New Babylon 5 movie

I don't have access to the hbo version in my region. So for me it will great. But it will probably be eye watering expensive on release.
 
After having watched the film, if they do decide on a reboot series I'm certain they've given themselves an option considering the road home ends in the same fashion as the B5 pilot episode
and they never followed the original Sheridan back to his timeline
 
Hmm well it was what it was.
Some "nice" call back, jokes and references for the fans. Its done well enough to fit in with the universe, on a whole.
Its nice to hear the surviving cast voice acting but it made me sad remembering the ones that are missing.
The animation style, i'm not a huge fan. Objects and scenery was great but the characters too gangly and long no age/ felt so blank.
A reboot? Honestly i hope not.
I just hope this stirs up interest for the original series.
id be all up for some more animated film length stuff but i cant see any money in it.

Ill come back when everyone has seen it written their opinions.
 
Havent seen this yet, is it actually worth it, if you can get past the animated side of it?
Or is it a poor shell of what it could have been and just cashing in on the nostalgia feels?
 
I use to watch this religiously back in the day. What a blast from the past, had no idea they were making a movie of it.

I’m not sure if I’ve dreamt this but i seem to recall watching some show that was talking about the tech involved in making the CGI for it. IIRC they had a bunch of Amiga 3000s daisy chained together to do this? Such a long time ago but I remember being fascinated by it.
 
Trig said:
Yeah Amigas were all over stuff back then, using Lightwave...

Titanic was also done on Amigas, and was, IIRC, one of the last films to be Amiga based..
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Oh I had no idea titanic was too, I would’ve assumed it was too recent for that. But I’m getting to the age where i could swear lots of things were more recent than they actually were. The ‘i remember when this was fields’ stage of life :D
 
PitterPatter said:
I use to watch this religiously back in the day. What a blast from the past, had no idea they were making a movie of it.

I’m not sure if I’ve dreamt this but i seem to recall watching some show that was talking about the tech involved in making the CGI for it. IIRC they had a bunch of Amiga 3000s daisy chained together to do this? Such a long time ago but I remember being fascinated by it.
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Yea...the put the cmputers together...made a few scenes, then becaiuse they couldnt save them transferred the scenes stright to VHS...hence..they can't upsacle them for any upscaled series runs, that and all the orginal green screen sets seem to have gone missing. Unless AI can do some magic.
 
Trig said:
Havent seen this yet, is it actually worth it, if you can get past the animated side of it?
Or is it a poor shell of what it could have been and just cashing in on the nostalgia feels?
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Watched it last night, and bit of both tbh. The animation style mostly works, it was only really Lochley I had any trouble working out who the character was supposed to be before somebody named them. While it's a 'new' story, it basic plot is Sheridan gets unstuck in time again and it's an excuse to go revisit stuff.

And honestly, if I was scripting a story like this for a franchise with this many actors passed away, I'd be very wary of scripting too much with characters who are a big ask to live up to. Like
like if I was going to write a scene where somebody takes on the face of a character to talk to Sheridan, I damn sure wouldn't use G'kar if I didn't have an actor capable of at least a passable imitation. Ditto the Franklin and WTF was that attempt at Marcus Cole supposed to be?

Oh and storywise, if you're going to have Sherdian at Z'ha'dum do you think he could at least acknowledge his wife was there? Can't pretend it's a "preserve the timeline" Star Trek-esque thing when every time he jumped he explained things.

Mostly it just makes me sad that at this point we can't have any kind of real continuation. The few actors still standing are the ones whose characters are dead and the characters that live are mostly the dead actors. If you actually tried to have a new series you'd be down to what? Ivanova for the Earth Force characters, and Lennir, Londo and Talia for everyone else?
 
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like if I was going to write a scene where somebody takes on the face of a character to talk to Sheridan, I damn sure wouldn't use G'kar if I didn't have an actor capable of at least a passable imitation. Ditto the Franklin and WTF was that attempt at Marcus Cole supposed to be?

Oh and storywise, if you're going to have Sherdian at Z'ha'dum do you think he could at least acknowledge his wife was there? Can't pretend it's a "preserve the timeline" Star Trek-esque thing when every time he jumped he explained things.
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Considering the only scene he was in was from a previous episode it's likely that they used the audio from that episode and didn't do a good enough job with that part if they had to do some enhancements or such.
 
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