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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790776101
Feature: Covering a variety of social issues in the stratosphere, BABYLON 5 continues to be the point of negotiation for humans and aliens alike in the 23rd Century.
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790776103
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 12, 2003
Running Time: 968 minutes
Sales Rank: 6044
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 26, 1994
Features:- Covering a variety of social issues in the stratosphere, BABYLON 5 continues to be the point of negotiation for humans and aliens alike in the 23rd Century.
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Platform: DVD MOVIE Publisher: WARNER BROTHERS Packaging: RETAIL BOX Rating: NOT RATED Covering a variety of social issues in the stratosphere BABYLON 5 continues to be the point of negotiation for humans and aliens alike in the 23rd Century. John J. Sheridan (Bruce Boxleitner) leads his crew out of the military dictatorship that is now ruling the Earth Force and there is now slowdown in the Shadow War. This collection comprises the third season of the science fiction series.DVD Features:Available Subtitles: English Spanish FrenchAvailable Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)Commentary by: J. Michael Straczynski on 'Severed Dreams' and 'Z'Ha'Dum'Unknown FormatBruce Boxleitner Jerry Doyle Richard Biggs and Ed Wagner on 'Interludes and Examinations'Introduction from series creator J. Michael StraczynskiBehind the Mask: Creating the Aliens of Babylon 5 documentaryDesigning a Better Narn documentaryDesigning Tomorrow: The Look of Babylon 5 documentaryPersonnel filesData filesShadow dossierEpisodes: 1. Matters of Honor2. Convictions3. A Day in the Strife4. Passing Through Gethsemane5. Voices of Authority6. Dust to Dust7. Exogenesis8. Messages from Earth9. Point of No Return10. Severed Dreams11. Ceremonies of Light and Dark12. Sic Transit Vir13. A Late Delivery from Avalon14. Ship of Tears15. Interludes and Examinations16. War Without End part one17. War Without End part two18. Walkabout19. Grey 17 Is Missing20. And the Rock Cried Out No Hiding Place21. Shadow Dancing22. Z'ha'dumSpecifications:Format: Anamorphic Box set Closed-captioned Color Dolby Subtitled Widescreen NTSCLanguage: EnglishRegion: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1Number of discs: 6Rating: Not RatedStudio: Warner Home VideoDVD Release Date: August 12th 2003Run Time: 990 minutes
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'Matters of Honor' launched Babylon 5's third season with the introduction of the White Star, a spacecraft added to enable more of the action to take place away from the station. Also introduced was Marcus Cole (Jason Carter)--in another nod to The Lord of the Rings, a Ranger not so far removed from Tolkien's Strider. In 'Voices of Authority' the show finds an epic scale as Ivanova seeks the mysterious 'First Ones' for allies against the Shadows, and evidence is discovered pointing to the truth behind President Santiago's assassination. A third of the way through the season 'Messages from Earth,' 'Point of No Return,' and 'Severed Dreams' prove pivotal, changing the nature of the story in a way previously unimaginable on network TV. Earth slides into dictatorship, the fascistic Nightwatch takes control of off-world security, and Sheridan take decisive action by declaring Babylon 5 independent.
'Interludes and Examinations' presented the death of a major supporting character, while the two-part 'War Without End' reached apocalyptic dimensions in a complex tale resolving the destiny of Sinclair and the fate of Babylon 4 (dovetailing elegantly with the events of the first season's 'Babylon Squared'), resolving a 1,000-year-old paradox and presenting a vision of a very dark future for Sheridan and Delenn. All this was trumped by the monumental 'Z'ha'dum.' In the preceding 'Shadow Dancing' Anna Sheridan (Melissa Gilbert, Bruce Boxleitner's real-life wife) returned from the dead, no longer entirely human. In the mythologically resonant climax Anna invited Sheridan back to the Shadow homeworld with no hope of survival. Just as in The Lord of the Rings Gandalf fell into the abyss at Khazad-Dum, so Sheridan took a comparable leap into the unknown on an alien world. --Gary S. Dalkin
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Rating:  - Spectacular stuff
By the time Babylon 5's second season ended, Warner Brothers in the USA seemed to be pretty happy with how the series was going. Ratings were solid and for a budget about half that of Paramount's Star Trek shows, they were grabbing a lot of TV headlines and magazine features that used to automatically go to Trek. For J. Michael Straczynski, Season 3 proved to be a challenge. Have set up a lot of storylines and characters in the first two years, it was time to start delivering the pay-off. Unfortunately, due to the sheer number of major, epoch-shaking events that had to happen this season he found it difficult to assign scripts to other writers, and was left with no option but to script all 22 episodes himself. Since he was also a hands-on producer, this proved to be a massive challenge, but one he successfully pulled off.
Season 3 picks up the story in the year 2260. The Centauri Republic is now on the prowl, its borders expanding and conflict erupting with the smaller worlds who make up its neighbours. Whilst Londo frantically tries to distance himself from his increasingly dangerous and unreliable allies, the Shadows, others in the Centauri court do not prove so wise. Elsewhere, the Earth Alliance is becoming divided, riven by paranoia and distrust fostered by the new Ministry of Peace and its volunteer Nightwatch division of informants. With the Galaxy slipping towards darkness and war, an ancient Minbari organisation, the Rangers, has been refounded to help guide the races back to ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent continuation
The superb Babylon 5 continues seamlessly from Season 2 in this third season. What can I say to express the adoration I have developed for this series? The characters are fascinating, the plot lines are edge-of-your-seat, the special effects finally look extremely decent, and the theme song has morphed into a creepy, 'Shadow'-esque version of the original tune. If this season of Babylon 5 has faults, they escaped me.
Rating:  - About the DVDs - The series itself is awesome!
Very short and succint -- the DVD packaging and features are a few years old, and thus they do not offer the same qualities available in the newer box-sets. The interviews are sparse -- commentaries are few and far between. The packaging is that horrible hard plastic, that doesn't secure the DVDs. When the boxset arrived, two of the DVDs were loose in the case -- but fortunately were undamaged. I would have definitely preferred a slim-pak, but it is a small price to pay to own the "best sci-fi series ever :)
Rating: - Great pay off to the first three seasons
If you look at all five regular seasons of BABYLON 5 as one large novel, Season Three would be the part where the pay off for the rather slow first two seasons. (Though, to be honest, most of the slow episodes of the first two seasons were stand alone episodes that networks love to force on show runners and creators. For some bizarre reason they imagine that people not currently watching a show will tune in for the stand alones and then get sucked into the larger narrative. This never works, of course, and fans of shows always identify the stand alone episodes as the weakest part of any series.) B5 had actually started getting much, much better near the end of Season Two with the episodes detailing the destruction of the Narn homeworld and the personal agony of G'Kar. In Season Three they not only kept up the intensity of the arc dealing with the defeat of the Narn, but racheted up the impending war against the Shadows. There was also a sharp decline in the number of stand alone episodes.
Rating: - Loved It
My husband and I were big B5 fans when the series was on TV and it has been wonderful to watch the series again and see that even with the passage of time, the series has not dated itself, as sooo many science fictions have become dated.
A wonderful way to snuggle up on a very cold day, and relive the joy and excitement of the origianl series.
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