Customer Reviews:

• More FUN
  Probably THE most underrated science fiction series in the history of science fiction entertainment. Two more chapters to the story. Bravo!...more info
• Now appearing Off-Broadway...
  I just saw the B5: Lost Tales DVD. While it is nice to see new B5 stories, the two presented in this series are more suited for a stage adaptation. There is very little of the epic sweep that the series had.
  
  Essentially, each story is an extended conversation between two or three characters. While the conversations are occasionally interesting, they really don't remind me of the glory days of B5. They remind me more of the off-off Broadway shows I see in downtown. Low budget, one or two set pieces, people sitting around and talking.
  
  (And really - after ten years, the first new offical B5 story features Tracey Scoggins and a priest? I like Lochley okay, but she is probably one of the least essential characters in regards to the B5 mythology. What, Claudia Christian and Jerry Doyle were too busy? C'mon now!)
  
  I really hope that JMS is gearing up for something more epic. I give it 3 stars due to my love of the franchise, but want something more next time....more info
• For old fans and a few new
  It's tragic that JMS didn't take the opportunity for a feature film. The Lost Tales are between the television show, made for tv movies, and a feature film.
  
  The graphics are amazing, a big step up from the already formidable graphics of the past. The acting, writing and sets are as you would expect for this type of release. Some of the writing leaves too little to the imagination. The acting is good, if rusty for the B5 universe. The sets had to be completely redone due to the old ones all being stolen, so they're not the ones that had 5+ years of work that the originals had. The new ones do however look good and add new elements to the older themes of B5.
  
  The soundtrack was perfect, Christopher Frank was the man to do the soundtrack and it fit exactly. The soundtrack combined with the graphics, the inside references and nostalgia. If you have seen B5 in the past but never really got into it, this is for you. If you were half the geek that I was (am) then you will love it. You will look past the 8 years of rust and see how momentus this is. Babylon 5 is among the top Sci-Fi stories ever, TV, movie, or print and this movie hints at the depth of the universe and gives me enough of a taste to really look forward to more work.
  
  I was broken when the series ended, and attempts to continue it failed. I was nearly in tears to see that the studios hadn't forgotten about B5. This is a great thing for the story....more info
• Somewhat underwelming.
  A DVD with a real split personality, in part the CGI is really good, yet in some scenes they appear almost to have done away with sets to cut the budget. Part one in particular is almost reminiscent of a stage play, with three characters in one or two Spartan rooms pontificating endlessly on religion. Commander Lockley has come up against what she for reasons implausible and somewhat out of context for the B5 world, has decided is a case of demonic possession. She sends for one of the last priests in circulation, apparently they're dying out as humanity loses faith. Odd as Commander Sinclair could fill a corridor with assorted religious dignitaries and Sheriden had Brother Theo and his order, but then again, I suppose that's Valen and the President being more on the ball than the replacement. The whole thing is long winded and accompanied by really irritating camera work and a poor sound track. Perhaps it's only for B5 completists, but even they will be wondering what's going on as the quite overt religious element is so at odds with B5 as we know it that it really jars. Perhaps JMS has had a crisis of faith that triggered it.
  Part two is more familiar, President Sheriden is on his way to a conference when the Technomage Galen crops up doing his Cassandra imitation with more portents of doom and destruction. Apparently Emperor Cartagias son is due become emperor to revamp the Centauri republic and will destroy earth to remove an obstacle to his goal. The simple solution to this is to pre-emptively assassinate the youth before he grows into this monster. Sheriden agonises about killing off the young man before coming up with an alternative, less homicidal solution.
  While I'm glad that there's more material in the B5 verse, I can't say that it's that impressive, as a DVD the two stories don't gel in any way and only the second one shows any potential to add to the story arc. Neither would have made particularly good episodes and I'm sure that if JMS puts his mind to it he can write a single cohesive film length script better than this, even considering the clearly crippling budgetary constraints that have reduced cast and set to the barest minimum.
  As has been mentioned in other reviews, the obituaries of Andreas Katsulas and Richard Biggs are poignant and easily the most moving parts of the disk....more info
• BAB5 DVD review
  This DVD has two episodes, the first one is really interesting (great) and the second one is good. I don't want to say any more so as to not spoil the movie....more info
• not their best effort
  While not terrible a few minor points really bothered me. I liked the memorials for G'kar and Dr. Franklin but the actor who play Zathras has also passed beyond the rim. Rather tacky/insensitive to skip him.
  
