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[fayanora]

The people who made Babylon 5 always did an excellent job on the effects. Even when you could tell it was CGI, it didn't matter, because it was good enough that the excellent story made us ignore the effects. (Though I have had a lot of fun, this time around, spotting who amongst one race played another. Like the Narn character who was obviously

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[baron_waste]

W Morgan Sheppard, who played the eponymous Soul Hunter in the 1st season episode, returned as “Narn war leader G'Sten, an uncle of main character G'kar, in the 'The Long Twilight Struggle'.” (He dismisses G'Kar's fears and gets waxed by the Shadow 'fleet' while the Centauri strike at Narn itself

[fayanora]

W Morgan Sheppard, who played the eponymous Soul Hunter in the 1st season episode, returned as “Narn war leader G'Sten, an uncle of main character G'kar, in the 'The Long Twilight Struggle'.” (He dismisses G'Kar's fears and gets waxed by the Shadow 'fleet' while the Centauri strike at Narn itself.)

I knew that character was played by the same guy as played the crazy soul hunter. He, too, has a distinctive voice.

Y' know - you're the only one I know who is familiar enough with the series to discuss this - at the very climax of things, reverse-engineered Shadow technology is finally applied to Earth Force ships, giving them that black shifting-iridescent surface and tentacles, which looks very weird.

Yup yup. And Ivanova would have died destroying them if not for Marcus.

This wasn't easy to accomplish: It took them that long just to figure it out. Like the Me-262 jet fighter, had these been around at the beginning the war would have been a LOT shorter… Further, the implication was that these were the “Black Star” equivalent of the

[consortofvenus]

Some of those Shadow-affiliated creatures are pretty terrifying. It can be even scarier when you don't see them. But they're there, waiting, to bring on galactic castrophe again. Either that, or they just really like messing with the Centauri.

[consortofvenus]

Oh and one of the things I noticed with the CGI, the space effects were kind of... well.. cheap. But that's not all bad. I don't think I've ever seen space effects like they had on Babylon 5 anywhere else. It always stood out, just enough and seemed the more mysterious for it. Just like you want with a show like this where the mysterious universe could at any moment (and did) strike out to suffocate you in even the most subtle ways. You saw this with hyperspace too, the stories of strange things peeking out of the energy mist, like a vastly unexplored ocean... with far more sea monsters.

[fayanora]

Yeah, hyperspace was creepy.

Did I ever tell you? In the Traipah universe, the alien species known as the Vorsht were inspired by the Shadows a little, in appearance, except that the Vorsht are peaceful. Well... now. They used to be warmongering, but they changed. And though insectoid, and loosely inspired by the Shadows, they're far less creepy looking.

Also, the Vorsht ships are a sort of combo of the Vorlon ships and the Shadow vessels. But different. For one thing, though Vorsht ships are alive, they also have crystalanium (adamantium) hulls. The Vorsht ships are black, with Vorlon-like tentacles in the front and shorter tentacles in the back. (The front tentacles are weapons, the back are sublight engines.)