WizarDru
Adventurer
Kahuna Burger said:BAB5 was a great show, but there is no way in my book to earn the right to say (in almost as many words) "If you don't like what I've done, its because you aren't smart/mature/peceptive enough to understand it."
Well, since I was watching rastB5 during most of it's run, I saw a lot of the "insightful" commentary he put up with while doing the rest of us a favor by being available. JMS may have strong opinions, but I've never interpeted that as being arrogant. In point of fact, he's spent a large amount of time being the opposite. What often occurs though, is that someone will broach something as fact, and then JMS will shoot them down.
A classic example was an actor who guested in a B5 episode in 5th season. Several people loudly commented on what a terrible makeup job the show had done on the character, who was a veteran of the Earth-Minbari war, and bore a scar across his face and deformed part of it. JMS then unsubtly pointed out that they hadn't put ANY makeup on his face, that he was a vietnam veteran who had been wounded during the war, and you could see him in several other movies with the same scars.
JMS doesn't respond to poorly-voiced and rude criticism well, it's true. But he's reacted in much better temper when someone does come at him with a desire to start a fight, IME.