Niners Unite...around Babylon 5! - The Continuing Arc

[Jan]

Re: First time impressions from the Babylon 5 virgin

LOL! Peter Woodward loves the nice long scenes JMS writes.

 

[Harvey]

Re: First time impressions from the Babylon 5 virgin

Ooh, shiny VFX. Cool beans.

 

[Mal]

Re: First time impressions from the Babylon 5 virgin

after the display of fire, when he looks up, and just slightly smiles - that's when i was finally convinced that this guy was something special. great actor!

 

[Harvey]

Re: First time impressions from the Babylon 5 virgin

I really like Chris Franke's work here, but those organs for the fire scene are a *little* much for me.

 

[Mal]

Re: First time impressions from the Babylon 5 virgin

dead raised up - Day of the Dead!

 

[Harvey]

Re: First time impressions from the Babylon 5 virgin

Does anyone else find the transitions between scenes in this first part to be kind of... lacking? It's just one scene after another, not enough time between them.

 

[The Habs Fan]

Re: First time impressions from the Babylon 5 virgin

Hirogen Alpha said:
Does anyone else find the transitions between scenes in this first part to be kind of... lacking? It's just one scene after another, not enough time between them.

Yes, there is definitely something missing.

 

[Mal]

Re: First time impressions from the Babylon 5 virgin

for your own safety don't come with me - WTF?!?! she's in earth force, she's supposed to protect civilians like him.

 

[The Habs Fan]

Re: First time impressions from the Babylon 5 virgin

He's a Goa'uld!

 

[Jan]

Re: First time impressions from the Babylon 5 virgin

Are you going to try to fit references to every episode in, Mal? <g>

 

[Harvey]

Re: First time impressions from the Babylon 5 virgin

These actors are good, but does anyone else find it weird having close to a decade without much B5 and then spending a long scene with two characters we've never met before?

 

[Mal]

Re: First time impressions from the Babylon 5 virgin

Tom Riker said:

Hirogen Alpha said:
Does anyone else find the transitions between scenes in this first part to be kind of... lacking? It's just one scene after another, not enough time between them.

Yes, there is definitely something missing.

what's missing... are ads. or cuts to the A story.

 

[Mal]

Re: First time impressions from the Babylon 5 virgin

Jan said:
Are you going to try to fit references to every episode in, Mal? <g>

i can only try

 

[Jan]

Re: First time impressions from the Babylon 5 virgin

Good point, HA. It *is* odd that the compelling story here isn't about Lochley. Seemingly...

 

[Mal]

Re: First time impressions from the Babylon 5 virgin

is it me, or does it seem like we've heard this same dialogue 3 times in these first 21 minutes?

 

[Harvey]

Re: First time impressions from the Babylon 5 virgin

Mal said:

Tom Riker said:

Hirogen Alpha said:
Does anyone else find the transitions between scenes in this first part to be kind of... lacking? It's just one scene after another, not enough time between them.

Yes, there is definitely something missing.

what's missing... are ads. or cuts to the A story.

I can understand why they didn't cut between these two stories. Besides taking place during the same time period (or close to it) they don't really fit together thematically. Which brings me to wonder why they were chosen by JMS to go together in the first place?

 

[Harvey]

Re: First time impressions from the Babylon 5 virgin

Mal said:
is it me, or does it seem like we've heard this same dialogue 3 times in these first 21 minutes?

There is a little bit repetition for my taste. Not to mention the flashbacks (do we really need flashbacks for a 71 minute movie?).

 

[Mal]

Re: First time impressions from the Babylon 5 virgin

Hirogen Alpha said:

Mal said:

Tom Riker said:

Hirogen Alpha said:
Does anyone else find the transitions between scenes in this first part to be kind of... lacking? It's just one scene after another, not enough time between them.

Yes, there is definitely something missing.

what's missing... are ads. or cuts to the A story.

I can understand why they didn't cut between these two stories. Besides taking place during the same time period (or close to it) they don't really fit together thematically. Which brings me to wonder why they were chosen by JMS to go together in the first place?

sometimes the Great Maker uses what we - in our narrow reference think are unrelated stories - to tell a greater story.

 

[Jan]

Re: First time impressions from the Babylon 5 virgin

The connecting theme is 'something wondrous just happened to me - how much is real?'. It's not terribly obvious without the Garibaldi story.

 

[The Habs Fan]

Re: First time impressions from the Babylon 5 virgin

Mal said:
is it me, or does it seem like we've heard this same dialogue 3 times in these first 21 minutes?

I for one am glad that this part of The Lost Tales is only 35 minutes. Imagine if ythey had to pad it out to 43