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From time to time folks will see a discussion of my work and say "I didn't know you worked on (fill in the gap)", or don't know I worked on *anything* after the 90s. Hence, this video, updated for 2026, but which doesn't have the upcoming new movies.
youtu.be/w_aP30AI7ts
To bastardize Victor Buono I was born properly, sufficiently, and despite Raymond Burr and a few hysterical shepherds, quietly.
Told a friend I was looking forward to seeing the new Godzilla movie, and noted that we are the same age, released into the world the same year.
There was a pause, then "Well THAT explains a whole fuck of a lot."
Exactly. He put the show together on his own, and wanted to use the character of Drake but didn't want to bring in one of the execs from Danger Man. He could only do it legally by never using that name, or he'd be being sued for breach. In the scripts he was just P.
Of course not. The program (and I'm just going off what I was told) had been in trials for quite a while, and had previously had a #1 during that time. So no, the whole place wasn't just lying or pretending.
This misses the point of the change: he wanted to do the Prisoner without being saddled with one of the people from Danger Man, so he had to say it wasn't Drake, and keep on saying it. If he said otherwise, it would probably open him up to a lawsuit.
Basically, yeah. And you have references to "six of one" in the show. Once you realize the full context of the backstory, a lot that happens in the show suddenly makes a ton of sense.
The conversation didn't go that deep into the first part of the show but one could assume he was acting for the cameras, or that he was seeing it for the firs time in person. Either way you would have to sell the audience on the idea that this was confusing or risk giving it away
After squeaking my way through college with a 3.0 GPA I'm lucky to be teaching anybody anydamnedthing.
110-Episode Space Opera Is A Masterclass In Sci-Fi Storytelling screenrant.com/babylon-5-mas…
@straczynski Great article
J. Michael Straczynski retweeted
Okay, since so many have inquired (with some taking hostages) here's what I figured out about the Prisoner that was confirmed by one of the key cast members.
1) Yes, it's the same character from Danger Man, but McGoohan didn't want to use that name because it would have meant --
Not consciously, no, but there's rarely ever a straight line in anything. Whatever a writer experiences becomes like water in the fishbowl. you're just swimming, doing your thing, and the water is the water. But was there a conscious effort? No.
@straczynski Was Sebastian’s skepticism for the so-called chosen influenced by the Christian fundamentalists you described in your memoir?
No that's a fairly common device.
@straczynski did you purposely put easter eggs of Scarecrow and Mrs. King into Babylon 5 because of Bruce Boxlietner? For example, the near miss kiss.
Or as the locals call it, Vancouver.
Just started a complete rewatch of Jeremiah on DVD, only ever seen the 1st season before as Season 2 never got a showing in the UK. Really enjoying it again, but couldn't help noticing that it seemed to be shot in brutal weather, torrential rain and snowstorms !!! @straczynski
The bottom-of-act-one "oh shit" moment in every demon-possessed-doll movie ever made.
Not falling for it.
Again.
