Jack of Harts

I have completed my Babylon 5 run. Not the main series. It’s not the designated time for me to do another main series run. But I’d finally collected all of the other Babylon 5 stories. The movies. Legend of the Rangers. Crusade. And the newest Babylon 5 movie that just came out last year or so. So I watched them all and I liked it.

Legend of the Rangers was a bit rough, and the less said about kung fu starships the better. I think it had heart though, and I would have loved to see where it went. Crusade I got to see enough of it to think that I would have liked to see more. It was also very rough, and I could see where the suits really got in there to make the corporate TV stuff. I watched it in the Chronological order, so I got to see the uniform shift and then back to the nice uniforms. And I can see all the “adventure TV” the suits wanted. The single biggest problem of Crusade IMHO was an overuse of CG. Babylon 5 masked that by having real sets and using the green screens as backdrops. Crusade went so many places that the green screens were doing all the work. They are nice, but it is too easy to make them appear divorced from the actors. The movies had the same problem. Nothing is truly as good as a good set to shoot on.

I enjoyed my run through the Babylon 5 side materials. I wish we’d gotten more of each. And I hope the newest movie is a sign of more things to come. JMS is an amazing creator and a gifted writer and I’ve never disliked anything he was part of creating. I want to see more, and I very much hope I will get to see more from him.