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List Price: $59.98 Our Price: $39.99 You Save: $19.99 Features • Anamorphic • Box set • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC • President John J. In Theaters : 26 January, 1994 DVD Release : 29 April, 2003 |
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Babylon 5 - The Complete Second Season description Delenn's future love interest, Captain John Sheridan (Bruce Boxleitner) arrived on Babylon 5 in the first episode of season 2, "Points of Departure." The show marked the handing over of command of B5 to Sheridan from Commander Jeffery Sinclair, actor Michael O'Hare becoming a victim of studio politicians who wanted a bigger star in the leading role. This excellent installment also revealed more about why the Minbari surrendered to Earth at the Battle of the Line when they were on the verge of victory. "Revelations" explains that Sheridan's wife, Anna, died during an archaeological survey of the world Z'ha'dum, the name being just one of many references to Tolkien's the Lord of the Rings (the bridge at Khazad-Dum). "The Geometry of Shadows" introduced the Technomages, characters who featured more significantly in the ill-fated spinoff series Crusade (1999), while "The Coming of Shadows" proved to be Babylon 5's finest hour to date. The story of political intrigue foreshadowing the fate of two of the major characters beat Apollo 13, Toy Story, 12 Monkeys, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Visitor" to win the Hugo award for Best Dramatic Presentation at the 1996 World Science Fiction Convention and proved so powerful that J. Michael Straczynski included it in his Complete Book of Scriptwriting. "And Now for a Word" took the unusual step of presenting a day-in-the-life of B5 seen through the eyes of a TV news crew, just as the Narn declared war on the Centauri. The inclusion of a PSI-Corps commercial paid homage to Paul Verhoeven's satirical ads in Robocop (1987), while his later Starship Troopers (1997) seemed at times like a spoof of B5's earnest space opera. In "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum," Sheridan learns that Morden was on the ship on which Anna died; the episode sees the captain pushed to his limits by grief and determination to discover why Morden survived. Three exceptional shows conclude the season. The Narn-Centauri war escalates in "The Long, Twilight Struggle," Sheridan faces a most unusual ordeal in "Comes the Inquisitor," and in "The Fall of Night" all hope of peace is shattered as a nerve-racking assassination attempt reveals a startling secret about Ambassador Kosh. --Gary S. Dalkin |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | An Improvement on all levels |
| The good news for Babylon 5 fans is that the second season represents a nice improvement over the first season. I'd heard from people I trust that the story arc that runs through the first four seasons was too good to pass up, so I stuck with the first season despite a disastrous first disc of episodes. By the second or third disc of that set, I was hooked, but there were certain things that I just couldn't ignore, and the main one was the truly terrible acting of Commander Sinclair (and Dr. Franklin, though nothing could really be done about that except to limit the damage on that front).
Season two introduces us to Captain Sheridan, played by Bruce Boxleitner, who, though he is characterized similarly as Sinclair as being a strong (white, male, in his late 30s, having the same "JS" initials as the show's creator) leader, is a marked improvement over his predecessor. The mystery of what happened to Sinclair in the Battle of the Line is cleared up quickly, and new questions are raised about Sheridan and plenty of other aspects of the station and its occupants. Sheridan's a better fit for the show, and while I wouldn't consider Boxleitner a master thespian, he's does a good job with the role. As with the first season, the strongest characters are the wonderful Londo Mollari (Peter Jurasik) and G'Kar (Andreas Katsulis). These two really are worth the price of admission. A lower-budget show such as this has issues sometimes with not having great-looking sets and special effects, and at times this shows in Babylon 5. But it's the intricate overall story and depth of its characters that elevate Babylon 5, and I'd say Mollari and G'Kar are the biggest contributors to this. Episode for episode, season 2 of Babylon 5 is a nice improvement over the first season and is a great example of a show that has learned to play into its strengths (even the musical score is better this year). Anyone who enjoyed the first season will undoubtedly want to seek this set out. And by the time you're done, make sure you've got season 3 on hand, because you'll want to jump right into that one immediately. Note: The commentaries by the show's creator are very interesting, but they do contain some spoilers about the series, so it is recommended you don't listen to them until you've seen the complete series. |
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