Ten years. Ten years since the world changed. Ten years since I changed. But it feels like I never left the place. Babylon 5 is place of beginnings and endings, I wonder which this will be?
Babylon 5: The Lost Tales (2007)
#the lost tales
The second part of the Lost Tales really has more going for it. There’s a lot that Sheridan brings to this just by himself, but working with Lochley and Galen in particular, it almost feels like home. I like Galen in the Benevolent Trickster God role here, he doesn’t leave you much time to think things through while at the same time bombarding you with imagery that makes sure it’s the ONLY thing you’ll think about.
Teryl Rothery bounces nicely off Boxleitner as well in a secondary role as the doomed reporter. I’m neither warm or cold to the Centauri Prince, there’s something late aughts douchey casting about it with just a hint of wide eyed optimism that works for and against him. So I guess he was cast perfectly.
The soundtrack pops and has some callbacks to the old series while sounding new. Only a scene or two is actually spent on Babylon 5 here and so the prevalent emptiness is less felt here.
I wish we could have had Delenn even on comms (but 2007 - Rousseau is busy on Lost and in Hawaii) but again Galen chose his timing well, Sheridan is isolated and alone for the first time in years and there’s no one to bounce off the crisis of killing someone in cold blood and making it look like an accident.
Finally, seeing the station exteriors and Starfuries modeled with 2007-era cgi, oh it’s beautiful.
In thirty years he will decide that his plan to bring the Republic back to its former glory requires the elimination of the one power that could stop him.
Londo’s been in a very strange, dark place for the last few years.
When people laugh, sometimes they laugh from the little back in the mouth. You know, that kind of fake laugh? Well, Londo, he would laugh from the bottom of his shoes up. Yeah, I hear he doesn’t laugh much any more…
John Sheridan, Voices in the Dark
Teryl Rothery
Take a moment before moving on.
It’s him!
When I was a little girl, I remember reading how heaven was above and hell below. It never made much sense to me because if hell was underground, then where was it?
The truth is much simpler, isn’t it? When you fell, when you got cast down, you got cast down to Earth. Bound to Earth, trapped on Earth,
denied heaven, denied the heavens, denied the sky, denied the stars. Earthbound.
Yours wasn’t a divine mission, it was an ecclesiastical jailbreak.(…)
The day will come when the last of us leave Earth behind for other worlds, because we know that another day will come, a far off distant day, when the sun will burn out in a final blaze.
The sky will go black, the seas will boil, the ground will turn to ash, consumed by a brilliant light. Any of this sounding familiar to you?And on that day, trapped on Earth with no escape, you and your kind will at last come to an end.
But the heavens will remain, and so will we. A new start, a new universe, a new dream. And you, you don’t belong in that dream.
Elizabeth Lochley, Voices in the Dark
Craig Veroni