I do not feel very eloquent at this point, just having watched it for the first time; it will need to settle a bit.
Much of it seemed strained and pointless, and even the menace did not feel particularly menacing. I am not sure if the acting or the writing were to blame, probably both. G'Kar managed to get away with some pretty dodgy dialogue, but then AK was a fine actor. In some places I have the sneaking suspicion that he was not taking his lines quite as seriously as the writer may have wanted...
Also, I can't see the Rangers, Human, Minbari, or otherwise advocating pointless self-sacrifice, so much of the premise of the early part of the story did not work for me at all.
And the opening titles were awful - they should have stuck to the writing; the voiceovers somehow managed to trivialise the lines. Where is Mira Furlan when you need her???
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Date: 2011-08-29 09:52 pm (UTC)I do not feel very eloquent at this point, just having watched it for the first time; it will need to settle a bit.
Much of it seemed strained and pointless, and even the menace did not feel particularly menacing. I am not sure if the acting or the writing were to blame, probably both. G'Kar managed to get away with some pretty dodgy dialogue, but then AK was a fine actor. In some places I have the sneaking suspicion that he was not taking his lines quite as seriously as the writer may have wanted...
Also, I can't see the Rangers, Human, Minbari, or otherwise advocating pointless self-sacrifice, so much of the premise of the early part of the story did not work for me at all.
And the opening titles were awful - they should have stuck to the writing; the voiceovers somehow managed to trivialise the lines. Where is Mira Furlan when you need her???