Coincidence.....or Shadow activity? Bum, Bum, BUMMM
Babylon5 Animated movie
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Yep. I've been listening to it for about a month and am caught up. They are doing Passing through Gethsemane. That will blow their minds when they see Brad Dourif.
This podcast was recommended to me when I started listening to X-Treks, an audio reaction to the two hosts watching selected episodes of ToS and X-Files. It's delightfully perverse.
Gotta keep in mind that I never missed an episode when it aired. I had to hurry home, but made the sacrifice of taking the least popular shift at the place I worked (10am-7pm) so that I would not miss an episode. But I did not catch all of the movies, and I missed Crusade.
Maybe things have gotten better with recent advances in AI upscaling tech for videos but it's been my understanding that the biggest roadblock to a proper HD upgrade is that they'd have to go back and rebuild all the CG from scratch as the original files were lost or not kept.
I don't even need HD. I'd like a consistantly good SD and a lot of the episodes, even on streaming, aren't there.
The AI stuff has gotten good if you have a quality DVD to start from but without that even the passion of the DS9 community couldn't fix everything.
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/324466-tutorial-how-to-upscale-star-trek-deep-space-nine
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme...tion-image-quality-in-the-ds9-upscale-project
And I'd say a larger percentage of B5 episodes are piss poor scans than it was for DS9.
Voice cast announced : https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/m...the-road-home-voice-cast-unveiled-1235483312/
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I’m not worried about time travel. The one other time B5 did it, it was fantastic, a high point of the show.
I’m really intrigued that the cast includes both Claudia Christian and Tracy Scoggins. This‘ll be the first B5 thing to have both Ivanova and Lochley in the same episode, won’t it?
Apparently a teaser was dropped at a recent con and someone took a few quick snaps for Reddit. Image quality is horrible though so who knows really what it will look like. There are a few details in the thread about how we should see an official trailer in the next couple of weeks. Also interesting that B5 was apparently shelved by a WB exec with a personal grudge against JMS.
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/babylon5/comments/13yxx0e/stills_of_b5_animated_movie_from_jms_panel_at/
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/babylon5/comments/13yxx0e/stills_of_b5_animated_movie_from_jms_panel_at/
It was just relayed in the reddit thread. No sourcing or anything so take it for what it's worth.
Babylon 5? Is that some rip off of Deep Space 9?
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The animation style isn't the most ground breaking, but it is so far to judge that kind of thing until you see it in motion.
Really guys?
Anyway, here are some actual stills from the new thing.
View: https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/1667243664802717697?s=20
Nice, not exactly wild on that weird CGI style a few studios have adopted but it's much clearer view of what to expect at least.
Yeah. I still want to see it in motion, but the bones are there for something good. The shadows around the faces indicating where light sources are give me some hope.
Please be good please be good please be good please be good....
Please be good please be good please be good please be good....
Do we have an idea of when in the timeline this is set? The season two to four arc would be nice and would fill out more of the main story, but would also constrain big swings. But then again, more Londo and J’Kar would be amazing.
But the redemption of Lennier would be a great story.
But the redemption of Lennier would be a great story.
It's at least after season 2 starts, since Delenn has hair. And since it's a time traveling / universe hopping story (per this Space.com article), who the hell knows?
I think I'm done reading up on it though. I want to see the animation in motion, but I'll be trying to go into this as free of spoilers as possible. Hopefully. We'll see.
We can place that image much further along the timeline than that: Lennier's a ranger, and Sheridan's out of uniform.
A good story is paramount, and most important.
If it's animation, it should be something that doesn't distract or throw you out of the story.
I’m really glad I didn’t stay up for an 8 second teaser… to a trailer.
Yay, I’m excited, but sheesh.
Yay, I’m excited, but sheesh.
The trailer has leaked? Basically various sites that will sell you the movie are already letting you watch the trailer. Here's vudu.
https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/details/Babylon-5-The-Road-Home/2460981
https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/details/Babylon-5-The-Road-Home/2460981
I'm debating avoiding to go in cold...but that also means staying out of this thread.