More B5 babbling

You guys expressed a strong desire for me to watch the actual B5 pilot, The Gathering, so I did that last night.

The Gathering is set a year before the series starts. The biggest obvious differences are:

• No Ivanova, Talia, or Dr. Franklin. Instead, there is Takashima, Lyta, and Dr. Kyle, all of whom have really weird line delivery. Given that they don't appear in the first three episodes of the series, I kind of expected them all to die horrible deaths in the movie and was rather surprised that they didn't.

• Londo's intro is better than the intro they ended up going with. Not that this is saying much. It is still terrible.

• It looked as though there was more neon on the set than there is later on. This is neither here nor there. I do like the neon, though. It gives everything a very Blade Runner feel.

( synopsis and observations )

Anyway, back to the series proper when I get a chance.