  Second, in the scene mentioning all the charactors who couldn't make it they never mention Ivonava. I know about the big falling out between her and JMS but the FANS still loved her. Going out of their way to snub her again just makes JMS seem small and petty....more info
• An enjoyable look into a sliver of the B5 universe
  Where the Babylon 5 storyline is the video version of a multi-book series, this is a couple of short stories using a few characters in that universe.
  
  If you're looking either for a continuation of the main story, or for grand space adventure, you'll be disappointed. That isn't what this is.
  
  This is a short look at a very small part of the B5 universe. The two stories are only very loosely related, and either story could stand on its own. While the budget constraints are apparent, they're well acted and thought provoking.
  
  The extra features are mostly interviews, which some folks like and others ignore. There's no "B5 Game" or blooper reel. Just some interesting insights into the thinking of Mr. Straczynski and the actors involved in the series.
  
  Overall, those B5 fans that were primarily drawn to the action and combat facets of the series may be disappointed, but those that enjoyed the thought-provoking aspects of the series will also enjoy this.
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• Still Great Babylon 5!
  True, it's "bare bones" Babylon 5, but the writing is great, the stories compelling and it satisfied my hunger for more after the last Babylon 5 episodes. Also included are some fun, silly clips of Straczynski, the actors and crew. The memorials to the actors Andreas Katsulas and Richard Biggs were meaningful to me. Glad I bought "The Lost Tales" to complete my Babylon 5 Collection....more info
• Theists vs. atheists!
  I have to admit that I was never a fan of the TV series. I might have watched a few episodes when there was nothing else interesting on TV, but I never watched a complete season or felt the urge to buy or rent a complete season.
  
  Since I love watching sci-fi, I decided to buy this movie. Wow!!!!!! I loved it.
  
  This movie is really two different stories, and reminded me a little bit of the twilight zone. The first story deals with a demon, and was just amazing in its spiritual and religious message. The second story revolved around the ethical question of whether killing a person who might grow up to be a monster is ethical. If we knew that baby Hitler and baby Genghis Khan will grow up to be monsters, would it have been justified to kill them while they were still young and innocent? Can the future really be changed? Is hope always lean and on a diet?
  
  Though the second story was good but nothing really special, it is the first story of the demon that wins a five star rating. I have recently been reading a lot about religion, especially books by atheists. I am not an atheist, but I was very interested in how atheists think. Some of their arguments are pretty convincing. For example, why does God allow so much pain? The question of pain and suffering is what sways most people towards atheism. This movie tackles this problem wonderfully.
  
  The plot of the first story is as follows: Since man has journeyed deep in space, and found no angels and no God, his faith diminished to the point that priests became rare. However, a priest is called upon when a man is suspected of being possessed by a demonic spirit while aboard Babylon 5. The dialogue between the priest and the commander of Babylon 5 about God and atheism is just inspiring. It pretty much sums up everything I have been reading about atheism. But as you will see in the movie, the story takes a sharp twist. Is the demon really a demon? Do demons live in space, or were they cast away somewhere else by God? What's God's divine plan in creating demons in the first place?
  
