New Babyon 5 straight-to-DVD movies!

[Plane Sailing]

I always felt sorry for the actress who played Capt. Lockley, I'm blanking on her name at the moment - she comes into a show gets a part that theoretically should have a good bit of stuff coming with it and she's overshadowed by the president and later by the captain of the excalicbur on the few of those episodes she appeared in, and it's nothing against the writers, thats just kinda the way the stories played out, but I really think she deserves to get to be able to tell a few more of her stories.

I'd be happy to never see the character again - I felt that she came over as a makeweight character when it wasn't possible to have ivanova in year 5, they introduced some hokey background relationship with sheridan out of nowhere...

To my mind the actress was saddled with a nothing part in an 'extended family' show, and she brought nothing to it; her artificial introduced background relationships didn't help, nor did her supposed role.

Then again, I don't think that I'd have been bothered if they had never done year 5 at all. I've rewatched all of season 1-4 a couple of times, and to my mind they come to a perfect ending at the end of season 4 (far better than the much-vaunted and awaited season 5 ending IMO). I've not been able to bring myself to watch any of season 5 since it first aired.

Cheers

 

[RangerWickett]

In my opinion, you could take a handful of episodes from Season 5 and lose the rest. Those handful of episodes work fine as stand-alone stories for the 'aftermath of Babylon 5' -- such as the one with the two maintenance workers, and the day of the dead episode, and . . . that's about it. Well, I kinda liked the Garibaldi-heavy episodes, like the one where he goes to the Drazi homeworld, but eh.

I don't think I could really re-watch the show now, though. It's the same way I am with The Twilight Zone. I know there's a lot of good stuff, and I know it was quality TV for its time, but now it often just looks dated and silly.

 

[Endur]

again, I don't think that I'd have been bothered if they had never done year 5 at all. I've rewatched all of season 1-4 a couple of times, and to my mind they come to a perfect ending at the end of season 4 (far better than the much-vaunted and awaited season 5 ending IMO). I've not been able to bring myself to watch any of season 5 since it first aired.

The Season 5 ending show (filmed during season 4) is very good. The rest of season 5 is a bit meh.

 

[John Crichton]

Now all they need to do is drop Farscape too...

The Starburst Editions have fixed the pesky price issue. They aren't boxed as seasons yet but at less than $20 each, 3 editions/season. I haven't bought them yet, but I will...

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

It's interesting - this is the first attempt that I know of to try and do something that I've wondered was possible. Namely, continuing a cancelled series via the direct-to-DVD market. I wondered if Firefly could have gone this route back when that DVD set was selling like hotcakes. It would be a totally new method of selling shows, I just wonder if it could work.

 

[Eridanis]

It's interesting - this is the first attempt that I know of to try and do something that I've wondered was possible. Namely, continuing a cancelled series via the direct-to-DVD market. I wondered if Firefly could have gone this route back when that DVD set was selling like hotcakes. It would be a totally new method of selling shows, I just wonder if it could work.

I think that's exactly why the execs at Warner Bros. want to give this a shot. It's a low-risk gamble in this particular case, since they have estimates (I'm sure) of how many units they'll sell. B5-to-DVD will serve as a test case to optimize other tries down the road, I imagine.