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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Boris: [QB] I didn't say it's 100% correct. I just said that you shouldn't need production notes to know what's an error and what isn't, because the show takes precedence over production notes if anybody cares to look at it closer. All you need do is notice bloopers, and 59650 or 1305-E hardly qualify as one. I'll alert you to an "oddity" among some of the best writers, which is that they consider the final result the final result regardless of their intentions. If they don't like it, they don't go out and reedit it -- they write a new story. Although he has revealed some of the intentions behind the B5 story, JMS refuses to accept anything but the final version, right down to the details. If you've read enough of his posts, you'll see that even if he admits to an error, he's not telling anybody how to interpret it, although he does have his own definite views that may be canonized in further stories. If the core concept of the show cannot fit inside the limitations of the medium, the argument is that the original core concept wasn't good enough because it didn't use the limitations of the medium properly -- i.e., you're not a good TV writer, and you shouldn't blame the viewers for misinterpreting you. Low budgets, fears of cancellation, or the inability to go back are no less a valid limitation than the word-count of a novel. They should be used to your advantage -- if most of the viewers expect a simplistic story of good and bad guys, use it to shock them somewhere in the story by turning things upside down. If you've made mistakes that can be rationalized but that contradict some of your concept, use them nevertheless if you care about a good final show more than a good original intention. It's just a show, not a holy vision that has to remain the same from the beginning to the end. And there is no distinction between the details and the big picture -- if you can use the details to your advantage, they become foreshadowing and things that will be noticed on a second viewing. If you do not take responsibility for your creation, you're going to be stuck writing for a show that does not express your views to people who don't know the distinction between error and the intended. Is Star Trek intended for people who know that the Pegasus was to have been a Cheyenne? If it were, the production notes would be aired next to the show. How do you know that it's still considered the Cheyenne among people who create and own Star Trek? I don't know, and I don't pretend to. I just look at what's there and try to explain it a way that doesn't diminish the final result by literring it with "errors." So do many people who are not fans, and come to completely different conclusions than some of us. That's a red flag to me saying that perhaps my perception need not be the perception of the mainstream audience who don't have the production notes and books. Boris [/QB][/QUOTE]
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