The Lost Room

[Lunan]

having now seen 2/3 of the mini i have to say i am extremly impressed

this is a great concept and i have to admit i don't recall anything like it but its brillent so far. what do you guys think?

[B5_Obsessed]

having now seen 2/3 of the mini i have to say i am extremly impressed

this is a great concept and i have to admit i don't recall anything like it but its brillent so far. what do you guys think?

I wanted to watch it, but I just couldn't invest in another mini-series right now. Between compiling annual financials at work and Christmas shopping, my brain is shot.

[Lunan]

I wanted to watch it, but I just couldn't invest in another mini-series right now. Between compiling annual financials at work and Christmas shopping, my brain is shot.

its worth the time, only 3 2hour parts, hell i wish the wb had allowed jms to spend that much time on B5:TLT

[Jan]

its worth the time, only 3 2hour parts, hell i wish the wb had allowed jms to spend that much time on B5:TLT

He might have been except that the format for The Lost Tales was JMS's idea, not WB's. From the transcript:

So I thought about it and I came back to them and said, ôHereÆs what IÆm thinking. When we did Babylon 5, what I liked were the small little stories that we did as æBÆ plots and as short stories. What if we did a whole bunch of short films? Little mini-movies, each one worked around established B5 characters, not somebody else. One thatÆs worked around Sheridan, one thatÆs worked around Delenn, one thatÆs worked around Lochley or Garibaldi or whoever it is, and put these things out on DVDs and sell them to networks, whatever you want to do, make them short stories. An anthology show set in the Babylon 5 universe. They said, ôOkay.ö

So it's not a matter of what he was assigned, it was what he wanted to do. The nice thing about TLT is that, pending successful sales, we can get as many of them as JMS can think up stories for them.

Jan

[Joe Nazzaro]

I think it's an unfair comparison. Sci-Fi has traditionally done at least one big mini-series a year, ever since the success of Taken, so by that standard, The Lost Room is a bit modest in terms of length. I also think they're looking for mini-series that can also serve as back-door pilots, just as Battlestar Galactica did a few years ago, and I suspect the same with The Lost Room now.