Babylon 5 Rewatch: “Shadow Dancing”
An excerpt:
I’m always happy to see Ivanova-Cole banter—the on-screen chemistry between Claudia Christian and Jason Carter is superb—plus the tension of their confrontation with the scout ship was beautifully handled by Straczynski’s script, the performances, the excellent direction by Kim Friedman, and fine work by the special effects crew. The limitations of B5’s nascent CGI effects are minimized here mostly by keeping everything moving fast, by intercutting with the human action inside the ships, and also by the fact that the ethereal Shadows are better served by the style of effects. (Until around 2010, CGI was always crap at conveying mass, but that’s not an issue in certain cases—like, say, the acrobatics of Spider-Man and Daredevil, or the insect-like Shadows.)
