DC>> How big is the socitey now?
AJH> Well last year we managed to get up to about 180 members over the
Honest ? Were these Volunteers or is this by using you don't come to the video
evening unless you join tactics
AJH> course of the year. This year they've started (I believe) at about
AJH> 50-60. I depends who you ask!
DC>> Is Opus the Penguim or the Lemmin a committee member?
AJH> Nope, we had a lot of trouble last year with the constitution. On
last year ? how about the year before, the year before that....
AJH> the bright side our constitution now reads like a legal document and
No more arguements. Wahooo ! Now who knows the meaning of the word
interpretation ?
AJH> has less loopholes than Judge Death's justice. As such inanimate objects,
JD justice may have had no loopholes. Doesn't mean it was right.........
AJH> non-members, dead people etc cannont hold post's on the executive
AJH> committee.
Ah, the funs just gone out of life, and
IFIS AGMs in particular.
The days where we made the OHP publicity officer and where we gave out free
beer and all got roaringly drunk are now sadly in the past.
Happy, happy, days.
Although to be fair, the present democratic methods do allows for a fair and
honest vote, the old process of I nominate Bloggs, and Bloggs having to do the
Job like it or not was quite fun.
[Old Fogey mode engage] I remember when I was a student..........
DC>> Wasn't ID4 predicable?
Yes
DC>> Was "Balylon 5" just "Chtulhu in Space"?
PI> Blasphemy blasphemy! Kill the unbeliever !
I offer a bounty of 200 silver pieces for the head of Danial Celano for the
heinous sin of badmouthing B5. :-)
Seriously though the accusations that B5 is derivative can be levied at
virtually anything.
(TNG = original Trek, Voyager = Lost in space & battlestar galactica, Seaquest
= Voyage to the bottom of the Sea. Dr Who had an entire season of ripping off
old horror films)
Malcolm Hulke, who wrote for Dr Who used to say "All you need to write for TV
is an original idea. It just doesn't have to be your one though.............."
B5 has just managed to fuse together so many things so well that everyone sees
something they recognise. I see Lord of the Rings & Biblical influences, Dan
Celano sees Cthulu, other see star wars, prisoner, B7 etc. But there's no
denying that B5 is occupting us and engaging our minds in a manner that TNG
never did. OK, yes TNG did have some plot strands running through the show,
Trois relationships (yawn) Worf's honour, Maquis, but with most of them you got
the feeling it was a make it up as you go along process sort of bolting bits on
as you went. I'm not trying to badmouth TNG cos without it prooving that good
(IE not tacky - virtualy any 80s sci fi) sci fi could be done I doubt if many
of the things we see on TV now, B5 among them would have been able to take
place.
Philip
