From: jmsatb5@aol.com (Jms at B5)
Subject: Claudia Confirms She Quit
To: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Date: 5/9/1998 5:18:00 AM
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To those folks who have been ragging on me when I said that Claudia was the one who quit the show, that she was NOT fired, and calling into question my honesty and my forthrightness...I point you toward the Summer issue of Sci Fi Invasion, containing an interview with Claudia wherein she confirms, point blank, without equivocation, that she quit the show.
I would hope these same individuals would now have the spine to apologize, but I very much doubt it.
jms
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From: jmsatb5@aol.com (Jms at B5)
Subject: Re: Claudia Confirms She Quit
To: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Date: 5/11/1998 12:48:00 AM
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>My >question is Did she quit after the "Marcus sacrificing himself to save her" >part was filmed?
Yes. It was after all the season 4 episodes had been filmed.
jms
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From: jmsatb5@aol.com (Jms at B5)
Subject: Re: Claudia Confirms She Quit
To: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Date: 5/18/1998 8:37:00 AM
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But see, this is where I lose all respect for this kind of discussion. Just about every time we introduce a new character, some folks say he or she is wooden...then, later, this is a good character and THAT character is wooden.
But then there's that word, which is the core of it for me. These days, over-acting is taken as acting...acting which has any kind of subtlety or reality is termed "wooden" when it's simply not chewing up all the scenery in a room.
On a strictly technical basis, my personal feeling is that Tracy is a better performer than Claudia; that's a non-biased appraisal, said in the same way that I can say that Andreas on a strictly technical basis is a better performer than Stephen...though I'd rather not use such words as "better," which gets into subjective appraisals, when some things -- extent of training, skills one brings to the job -- can be more objectively explored.
Bottom line...Ivanova was a yeller; Lochley is a thinker. They are two different characters. You can't look at Lochley and expect her to be the same character or act like Ivanova. That would be an insult to both the character, the actor and the audience.
jms
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