Let's continue after last week's blockbuster statement by Peter and Micheal from an audience question.
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Micheal... It's amazing that ANYTHING gets on [television] at all.
Peter... You need real power [to get a program on.]
Micheal... Or you're f***ing insane, and they don't mess with you.
Audience question on rating system for television shows.
Micheal... If you don't know what your kids are watching [you are not doing your job as a parent]. [I think] television should show consequenses and you see people get hurt, and show the funeral, don't sanitize it. There was the story of this man who bludgeoned another man and then was going to throw him out the window, [and claim the injury was caused by the fall]. The police arrived and there was blood all over the guy's apartment. He saw it on television and he thought he could get away with it, because on television there's no blood.
Peter....In Annie, [the movie version, one of the characters] said G** D*** three times, so the rating would be put up to PG, because G [rating] is death to a movie. Either cartoons are violent and they're demented and insane; or they are okay, and this invalidates their violence. What was Ben Franklin's line?
Audience question to the panel on which television shows they watch.
Micheal... I watch the Simpsons. Hey, a Simpsons/Babylon 5 crossover [would be great. They've crossed over to everything else.] I watched Lenny, but decided if I kept watching it [I would get too depressed]. I watched X-files for a while, but the story got too convoluted... And I should talk! [about the Babylon 5 storyline].
Peter..... I watch Babylon 5 {watches for reaction}, Space Cases, I like The Practice, but I hated Peter Kelly, too good looking, and I like Friends, oh, and Xena Warrior Princess. I got the Xena doll and my 5 year old daughter wanted it. She [Peter's daughter] saw the back of the package and said "Daddy, there's a Hercules Doll" I said "Yes, that's right" and she said "Why don't you buy me that [Hercules] doll" and I said "Yeah " and she said "Then we'll trade."
Audience question to Peter if the experience of writing for Space Cases has soured him to writing for television.
