Before the BBC announced RTD2, he repeatedly expressed interest on twitter. Now, my dream British tv show for JMS to do would actually have been Blake's 7 (as in, a reboot - come on, the Excalibur already looks like the Liberator, and Anna Grant says hello to Anna Sheridan, so clearly he likes the original), but undoubtedly it would also be ( Read more... )

Be on the road for a week, and what happens? A fannish timeloop, it feels like.

( Doctor Who )

A novel by JMS, and while I've read several of his comics and his autobiography in addition to being a Babylon 5 fan, and having watched The Changeling (for which he wrote the script) and Sense 8 which he co-created with the Wachowski siblings as well, the man still manages to pleasantly surprise me by the way he doesn't rest on his laurels or ( Read more... )

Yesterday JMS answered a couple of questions about Sense8, the characters, the development of their background etc; there's a great thread here, and also a later tweet, in which he says: You'd have to ask the others what parts went where, but for me, my shyness is in Kala, my nerdiness in Nomi, my naivete in Capheus, my family situation in Wolfgang ( Read more... )

Oscar Wilde once said memoirs were written for two reasons - self justification and revenge. He might have added therapy while he was at it, had he been living in a post Freudian age. Regardless on whether the people in question are interesting in themselves, there are not that many compelling autobiographies (telling your own life is messy in a ( Read more... )

Because US politics provide less angst for me than European politics: on twitter, JMS (i.e. J. Michael Straczkynski, for you non B5lers) has not only urged anyone who ever liked one of the shows he's worked on to vote for Bernie Sanders, but has enlisted fictional characters as well by pointing out that Peter Parker and Superman (he said Superman, ( Read more... )

...currently watching Sense8, and in the middle of a scene wherein two of our heroines spy in the lair apartment of one of the potential (well, pretty obvious at this point) villains, the character played by Freema Aygeman discovers a photo of said villain with a prominent rl character ( Read more... )

Briefly, as conference duties call:

Black Sails:

At last a collection of beautiful icons! The lack of Black Sails icons has been depressing. I used this bunch to rectify the situation immediately. Oh, I should add there's male nudity in some, I suppose, so if your employer frowns on that sort of thing, beware, etc. (The same icon post also ( Read more... )

1.) Patrick Stewart guest stars in season 4 of New Who. Err, I think there were rumours about him being Davros or something like that a few years back? Anyway. I wish. Not necessarily Davros (though any Patrick S. would have been fine!), but oh, I wish. (Especially since I've seen him and David Tennant together on stage.) (I'll never stop boasting ( Read more... )

Aka the one Clint Eastwood did with J. Michael Straczynski, or, as we Babylon 5 fans call him, JMS. Of JMS' post-B5 projects, I'd rank this one pretty high - not his best - that's would be Supreme Power (up to the point where spin-offs were written) - but better than much of his Spider-man run (and I liked much of his Spider-man run, I hasten to ( Read more... )