Babylon 5 - The Legend of the Rangers
by Michael Vejar
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Actor: Alex Zahara, Andreas Katsulas, Dean Marshall, Dylan Neal, Myriam SiroisDirector: Michael Vejar
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Henry Chan
Editor: Stein Myhrstad
Producer: Douglas Netter
Producer: J. Michael Straczynski
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
Producer: Ron McLeod
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-03-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
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- Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers is a two-hour television movie created by J.
DVD Reviews of Babylon 5 - The Legend of the Rangers
DVD Review: babylon review
Summary: 4 Stars
These are a good movie , especially how they incorporate it into the tv series. i highly recommend it to anyone who is curious about the sci-fi adventure.DVD Review: Not as good as TOS, but good all the same.
Summary: 4 Stars
I enjoyed this "pilot" for a new series . . . which never took off. Not as good as Babylon 5 itself, but pretty good all the same. Maybe someday JMS will get another chance to do a series in the B5 Universe, and get a chance to explore this very exciting and hopeful vision of the future.DVD Review: I really wanted to like it.... I really did.
Summary: 3 Stars
Okay, first off I really love B5 as a whole Universe and the main story arc of the series was phenomenal, and even influenced the "other" sci fi franchise to get off their duff and create more linear story telling instead of situational one off stories.
That said, I came to this "Legend..." story fresh, having never seen it before the DVD viewing. The story I thought was going to be told was not the story I saw.
Frankly, I really had no idea what the thrust of the story was going to be, but since this was more a "pilot" from which more stories could be culled and more history could be chronicled, perhaps I would have liked it more had it actually had a run, like Crusade, the follow on series after B5 concluded, picking up the storyline and going with that to find the cure for the plague.
I couldn't get vested in the characters, as they were left a little two dimensional, perhaps to be fleshed out had this become a series.
Well, you see the trend in my report... it was a one off and no series materialised, so we got what we got, a little snapshot into the making of a handful of Rangers at one stage in their "development" or growth or training. But the production values were the standard for B5 universe stories; and the story, taken by itself, is not a bad one either. At least JMS is consistent -- and that does make this worthwhile in that sense.
Was it a waste of time? No, not really. But it does lack in the depth of character and the immediacy elements. Not a die hard fan? Don't buy it. Go with Netflix or Blockbuster and save your money. Worth a watch, sure, at the very least.
DVD Review: I don't understand the hate
Summary: 5 Stars
I still say all these years later that the ideas here had the potential to be a great series. Granted this isn't the best attempt at a pilot ever it has its flaws but the overall concept was sound and a lackluster few hours of something set in the Babylon 5 universe is better then just about any other science fiction you are apt to find.
Overall-Even you haters have to admit that this attempt was still better then most of Crusade or even the latest Babylon 5 offering the "Lost Tales".
DVD Review: Rangers Rock
Summary: 5 Stars
This was a great made for tv movie. I enjoyed it a great deal. I think you probably have to be a B5 fan to enjoy it but it had a good story line. I really want the job as weapons person on their ship. The targeting and firing controls are wicked.
Description of Babylon 5 - The Legend of the Rangers
Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers is a two-hour television movie created by J. Michael Straczynski (original creator of the Babylon 5 series) for the Sci-Fi Channel. The telefilm takes place in 2264 after the wars are over and a new age of space exploration has begun. The Interstellar Alliance has been organized to establish and maintain peace among its member worlds, including Earth. The Rangers are an elite military force made up of hand-picked young, smart, dedicated human and alien members who combine the high-tech elements of space travel with the idealism and honor of the knights of old. They encounter a previously unknown alien race whose lethal power is far greater than any force previously known to Earth or any other world in the Interstellar Alliance.Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers is a two-hour television movie created by J. Michael Straczynski (original creator of the Babylon 5 series) for the Sci-Fi Channel. The telefilm takes place in 2264 after the wars are over and a new age of space exploration has begun. Science-fiction fans are notoriously hard to please, and few have anything good to say about The Legend of the Rangers, produced in 2002 to introduce a spinoff of the popular Babylon 5 TV series. The naysayers have a point. Few elements of this 90-minute pilot, subtitled "To Live and Die in Starlight," will likely be memorialized among the genre's golden moments; the dialogue is often clunky and on-the-nose, the acting is less than stellar, and the effects work, while pretty good, doesn't live up to the standard set by Stargate, Farscape, and others. Nevertheless, there's a reasonably compelling story here, involving the elite Rangers (made up of humans and aliens alike, including the Minbari, who sport "head bones" instead of hair and whose cute little ears are placed on the sides of their necks) and the threat posed to the universe by a mysterious new foe known as "the Hand" (these are some seriously bad dudes, a race that has lain dormant for many years but is now back with a vengeance). Front and center is human Ranger David Martell (played by Dylan Neal). Court-martialed for choosing to save his crew rather then lead them to certain death (in violation of a code mandating that "we do not retreat, whatever the reason"), he's put in command of the Liandra, a ship that's not only funkier than Han Solo's Millennium Falcon but haunted to boot. Of course, as events play out, Martell and his pals end up as the last line of defense against the Hand, not only pitted against these implacable enemies but also dealing with a traitor among the good guys. The themes (honor vs. expediency, dark forces arrayed against peace-seekers, human impetuousness tangling with ancient alien wisdom) are familiar, and the outcome is far from unpredictable. Still, there are a lot less entertaining ways to spend 90 minutes than with Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers. --Sam Graham
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