This is by far and away, the single best ever written sifi ever written. It's almost impossible to state just how well each of the characters were written. Each character evolved throughout the series. I hated Londo and G'Kar in the first season. But by the end of season 4, they were two of my favorites. The ISN episodes which moved the series forward so much. The absolute darkness of Emperor Cartaga. The political underhanded scheming of Londo. Poking fun at someone else's expense like when Sheridan was making fun of Ivanova for having dreams about showing up to work naked. The list is endless. So many intricacies throughout this whole show. You never knew if the show would end on a bad note, or a good one. Or even when things seem great, something comes up and smacks you in the head just to put you back in your karmatic misery again. Nothing lets up. The very few bad acting/scenes I can think of off the top of my head, are: During the first major battle with the Shadows, there is a scene where it is just music, and you watch the characters talk silently, while directing the battle. This scene works beautifully in this episode. But they tried to replicate it in a later episode, that had nowhere near the same effect. Another scene, is where Delenn is running down the ramp on the bridge of the White Star. She is clearly wearing a 3" lift kit on her feet, and there is a very hollow wooden clomp clomp clomp sound as she descends the ramp. The Minbari are thousands of years more advanced than Humans are, and would obviously have better construction than that. But those are really the only two sort of screw-ups that I can think of. Brilliant show, brilliantly written, and brilliantly acted. 10 years ago, I was against JMS re-doing this show for a few reasons. Most especially, the characters wouldn't be of the same caliber as the original ones. And knowing Hollywood, they would have B5 totally screwed up through their SJW social policies. But today, I wouldn't mind a rehash of it, if it could be kept true to what B5 is, without any SJW interference. I think it's time to binge watch this again...

I like to think I'm choosy when it comes to sci- fi. I like star trek, UFO- (The 1970s series by Gerry Anderson) space 1999, Enemy mine and the Martian chronicles amongst my favourites of the genre. Before it came out I thought sci fi had virtually disappeared and really hoped that a real epic that deserved that lable for all the right reasons would one day be made: Micheal J Stracynski and everyone involved with B5 didn't disappoint. The serious thought provoking moral message, ethical and dramatic story telling kind of science fiction that is worth watching re appeared with the series. B5 uses computer generated imagery a lot but it adds to the background beliveability of the settings.And at the time there was a lot of interest in that being done: Could it and would it? As to the series story itself it had fine actors an overarching plot with good self-contained episodes and a message about the way things could be and it could also be looked at for a message about our times. Humour; just plain funny, serious, dark or subtle and clever, it has that along with one of the most serious of plots often action filled often with dramatic periods or reflection too. Without a doubt This is one of the best sci fi series in a very long time and is most certainly one worth watching it stands the test of time even over twenty years later in 2017.

I am a big science fiction fan. I have watched thousands of sci-fi movies and seen 100s of sci-fi series. I have enjoyed the Star Trek franchise (not so much since the J J Abrams reboot) and also a little bit of Star Wars when I was a child (but only the original trilogy). I think that Terminator 2 is THE best cinema movie ever made.But nothing compares with Babylon 5 and how it keeps stunning me to this day. Since the 90s when I first saw it on TV I keep the Babylon 5 universe close to my heart. The characters, the drama and tragedy, but also the humor and development remains completely competition-free to this day. I know nothing that compares with Babylon 5. (maybe Perry Rhodan can compare when it comes to Depth of Universe development)So what I keep doing every 5 years or so is binge-watch the whole series (Babylon 5 series, the movies and then crusade) until I am satisfied. Then I hope that over the next 5 years I forget enough of the details so that I can re-watch it again like it was fresh (forgetting something has never been such a blessing, LOL)I have done so for 4 times already over the past 20 years, and always have I been in a different period of my life, with different problems, tasks and struggles, and Babylon 5 always manages to put my own struggle in perspective when I can re-experience the struggle between chaos & order, authority & freedom, control & risk, as it is shown so masterful in this series.

Is it really 20 years since this launched?Somewhere in the back of my mind I had this weird nostalgic love of babylon 5 - something i had never really watched at the time, only catching the odd (bizarre) episode. In my memory, it was an amazing, complex show with awesome aliens and space scenes. Looking into the haze of the past, it rated above Star trek, Voyager and that one with the cute blue alien woman.Which just goes to show the inherent fallacy of human memory. Episode 1, season 1 fired up and it was shockingly bad. Graphics were shoddy, sets were ugly, Aliens were a joke. Perhaps modern set design has made someone waving a torch about behind a room divider picked up from an op-shop while someone else plays dramatic music on a synth seem weak, or perhaps it always was? Perhaps playing Tie-Fighter vs Xwing had reduced my cgi expectations so the truly terrible on screen horrors looked cool?Perhaps it was something in the water?The first show, we get introduced to the players for the season. A captain figure, who can't act his was out of a paper bag, stilted lines. Phrasing so badly timed that sentences don't make sense. Alien 'diplomats' fresh from the munsters, complete with silly accents and an apparent inability to behave like, you know, a diplomat. Good points? the alien portrayed by a torch was kinda cool in his fancy costume, and the plastic and latex head monster alien was great, if you ignored the fact the he and every other alien looked like a human in a mask or bad hair don't. You also don't _have_ to watch it again, and you can keep those treasured half-memories of uber-cool, complex, aliens intact