Babylon 5: The Lost Tales
by J. Michael Straczynski
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Actor: Bruce Boxleitner, Peter Woodward, Tracy ScogginsDirector: J. Michael Straczynski
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 75 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-31
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 112984
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- Times change. Dangers remain. 10 years after he became President of the Interstellar Alliance, Sheridan prepares for a fateful Babylon 5 reunion that could prevent Earth's impending doom.if he will also compromise his core principles. Meanwhile, commander Lochley confronts an unexpected interloper on the way station - a being whose presence makes the B5 freeport the crossroads between heaven and
DVD Reviews of Babylon 5: The Lost Tales
DVD Review: A good start to an experiment...
Summary: 4 Stars
People who are expecting a full-blown movie will be disappointed with this DVD. But then, if you took any single episode of the first season of B5 and expected *it* to be a movie, you'd be disappointed with that too. This is not a movie, it is an episode of a series. Unfortunately, we have no way of knowing what the rest of the series will be like, or how long it might run.
In my mind, this is something of an experiment. Warner is trying to see if it could have a TV series without the bother of having it on TV. They did a good job with special effects, but since this is just a single DVD, they didn't go out and hire a full cast of characters. As one example, it would have been much better to *see* Delenn say "I won't be able to attend", even if that was just a 10-second shot, then to have Sheridan explain that to Lochley. But it would be odd hire the actor for some major character when you're only going to give them a 10-second shot in a single episode.
I liked the two stories. It was nice to see the B5 universe come alive again. I could see this being part of a series where I would rate that as 5-stars, but it's kinda hard to convince myself that this DVD by itself really justifies a 5. I do think it's a good solid 4, though.
I pre-ordered this DVD, and this is good enough that I am sure I'd pre-order the next DVD. I do hope they could film a few of these at a time, though, so we would see a wider range of the main characters. They *could* have had a 10-second shot of Delenn in this episode, for instance, if she was also there to film a major part for some other DVD in the series.
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Okay, I can see where this review probably doesn't tell you much, but I didn't want to give away too much of the plot. Let me say that I thought the first story was more intriguing to me, because I think it's the first time where we see a story on religion where the *religion* might have some basis in fact. Other stories are on "religious people", or the "search to be a better person through religion", but basically we were all supposed to be worshiping the Vorlons anyway, so we never see a story where any earth religion has the slightest bit of truth to the religion itself.
Unfortunately that first story spends too much time on backstory, which was basically saying "For those of you who are B5 fans, let me bring you up to date here...". That was nice to have, but IMO that could have been done as a simple extra feature, via an interview with JMS. I mean "simple" in the sense that it didn't need any special effects or any actors dressed up and in proper lighting. Then the episode itself could have spent more time developing the story. Imagine if someone bought this disc, and had never seen the original series. Most of this first story would have been utter gibberish to them. Might as well have Lockley reading a genealogy of Isaiah, because it's just a bunch of names going by, and the viewer wouldn't know any of them.
The second story was better in some respects, and I thought that Bruce and Peter did very good jobs at stepping back into their characters. But from my view as a long-time fan of the original series, this second story suffers because I already had a good idea what Sheridan would and would not do. I don't want to say more than that though. Note that this probably would be a better story for someone who did not know much about the original series, because they would have been more caught up in the moral issue which Sheridan was faced with.
Still, the DVD was good enough that I was happy with it. The interviews with cast members was enjoyable, at least for anyone who was really into the original series. Those really brought home the feeling of the cast members over the loss of Richard Biggs and Andreas Katsulas. The last time all these people had worked together, they had been working with those two actors who are now forever gone.
So my initial review wasn't too helpful, but after I read all the other reviews I mainly wanted to say that we can't review this as if it is some stand-alone movie. If you're expecting "B5.2: The Wrath of Londo", well, this isn't it. But then, it didn't claim to be a movie. It's a DVD with two "lost tales", where we already know that they hope to do a whole series of other "lost tales".
One complaint that I can agree with is that this is a bit expensive, especially when you consider that it is basically a single episode of the TV series. If you buy season one of the original series, you will be getting 22 episodes for $40-$50. Here you're getting what amounts to a single episode for (say) $15. That is not a great value. I wish they would release these as a digital download for $2 or $3, and then put out a DVD once they had four or five episodes they could package together as a single DVD. (I do still like having the DVD...)
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