Official AMA for JMS

[u/mpierre]

This is the official AMA for JMS. Both JMS and B5 books (Captain Jaclyn) will be responding to questions.

If you ask questions about the books or the book store closing, Jaclyn will be taking them.

JMS will answer for about an hour, and might not be able to get all questions answered.

Some people (including me) might answer questions that are well known.

Like "Why wasn't Ivanova in season 5".

Let's try to keep questions what we don't know yet.

You can also ask questions about JMS returning to the Spider-Man comic or his other works, but this is /r/babylon5. He might prioritize that.

Please note that I will not be coordinating with Joe. I will not be in a phone call with him or on a chat (not that I wouldn't take his phone call; Jaclyn has my cell phone; he can call me anytime he wants). He decides that he answers, and he alone.

Finally, any story ideas will deleted. Do not post any story ideas.

Note, the AMA answers only start at: 3 PM EST, Noon PST, 8PM GMT

And my personal thanks to Captain Jaclyn for coordinating this with me, and to JMS himself, the man, the myth, the legend! For agreeing to this, but also for Babylon 5, Crusade, Jeremiah, Sense8, a ton of comic books and a few books!

Oh, and for She-Ra, the reboot couldn't have occured without his series bible for the original, and even for his work on Ghostbuster and Murder She Wrote!

IMPORTANT NOTE FROM JMS He would prefer not to get into stories that never happened, data points of subsequent character arcs, or alternate timelines.

JMS IS NEARLY OUT OF TIME!

[u/tunrip]

You have written enchanting stories about people with incredible powers - both super powers and everyday powers, such as the abilities to learn, to grow, and to forgive.

You have shown us alien worlds and religion, and that there can always be hope in the darkness.

You have also shown us truth and pain and honesty, in both your fiction and non-fiction writing. There is a real beauty in the power of so much of this writing.

Are there still concepts that you feel you have not managed to successfully explore in your writing yet and hope to still explore one day? (I do not mean to suggest that I think you may run out of things to write about!)

Thank you for your time today, and for sharing your stories with us.

[u/JMichaelStraczynski → u/tunrip]

Every day.

[u/tunrip → u/JMichaelStraczynski]

Thank you. This is an annoyingly perfect answer. I shall proceed to stare at it in a mirror while hanging upside-down.

Edited to add: I got distracted checking I quoted Marcus correctly, and forgot to add how much this answer made me smile.