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   "Slitheen"  wrote in   
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   > > Once Upon A Time Slitheen wrote:   
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   > >>> While the two stories on the B5 DVD appeared short at a half hour   
   each,   
   > >>> the   
   > >>> story sure didn't seem like it. Enjoyed it immensely.   
   > >>   
   > >>   
   > >>Me too. In reviews and customer comments on Amazon and such places,   
   it   
   > >>seems   
   > >>it suffered MASSIVELY from too many high expectations. Knowing the   
   budget   
   > >>constraints, I never hoped for something as mind blowing as JMS's   
   > >>masterpiece in its peak, and ultimately I wasn't in the slightest   
   > >>disappointed. That was the trick to enjoying LT.   
   > >   
   > > So in essence you prepared yourself to watch crap, and it met all   
   your   
   > > expectations.  Good job!   
   > >   
   >   
   >   
   > F*ck off, you dolt. Don't put words in my mouth.   
      
     Yeah, I had pretty much the same response.   
      
      
   Re. the first Lost Tales DVD, I was underwhelmed.  Didn't like the first   
   story at all.  The second was more like B5, and I liked it.  Overall,   
   the whole thing felt threadbare, i.e. "How could 72 minutes be filled   
   with that much nothing?"  The average episode of House (I'm watching   
   Season 3 on DVD right now.), seems to contain 10x as much stuff in its   
   44 minutes, as B5:TLT contained in 72 minutes.   
      
   I wish Warner Brothers would quit treating B5 like a red-haired   
   stepchild, and back the damned thing, bigtime, but nooooo, Warner   
   Brothers is always in timid, test-the-waters mode, and the timing is   
   never right.  If they're not going to back it, they should sell the   
   whole thing to a studio that has some balls.  However, they never will.   
   Instead they'll back it in a half-hearted fashion every 100th blue moon   
   and wonder why people are disappointed.   
      
      
   To me, the only bright spots to the new DVD were:   
      
   1. The space CGI.   
      
   2. Prince Vintari/Keegan MacIntosh   
      
   3. Sheridan and Galen.   
      
      
      
   FYI:   
   CGI Society Article on B5-TLT:   
      
   Part 1 of 3   
   http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=3971   
      
      
   Part 2 of 3   
   http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=4102   
      
      
   Part 3 of 3   
   http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=4173&page=1   
      
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