[Warlock]

Then you missed about ummmm 99% of the concept. The entire show was based on searching for a cure to the Shadow Virus.

I mean what...you expected the Shadow war part 2?  

Although I do agree about the continuity. But if i recall TNT was running things by then.

[mikhael]

 

Originally posted by an0n:
Crusade blew.

It was sooooo discontinuous. There were hardly any (if any) battles. The acting was sub-par and the SFX were sub-standard at best.

Of course Crusade blew. It was first season. Bab5's acting was pretty bad first season as well. The SFX were of as high a quality as Bab5's last season, though. Discontinuous? Absolutely. TNT forced JMS to show it out of the intended order. How could it be properly continuous?
 

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How the hell did they go from that to Crusade in such a short time? Were they on crack when they wrote it (directed it / filmed it / advertised it)...

This is what happens when you let Ted Turner get his hands on the reins of a show. The network forced JMS to have more fist fights and less exposition. Character development was axed in favor of tacking minutes on to bar room brawls.

Is it any wonder it wasn't Babylon5? Please. Not even Babylon5 lived up to Babylon5. They even screwd that up by collapsing large plot arcs from 2 years down to 1.

All in all, with what they had, what they were allowed to do, and the sacrifices the were forced to make just to get that little bit on the air, they did a damn good job.

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[an0n]

I hated Sinclair. His eyebrows are just not right.

[Carl]

 

Originally posted by an0n:
His eyebrows are just not right.

if his eyebrows bother you, then you probably couldn't handle star trek.

[IceFire]

Man, some of your criticisms are pathetic.  Not enough battles?  Complaining about an actors EYEBROWS for godsakes!

There's more to these shows then just these things and there is a hell of a lot of work that goes into them.  Sure if its aweful its really aweful, but regardless, there is a purpose, a point and a positive result from nearly everything.

But instead you guys go looking for the black clouds in the silver lining.  Figures.

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by IceFire:
Man, some of your criticisms are pathetic.  Not enough battles?  Complaining about an actors EYEBROWS for godsakes!

There's more to these shows then just these things and there is a hell of a lot of work that goes into them.  Sure if its aweful its really aweful, but regardless, there is a purpose, a point and a positive result from nearly everything.

But instead you guys go looking for the black clouds in the silver lining.  Figures.

bah, B5 never shçwn in France apart on a pay channel I don't have. Sob (tho they shown the movie with the excalibur, the dreams thinguy and the shadow cloud used by drakhs, I have it on tape)

[Setekh]

 

Originally posted by venom2506:
bah, B5 never shçwn in France apart on a pay channel I don't have. Sob (tho they shown the movie with the excalibur, the dreams thinguy and the shadow cloud used by drakhs, I have it on tape)

Me neither... *sigh* But hey, Morpheus is good! Me's downloaded a couple of hundred-or-so-meg eps already!  

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by Setekh:
Me neither... *sigh* But hey, Morpheus is good! Me's downloaded a couple of hundred-or-so-meg eps already!  

I got some on kazaa, but the video compression is really crap.

[Setekh]

Hmm, well, while mine aren't crash hot, they're still acceptable. But I'm pretty easy, so your standards for compression quality might be higher than mine   How big are your forty minute eps coming out as? Mine range from 120-320mb each, yourself?

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by Setekh:
Hmm, well, while mine aren't crash hot, they're still acceptable. But I'm pretty easy, so your standards for compression quality might be higher than mine   How big are your forty minute eps coming out as? Mine range from 120-320mb each, yourself?

i have only a coupple left: first episode 118 mb; and the other one must lack the end, it's only 12 minutes long, about 36 mb.

[Setekh]

Yeah, I guess I know what you mean. If only they'd used DivX... DivX rocks.  

[an0n]

They're showing it one UK Channel 4 at like 3am. I've figured out why it's so crap: The captain dude is a crap actor and the character is an *** -hole. (also there isn't enough ship-ship fighting for my liking)

[Thorn]

 

Originally posted by Setekh:
Yeah, I guess I know what you mean. If only they'd used DivX... DivX rocks.  

Heh, whenever I hear that, I think of Penny Arcade..

[LAW ENFORCER]

I saw some a while ago, I remember some thing about a box, with yellow glowing... what was in there? or was that sometihng else?