  This movie will tackle many theological questions, and this makes it quite unique by sci-fi standards. This is a movie I'm sure I'll watch many times....more info
• Other stuff beside saving the Galaxy
  I did not like Babylon 5 back in 93 when it all started. I thought that it was a Star Trek DS9 rip off. Was I ever wrong. Although I will always love Star Trek, Babylon 5 gave me a future that had real people who were not all self actualized. This was dirty and gritty and people were not always the heros we thought they were. So what does that have to do with... the lost tales? Glad you asked. I have enjoyed visiting B5 and seeing how the President of the Interplanitary alliance deals with the future including The Great Sentaurie Republic.How the commander of B5 deal with the cross roads of religion and reality.
  I recomend this DVD. The actors provided the performance that we have come to expect from people who know there parts and have developed a relationship with then. The story was short. But, this was not the main feature it was "The Lost Tales". The fact that there are demons both internal and external was fun. The special effect were much improved over those of the show. Ten years results in a great deal of progress.
  JMS you need to give us more. There is very little that seems to be smart or well exicuted that puts forward a story that has an epic feel like the original B5. I know this was never plannned to be a deep space franchise but there is more to be told. The first World War gave rise to the Second World War. The Galaxy of B5 has only started to be explored ( I hope). I just hope that this DVD breaks the dollar amount needed to get another made (unlike Fire Fly another good show cut down by people who did not understand it. I look foward to the next DVD release. I'm sure it will come "when the time is right". ...more info
• Tales That Need to Stay Lost
  When I saw that a reunion for B5 was about to be released, I jumped on it at once. I barely read the description and didn't bother to wait for reviews. Pre-order it had to be. Didn't care what was going to be on it. It was B5. That's all I needed to know.
  
  I should have waited. i've never been so disappointed in my life. The greatest has fallen.
  
  Firstly...I didn't know that Richard Biggs and that Andreas Kasulas had died...not until actually two full months after watching Lost Tales, nor did I even see that there WERE special features on this disc. Yes, the lost tales are THAT bad that you don't want to even look for the special features!! Okay, well, I did look for the making of, but that whole interview with Tracy Scoggins...it was so bad that no, i didn't notice anything about a memorial.
  
  Second...this "beyond the rim" as a memorial for Richard biggs as a metaphor for death. I think MJS needs to watch B5's final episode again! Because you see if you want to say that Dr. Frankin is dead 10 years after Sheridan and Delean move the Alliance to Mimbar, you have a SERIOUS continuity error. How then is he ALIVE for the big party right before Sheridan takes his ship out for the "sunday drive"???
  
  You can't have it both ways. RICHARD BIGGS is dead...but his character is alive at the time of that story...he's just busy with some project.
  
  Third...the Tales themselves are terrible. Low budget, minimalist. The idea here was to bring back the cast for a reunion. but the writing was bad, only sheridan, lockley, and Galen, came back, and there was no real set to speak of. in other words, it was an amature job.
  
  the fans deserve better. B5 deserves better. If MJS didn't have the budget and couldn't get his entire surviving cast together right now for the project, he just shouldn't have done it yet. WAIT...do it when everyone IS available and you have the budget to do the job right. Have respect for the fans and do a proper movie for us. Give us Giddeon, Delean, Vir, Natoth, Lockely, Sheridan, Molari. Maybe let us meet David Sheridan.
  
  we deserve better....more info
• Babylon 5 - The Lost Tales
  JMS never disappoints me. It was nice to see some of my old friends again. The extras on those who are no longer with us touched my heart. They will be missed but not forgotten, they live on in the parallel universe that is Babylon 5....more info
• great gift
  Babylon 5 - The Lost Tales
  This was a gift for my husband that completed his collection of the Babylon 5 Series. He loved it. I loved the ease of finding it on Amazon.com and it was delivered in the time given....more info
• Disappointing...but I want more
  As preparations are made for the 10th anniversary of Babylon 5, President John Sheridan (Bruce Boxleitner) receives advice from the techno-mage Galen (Peter Woodward) to assassinate a Centauri prince (Keegan MacIntosh) he is escorting, and Colonel Lochley (Tracey Scoggins) deals with what appears to be a case of demonic possession.
  
