On Wed, 16 May 2001, "Jenny Kaye" wrote:
So to sum up, in Leylan and Raiker we get what looks like a straightforward comment on the banality of evil, which turns out to be something more complex.
And to think I thought it was just a straightforward character introduction vehicle/Mutiny on the Bounty pastiche. Damn you, Jenny, now I've got to go back and watch it all again!
Really liked the review, btw. Actually I've liked all the reviews so far. Keep it up the pair of you!
This show has low production values
The one thing I don't like here is all the production-knocking. Come on, let's have some kudos for the people doing the best they can under frankly unenviable circumstances!
Leslie
At 08:49 PM 5/16/01 +0100, you wrote:
On Wed, 16 May 2001, "Jenny Kaye" wrote:
This show has low production values
The one thing I don't like here is all the production-knocking. Come on,
let's have some kudos for the people doing the best they can under frankly unenviable circumstances!
Leslie
Agreed, though knocking the production on B7 has a long tradition at my house. But I'm reminded of what happened when a colleague showed her college composition class a video of the first walk on the moon. She was remembering watching the whole thing play out in 1969 and still marvelling that there *was* a video of that moment to show her students. Their reaction? "Gee, they didn't have very good production values in those days, did they?"
For me, the lovely thing about the scrambling for effects on B7 is thinking about how you create the future on a limited budget (and also how *I'd* go about it). Those silver sheets never looked comfortable, but, as has already been pointed out, they *did* look plenty "futuristic." And I'm occasionally amazed to remember how long ago the series was made, given how futuristic some of the costumes, etc., still look.
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