Well I've seen "The Lost Tales" now and am ready to discuss!
There's also a review on SciFi.com:
The opening narration is spoken by the late Andreas Katsulas, whose G'Kar was one of the most compelling and compellingly performed characters on J. Michael Straczynksi's cult TV series. It's a welcome touch, immediately raising hopes that the two vignettes that follow will capture some of the completed series' magic. Do they?
Is Sheridan willing to commit cold-blooded murder to stave off that terrible future?
Answer? Yes and no. On a visual level, the movie's ultra-low budget is betrayed by cramped sets and minuscule casts, which at times during the opening tale is enough to make viewers wonder whether the titular space station has a total population of under six. On the other hand, the use of CGI, while not cutting-edge, remains imaginative. As Col. Elizabeth Lockley (Scoggins) paces back and forth across a window, delivering one of the show's trademark speeches to herself, the starscape behind her rotates, reminding us that Babylon 5 the space station does, too. Interior establishing shots capture a curved interior landscape that appeared only a few times on the original show.
Both vignettes (their combined length is only 72 minutes) take place approximately 10 years after the series. In the first, one of several Babylon 5 tales dealing with religious issues, one of Babylon 5's civilian workers is possessed by what seems to be a genuine demon, one who openly dares a visiting Catholic priest to exorcise him. The priest's temptation: An actual exorcism would prove to a doubting mankind that the species still needs God. The catch: Why is the demon so anxious to go through the procedure? It's Lockley who finds the glaring contradiction in the demon's story, one with substantial implications for the significance of heaven and hell in a spacefaring future. It's a talky story, rife with speechmaking that sometimes borders on the forced, but for those who don't need space battles and explosions it's a neat ecclesiastical mystery, with a twist that might even satisfy the heathens.
A bumpy but rewarding return
In the second vignette, Alliance President John Sheridan (Boxleitner), sitting down with a reporter, provides us with some nice thoughts about the absent characters Londo Mollari, G'Kar and Delenn, as well as some puckish humor about the disorienting effects of quantum space, before a visitation from the technomage Galen (Woodward) delivers a portent of a dire attack on Earth. Sheridan is not pleased. "I'm tired of you guys crawling inside my head and showing me this kind of crap every time I think my life might be going good for a change! What's the matter with you people? Don't you have any other hobbies?" The complication: Is Sheridan willing to commit cold-blooded murder to stave off that terrible future? Or is there an alternative to a pre-emptive assassination?
Both stories suffer, at times, from static and clumsy staging, which may or may not be a function of the overall low budget. One jarring moment takes place in a scene establishing a sudden temperature drop affecting only one section of hallway, as one symptom of the first story's demonic possession; the characters involved in the story shiver and say "Brrrr" the instant they step into the affected zone, but a Minbari extra in the background just strides by, unaffected by the same phenomenon. (Oh, sure, you can explain that away. He's a Minbari. There are no Catholics on his planet. Our gods and demons have no claim on his soul, so he would not feel the supernatural unease that grips the spines of an Earthwoman and a Catholic priest. Etc. But it's still distracting, isn't it? Don't you still have to think about the seeming contradiction for a moment? Doesn't that Minbari's presence hurt the scene, just a little bit?)
The extras include "Fireside Chats" discussing various elements of the B5 phenomenon and interviews with Straczynski, Boxleitner, Scoggins and Woodward.
I admit it: As an old-time Babylon 5 fan, I got a genuine lump in my throat at the report that Dr. Stephen Franklin (Richard Biggs, who died with tragic suddenness long before his time) went with G'Kar (Katsulas, who also is no longer with us), exploring beyond the rim. "You know how he is," Lockley reports. "He'll take any chance to explore new territory before anybody else can get there." Gulp. Dammit, JMS! Don't do that to us! (Both actors are provided more conventional and deeply affectionate memorials among the extras.) —Adam-Troy
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