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Here's a story that may best illustrate why I'm so happy about how the #B5AnimatedMovie came out and what fans have to look forward to. A few weeks ago, I and @boxleitnerbruce met to do an audio commentary for the movie. Bruce had not yet seen the movie, only snippets a few --
-- seconds long during the final voice session to do little fixes. When he sat beside me in the recording studio, and no one was around, he leaned over and said, "How is it, really?" with eyes that, like my own, had seen so much disappointment over the years.

I said, "Bruce --
-- it's the best thing we've done since the original show, hands down." He seemed pleased and hopeful but still cautious. Then they started the playback, and Bruce's jaw hit the floor and stayed there for the entire thing, punctuated by this great big grin of excitement at --
-- what he was seeing. He got so caught up in it that he kept forgetting to do the commentary, so if there's a lot of me and only some of Bruce in the final version, my apologies, but that's the reason why. He left that room as happy as I've ever seen him. *That's* what's coming

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With word coming Wednesday about the new B5 project, and more announcements soon about comics, audio dramas, the reimagining (post-WGA strike) and more, this seems a good time to remind folks about my Patreon patreon.com/syntheticworlds. Patrons get all the news first as well as --
-- having a front-row seat to those things as they move forward, from hints to concept through art work, excerpts, execution, plus new B5 commentaries, archival photos and all the rest. But most important of all, the reason there is a Patreon page in the first place, is that --
-- their support gives me the freedom to write what I want to write, without studio interference or notes. Their support let me to my next novel THE GLASS BOX, coming out in the Spring, and more. Every day there I work to make sure they know how much they are appreciated. To --
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The other day I heard someone qualified to hold the opinion say that as Alzheimer's progresses, the patient first loses their place in time, then space, then as a person/body...and I started to wonder if Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia start to unhook us from --
-- the ability to perceive the world in a way that impinges on quantum physics. We know that our ability to perceive time can be affected by various factors (velocity, neural issues like dyschronometria or even strong emotion). The ways in which time and space are interlinked --
-- makes sense if time is the first aspect of perception to be affected. Once the connection to time perception is altered, losing one's place in space follows naturally. And we cannot function as humans without a sense of where we are in time and space. So for those who --
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Jul 28, 2022
As with pretty much all of our directors on B5, I didn't know Tony Dow very well. Sometimes the show-runner has to be the Enforcer in terms of the look of a show, and being too friendly can make that difficult. But what I knew of Tony was his absolute dedication to his work and--
--the actors. Whenever we had an episode with a lot of characterization that needed the cast to go deep, Tony's phone rang because as an actor himself, he know how to get to those often difficult places. He was charming in a quiet, low-key kind of way, and there he always --
-- a sense of calm assuredness that told you he knew exactly what he was doing, where he was going, and how he planned to get there. Never saw him flustered, no matter how things were going. He always came to every B5 wrap party and many of the other, more general --
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Jul 13, 2022
You've used the term "agenda" or "agenda swap" several times here, in a way that precludes someone from changing a character because it simply seems like a good idea. If a particular change is made, then in your lights, it's based on having an AGENDA...are you a telepath to --
-- know such things? An arbiter of truth to say that any movement made in one given area cannot -- CANNOT -- be because the storyteller thought, entirely his/her own, that it might be fun to explore -- but can ONLY be influenced by an OUTSIDE AGENDA. This is you trying --
-- to delegitimize and dismiss any change that doesn't line up with your perspective, whether canonical or not. If I said I'd taken the Russian thing as far as I could and still be interesting, and made Ivanova Irish, or Icelandic, would that be AN AGENDA? Or does it only --
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Jun 25, 2022
A SUPREME COURT WORKSHEET
Since you have chosen to apply the standards of the 18th century for how women were treated to the present moment, I wanted to take this opportunity to bring to your attention other aspects of their lives during this time that could be --
-- useful in your future deliberations. Because surely if the one applies, then the rest must as well.

1) Girls went to boarding schools or poverty schools where they learned how to read and write, music, and how to be “charming,” lessons which taught them to be submissive to--
--men to help them land a husband. Women were not permitted to attend most colleges. This should be great for you because by limiting women’s education, per the standards at the time of the Constitution, they will be less able to understand what you're doing on their behalf. --
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Apr 1, 2022
As noted in my profile, I have a Patreon page (patreon.com/syntheticworlds) because for every writer, even in TV, the work is feast-or-famine: you may make a good living one year then not work at all for the next 2-3. So the page was created initially to provide the stability --
-- needed for me to work on passion projects that I might not have the freedom to tackle otherwise.

Since then it’s grown into something rather remarkable: a community. Rather than just putting up posts for passive consumption, we’ve created a give-and-take environment --
-- engaging and encouraging participation more than many other such pages.

In some ways, it’s one-stop-shopping for all things JMS. Patrons get first word about news that’s set to break. They were first to hear about the B5 reboot, and follow along through the development --
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