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Apr. 19th, 2006 11:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethhave now watched the 3 pack of B5 movies
Thirdspace was forgettable but inoffensive
The one with the souls was fine up until a nasty anvil of a speech by the soul hunter right before he dies. Show not tell, dude! Also, four thousand years of service does not its mind have changed by one conversation.
A Call to Arms I had not seen before. Is interesting. Actually, I tell a lie, is fairly boring and missable, but is shiny and sets up Crusade, which actually is interesting.
It seems to me the films add more fantasy elements, more from the standard D&D playbook, leading up to the D&D in space of Crusade. Its a shift in tone. I think. I know B5 always had religious as well as political elements, and played heavily with mythology, but this with the thief and the technomage, or that with the souls in a ball, or the gate to hell plot... it just felt shifted away a bit from the B5 series priorities.
Movies are much less satisfying than even single episodes. Fewer threads and layers. Big chunky heres where the spin off goes plug at the end of Call to Arms, but that isn't the same as the nice threads full of questions.
I'm really tired, and annoyed about it. I just can't get my sleeping pulled back around. I can stay up subjectively late, but the next day I still feel bedtime when it wants to be and not around when I want it to be. sulk sulk sulk. hard to get things done when one doesnt feel like the day gets started before is sleep times again.
Thirdspace was forgettable but inoffensive
The one with the souls was fine up until a nasty anvil of a speech by the soul hunter right before he dies. Show not tell, dude! Also, four thousand years of service does not its mind have changed by one conversation.
A Call to Arms I had not seen before. Is interesting. Actually, I tell a lie, is fairly boring and missable, but is shiny and sets up Crusade, which actually is interesting.
It seems to me the films add more fantasy elements, more from the standard D&D playbook, leading up to the D&D in space of Crusade. Its a shift in tone. I think. I know B5 always had religious as well as political elements, and played heavily with mythology, but this with the thief and the technomage, or that with the souls in a ball, or the gate to hell plot... it just felt shifted away a bit from the B5 series priorities.
Movies are much less satisfying than even single episodes. Fewer threads and layers. Big chunky heres where the spin off goes plug at the end of Call to Arms, but that isn't the same as the nice threads full of questions.
I'm really tired, and annoyed about it. I just can't get my sleeping pulled back around. I can stay up subjectively late, but the next day I still feel bedtime when it wants to be and not around when I want it to be. sulk sulk sulk. hard to get things done when one doesnt feel like the day gets started before is sleep times again.