Re: jms in toronto

>>On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:39:33 -0400, Amy Guskin wrote
(in article <0001HW.BF39E7F3008C5C54F0284550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

>>> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 08:44:56 -0400, Methuselah Jones wrote
> (in article <Xns96C258D88A891methuselahaltgeekorg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
>
>> Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of
>> Tippi of rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated make plain:
>>
>>> He told the G'kar fake script story again, and although I've read it
>>> here, it's most hilarious when he tells it in person!
>>
>> What story is that? I found a brief mention of it on Google, but it didn't
>> give much detail.<<
>
> Shortish version of The Famous B5 Joke Script Story(tm):
>
> Sometime during the run of the show a bunch of the actors and JMS were at a
> con. Peter and Andreas were on stage and Joe was up next. He was obviously
> out of earshot, though, because Peter and Andreas asked the audience to _not
> react_ when Joe came on stage. To not applaud, not laugh, not give him
> _anything_. So Andreas and Peter finished up, JMS comes onstage, this
> audience has been wildly screaming for all B5 personage all weekend long, JMS

> gets to the mic and says "Hi, I'm Joe Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5!"
> Which is greeted by...total silence. Nothing.
>
> Joe is of course aghast. Nothing he says evokes _any_ reaction. Then he
> notices Peter and Andreas in the back of the room, laughing themselves sick.

> Joe's a smart guy, ya know, so he very quickly figures out what they did.
>
> Someone else will have to fill you in on what he said exactly, but I think he

> called them out on the prank and ended with a menacing, "Never, _ever_ f&*#
> with the writer." He promised to exact revenge on them...some day.
>
> Personally, I would have left the country! :-)
>
> Okay, so some months go by, and they're now filming late season 4, including
> "The Exercise of Vital Powers." Scripts go out to the cast. Including a
> script that cuts out the b-story of G'Kar getting the prosthetic eye fitted,
> which is what we ultimately saw on screen. In place of that b-story is
> another one: one in which G'Kar has decided to do something radical to be a
> bridge between the Narn and the Centauri. He undergoes a sex change and
> becomes a _female_ Narn. <<

Replying to myself to add an important bit I'd forgotten to mention: G'Kar
figured on being a bridge between the races by getting the sex change in
order to _offer himself to Londo_. I guess you probably figured that out by
the rest of the story, but it seemed important enough to mention.

Amy

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