Fair be the wind to thee

[dragonyphoenix]

Jeff Conaway, who starred in the sitcom Taxi, played Kenickie in the movie musical Grease, and as Zack Allan was one of my favorite Babylon 5 characters, died Friday.

"I don't know where actors go after they die, but I know people who help other people have a nice place to go. And I would like to go there if I can." - Los Angeles Times in a January 2011 interview

Comments

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

I don't see Joss ever creating the kind of foreshadowed and interwoven plot that Strazynski can. This is the guy who wrote the whole gypsy-vengeance speech because he needed a way to explain the moment-of-happiness clause on Angel's curse. Not that it didn't work out well, but he's more like "oops, I need to explain this" as he goes guy rather than thinking it out ahead guy.

[valyssia]

Yeah, but 'wow' can he assemble and ensemble cast, or what? And his characters are just...

Beautiful stuff!

Both cases are beautiful. The things that shine, really shine.

As someone who spends a heck of a lot of time twisting plots, I have to tout Straczynski. It's some serious, back breaking work to carry a story over seasons and maintain that kind of control...or I can only imagine it is. The man has my respect.

But back to the point of the post...

Hearing that one of the original B5 cast had passed on was indeed sad news.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

It strikes me as slightly odd that I know him better from B5 than from Grease, which my sister really got into, watching it multiple times, but yeah, not a happy thing.