Joseph DeMartino
Senior HTF Member
Save your money. JMS has already said that the Rangers pilot will be given a separate release. The Crusade set will just contain the 13 completed episodes.
All this B5 talk got me restarted on the series. I've almost finished S1 (next up is "A Voice in the Wilderness Part 1".) But I took time out to check out the TV movies. TG and ItB I've seen recently enough that I went straight to the commentaries, both of which I found interesting. Then I jumped to The River of Souls. (OK, there's something about Capt. Lochley in that teddy. )
I remember being disappointed by this one when it first aired, and either not watching it at all when its been on since or coming in partway through and leaving it on more as background noise than anything else. I've always rated it very poorly (which seems to be the common judgment) and haven't given it much thought since. Last night is the first time since its premiere (which, come to think of it, I saw on a 23" TV in hotel outside St. Louis) that I really sat down and watched it.
I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. The movie is better paced than I remembered, Martin Sheen's performance far less mannered and annoying than I recalled, and the humor much more effective. I actually enjoyed it. I liked it even better the second time through (tonight) with the commentary track and the closed captioning on. I'm really looking forward to Thirdspace, which I ranked ahead of TRoS but well behind ItB and A Call to Arms. I'm wondering if it will have similarly improved with age.
Regards,
Joe