Babylon 5

“sci fi viewers can graduate to more serious shows with increasingly complex narratives (B5, bsg”

“Every character in Babylon 5 was imbued with an origin, a narrative, and a destiny.”

“More leadership styles, some more flawed, but ultimately showing various ways to be emphatetic while assertive.”

“I loved him as Agent Bester on Babylon 5, where he played a ruthless and complex villain character”

“half-assed remasters with all the CGI parts simply cropped to be widescreen and then upscaled”

“the space and other sci fi parts from there, when I see them on YouTube, are quite cringe”

“the only show in the 90s that actually had any sort of physics based space combat”

“the aspect that suffered the most from the originally planned S4 and S5 being condensed into one season”

“S4 felt quite rushed and seemed to be missing a lot more than just secondary plot developments”

“If you skip TKO because part of it is cliche then you also miss the essential key to understanding Ivanova.”

“they also have too many dark industrial passages, which doesn’t always fit the scenes and come off rather cheap.”

“keep in mind the first season of B5 the lighting of ships is very bright and doesn't look very good. But S2 with the new captain I think they default to nighttime and it looks better as well.”

“Most CGI at the time was not good, and Babylon 5 was nowhere near on a par with Terminator 2”

“B5 is literature. B5, by contrast, returns again and again for full episodes to the topic of the soul-rackingly difficult moral requirement”

“Babylon 5 can't. This is for both the space effects and the technology effects in the space ships themselves.”

“Definitely not my favorite episode, but I got a kick out of the similarities to A Canticle for Leibowitz”

“allowing them a freedom of scale, angle, motion, and number of ships that nothing had managed before”

“I thought it looked great. They just do the whole thing in 4:3 which is maybe not the ideal solution”

“the character arcs of Londo and G'Kar are possibly the best of any drama that I've seen”

“there's some very important episodes that set up major plot arcs that you don't get to appreciate until later on”

“It was too ahead of its time and like many series from that period, the lack of computer power for special effects was showing.”

“Everyone should re-watch. I was very surprised how many subjects were covered that had bearing to todays world.”

“It's let down by its effects which even appeared ropey at the time. However, some good storylines.”

“Babylon 5 is underappreciated, but it has mainly good episodes and several amazing ones.”

“Babylon 5 was my childhood defining TV series, the one that left an impact for the rest of my life.”

“If you can get past the warts, B5 is still a unique and rewarding series to experience.”

“Honestly brilliant, taking a couple of murderers of the week and giving them lead roles in a show.”

“It was really ahead of its time, closer to something like Game of Thrones than anything else at the time.”

“There are several stand-out episodes in season 1 and 2, as well as several stand-out scenes”

“When people asked me what I preferred, "Star Wars or Star Trek?", I've always responded with "Babylon 5".”

“Amazing series, which somehow survived a forced change of lead actor, and got even better.”

“it did so so well that it forced other shows like DS9 to also have seasonal story arcs”

“It's great how many of those little important things there are and foreshadowing”

“Vir's toast in one of the later episodes about Londo was a wonderful scene.”

“I heartily recommend watching the series, not just for the parallels with some of our current circumstance, but because it's a good story”

“Season 1 has so many moments of character building and foreshadowing that pay off in later seasons”

“he actually pre-planned the story (spanning multiple seasons!) of B5 right from the beginning”

“Some of the acting in season 1 is great, I would just say there are some spots where it kinda briefly falls through the floor.”

“But the pay off in seasons 3 and 4 is huge if you take the time to let affection grow for the characters.”

“you get a season's worth of "The Inner Light"-quality episodes by the end and for all the major characters”