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Babylon 5 - The Lost Tales [2007]
from Warner Home Video
starring Bruce Boxleitner, Tracy Scoggins, Peter Woodward
directed by Michael Straczynski, Sara Barnes

Features:

• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

• Why?
  This DVD offers nothing, either to newcomers or to die-hard fans of B5.
  They two stories could have been set anywhere, in any sci-fi setting and were very very poorly written.
  No new ideas, zero action and terrible production.
  A very cynical attempt to generate as much money from fans as possible for minimum outlay.
  NO STARS.

• Glad to see more of this show.
  Not a feature length piece, more like finding two unseen episodes of series 5. The two pieces are stand alone, relatively slow paced episodes, focusing on a single dilemma in each.
  They lack the interconnected richness of the greatest arc episodes, and of course they lack the full cast and station atmosphere, but I enjoyed them both and was glad for the new additions to the series.
  The cast, old and new, was excellent, the special effects have jumped forward again, and the new look slightly edgy... more info

• Some boring bits of the B5 universe
  I am a huge B5 fan. I watched the series on Channel 4 UK TV and purchased the videos (yes, that's VHS - this was before it became available on DVD). So I bought this DVD with great anticipation that it would be up to the mark. I should have been warned, because Legend of the Rangers - well acted and reasonably entertaining as it is - fell well below the punching level of B5. Lost Tales falls even farther behind. I understand the concept, and theoretically it's a good one, but if these two 40-minute episodes... more info

• I thinks you complain too much...
  Having watched Lost Tales today, I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was (having read the reviews I was expecting far worse). Considering it was made cheaply I thought it was a polished production, the CG was clearly much better than previous attempts (good to see B5 and the old, and some new, ships looking soooo good!).
  Personally I didn't mind the stories being a tad weak, I was just happy to have another 'slice' of the B5 universe. Clearly it's never going to be possible to recreate the 'good... more info

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