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Interviews: Ask J. Michael Straczynski What You Will
He has written for many different comic book titles including Superman and The Amazing Spider-Man, and wrote the screenplay for the Academy Award-nominated movie Changeling, but J. Michael Straczynski (jms) is probably best known as being the creator, writer, and producer of Babylon 5. Recently, jms has teamed up with the Wachowskis and Netflix to create a new original sci-fi series, Sense8, coming out in late 2014. Straczynski has agreed to take a few minutes from writing sci-fi epics in order to answer any questions you may have. As usual, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one question per post.
As the emergence of more Philip K. Dick movies (and remakes) indicate, there's a lot of great sleeper sci-fi out there.
Who's your favorite writer that no one else seems to be enjoying?
My work here is dung.
Seriously? B5 was awesome in Season 4, and although Season 5 was kind of a letdown as a whole, it also had a few really good episodes.
No, it was always meant to be five seasons. The renewal for the fifth season came very late, though, so some of what should have been in the fifth season got moved up to the end of the fourth. If the renewal had been definite earlier, the fourth season would have ended about four episodes earlier, story-wise.