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Wednesday, 21 September 2011

Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers: To Live and Die in Starlight (2002)

LotR should've been great. It’s a feature-length pilot movie that takes place within the existing B5 universe (the year 2265), acknowledging all that has passed but taking its arc in a new direction. The focus was on the Rangers, aka the Anla'Shok, as they seek out and combat a threat intent on destabilising the Interstellar Alliance headed by Sheridan. He doesn't feature, but G'Kar does and he’s as perfect as ever. Unfortunately, the remainder of it isn’t. Even allowing for what I call 'pilot error', the teething troubles that a new series tends to suffer from, it’s still a load of hokum and hairy balls.
B5 fans will want to see it for themselves, but be prepared for disappointment and being witness to what's perhaps the single worst weapons system ever conceived by man in the history of television.

2½ imperfect reflections out of 5

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