Subject:    Captain Infinity's review of "No Compromises"
From:       Captain Infinity
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5,alt.fan.tom-servo
Date:       1998/01/22
Message-ID: <34d09938.22958093@nntp.netcruiser>


I watched the opening credits, going "Huh?"  
The last credit make me gag, it was such a blatant ego trip.

The "A" story was transparent.  The "B" story was boring.

It's a sad statement when the *best* part of the show is a moment of absolute
silence.

The show was wretched.  It felt like a pilot, and a bad pilot at that.
Implausible plot devices, bad acting, scientific inaccuracies...one on top of
the other, piling higher and deeper.  If I were new to the program I probably
would have changed the channel before the end of the first half hour.  Thank
goodness the incredible "Signs and Portents" had been on earlier, or I would
have clicked B5 off for good.  I have faith that JMS is just in a slump,
still dealing with the aftereffects of the suit-induced Season 4 arc-cram.

The end credits were ruined by TNT.  The price they are exacting for
supporting the show is damaging the selfsame show.  TNT's ad at the end, with
its own "special effect", was an insult.  TNT may be giving JMS free reign in
producing the show as he sees fit, but they clearly aren't allowing him to
have any say in how they promote it...or how they use it to promote
themselves.

To sum up: an hour of my life was wasted.  It could have been better spent
washing my socks.

** 
Captain Infinity
 ...please include "Infinity is a moron" in the header of all flame email, so
it will be correctly filtered to my "answer immediately" folder.

Previous Review        Next Review

Right Loop

Crossthreads

Left Loop

Web site contents are Copyright © Captain Infinity Productions.
All Usenet posts reproduced herein are the copyrighted intellectual property of the poster named in the "From" header.