B5 Post Series Movie: In The Beginning

[Starfleet Engineer]

This was a pretty good movie. I was concerned because I thought I remembered people saying that all the post-series stuff was bad. I enjoyed this. When was it originally broadcast? Is this indicative of the quality of the rest of post series stuff?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

This was a pretty good movie. I was concerned because I thought I remembered people saying that all the post-series stuff was bad. I enjoyed this. When was it originally broadcast?

January 4, 1998.

 

[RoJoHen]

It was okay, except we already knew pretty much everything that had happened.

"Thirdspace" was okay, but ultimately forgettable. And "River of Souls" was pretty lame.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Wrong forum, there champ.

 

[RoJoHen]

I believe he means:

"Wrong forum there, champ."

Commas are tricky little buggers.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

I stand corrected.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Wrong forum indeed. Engage Jump Gate!

 

[Hyperspace05]

"In the Beginning" is considered to be the strongest of the post-show TV movies.

"A Call to Arms" is very good as well, IMO. But the rest are fluff... Entertaining but not important.

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

Sorry for the nitpick, but why it is called a post-series movie? "In the Beginning" and "Thirdspace" were produced and broadcast between Seasons 4 and 5.

 

[Neroon]

Engineer, The Luker's Guide To Babylon 5 is your friend.

Redshirt, the term isn't used universally, but I'd guess that the term itself comes from the fact that the films were all produced towards the end of the series, released in 1998 for the most part.

 

[Forbin]

This was a pretty good movie. I was concerned because I thought I remembered people saying that all the post-series stuff was bad. I enjoyed this. When was it originally broadcast? Is this indicative of the quality of the rest of post series stuff?

ItB was financed by TNT network, when B5 moved from PTEN to TNT after season 4, as an introduction to the series for viewers who may not have seen any of the first 4 seasons. It was broadcast on TNT before season 5 premiered.

I think it's the best of the movies. The rest varied from okay (Thirdspace) to kinda ridiculous (River of Souls). Call to Arms is very good, but I think of it more as a pilot eposde for Crusade than a "B5 movie."

 

[Starfleet Engineer]

Sorry for the nitpick, but why it is called a post-series movie? "In the Beginning" and "Thirdspace" were produced and broadcast between Seasons 4 and 5.

I just finished watching the series DVDs for the first time and this TV movie wasn't part of those, so I thought it was a post-series movie. That's one reason why I asked about when it was broadcast. Now I know ITB and Thirdspace, which I'm about to watch, aren't "post series." Thanks.

 

[John Clark]

I have to say, In The Beginning was my favourite of the movies

 

[Harvey]

In The Beginning is by far the best of the TV movies. Call To Arms is also rather good, as is Thirdspace, IMO. River of Souls and Legend of the Rangers are both awful. Crusade is good, but entirely incomplete (and since Call to Arms is a prelude to that, the feeling of incompleteness is mutual). The Lost Tales was only okay.

 

[Mistral]

In The Beginning is by far the best of the TV movies. Call To Arms is also rather good, as is Thirdspace, IMO. River of Souls and Legend of the Rangers are both awful. Crusade is good, but entirely incomplete (and since Call to Arms is a prelude to that, the feeling of incompleteness is mutual). The Lost Tales was only okay.

Listen to this man-a more honest assesment you will not find.

 

[Jan]

Listen to this man-a more honest assesment you will not find.

Honest, perhaps. Correct? Only if your tastes actually match his. Mine don't.

I don't care for Thirdspace much simply because it wasn't to my taste. I did like River of Souls and A Call to Arms was okay. I loved Crusade and hate to this day that it was shot in the cradle. I saw a lot of potential in Legend of the Rangers and liked Lost Tales well enough to wish there'd been more (with a much better budget).

Jan

 

[Mysterion]

I have to say, In The Beginning was my favourite of the movies

I agree. Especially for Londo's monologue about humans and how they fight.

 

[Stone_Cold_Sisko]

In the Beginning is the only one I'd watch again and isn't completely forgettable. Pretty good with some good gravitas.

 

[Colonel Midnight]

I have to say, In The Beginning was my favourite of the movies

I agree. Especially for Londo's monologue about humans and how they fight.

Indeed... Especially with Christopher Franke's score at that particular instant. *zoinks* Talk about a tear-jerker!

Cheers,
-CM-

 

[Neroon]

jms himself has described that scene as possibly the most moving in the entire series. Can't say I disagree with him. All of it blends together seamlessly. The harp and pipes, Londo's voice, the woman in the bunker desperately clinging to the man as he gets up to go face his death......