Straczynski met Harlan Ellison during this time and would later become friends with him.

She was married to J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5, and wrote articles about Rod Serling's Night Gallery for Twilight Zone Magazine together with him.

In order to avoid the appearance of favoritism, Straczynski had her submit ( rather than be assigned ) a premise, and required it to be approved by others in the production crew other than him.

Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski put it thus: It was made for Kosh, as Delenn points out, was almost a part of him ; it wouldn't function as well, if at all, for anyone else.

In November 1995, Straczynski temporarily left the newsgroup due to an increasing number of flames, but returned in December when a process was put in place to filter the threads that reached him.

When Harlan Ellison decided to leave Hour 25, he contacted writer J. Michael Straczynski and asked him to take over the show as its weekly host.

According to the DVD commentary for the final episode of Babylon 5, " Sleeping in Light ," Straczynski decided not to have David Sheridan appear in that episode, partly because he hadn't figured out how he wanted David to look, and partly because he feared that debuting an important character would detract from the story he wanted to tell in that episode.

Straczynski has been a journalist, reviewer, and investigative reporter, publishing over 500 articles in such publications as the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Writer's Digest, Penthouse, San Diego Magazine, Twilight Zone Magazine, the San Diego Reader, the Los Angeles Reader and Time.

In this area he was a peer of Orson Welles and William N. Robson, and an inspiration to other later radio / TV writers such as Rod Serling, Gene Roddenberry, Norman Lear, J. Michael Straczynski and Yuri Rasovsky.

Whether or not this was intended to be Lyta, Straczynski confirmed Lyta did die in such an attack.

However, according to Straczynski, a movie had also been commissioned along with the series, following in the footsteps of other toy-based animated series such as Transformers and G. I.

In the Season 5 episode " Janine, You've Changed ", it is revealed that her changes were the result of her wishes to a " makeoverus lotsabucks " ( the name likely a swipe at ABC by J. Michael Straczynski ), a demon posing as a fairy godmother ( and even referred to as such by Janine herself ).

Straczynski brought Larry DiTillio on as co-host ; the two hosted Hour 25 for three years, during which time they interviewed such guests as Ray Bradbury, Norman Corwin, John Carpenter, Dean Koontz, Walter Koenig, Neil Gaiman and scores of other writers, directors and actors.

Straczynski left at this point and Janson and Menville took on the story editing job for the second network season.

When Moessinger was hired as executive producer for Murder, She Wrote, he offered Straczynski a job as co-producer.

Straczynski has stated that he thinks Paramount may have used his bible and scripts as the basis for DS9 < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s first season.

Although a third season was considered, series creator J. Michael Straczynski made it clear that if the show ran a further season he would have nothing to do with it.

It was Straczynski who made her an instructor in writing and criminology, and is widely held to have most emphasized her role as a working writer, with all the deadlines and problems involved in that profession.

Like Babylon 5, Crusade was intended to have a five-year story arc, although as Straczynski notes in the DVD commentary for A Call To Arms, it was intended to resolve the Drakh plague after a season or two and move onto other arcs.

Series creator J. Michael Straczynski says that his ultimate fate would be much quieter than Garibaldi could have imagined.

Straczynski claims to have always intended the Battle of the Line storyline to be resolved in early season two: " I said, from the very beginning, that once the series got rolling, no single primary question could be allowed to go more than about one season before answering it, otherwise you get into a frustrating Twin Peaks situation where * nothing * is resolved ".

These properties have included Turner's Fathom which eventually ended up at Aspen Comics ; Joe's Comics, created exclusively for J. Michael Straczynski, which included Rising Stars, Midnight Nation, The Agency, and Obergeist.

While the character was explicitly described as black in the script of the episode Soul Hunter, his first appearance on the show, J. Michael Straczynski was adamant throughout the run of the series that Franklin be a true individual who could have been played by an actor of any race.

In The Babylon Files, a Babylon 5 guidebook, series creator Straczynski said he had considered having G ' Kar have a " revolving-door " series of aides, akin to Murphy Brown.

He would be reunited with his father Audric, but according to Straczynski, Audric would have been killed by Saw Boss as the Monster Minds began a final assault on the galaxy, and in a final battle, Jayce would unite the root and kill Saw Boss, ending the Monster Mind threat forever.

However, in the same discussion, Straczynski also mentions that, " I didn't show a kiss because, in my experience, it's easier on all around if one steps into the shallow end of the pool first, and walks into the deep end rather than diving in and splashing everybody in the process.

J. Michael Straczynski, the show's creator, once explained that he chose the name " Shadows " because of its meaning in Jungian psychology.

According to Straczynski, the WGAw refused because " it ' diminished the value ' of the show and basically made light of the studio.

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Unlike He-Man, no backstory was given with the toys for the Lightning League and the Monster Minds doing battle, and so distinct characters were created by DIC and Straczynski to allow for a structured story ( seen below ).

Straczynski wrote 92 out of the 110 Babylon 5 episodes, notably including an unbroken 59-episode run through the third and fourth seasons, and all but one episode of the fifth season.

Straczynski then developed a show called Spiral Zone but left after only one script when his concept for the show was drastically altered and took his name off the series, substituting the pseudonym " Fettes Grey " ( derived from the names of the grave robbers in The Body Snatcher ).

After one season, the toy company Mattel demanded more input into the show, causing Straczynski to quit.

Straczynski also wrote one episode of Walker, Texas Ranger for Moessinger between the pilot and first season of B5.

Straczynski ran the series for two seasons but was frustrated with the conflicting directions that MGM and Showtime wanted from the show, and even used the pseudonym " Fettes Grey " for the first time since Spiral Zone on one of the scripts.

In June 2008, Daily Variety named Straczynski one of the top Ten Screenwriters to Watch.

Award-winning writer J. Michael Straczynski was also a noted fan of the show, and at one time Lynch and Crocco were planning a sock puppet character voiced by Straczynski until the show was cancelled.

O ' Hare remained with the series for one full season ; both he and series producer J. Michael Straczynski said the decision for the character to depart was mutual and amicable.

* This episode is the only one of the series which was directed by the creator of Babylon 5 ( J. Michael Straczynski ), in which he also made a cameo appearance ( as the maintenance tech who shuts down the lights on the station ).

Described as a stealth version of the Starfury by Straczynski, the Black Omega fighters, attached to Psi Corps, first appeared in the season one episode, " Mind War ", which originally aired in the United States in March 1994.

" Straczynski further explained that actor Michael O ' Hare's departure at the end of season one did not impair the resolution of the storyline: " The only difference in the resolution of that aspect is this: we had originally intended to resolve the missing 24 hours, and the Battle of the Line, by episode four, season two.

Following the first issue, Straczynski wrote team-ups between: Barry Allen and Blackhawk ; the Joker and the Atom ; Hal Jordan and Doctor Fate ; Batman and Brother Power ; Aquaman and Etrigan ; and Barbara Gordon, Wonder Woman, and Zatanna, one that served as a companion piece to Alan Moore's Batman: The Killing Joke graphic novel.

After one full season, both O ' Hare and series executive producer / creator J. Michael Straczynski made the mutual and amicable decision for the character and actor to depart as a regular.

J. Michael Straczynski eventually clarified the point to fans by saying that the narn species will not transend flesh and become energy like the first ones or as seen in one episode humans.