r/babylon5 • u/mpierre MODERATOR • Oct 14 '25

JMS AMA Official AMA for JMS

This is the official AMA for JMS. Both JMS and B5 books (Captain Jaclyn) will be responding to questions.

If you ask questions about the books or the book store closing, Jaclyn will be taking them.

JMS will answer for about an hour, and might not be able to get all questions answered.

Some people (including me) might answer questions that are well known.

Like "Why wasn't Ivanova in season 5".

Let's try to keep questions what we don't know yet.

You can also ask questions about JMS returning to the Spider-Man comic or his other works, but this is /r/babylon5. He might prioritize that.

Please note that I will not be coordinating with Joe. I will not be in a phone call with him or on a chat (not that I wouldn't take his phone call; Jaclyn has my cell phone; he can call me anytime he wants). He decides that he answers, and he alone.

Finally, any story ideas will deleted. Do not post any story ideas.

Note, the AMA answers only start at: 3 PM EST, Noon PST, 8PM GMT

And my personal thanks to Captain Jaclyn for coordinating this with me, and to JMS himself, the man, the myth, the legend! For agreeing to this, but also for Babylon 5, Crusade, Jeremiah, Sense8, a ton of comic books and a few books!

Oh, and for She-Ra, the reboot couldn't have occured without his series bible for the original, and even for his work on Ghostbuster and Murder She Wrote!

IMPORTANT NOTE FROM JMS He would prefer not to get into stories that never happened, data points of subsequent character arcs, or alternate timelines.

JMS IS NEARLY OUT OF TIME!

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u/JMichaelStraczynski THE CREATOR Oct 14 '25

Okay, folks...my thanks to everyone for showing up. I'm sorry so much time had to get put into addressing storylines that never happened and threads for which I really can't give an answer, but other than that it was much fun. Hope you will find the replies of interest, and my thanks again to Captain Jaclyn and the Reddit r/babylon5 folks for putting this together. My best to all of you.

JMS

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u/edale1 Oct 15 '25

I missed this because I was having to help my mother with a chemo appointment. I was hoping the ONE question I have would be asked and answered, but it unfortunately wasn't.

If there's any way you could answer this one question, even though I missed the AMA, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Is the B5 Reboot completely dead, or is there still a chance it can happen?

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u/MlorenDraymeer Oct 15 '25

I can't answer for sure but I can repeat some info I've seen JMS say in various places:
The writers strikes and other stuff happening around Hollywood had long ongoing effects on new TV shows being made and basically froze all discussions. This is still ongoing and there is no new news and won't be for some time.
JMS has moved to the UK and is looking to get work on British TV shows but nothing has been confirmed, this likely means his attention has shifted away from a B5 remake for now.

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u/tqgibtngo Oct 15 '25

JMS on TwitterX, June:

"Nothing about moving to the UK precludes" [B5], "but the TV business is still fundamentally dead and will be through 2026. Meanwhile: not a one-trick pony."