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That’s good you think that about conversations. So many people these days don’t seem to know how to hold conversations. They think it’s all about one person lecturing and monologuing, and when other people reply with their own experiences, they say, ‘hey stop making it about you!’ A conversation should be people sharing experiences and opinions, like we are doing now!

I admire people who can write description, it’s the thing I'm worst at. But some of my recent stories have somehow been easier to write with description! One was because the two guys in it don’t talk very much, they are more men of action, so I had to fill in the description or it would have been a very boring story 🤣

Yes I've always loved Star Wars, well the original trilogy anyway. I'm a bit lukewarm about Star Trek. But I agree, Babylon 5 was streets ahead of both. That’s exactly what I liked about B5—humans were still as horrible as they always have been, they haven’t solved their problems; everyone schemes and argues and struggles. And of course character development is the important thing! Until the 1990s(I think?) shows didn’t seem to have any character development—the characters just stayed the same every episode, especially in sci fi and fantasy. But B5 DID show character development, it was ahead of its time.

I agree about a ‘type’. I've never really had a ‘type’. The closest I get to that is I prefer the more slim/ lanky/ wiry type of man. I don’t really go for chunky or muscly. But there’s always exceptions *cough* Bodie *cough*

So many famous people upset me when they died e.g. Carrie Fisher, Nicky Hayden, Alan Rickman. At the time Lewis died I was too busy with my family and had forgotten about Bodie and Doyle, so I just thought ‘oh that’s sad.’ I saw, however, that Martin Shaw was told very unkindly and suddenly by the press on the day, he was absolutely shaken.

I think Lewis’s ‘problem’ was that he was born too soon. In the 1980s, people couldn’t categorise him into either ‘actor’ or ‘soldier’ so he got rejected by the SAS as well as film directors. Whereas now days there are lots of roles for ‘tough guys with a heart of gold.’ e.g. he’d have been perfect in the Jason Statham series The Transporter, that would have suited him.