  This first installment of a potential direct-to-DVD series was clearly shot on the cheap. The sets are spare and extras are almost non-existent, making creator JM Straczynski's universe feel positively abandoned. The lack of a budget is also reflected in the short running time. On the plus side, the CGI is terrific. Hopefully, any future installments will feature a bit more action, as these two stories are extremely talky, particularly Lochley's section. It is my impression that the fans have gotten behind this release despite the aforementioned problems, so maybe Straczynski will have a bigger budget next time.
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• Well done science fiction
  This release is one of the better Babylon films, it embodies much to think about, as well as great acting, and a provocative plot, with enough memorabilia to satiate the taste of Babylon 5 fans, as well as new viewers. I was thoroughly satisfied with both the content, script, writing and settings, I believe this will satisfy most, if not all science fiction fans....more info
• Taints the original...
  Unless mine is the first negative review you are reading, you already have a good idea of the negatives: tedious, erratic acting, cheap sets, cheap cast, predictable, contrary to established canon, the pacing of a piece of decaying meat, well-duh flashbacks from a couple minutes previous, painful DVD extras.
  
  We literally had to have a family debate after watching the first section over whether we would even bother with the second. I won out using the argument that we just need to get the pain over with so the DVD can be shelved...forever.
  
  We are now rewatching the series for the upteenth time in an attempt to purify our memories of B5. I honestly do not know if we would even watch another installment of The Lost Tales were it free. It hurts....more info
• Really only for the completist. Make sure to watch the special features
  When I first got into B5, I was so excited that there was a show that actually allowed its characters to change and develop over time. It was a show that actually had a beginning, middle and end all planned out at the beginning. It was a show where Villains could become Victims and then Holy Men. The comic relief could turn evil and then tragically heroic. Things actually happened. At the time, science fiction was trapped in the permanent Star Trek loop where everything had to return to normal at the end of the episode and nothing could ever change too much. After the show, there came a lot of shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Fifth Season (Slim Set) and Lost - The Complete First Season specifically created to change and develop over time. You could say that this is part of the DVD revolution where producers are forced to create shows that people can watch all at once like a novel, but I still say that Babylon Five was the first.
  
  So I loved the show. And I really wish that Crusade - The Complete Series had the chance to develop as a series. To this day it's one of the great "unfinished" series like Firefly - The Complete Series or Freaks and Geeks: The Complete Scripts, Volume 1 (Newmarket Shooting Script) - shows that really needed more time to develop (although Freaks & Geeks really ended well). And I had high hopes for the movies and the Rangers pilot (which I still haven't seen.) And I read the later books that fleshed out the fates of the Technomages, the Centauri Empire and Bester. It was so nice to see books that were linked to the series that actually stayed with the series and didn't read like bad fan fiction. Not only was the show exciting in its own right, the episode at the end of season 4 that went 1000 years in the future to tell us what happened to this universe was particularly compelling.
  
  So what about this show? It's disappointing. The MAIN strength in B5 was the way it allowed the characters to change and develop over time. There were many weaknesses and many weak episodes, but overall it was a better than the sum of its parts. You aren't going to get that with this DVD. JMS says that he is only interested in writing self-contained short stories. He's not interested in painting on a huge canvas. The Telepath War might one day get told in a feature film but that's been coming for years. The two stories are clever and character-driven but they don't read like self-contained stories that aren't much better than merely passable episodes from the series. Lochley encounters a demon and has a lot of discussions about theology. Sheridan is presented with a dilemma similar to the one presented in The City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay that Became the Classic Star Trek Episode; but not as compelling. It's an hour and fifteen minutes of merely ok television.
  
  Peter Woodward has some great scenes with Bruce Boxleitner and I do love the fact that Sheridan reacts to the Technomage with frustrated crabbiness. B5 was always great for touches where you think that people are going to react one way because that's the way the react in all these stories and they don't. In the case of Sheridan, he gets cranky about the technomages pushing him around and Galen gets sarcastic. The line "No. I'm just showing you this because it's inevitable and I want to see your expression." is perfect.
  
