Babylon 5

B5 is not a bad show.

I watched it in its original run, and in syndication for years afterwards. In all, I’ve probably watched it from beginning to end at least ….7 or 8 times, the latest time just at the end of last year.

Thing is, after seeing it so many times, for me it hasn’t aged well and outside of the main story it is REALLY boring, now. Don’t get me wrong, the main story from seasons 1-4 was great and is still compelling, but the filler kills me, now. And when you watch what became the season 4 finale, basically spoiling the entire future timeline, Season 5 was a freaking waste of time, as was the following movie that lead into the spinoff Crusade.

Recently, I was informed that the actual series finale at the end of season 5 was in fact filmed during season 4, which then makes a WHOLE lot of sense, because that is actually a good series finale. The Season 4 finale should never have been made, and its existence has always been a rough point with me.

Now, watching Gary and Az as react as B5 virgins on The Real BBC is interesting, because their reactions to episodes is valid  and the right reactions as two people seeing it all for the first time. That first time is, barring the drag that Season 1 can be, a good time and worthy of the full watch.

If you have never watched B5, then one should definitely watch it as a sci-fi fan. It’s worth it.

But as I said, when you’ve seen it so many times as I have, and when the hang ups it has still leave me bothered after over 20 years, I find no real enjoyment anymore.

It’s not like going back and doing my watches of Stargate SG1 or Farscape where no matter how many times I watch it all I am fully satisfied.

I don’t know which I prefer.

The shows WITH Commander Jeffrey David Sinclair (before he became an ambassador/left the show).

or afterwards when Captain John Sheridan took over the station.

Delenn was never going to marry Sinclair, there was a panel that was asked and explained it always suppose to be Sheirdan as he was whom was worthy by all classes for what he did to the “Drala Fi”. Sinclair was Valen, Valen was Sinclair, ya talk about the time Paradox, but it was sorta explained in by Delenn to Marcus in the show.

I do not remember how the entire conversation went but the end was something like <Had humans been found on B-4, Dear God. A Minbari not born of Minbari. The Minbari would never allow that>  Marcus is alive and with a Clone Susan in the expanded U. Fate Unknown. I sometimes wonder which Love was the strongest, John and Delenn or Marcus and Susan. In the end I like to think they were all strong, I mean outside of Marcus only one group of scientist ever made Susan mad and lived to tell of it.

B5 is great, one of my all time favorite series err minus s-5 though it was ok, 4 was all that was needed….. Now if they decide to touch it, I would be fore it with the right cast in an Expanded way (not redoing b-5) but finding the cure and then rebuilding a “B-6” and taking it from there, Heavy on Rangers would be smart and really need Mira Furlan, Jerry Doyle, Billy Mumy and Stephen Furst at least in a couple episodes. But do it like Cobra Kai, bring in the Old Characters to compliment the new ones and tell a good story.|

B-5 is probably one of the best sci-fi series made, just not as well known because it is not in constant syndication

Positive. and this was before the wokeness and lies of hollywood .  B4 going future was part of the plan and scrapped for some reason, if i remember its because of how bad the expanded shows did <now that i could be mistaken on> but believe it was the reason.  Do NOT challenge Hollywood by saying they can never. Thats like telling a redneck he cant jump that ditch.

Im going to need a rainy day to read that synopsis :)

BTW talk B5 all you want, maybe get some new people to watch it, so damn good.. soo soo good.

The sequels talk I am always leery of,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Over the years I have heard rumors upon rumors upon speculations. I do not know how many times I have heard “Rangers” was going to be started back up. Thing is NOTHING ever comes of it, I would swear there is a a bunch of baby doomcocks running around making them up.

28 years since B-5 and and “Legend” was what 19 20 years. I do not see it (b5) for sure being done, many of the cast (original) have been Blunt they would not because of how good the original was and they would not want it to flop and since Andreas passing I seriously doubt they would, My god he should have won and Emy each year. Dude NAILED the role.

Man thinking about just how good the show was and how good the cast was hurts looking at the crap we have now. A testament to how good it was, I did not see  Walter Koenig as Chekov but as Bester,

Romuwho… He is G’Kar …. well G’kar and the mob boss in “Next of Kin” that show was just G’kar in human costume