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Some hammers might not be that hard - you don’t want it to blow up in your face if you’re hitting a hardened steel tool.


I do not like my hammer hard!

I do not like a face of shard!

I like to whale upon a tool

A shattered hammer is not cool!


Babylon 5 had a terrible widescreen release on DVD, that cropped all CGI. For once, a streaming service did it justice - HBO Max remastered it and re-released it in all of its 4:3 glory in 2021: https://www.reviewgeek.com/68825/babylon-5-returns-to-hbo-ma...


The annoying thing about B5 is, according to JMS (the showrunner) it was shot with an intention to be compatible with widescreen framing, and the digital effects people were supposed to be making effects similarly compatible, but they didn't. So it left things in a really awkward state for people making a DVD release in the peak "BUT MAH PIXULS" era.

It wouldn't be so bad if it was just the entirely (or mostly) CG scenes that weren't composited to widescreen, but it was also stuff like when they shot one of their plasma weapons. The DVD releases wound up switching to really nasty upscales of broadcast footage cropped to 16x9 for just those shots. Was particularly bad in the first season.


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