B5 & Mongoose - Straczynski not pleased

[TwistedBishop]

Didn't Warner Brothers give them those scripts to use?

They never come out and say one way or another. The notes and scripts were stored in the same area online.

 

[TwistedBishop]

It is, indeed, a conclusion people are coming to after the fact, not something that's 100% clear in the original source.

The reason Mongoose is coming off as deceitful in this is because of how vague they were, always in their favor. When the writer himself has to correct your statements to disconnect himself with your work, you're giving the wrong impression.

 

[Remus Lupin]

The reason Mongoose is coming off as deceitful in this is because of how vague they were, always in their favor. When the writer himself has to correct your statements to disconnect himself with your work, you're giving the wrong impression.

You know, there is another explaination in all of this -- It's possible that Mongoose was trying to be diplomatic (something that Straczynski doesn't seem to have much interest in). I can imagine that if I were having a tense sitiuation with someone, and was asked about it publicly, I might respond in the same vague terms. Saying we have "less and less" input from Straczynski allows both us and him to save face, versus saying "He's a twit and we can't work with him! Good riddance!"

From what I gather from all of this, Straczynski is a bit of murcurial temperment, and I would guess is hard to work with in any circumstances. He apparently wasn't eager to let the diplomatic approach suceed in papering over the differences.

 

[MojoGM]

JMS is acting like a jerk in my opinon.

Good riddance to him, Warner should just let Mongoose do what they do with B5 and we can keep getting good products.

Sure, he created it, but if Legend of the Rangers is any indication of JMS's storytelling abilities now, B5 is better off without him now.

And for the record I did hear the original podcast, and Matt NEVER said JMS was giving input on the novels. He VERY politely said that JMS is a very busy man with a lot of projects and that they'd like to get input from him.

Sounded to me like they were just trying to be nice. I would not want to work with him.