Short description
Babylon 5--Series 2 presents all 22 episodes anamorphically enhanced at 16:9, with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. Originally shot with eventual widescreen presentation in mind, the programmes looks far better than they did when broadcast. The effects shots, reformatted from full-screen CGI, show occasional pixilation, but the new compositions are more dynamic than the old 4:3. Always a show with powerful audio, the remixed soundtrack is rich and involving, if lacking in the bass punch and complex layering of much more expensive cinema productions. Extras are an introduction to Series 2 (eight mins) and Building Babylon: Blueprint of an Episode (13 mins), is a perfunctory promotional piece. More interesting is Shadows and Dreams, an eight-minute feature on B5's two Hugo Awards. Three episodes have commentaries, with J Michael Straczynski examining the politics, mythology and production of In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum and The Fall of Night, and stars Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian and Jerry Doyle have a decidedly low-brow laugh-fest through The Geometry of Shadows.
Long description
Episodes include:
Points of DepartureRevelationsThe Geometry of ShadowsA Distant StarThe Long DarkSpider in the WebSoul MatesA Race Through Dark PlacesThe Coming of ShadowsGROPOSAll Alone in the NightActs of SacrificeHunter, PreyThere All the Honor LiesAnd Now for a WordIn the Shadow of Z'ha'dumKnivesConfessions and LamentationsDivided LoyaltiesThe Long, Twilight StruggleComes the InquisitorThe Fall of Night