Most reviewers here seem to be expressing extreme disappointment with Babylon 5: The Lost Tales - Voices in the Dark. These reviewers EXPECTED Babylon 5 as if the show had never shut down in 1998. They expected something of that level, and that is the problem, EXPECTATIONS. Well folks, a lot of the stuff needed to make something like that (the sets, CGI, wardrobe and props, etc.) NO LONGER EXISTS at Warner Brothers. It is GONE (destroyed, lost or sold off, respectively). Combine that with JMS wanting only to do some small short stories in an anthology format, NOT long arcs right now, AND Warner Brothers OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE TIMIDITY (always in TEST-THE-WATERS mode) when it comes to allocating money to ANY new Babylon 5 project, especially a new material Direct-to-DVD venture, and this is what you get. Given all of the above, I do not think JMS and Co. did a bad job. Not great, but not bad either. However, what B5 needs is a huge shot in the arm, something to revitalize that universe, and this low budget DVD of two 36 minute B-stories, with Warner Brothers still not deciding whether there will be more, isn't it.
And no, the G'Kar and Franklin tribute/mention does NOT cause a continuity problem.
Spoiler for the B5 TV series below.....
In 2271 (Babylon 5: The Lost Tales - Voices in the Dark (2007)), G'Kar and Dr. Franklin and Londo are alive. "Beyond the rim" has two meanings:
1. Death and the afterlife.
2. The Rim of Known Space - the limit of what has been explored thus far. Beyond that limit lies the unknown.
JMS used this as a double entente, and gave a nod to Andreas Katsulas and Richard Biggs in the sense of meaning #1, and in the story used it in the sense of meaning #2 regarding G'Kar and Franklin going exploring.
2262 - G'Kar and Lyta leave B5, and go off on their adventures together.
2264 - G'Kar and Lyta come back. Lyta to see Garibaldi.
2264 - The Telepath War. Lyta and Lennier die. (Crusade Writer's Bible)
2265 - Legend of the Rangers To Live and Die in Starlight. G'Kar is there.
2267 - Dr. Franklin is on quarantined Earth, due to the Drakh plague. Crusade begins.
2268 - The cure to the Drakh plague is found in year 2 of Crusade.
2271 - Would have been Crusade's 5th year. B5-TLT-Voices in the Dark DVD
2278 - Londo & G'Kar die (In the Beginning).
2281 - Dr. Franklin is on Minbar, for the last get together before John Sheridan dies in Sleeping in Light.
So, the little tribute to Andreas and Rick doesn't ruin ANYTHING.
And BTW, this is **NOT** the worst B5 ever. That dubious distinction belongs to the B5 Legend of the Rangers pilot "To Live and Die in Starlight" (a.k.a. TLaDiS). I gave the B5-TLT DVD 6 stars, and was being charitible in giving TLaDiS 2 stars.
And no, the G'Kar and Franklin tribute/mention does NOT cause a continuity problem.
Spoiler for the B5 TV series below.....
In 2271 (Babylon 5: The Lost Tales - Voices in the Dark (2007)), G'Kar and Dr. Franklin and Londo are alive. "Beyond the rim" has two meanings:
1. Death and the afterlife.
2. The Rim of Known Space - the limit of what has been explored thus far. Beyond that limit lies the unknown.
JMS used this as a double entente, and gave a nod to Andreas Katsulas and Richard Biggs in the sense of meaning #1, and in the story used it in the sense of meaning #2 regarding G'Kar and Franklin going exploring.
2262 - G'Kar and Lyta leave B5, and go off on their adventures together.
2264 - G'Kar and Lyta come back. Lyta to see Garibaldi.
2264 - The Telepath War. Lyta and Lennier die. (Crusade Writer's Bible)
2265 - Legend of the Rangers To Live and Die in Starlight. G'Kar is there.
2267 - Dr. Franklin is on quarantined Earth, due to the Drakh plague. Crusade begins.
2268 - The cure to the Drakh plague is found in year 2 of Crusade.
2271 - Would have been Crusade's 5th year. B5-TLT-Voices in the Dark DVD
2278 - Londo & G'Kar die (In the Beginning).
2281 - Dr. Franklin is on Minbar, for the last get together before John Sheridan dies in Sleeping in Light.
So, the little tribute to Andreas and Rick doesn't ruin ANYTHING.
And BTW, this is **NOT** the worst B5 ever. That dubious distinction belongs to the B5 Legend of the Rangers pilot "To Live and Die in Starlight" (a.k.a. TLaDiS). I gave the B5-TLT DVD 6 stars, and was being charitible in giving TLaDiS 2 stars.