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General Lost Tales Review and Discussion
I have watched B5: Lost Tales.... lets just say I have a friend in the retail industry who got an advanced copy.
The good and bad:
The bad:
Very few actors in the whole thing... up to 5 or 6 only. Story seems to be very limited with the lack of the multitude of sets from the original show. It comes across as more of a test than an actual B5 story. Some shots look VERY blue-screen'ish.
The Good:
The intro will make some of you cry again (as i did), as it is a recreation of the end of "Sleeping in Light" (I cry multiple times even to this day when watching that episode) with G'kar doing a voice-over. Beautifully done!
The visuals, CGI, animation are VERY good. Much better than the original series and everything we have always wanted the show to look like all these years. Babylon 5 itself looks great with lots of detail, even up close. No more LEGO looking pieces or lo-res textures. You even see the words BABYLON 5 on the outer hull of the docking station. Something that was lacking on the original show, and a detail I never thought about...
The ships all also look much better with immensly more detail, and they get real close to the Starfurys to show it! They show a lot of the ships from the show, though very briefly!
The jumpgate and vortex look much better. Quantum space (faster than hyper space) looks cool.
Chris Frankes music is also nice to hear again!
The acting is good, just wish there were more main characters to see...
All in all pretty good, but seems very limited compared to what it should be, but i still liked it. I wanted more of everything which is good. That includes more DVDs!
To those who are wondering my name is Terry Hagerty. I've been a B5 nut since the very beginning. I have made mutiple B5 creations in Lightwave including a Narn Jumpgate, Drazi Sunhawk, and a Vorlon Fighter.
[url]http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-6414094234410701090[/url]
You can see these at the various B5 sites that feature such things. I have seen them used by various different people's web pages. I hope they need to use one of my models for reference for a future episode! I was making B5 animation with my little Amiga 1200 (with 10 megs of ram, ooooooh!), way back during the first season, but have since upgraded a little!;)
By the way. I am very thankful for this site. The only current reference to B5 I usualy get. Thank you!
The good and bad:
The bad:
Very few actors in the whole thing... up to 5 or 6 only. Story seems to be very limited with the lack of the multitude of sets from the original show. It comes across as more of a test than an actual B5 story. Some shots look VERY blue-screen'ish.
The Good:
The intro will make some of you cry again (as i did), as it is a recreation of the end of "Sleeping in Light" (I cry multiple times even to this day when watching that episode) with G'kar doing a voice-over. Beautifully done!
The visuals, CGI, animation are VERY good. Much better than the original series and everything we have always wanted the show to look like all these years. Babylon 5 itself looks great with lots of detail, even up close. No more LEGO looking pieces or lo-res textures. You even see the words BABYLON 5 on the outer hull of the docking station. Something that was lacking on the original show, and a detail I never thought about...
The ships all also look much better with immensly more detail, and they get real close to the Starfurys to show it! They show a lot of the ships from the show, though very briefly!
The jumpgate and vortex look much better. Quantum space (faster than hyper space) looks cool.
Chris Frankes music is also nice to hear again!
The acting is good, just wish there were more main characters to see...
All in all pretty good, but seems very limited compared to what it should be, but i still liked it. I wanted more of everything which is good. That includes more DVDs!
To those who are wondering my name is Terry Hagerty. I've been a B5 nut since the very beginning. I have made mutiple B5 creations in Lightwave including a Narn Jumpgate, Drazi Sunhawk, and a Vorlon Fighter.
[url]http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-6414094234410701090[/url]
You can see these at the various B5 sites that feature such things. I have seen them used by various different people's web pages. I hope they need to use one of my models for reference for a future episode! I was making B5 animation with my little Amiga 1200 (with 10 megs of ram, ooooooh!), way back during the first season, but have since upgraded a little!;)
By the way. I am very thankful for this site. The only current reference to B5 I usualy get. Thank you!
Comments
Yeah, its awesome. Sure there were some issues with it (I'll describe them in more detail after people have seen them) but overall......it was good. The FX was awesome, naturally.
SPOILER (I don't know how to do tags)
[SIZE="1"][COLOR="DarkOrchid"]wtf is up with quantum space?[/COLOR][/SIZE]
...at Best Buy...which comes with a "Best Buy exclusive" mini graphic novel/comic...that nearly made me cry. Haven't had a chance to watch the show yet.
I'm not sure it really matters though, I don't think JMS was thinking too much about chronological integrity when he wrote it. :)
Ok, just finished watching it.....words fail me; I cant describe how good it was to see Babylon 5 again. It was like seeing an old dear friend again for the first time in too many years; it was like picking up where we left off. I honestly can't think of anything wrong with TLT apart from it being too short.
Spoiler: It would have been nice to see Garibaldi and the others too, but who know's, we may yet. When Sheridan talked about G'Kar and then later Franklin being beyond the Rim, I will confess there were a few tears
Both stories were short but interesting, almost like teasers. I really really hope more will be produced.
Worf
It was awesome!!!!!
Only bad part was that it was only 71 minutes long.....:(
I think there will be more of these to come.
Worf
Or, what if they are souls of somekind? The Soulhunters said, that once a soul is lost (not taken) then it's lost forever. But maybe that's because they aren't all that fancy enough to understand everything in the universe. Clearly an old species, but they aren't among the first ones to my knowledge? So maybe these things.. are souls on a level/plane that even Soulhunters can't understand.
Going by this method of thinking, it could mean they are human souls - the very human souls that were meant to be reborn into human bodies, however ended up being unable to due to the fact that Minbari souls were being sent to human bodies.. I know, crazy..haha[/SPOILER]