Babylon 5:
The Road Home. Opening a new power station powered by tachyons on Minbar, John Sheridan finds himself again displaced in time and travelling through different times and alternate universes. This brand new 2023 animated B5 story is an odd one, which primarily generates the question, "Why?" I don't want to be too hard on it, as it's not actually bad, and it's fast-paced and watchable enough, but it's just a very odd fish. The animation is very good, and certainly a cut above what we're "treated" to from the BBC, though some of the likenesses are a bit off, though of course many of the actors have passed and their voice replacements vary wildly. Delenn's catches some of her gentler cadence but none of her steel, Sinclair's is very good, Garibaldi is average, but G'Kar neither sounds nor looks anything like himself, which is really weird. The best by bar is Zathras, where I thought it was him and didn't even realise the original actor had passed, so kudos to that guy. Bruce Boxleitner and Peter Jurasik recreate their characters with ease, though Claudia Christian now sounds so unlike Ivanova that you'd be forgiven for thinking that was a different voice actor too. Above all, though, I don't really understand the point.
B5 was touted as a single story across five years, and it got those years and ended pretty definitively. It seems a bit late to try and do something new with it now, and a bit redundant. This new movie is, as I said, not bad but if you want a nostalgia rush you can just go watch the original show again. This just seems very pointless.
