Babylon 5: The Lost Tales

[Kimiden]

Yeah but at the same time it's all MIGHTS, given the chance to do more B5 so long after it's finish I expected something....more. nothing EPIC but something that had to do with what we already wanted to see.

It's only the trial run here. This is just to see if people would actually give enough of a damn to make more. Now if sales go well, we'll get more epic stories...and it has to when it gets to covering the Big Three (Tepe War, Drahk Conflict/Fall of Centauri Prime and the Ending of Crusade).

Just hang in there till then I guess

 

[Keith Justice]

On the one side I am ALL about more B5, but I just don't see it happening. Critically I can't recommend this for buying. The budget for this was VERY shoe string and that's why we got so little, but I thought the quality of story was excellent and compressed. They did two great stories in what little time and budget they had.

I doubt they could've gathered enough money at this point to make a true B5 story that really dug into the universe again.

I absolutely loved the story of the first and very much enjoyed getting to hang with Sheridan again.

I just feel like even your average geek won't find this worth buying and your average muggle definately won't even see this as a blip on the radar. I hope my DL off LIVE counts for something and I hope something crazy happens that we get ourselves another B5 series. If anything this video reminded me in a pretty big way how much I miss hanging out in the B5 universe.

 

[Mega Ranger]

well hey. I bought the DVD the day it came out so I made my contribution, I just didn't like the stories at all.

 

[Skyknight]

Just got the DVD.

Out of both episodes, I found "Over There" the best and the one with the most potential as a movie...but then it just ended. I'm sorry, Galen should never have five minutes in between the opening and ending acts. He was stealing the whole short anyway. Then we have Sheridan mumbling his way through an assasination attempt. No apparitions of Delenn or Kosh representing his conscience etc, which would have been interesting. The ending was almost sickening. "I'll change the mind of a mass murderer by asking him to be a nine year old's big brother?", I couldnt BELEIVE what I was hearing.

"Centauri in the neighbourhood, lives down stairs and it's understood..."

I suspect the "thirty years" aspect will be resolved in a Crusade story, this is'nt just about B5.

Doctor Who handled the "devil" concept far better in "The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit". And c'mon, Devils are hitchers? JMS ripped THAT out of Doctor Who too (Paul Cornell's comic strip "Fellow Travelers", see if you can read it)

The extras were entertaining, but very shoestring,they couldnt even use footage of Andrew and Biggs as G'Kar and Franklin except for photos. Using G'Kar's voice in the intro though was awesome.

The Lost Tales shouldnt be an anthology, it should concentrate on ONE story as ONE movie. Hopefully JMS realizes what works, and what doesnt. People want the B5 he never told when he could have in season five, they DONT want to see well...season five

"Over Here" ***/2

"Over There" ****