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A little more B5 script book stuff
But before I get to that, I started posting another fixit WIP over on AO3. This one will probably be about 4 chapters long, most of which is written, but it's kind of a mess so I'm posting it as I finish cleaning them up and filling in the missing parts.
The Living and the Damned - goes AU from the beginning of 5x18, rated mature because there will be tentacles, though things are a bit too dire for that yet.
And speaking of tentacles.
This is technically NOT from the script books; it is from a different set of backstage books that![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sovay turned me onto, written by Jane Killick during the filming of the show. They're full of little backstage tidbits and interviews with the actors/crew about the filming of the show. I would really have DIED to get my hands on this kind of thing back in the pre-ubiquitous-internet days when it was so much harder to find this kind of information on a show. (Still using the script book tag; it's close enough.)
Anyway, what am I starting with? Tentacles! Or more accurately, I mentioned this part in an email tosovay earlier, so I figured I'd post the whole page. (I really need to come up with a better way to get decent pictures of these and/or transcribe them without having to retype the whole thing.)
So I had generally assumed that the "six tentacle dicks" thing with the Centauri was invented on the fly later in the show and the gold statue of Li the passion goddess, with the hermaphrodite genitalia, was a retcon - but no! The original plan was that we'd see the female Centauri equivalent of full frontal - or rather, full back - nudity in episode 3 when Adira gets up from bed.
Well, they tried. I honestly appreciate that the first time we see Centauri genitals, it's the male ones, but at the same time, I like that the show was actually going for HBO-caliber nudity on 1990s network TV - and managed to get away with it in several cases.
Such as this! From the season 5 book, talking about "The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari":
FRANKLIN KEPT PULLING THE TENTADICKS OFF. I also love the general implication of Peter Jurasik getting upstaged by his own (fake rubber) alien genitalia.
I love that the show included those details, though.
The Living and the Damned - goes AU from the beginning of 5x18, rated mature because there will be tentacles, though things are a bit too dire for that yet.
And speaking of tentacles.
This is technically NOT from the script books; it is from a different set of backstage books that
sovay turned me onto, written by Jane Killick during the filming of the show. They're full of little backstage tidbits and interviews with the actors/crew about the filming of the show. I would really have DIED to get my hands on this kind of thing back in the pre-ubiquitous-internet days when it was so much harder to find this kind of information on a show. (Still using the script book tag; it's close enough.)Anyway, what am I starting with? Tentacles! Or more accurately, I mentioned this part in an email to
sovay earlier, so I figured I'd post the whole page. (I really need to come up with a better way to get decent pictures of these and/or transcribe them without having to retype the whole thing.)So I had generally assumed that the "six tentacle dicks" thing with the Centauri was invented on the fly later in the show and the gold statue of Li the passion goddess, with the hermaphrodite genitalia, was a retcon - but no! The original plan was that we'd see the female Centauri equivalent of full frontal - or rather, full back - nudity in episode 3 when Adira gets up from bed.
[Peter Jurasik] "It was in the script. There was supposed to be a shot from my point of view as she walked away from me naked from behind, where we were going to see the female Centauri genitalia, with three little marks down each side of her back. I think when they finally put it together, everybody looked at it and went 'Urgh, we're not going to film this, are we? It looks kinda weird.'"
Well, they tried. I honestly appreciate that the first time we see Centauri genitals, it's the male ones, but at the same time, I like that the show was actually going for HBO-caliber nudity on 1990s network TV - and managed to get away with it in several cases.
Such as this! From the season 5 book, talking about "The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari":
When Franklin pulls back Londo’s shirt to lay the defibrillator paddles on his chest, it reveals Londo’s Centauri genitalia, previously seen only once, cheating at cards in Season One’s “The Quality of Mercy.” “I’m not an actor who has played a lot of romantic stuff, but I guess it’s a little like when you finally get to your romantic scenes and people get giggly and don’t quite know what to do with themselves,” Peter says. “They arrived with great fanfare—the six tentacles came bobbing onto the set and they were placed ceremoniously on my chest. People were moving them all around, and costume people were giggling and pushing them inside my shirt, and makeup people were patting them down with powder, and they became much more important than me or anybody else in the scene for a while. Also, when we did the takes when Rick Biggs, Doctor Franklin, is supposed to tear open Londo’s blouse to reveal them, more than once he tore open the blouse and as he did so got a little tentacle in his hand and yanked one or two of them off!”
FRANKLIN KEPT PULLING THE TENTADICKS OFF. I also love the general implication of Peter Jurasik getting upstaged by his own (fake rubber) alien genitalia.
I love that the show included those details, though.
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also I related this to Joe and I may never get to experience martial relations again L'oLLLLLLLLLLLL XD XDXD
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That's beautiful.
(I still think it would have been extremely neat to have the audience realize only in retrospect that their view of Adira had been X-rated, or would have been if the Centauri bothered with ratings for sexual content, which frankly I cannot imagine they do unless the rating is "needs more.")
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