Lost In Space - Netflix reboot

Rewatched series one last week, in time for series 2 and to see what it looked like on my new OLED TV (it looked awesome), and am looking forward to it.

Busy month this December. The Expanse series 4 on the 13th, The Witcher on the 20th and this on the 24th. Plus I still have Watchmen to watch.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
Really looking forward to this, they left it in a great place.
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Aye it made a lot more sense than the original TV series in that it wasn't just a family sent out without any support, but they were part of an expidition/colonisation effort (with the ship basically meant to be their house as well as a life boat/emergency shelter).

mrk said:
Hmm not so sure about Expanse, felt S1 got a little boring mid way through. Does it pick up?
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Very much so, it takes it's time to introduce you to the various characters, the background politics etc and then starts to pay it off as a lot of "little" things turn out to tie together as the authors put a lot of thought into things like the speech patterns of the different groups, or how the different cultures have their own goals and internal as well as external objectives.

It's probably my favourite sci-fi series on TV since B5, and one of my favourite book series regardless of genre, and like B5 the it's relatively slow to start to show what's really going on.
 
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just think what it be like if they decide to give B5 the same HD treatment that they did for ST:TNG, that would be worth rebuying it, but a last I doubt we will get a HD treatment of it.

Season 4 of the expanse lands next week and then the week after Lost in space season 2 lands on Netflix, plus the witcher is out that same week.
 
pecnarf said:
just think what it be like if they decide to give B5 the same HD treatment that they did for ST:TNG
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Sadly that's never going to happen. For the live action footage they can simply extract an HD image from the original 35mm stock, but then they'd have to go through and re-render each and every piece of CGI from scratch - and in Babylon 5 that is going to be one hell of a time consuming and expensive project. Just for reference, Star Trek: TNG took four years and cost North of $20m to re-render, and that has nowhere near the amount of CGI that Babylon 5 has.
 
Malevolence said:
Sadly that's never going to happen. For the live action footage they can simply extract an HD image from the original 35mm stock, but then they'd have to go through and re-render each and every piece of CGI from scratch - and in Babylon 5 that is going to be one hell of a time consuming and expensive project. Just for reference, Star Trek: TNG took four years and cost North of $20m to re-render, and that has nowhere near the amount of CGI that Babylon 5 has.
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It would also require the studio execs to be willing to consider it.

From what I understand from Strazinsky's comments on the matter there is a lot of executive unwillingness to acknowledge it in any way due to the circumstances around it's creation (as part of an attempt at a failed TV channel in collaboration with other companies), which is part of the reason Crusades was deliberately tanked:(
Although we're going off topic:p
 
mrk said:
Hmm not so sure about Expanse, felt S1 got a little boring mid way through. Does it pick up?
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:eek:

Stick with it, it's absolutely fantastic. I must admit not being that taken at first but now I think its one of the best sci fi series around. Can't wait to start S4
 
Malevolence said:
Sadly that's never going to happen. For the live action footage they can simply extract an HD image from the original 35mm stock, but then they'd have to go through and re-render each and every piece of CGI from scratch - and in Babylon 5 that is going to be one hell of a time consuming and expensive project. Just for reference, Star Trek: TNG took four years and cost North of $20m to re-render, and that has nowhere near the amount of CGI that Babylon 5 has.
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The B5 widescreen DVD's were remastered from the 35mm live action stock (it was actually filmed in 16:9 and cropped for 4:3 TVs), but the CGI and special effects were always 4:3 and were cropped and scaled up for the DVD release in a very botched way which introduced lots of shimmering and artefacts, and also spoiled the composition of many shots. Any scenes with special effects composited on (for example the gun firing effects in live action) were noticably blurry too due to the cropping and scaling. Overall they'd have been better just making it 4:3.

However I have seen some pretty good 1080p conversions of SD material - Firefly for instance renders all the effects in 480p,while the live action is 35mm film, but the upscaling on the Blu-Ray is pretty good, and shows a lot of details that weren't visible on the DVD release.
 
Ravenger said:
The B5 widescreen DVD's were remastered from the 35mm live action stock (it was actually filmed in 16:9 and cropped for 4:3 TVs), but the CGI and special effects were always 4:3 and were cropped and scaled up for the DVD release in a very botched way which introduced lots of shimmering and artefacts, and also spoiled the composition of many shots. Any scenes with special effects composited on (for example the gun firing effects in live action) were noticably blurry too due to the cropping and scaling. Overall they'd have been better just making it 4:3.

However I have seen some pretty good 1080p conversions of SD material - Firefly for instance renders all the effects in 480p,while the live action is 35mm film, but the upscaling on the Blu-Ray is pretty good, and shows a lot of details that weren't visible on the DVD release.
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some classics there, wonder if they'd ever do another firefly. Not sure it would have the main 2 in it though as they're pretty famous now:p.
 
So they've kept the mentally unstable psychopath who tried to murder them all locked up in the ship? Yeah, what could possibly go wrong with that? Why did they not just flush her out an airlock?
 
So watched the first four episodes so far.

It's watchable but they are still not technically "lost" yet. With how season 1 ended, I was expecting the whole point of season 2 onward was adventuring across space to find their way back to civilisation. But no, that's all sorted by the start of episode 3.

It's OK, but the lens flare (as stated by Gerard) is ridiculous and seriously needs to be toned down! It's like someone has bought a new effects package for Christmas and has to try them all out at once.
 
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