I was having a look around the web last night and I found a couple of things I thought were interesting. They don't contain real spoiler information unless you still haven't seen deconstruction of falling stars but I'll move it down most of a page for those who are seriously behind on their videos.
Regarding ' intersections in real time'
*Perhaps simply by coincidence, this "1984"esque story is the 84th one-hour episode.
*Taking numerology to an absurd extreme, add episode 84 to room 17 and you get 101, the mystery room number from "1984."
Quote from jms
I don't usually comment on this, but...if I had known *with absolute certainty* that there would be a season 5, then season 4 would have ended with 418, "Intersections in Real Time." So you only pull 4 episodes forward, really. You'll understand when you see it.
(that would have been one hell of a cliffhanger -clyth)
On the subject of ripping off canticle for liebowitz, jms says
It was only when I was about halfway into the act that I thought, "Oh, crud, this is the same area Canticle explored." And for several days I set it aside and strongly considered dropping it, or changing the venue (at one point considered setting it in the ruins of a university, but I couldn't make that work realistically...who'd be supporting a university in the ruins of a major nuclear war? Who'd have the *resources* I needed? The church, or what would at least LOOK like the church. My sense of backstory here is that the Anla-shok moved in and started little "abbeys" all over the place, using the church as cover, but rarely actually a part of it, which was why they had not gotten their recognition, and would never get it. Rome probably didn't even know about them, or knew them only distantly.)
Anyway...at the end of the day, I decided to leave it as it was, since I'd gotten there on an independent road, we'd already had a number of monks on B5, and there's been a LOT of theocratic science fiction written beyond Canticle...Gather Darkness, aspects of Foundation, others.
Other than that there was the news that the final episode ever has been filmed because they didn't know whether or not they were going to get series 5. It was directed by Mr JMS himself.
It apparently contains a scene featuring a mirror and an optical illusion they hadn't expected but really quite liked.
Regarding ' intersections in real time'
*Perhaps simply by coincidence, this "1984"esque story is the 84th one-hour episode.
*Taking numerology to an absurd extreme, add episode 84 to room 17 and you get 101, the mystery room number from "1984."
Quote from jms
I don't usually comment on this, but...if I had known *with absolute certainty* that there would be a season 5, then season 4 would have ended with 418, "Intersections in Real Time." So you only pull 4 episodes forward, really. You'll understand when you see it.
(that would have been one hell of a cliffhanger -clyth)
On the subject of ripping off canticle for liebowitz, jms says
It was only when I was about halfway into the act that I thought, "Oh, crud, this is the same area Canticle explored." And for several days I set it aside and strongly considered dropping it, or changing the venue (at one point considered setting it in the ruins of a university, but I couldn't make that work realistically...who'd be supporting a university in the ruins of a major nuclear war? Who'd have the *resources* I needed? The church, or what would at least LOOK like the church. My sense of backstory here is that the Anla-shok moved in and started little "abbeys" all over the place, using the church as cover, but rarely actually a part of it, which was why they had not gotten their recognition, and would never get it. Rome probably didn't even know about them, or knew them only distantly.)
Anyway...at the end of the day, I decided to leave it as it was, since I'd gotten there on an independent road, we'd already had a number of monks on B5, and there's been a LOT of theocratic science fiction written beyond Canticle...Gather Darkness, aspects of Foundation, others.
Other than that there was the news that the final episode ever has been filmed because they didn't know whether or not they were going to get series 5. It was directed by Mr JMS himself.
It apparently contains a scene featuring a mirror and an optical illusion they hadn't expected but really quite liked.