When I heard JMS was releasing new B5 content I was very excited. I was obsessed with B5 in the 1990s, and even travelled to meet JMS, Peter Jurasik, Andrea Thompson and Jerry Doyle.
This show was a phenomenon when it aired and today it remains, for me, a gem that I revisit every so often.
That's possibly why I am so disappointed with B5 TRH. It just isn't B5. The characters are largely unrecognisable and the storyline (the story being what set B5 apart from other shows like DS9) was meandering and disjointed.
To compound this, none of the events portrayed mattered (a common issue with multiverse storylines) and the plot just limped along from scene to scene with unengaging dialogue, poorly placed humour (lost in space...) and terrible voice acting. The art and CGI looks dated and the characters were generally poorly made out.... I couldn't tell if Lochley was Ivanova or vice versa, and Londo looked nothing like Londo aside from the hair.
If the target audience here was children, then B5 TRH is fine, nothing special, but adequate. If the target audience was fans who were there at the dawn of the third age of mankind, then this is a resounding meh.
JMS thank you for B5 but B5 TRH should have been better.
This show was a phenomenon when it aired and today it remains, for me, a gem that I revisit every so often.
That's possibly why I am so disappointed with B5 TRH. It just isn't B5. The characters are largely unrecognisable and the storyline (the story being what set B5 apart from other shows like DS9) was meandering and disjointed.
To compound this, none of the events portrayed mattered (a common issue with multiverse storylines) and the plot just limped along from scene to scene with unengaging dialogue, poorly placed humour (lost in space...) and terrible voice acting. The art and CGI looks dated and the characters were generally poorly made out.... I couldn't tell if Lochley was Ivanova or vice versa, and Londo looked nothing like Londo aside from the hair.
If the target audience here was children, then B5 TRH is fine, nothing special, but adequate. If the target audience was fans who were there at the dawn of the third age of mankind, then this is a resounding meh.
JMS thank you for B5 but B5 TRH should have been better.