10 out of 10 people found the following review helpful:

What a Shame!

A Customer from Great Baddow, England, 13th September, 2007

Babylon 5 was one of the best science fiction series out there so I was really looking forward to this update. Unfortunately, it is absolute pap, with only two of the original cast, an entire crew of only about seven people and a blue screen budget of around about a pound tops. The film actually starts of with a promising story line which they did nothing with, took the story in a different direction which was simply crap. If you are a fan steer clear and stick on one of the original episodes.

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5 out of 5 people found the following review helpful:

Nostalgia value only

Ben from Newport, Shropshire, 24th October, 2007

I didn't really know what I was getting here, as I had only just noticed it on my recommendations, so I didn't have time to get my hopes up, which is probably just as well. This is really 3 little episodes, or more precisely one little one at the start that i couldn't see the point of, and a larger one that hints at a possible future plot line and provides a final mention of the characters whose actors have passed away since the original series. It's nice to watch a little bit more of the show I remember, but with only 2 of the original characters in it, there's not really much to get excited about. The extras are in some ways worth more than the film, with some touching rememberances to the deceased and a couple of extras from the writer. A nice add on to any B5 collection, but not really a standalone film by itself.

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4 out of 5 people found the following review helpful:

Very short

A Customer from Watford, England, 10th September, 2007

I don't know what I was expecting but it has a very small cast, low production cost, and its only just over one normal episode long with no conclusion. Its a shame because I loved the series.

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3 out of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Still some touches of magic

Robbiedjude from , 16th October, 2007

I was pretty sceptical sitting down to watch tales after reading the other reviews on this site but as soon as the opening credits began and that familiar station came into view I put my cynicism on hold for 70 minutes and enjoyed the tales for what they were. While these stories do lack some of the all out action of say, a call to arms or in the beginning and only feature Sheridan and Lochley they do have charms of their own. Although the first story features just one member of the original cast the two other main protaganists although unknown are both excellent actors, the premise is interesting and Straczynski's writing remains truly top-notch and evocative. Veering (for Sheridan in particular) from bad puns to anything that could stand alongside any other episode of B5. Straczynski's direction is also confident especially considering it's his first time. It has to be said though that these may not be for everyone. The first episode deals with questions of religon and the second with that old moral question about killing a tyrant when they are an innocent to spare millions of lives later on. If you rent these tales expecting two (short) different kinds of Babylon 5 episodes you shouldn't be disappointed. After all different is not necessarily bad.

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Just let it go...

A Customer from Derbyshire, 27th October, 2008

If creator J. Michael Straczynski seriously thought this was a sensible way to resuscitate his classic series, Babylon 5, then he's more deluded than I previously thought... Not that these are necessarily bad little tales in themselves. As a low budget short film, a harmless little tale of the unexpected, either one of these would work okay. But even then, they're so terribly wordy and stagey that maybe they would actually work best in a theatre. As it is, they're so flatly directed, limited in action and painfully cheap, they're a little embarrassing, especially considering they were intended partially as a calling card for a revival of what was once an expensive, glossy sci-fi epic. And they still require a certain knowledge of the convoluted B5 backstory - are new viewers seriously expected to give a damn? If the B5 universe wasn't so totally defunct already (thanks to several previous and increasingly dire attempts to unnaturally prolong the life of the original series) this would finish it off for certain. And not before time, frankly. It's a wonder anyone involved could have imagined this was some kind of bold new beginning for the series - but then JMS clearly still thinks he's the last, best hope for sci-fi. Nice try, guys, but the likes of Battlestar, Buffy, Lost and the new improved Doctor Who have come along in the meantime and pushed the standards way beyond this kind of stuff. Time to let Babylon 5 rest in peace...

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its great i want more

A Customer from Hemel Hempstead, 26th October, 2008

oh my god....... i want more the lost tales were great i love the whole heaven and hell theme and it lookt so much better with the new cgi can any one tell me if they will do more that cant be the end of b5 there is so much more they can do like how did they get the volon tech i thought they could not go there for 1000000 years and what about the gift londo gave delen at the end of seson 5 with the kepper in do they exlan that

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What a disappoinment

A Customer from Manchester, 30th September, 2008

I rented this because I thought I was going to get something of the good quality Babylon 5 series, it was a real disappointment. They were certainly on a low budget, it was just over an hour, they put together two boring episodes, to make it look like it was a film. Seem to have only two characters in each episode. I wish I had read the reviews before renting it because it really was crap.

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ok

waterbunny from from Reading, 30th September, 2008

Film was okay but short, I thought a couple more Ep' would be great.

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