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J. Michael Straczynski

@straczynski

Jul 30

Haven't had a chance to give a report on my appearance at SDCC , so in brief: it was pretty amazing. Great responses to the Dark Horse announcement, the Captain America unveiling, and in particular, the screening of The Road Home. The only complication to the latter was that--

-- so many events/screenings had to be canceled due to the SAG strike that a lot of people assumed TRH was also canceled. (There were many tweets to that effect right here in the days leading up to SDCC that further added to the confusion.) Despite this, however, there --

-- was still an audience of well over a thousand fans by the end (more kept coming as they realized it was still on). Heard the next day from *so* many who were upset when they learned the Saturday premiere had happened and couldn't make the Sunday screening. For those who--

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J. Michael Straczynski

@straczynski

May 14

Okay, so I don't have enough background in science of any form, let alone physics, to put forth a credible opinion about anydamnthing, but I did have a thought, and I wanted to pass it along to see if anyone else picks it up. By now it looks solid certain that the --

-- universe wasn't created in a Big Bang, but rather a "Big Crunch" or "Big Bounce" when a prior universe got too crowded and crumbles under its own mass, sparking a *massive* black hole/singularity that crunches everything down, and then rebirths it into the next universe --

-- which got me thinking about the current black holes that are absolutely ubiquitous, and the questions about why they are there, what's their purpose, do they wormhole to other places...and that's when a thought occurred to me. We know that energy cannot be created or --

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J. Michael Straczynski

@straczynski

May 4

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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 --

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J. Michael Straczynski

@straczynski

May 2

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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J. Michael Straczynski

@straczynski

Sep 28, 2022

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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J. Michael Straczynski

@straczynski

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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