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 (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled)
Format: NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 75 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-31
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Bros.
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: Kept the Characters not the Writing
Summary: 2 Stars
I caught a couple of the lost tales that someone posted to YouTube. I own all 5 seasons of the series. They manged to used the characters the sets with poorer productions values. What really blows it is the writing. From what I have seen everything is one dimensional. The depth and complexity that existed in story lines and characters is just not there. The original series is great, some of the movies OK, but The Lost Tales in my opinion can stay lost.DVD Review: A much-deserved tribute, but rather bland
Summary: 4 Stars
Season V of Babylon 5 ended in a way that had us gasping for air, reaching for tissues, and wanting more B5. The Legend of the Rangers and the Crusade series helped keep the dream alive and now Babylon 5: The Lost Series does more of the same.
The year is 2272, ten years after events described in Season V, and the Babylon 5 space station orbiting Epsilon 3 is about to experience some paranormal activity as a station worker finds himself possessed by Asmodeus! In the second part, President Sheridan returns to Babylon 5 with the third-in-line successor to the Centauri throne knowing that as long as the latter lives, Earth's future may in jeopardy...
It is such a pleasure to see Bruce Boxleitner, Tracy Scoggins, and Peter Woodward again though the (evidently) low budget and poor graphics are nothing to be proud of. Moreover, the two stories are told separately which makes the whole thing rather bland. On the other hand, the tribute to the late Andreas Katsulas and Richard Biggs was heart-warming and brought back wonderful memories; may they rest in peace.
Finally, there are a lot of interesting extra features worth viewing, especially the interviews.
In short, Babylon 5: The Lost Series though not a masterpiece is definitely worth watching and adding to your B5 collection. I for one would welcome more lost tales. 3.5 Stars
DVD Review: I love Babylon 5 but not this travesty
Summary: 2 Stars
I've stuck with B5 through it all but no one could have saved this slow motion train wreck. I wasn't impressed with the CGI but I could have forgiven that if the storyline had been compelling. It wasn't. It was complete nonsense.
Aside from a few sparse sets, the entire movie is shot in front of a blue-screen in quality usually reserved for porn. No one looked comfortable and everyone of them appeared to struggle to read from cue cards. Any promise the opening held is nuked within five minutes. It painful to hear how many of the previous actors from the show "couldn't make it."
I love my B5 but these tales should have stayed lost.
DVD Review: Could have stayed lost
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm a huge B5 fan and was dying to see some new episodes so I checked out the Lost Tales. The Lost Tales are two separate stories titled Voices in the Dark: Over Here and Over There respectively. Both lasted 45 minutes, making this a short DVD. The good things are that I got to see some of my favorite characters - Pres Sheridan, Col Lochley and Galen, the new Valen class cruiser was cool, and the special effects are better. However, what was not seen was the problem. We didn't see any other major characters. How can you have a movie without Delenn and Garibaldi? The sets were terrible. There were only about three different locales shown in both tales. They did make a good attempt to explain this in tale 2 by saying that Minbari are minimalists. The extras were neither good or bad and would be the only reason I would buy this. The tributes to Andreas Katsulas and Richard Biggs are the best parts of the extras. If like me, you must just see some B5 that you haven't seen yet, check your local library or rent it. Maybe there will be more tales in the future and Bester will jump out of some dark corner (or project his mind from a dark corner).DVD Review: What a shame!
Summary: 1 Stars
Compared to the original series this film is really very weak.
It is made of two episodes, none of them even good.
Description of Babylon 5 - The Lost Tales
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 hell. In Voices in the Dark, Series creator J. Michael Straczynski reunites with stars Bruce Boxleitner and Tracy Scoggins in two richly imagined stories set after the events of the original series. Richly imagined, too, is Straczynski's vision of the 23rd century (including a dazzling New York City) - a vision made more spectacular via filmmaking technology unavailable during the original series.It'd be hard for any Babylon 5 fan not to feel a surge of emotion when President Sheridan (Bruce Boxleitner) returns to the space station that was the setting of one of the monumental series in television history. The Lost Tales is a new direct-to-DVD series in an anthology format, the first installment of which, subtitled "Voices in the Dark," includes two stories centering on the return of Sheridan. The first involves Colonel Lochley (Tracy Scoggins) and a crewman (Bruce Ramsay) who appears to be possessed by a demon, to the bewilderment of the priest attempting an exorcism (Alan Scarfe). The second involves Sheridan himself, who upon returning to B5 is asked to pick up a delegate from the Centauri, prince Regent Vintari (Keegan MacIntosh), who's attending the 10th anniversary celebration of the Interstellar Alliance in the place of old Centauri friend Londo Molari. What Sheridan doesn't expect is a psychic visit by techno-mage Galen (Peter Woodward) urging him to kill the boy before he becomes a dictator. It's a treat to see Sheridan, Lochley, and Galen return from the original series (Woodward was also in the spin-off, Crusade), but The Lost Tales focuses on character-driven stories, and as such there's not a lot of action. The CGI effects are good, but sets are very limited and there are hardly any other cast members. (Sheridan even spends most of his time away from B5.) Creator-writer J. Michael Straczynski has said that if The Lost Tales succeeds, future stories might focus on Delenn or Garbibaldi. While that would be welcome, it might be even better to get a feature film (a la Serenity) that would presumably be on more of the epic scale that Babylon 5 deserves. Bonus features are 17 minutes of off-the-cuff interviews held on the set with Boxleitner and Straczynski, Scoggins and the crew, and Straczynski with Woodward; memorials to late cast members Andreas Katsulas and Richard Biggs; and Straczynski's diaries and fireside chats, in which he recounts the show's production and answers fan questions. --David Horiuchi DVD features
- Interviews with J. Michael Straczynski, Bruce Boxleitner, Tracy Scoggins, and Peter Woodward
- Memorials: Andreas Katsulas and Richard Biggs
- The Straczynski Diaries: a multi-part series of vignettes as filmed by J. Michael Straczynski as he documents every phase of pre-production, production and post
- Fireside Chats: profiling the people of the B5 universe
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