  However, the special features are great. JMS talking about how he saw that the extras playing the various aliens ate with their fellow aliens at lunch when they were on break. He even took a Narn extra and made him into a Centauri and watched what happened (apparently the former Narn spent one day eating with his old Narn comrades and then went over to the Centauri lunch table. And please note that these are the ACTORS playing the Narns and Centauri. On their breaks.) The running joke abotu sock puppets is great. And the memorial to Richard Biggs and Andreas Katulas is heartbreaking. JMS is a warm and funny individual and his interviews make me miss the days when I used to go to the Lurker's Guide every day for new insights into the previous shows.
  
  So overall. The show itself is disappointing, but if you're a B5 fan, the extras do make the DVD worth buying. ...more info
• don't buy borrow someones
  If you have money to blow and need one last DVD on the shelf so you don't have a space... actually I think you should still buy something else....more info
• Worthwhile for the B5 Fan
  I enjoyed the Lost Tales. It takes place during Cmdr Lochley's post on B5. There are some references to the late actors who played G'kar and Dr. Franklin. The video is pretty much two short stories. One that focuses around Lochley and the other around Sheridan. Although I was satisfied with the production of the two pieces (the B5 station looked incredible with the current CGI) it did keep me wishing for more of the cast members to show up.
  For me the part that made the disc worthwhile was the obituary videos for Richard Biggs (Dr. Stephen Franklin) and Andreas Katsulas (G'Kar). Both were very poignent and gave the impression of how much of a family all the actors had become because of their B5 experience....more info
• Wonderful - more please!
  I loved this, after nearly 10 years some new stories out of the Babylon 5 universe. Sure the small budget meant there were not a lot of actors in it but all those who were played their parts really well and JMS's wonderful story telling makes it a compelling and enjoyable watch.
  
  Watching the special features it is clear that this is the first in what JMS (and all us fans) hope is a collection of new stories out of the B5 universe, only by buying this DVD can we prove to Warner Brothers that it is worth giving JMS the money (and hopefully more) to create even more and bigger episodes. Bring on the revival!
  
  The new CGI is amazing - B5 has never looked so good - the models of the station and other ships are wonderful and it was really heart warming seeing the "shining beacon in space" again at the start of the episode. Also due to the advances in technology we get some nice scenes of some characters in the huge docking bays and some cool new StarFury angles and movement.
  
  Christopher Franke is back doing the music again and the new B5 "Main title" score is really upbeat, joyous, and just generally uplifting with its trumpets, strings, and choir voices. First thing I'm doing after writing this review is buying the soundtrack.
  
  As well as the 2-part story / episode on the disc there are a good number of special features with a memorial to Rick and Andreas, interviews with the three main actors, JMS answering some questions, and doing a bit of a diary with this whole sock puppet joke in it.
  
  Remember that Warner Bros only gave JMS a small budget for this so the episode is not on a grand scale like some in the original series - this is a new beginning, a test of the water, and if this DVD sells well then we will get more.
  
  Apparently there was to be a story with Garibaldi which has been held for the future, this I would love to see. Londo was great so it would be wonderful to see him again and while I'm asking, something to do with the telepaths (Bester especially) would be nice too.
  
  As I said in the title, more please....more info
• I didn't expect much and was pleasantly surprised.
  I read some reviews of these "lost tales", and I really didn't expect everything that was Babylon 5 to be rebuilt just for a ten year anniversary "something or other" DVD, so I didn't expect a whole lot when I sat down to watch this.
  
  That said, I was pleasantly surprised at the first story that merged religion and sci-fi in a way that isn't done very often, and I also enjoyed the second episode which at least let us see some great special effects that really did remind me of the original series.
  
  But these two vignettes (for lack of a better term) are really about the characters, not the special effects, and I for one thought they were both well written, even if the acting did appear a bit strained at times (like it's easy to just jump back into a character you haven't played in ten years).
  
