Babylon 5: The Gathering
Mar. 21st, 2006 10:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethIt amuses me that two of my favourite shows have the same name for their first episode.
I just watched this on DVD, and while the disc is unwrapped, I'm not sure I've ever actually watched that version before. The one in my head is shorter.
So, the DVD version is smoother, less jumpy, with better transitions and more little character moments. In some places this is the difference between 'makes sense' and 'never did quite make sense', so yaays.
There are a lot of things about the look of it that got changed before the series proper. Thank goodness. The Minbari kind of look like a lighter Narn with a bone on their head. Chin thing, strange. And all those flashing lights? Nobody chooses to work in a room full of strobe lights. Except DJs. Generally, flashing lights are not useful.
One moment I noticed this time through - Kosh called Sinclair "Entil'za Valenn" ??? (I probably spelled it wrong, but it was in the subtitles). Thats his title and name, right? Talk about big time give away! Nifty. Because its all alien gobbledygook at the time, so its quite safe to give it out.
:-)
I now want to watch more B5. Which is the purpose of the pilot, so yaay for them.
I actually also want to know what happened to all the vanished people. I know we got Lyta again later, but what about the doctor and the lt commander?
They probably got squished somehow, but I wants to know.
*sigh*
Stories! Always more of them than TV has time to tell!
Which is what fanfic is for.
But I don't think I've ever gone there for B5.
Hmmm...
I just watched this on DVD, and while the disc is unwrapped, I'm not sure I've ever actually watched that version before. The one in my head is shorter.
So, the DVD version is smoother, less jumpy, with better transitions and more little character moments. In some places this is the difference between 'makes sense' and 'never did quite make sense', so yaays.
There are a lot of things about the look of it that got changed before the series proper. Thank goodness. The Minbari kind of look like a lighter Narn with a bone on their head. Chin thing, strange. And all those flashing lights? Nobody chooses to work in a room full of strobe lights. Except DJs. Generally, flashing lights are not useful.
One moment I noticed this time through - Kosh called Sinclair "Entil'za Valenn" ??? (I probably spelled it wrong, but it was in the subtitles). Thats his title and name, right? Talk about big time give away! Nifty. Because its all alien gobbledygook at the time, so its quite safe to give it out.
:-)
I now want to watch more B5. Which is the purpose of the pilot, so yaay for them.
I actually also want to know what happened to all the vanished people. I know we got Lyta again later, but what about the doctor and the lt commander?
They probably got squished somehow, but I wants to know.
*sigh*
Stories! Always more of them than TV has time to tell!
Which is what fanfic is for.
But I don't think I've ever gone there for B5.
Hmmm...