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In the Beginning
À l'origine
2009 · Film · 130 min
Directed by Xavier Giannoli
France, present day. A professional conman passes himself off as the boss of a construction site building a highway extension. He cons the whole region, hires dozens of workers and cynically enjoys the profits of his scam until he meets the lady mayor of a small village that the road will go through. She intrigues and unsettles him, before revealing to him a world he never knew: feelings. How far will he go now to save his victims and save himself from his own lies?
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The two "myth arc" movies, "In the Beginning" and "A Call to Arms" are quite good. ItB shows us the Human–Minbari War – the conflict that led to the construction of the Babylon stations, and ACtA similarly sets the stage for Crusade.
In the beginning is the only B5 movie worth watching the rest are garbage, the 5th season was also quite terrible I don’t know how much it was them moving to TNT and how much it was them essentially rushing the 4th with the looming cancellation and tying too many loose ends at the end.
B5 was unique for its time because back then especially sci-fi was essentially still stuck in the syndicated monster of the week model where you had little to no continuity plot wise across episodes because it made the show easy to watch out of order and thus it could easily be syndicated.
Ironically another TV show that started as a mainly syndication format show during the 90’s - Stargate SG1 started to lose steam when they went too heavy on single plot seasons, they came to a point where they’ve essentially ran out of bad guys and they had to invent a new more and more powerful bad guy every season, and at the end even the cast seem to have given up on the show.
The "In the Beginning" prequel movie was amazingly good - though has huge spoilers so should be watched after the show proper.