  I started watching Babylon 5 from the pilot movie in 1993, and I attended the Babcon convention in 1996 in London, and I can completly understand the disappointment so many feel at seeing only three characters brought back in such a minimalist treatment of the grand Bab-5 universe.
  
  So, my advice is to somehow get to view this without paying full retail. Each episode is only a bit over a half-hour, and if you're a lifelong Babylon-5 fan you're likely to enjoy it if only for the bittersweet memories of those few years back in the 1990s when you couldn't wait for the next episode, and you felt so smart because so many of your friends simply didn't "get it" and perhaps couldn't "get it" if they tried because you had to really think about this show and preferably watch it from the beginning to "get it" at all.
  
  Well, those days are gone, so consider this a postcard from some old friends you haven't seen for ten years. Perhaps the best attitude is to just be glad it's here at all.
  
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• Ok, but so-so
  Not the old B5 crew by any means. Plots were a bit slow and there was no mystery. ...more info
• Don't waste your time
  Without a doubt the WORST Babylon 5 production ever!
  
  This low budget straight-to-DVD movie was such a disappointment that I almost didn't even watch it all the way to the end. The noisy, densely populated (remember 250,000 humans and aliens?) Babylon 5 space station now seems eerily silent. You never see more than three people in a room and most of those people don't have any speaking parts.
  
  There's no real action in this movie and we have far more monologue than we do dialog. The sets are minimalist as is the cast. There are only three characters that you'll recognize from the show, and the rest of the cast comes to five or six people.
  
  The first part of the movie is a preachy, heavily religious piece of script that was pointless and a waste of time. It was painful to watch and it was easily the worst script Tracy Scoggins has ever been forced to read.
  
  Bruce Boxleitner doesn't show up until almost halfway into the movie and his lines aren't much better.
  
  The movie is only an hour and twelve minutes long, however the story unwinds so slowly and is so painful to watch it seems more like three hours and twelve minutes.
  
  The ending is extremely anti-climactic and even as the ending credits are rolling down the screen, you find yourself asking, "is that it? They call that an ending?"
  
  If you're desperate for a Babylon 5 fix, go and re-watch some of the old episodes. "The Lost Tales" should have remained lost!...more info
• Back to Babylon
  While obviously made with a low budget compared to the old series it was a welcome treat to see some of the characters again. Hopefully more of these will be made and enough interest built up to someday generate a full length movie or new series....more info
• The Lost Tales
  Inspiring stories, imaginative and well written, and reminders of why Babylon 5 was a program of notably high quality in the first place. As "The Lost Tales" went straight to DVD, without ever having been aired, this was a loss indeed to many who would have enjoyed it. It was good to see the familiar characters again....more info
• It may be "B5 on a budget," but that isn't the problem.
  Others have referred to this as "B5 on a budget." It might be that, but it's not an excuse (or a reason, I suspect) for the quality the first installment of "The Lost Tales." Before sitting down to watch it, my wife and I hadn't watched any B5 for two years or so. We watched it with someone who has never seen any B5, not much of a fan of movies or TV, let alone science fiction. She mercilessly ripped it apart, and made fun of it. It was sort of embarassing, in a way. At the end of that episode, we were all making fun of it, and I had a feeling that maybe B5 in general is just as bad, that I'd changed since watching it all through, that my tastes had changed.
  
  I'm not sure what to say about the first episode. It was like a Twilight Zone or Star Trek episode missing the good part. I always appreciated B5 because it occasionally dealt with supernaturally things in an interesting, unclich¨¦d way. "Soul Hunter," for instance. However, this was like some Trek "omg parallel universe!" episode that is never mentioned again, but with evil spirits. I think JMS would do well to read the Lurker's Guide for "Soul Hunter"- the JMS of then has some ideas that JMS of today might find useful.
  
  The second episode was a ton better, and more what I expected and hoped for a first try of "The Lost Tales." Not wonderful, but it had all the right stuff. It didn't make any moral statements, but it made you think about the choice that Sheridan had made and the consequences of that choice.
  
  The big upside, as far as I'm concerned, is that it has greatly increased my appreciation for B5. I've often said to folks (including the non-B5 viewer mentioned above) about B5 who haven't seen it that while the first season is a bit cheesy and rough, it's well worth sticking with it for the long-haul. A couple days ago, a month after watching "The Lost Tales," I started to watch season one again on Joost and even the first couple episodes are great, far better than I remember. I was overjoyed to find out that B5 does indeed rule, even the first episodes of the first season!
  
  In short, even with the quality of the first episode being very low, I'd happily buy the next couple installments, if they are produced. I just hope making the first one is the warm-up that JMS needed to get back into the B5 universe....more info
• B5 Lost Tales - Lost something?
  I was sad to see that as good as this was it just wasn't up to the standards I had come to expect from the series. The fact that there was such a limited cast is where it lost the most richness. I enjoyed the performance of the actors that were there, and they did an excellent job of returning to the characters they had played years before. However it seemed like they streatched the little script they had to make up the time for the movie. Also I had been under the impression that there were three story lines and I only could find two, that joined later, so I don't really consider that a 3rd storyline....more info
• B5 - Lost Tales
  I'm a huge Babylon 5 fan. I've gotten all the DVD's, watched every episode, and I even have most of the books. (To Dream in the City of Sorrows, is my favorite). I watched this series when it first came on the air and followed all the way till now, but after Legend of the Rangers I was sure I would never get a new B5 offering. For a series with a scope, character, and depth of story that B5 offered this was a sad day. Then I heard about Lost Tales and I jumped for joy.
  
  I got my copy of the DVD as fast as it became available and I was not disappointed. The first story I found intriguing in concept and redone special effects were impressive. However, to me the Lost Tales didn't come alive till we reached Sheridan and Galen. The interaction between these two was as impressive as ever. Galen's mysterious nature and double talk were as well written and acted as ever. Lost Tales has left me breathless and craving more DVD's. Hopefully we'll finally get to see the Telepath War and maybe hopefully a continuation of Ivanova's story line.
  
  If you are a first time B5 watcher this is not the place to start, but if you have seen everything else this is a great chance to rejoin the B5 universe....more info
• An enjoyable treat for B5 Fans
  I loved the original series and was disappointed by the first episode which could be titled Lochley meets the Exorcist. It was boring and preachy. I may be tainted as Lochley was never my favorite character and I always considered her as "the part of Susan Ivanova will now be played by Tracy Scoggins" due to the contract dispute between JMS and Claudia Christian.
  
  The second installment is more like the original series. Plots within Plots within Plots, usually with Sheridan in the middle. It appears that JMS is stretching the history of the Earth Alliance out beyond the reign of Centauri Emperor Vir. Perhaps one day we will see David Sheridan and Prince Vintari take up the mantle of leadership for good or bad.
  
  I enjoyed the production over all but it seemed like something was missing. Hopefully there will be a new episode soon with Jerry Doyle and Walter Koenig reprising their roles to bring the Mr. Bester Arc to a close....more info
• Return to Babylon 5
  I missed the release of this video and saw a question posted about it on a Babylon 5 list. The video was quickly added to my cart at Amazon and I eagerly awaited it's arrival - the first Babylon 5 movie in many years. The stories were enjoyable, though you can tell they were written to minimize the use of the original cast. The sets were on par, the acting was of the expected good quality, and the CGI was better than the original series. Since the setting was 10 years after the end of the original Babylon 5 series and the stories were written to be stand alone, there can't be as much depth as we were used to in the series. Overall, I rate this movie as a B+ due to the minimising of cast members and shallow story line. However, I really enjoyed seeing new stories from the Babylon 5 universe and recommend the movie as an enjoyable experience. I hope this movie is just to test the waters to see if there is enough interest to continue producing additional B5 movies. If so, I hope all who are interested show their support so more movies are produced....more info