Should I watch Babylon 5?

[Calen]

Should you watch the best sci-fi tv show ever?  yes of course

Don't let Season one's look or story put you of, its laying the foundations on what's to come. You will understand this if you can see it threw to around s2/s3  which by then you should be well hooked.

Alot of people have been put of by B5 because of the look and not understanding what the hell is going on half the time. It would be quite hard to folllow if you jumped in first time anywhere before Season 2 as this epic story is spread over the entire 5 Seasons. No weekly reset button here
Seeing it threw from start to finish with just a few bumps along the road, and you will be rewarded with an amazing story.

Season 3 and 4 are my favourite and i think some of the battle scenes still look ok today given the age & budget. Everything ages, but the storyline sees it threw

alittle OT

JMS Seems to be a big player these days, good on him perhaps he now can command more freedom and get B5 on the big screen,  fingers & toes crossed

[Calen]

JMS was a big player BEFORE B5, he did a fair chunk of Murder She Wrote.  Well, 7 episodes, but he DID create the series Jerimiah

 
Yeah in TV land but he is now involved in Hollywood movies and doing quite well to, Changeling & Ninja Assassin   with  quite a few more in the pipeline.

Oh, and just ignore the troll called "Tension", he has to work off some Tension  But that is what you get for living in Northern ireland, All those little Skirmishes between the Catholics and Protestants cannot be fun.

Wow where did that come from?  i think thats totally uncalled for, shame on you. Keep this out of the forums please.  thanks.

[Calen]

Yeah, the wife and I are sufferring withdrawl from having recently finished B5 on DVD.
We're getting to the last of the movies now. We just watched the set-up movie for "Crusade" which was a B5 spin-off, and plan to start watching that too. Pity Crusade only got picked up for one season, if only because they never finished their mission.
G-Kar and Londo were the best characters in B5 and they both grew immensely by the end. Sadly G-Kar and the guy who played the Doctor passed away.

Yeah, shame about Crusade, it had the makings of a great show. They made i think 12 in total,  but the  network axed it before the first episode even aired. JMS also planned to run this over a 5 year story. so like B5, It  was just laying the foundations.
The G'Kar and Londo saga was pretty awesome, great acting. Shame G'Kar has passed on now,  but his good self and the doctor did get alittle nod  from JMS  in the 2007 B5: The Lost Tales.
If memory servers correctly,  the guy who played Zathras (think B4) also passed away  not that many years ago in a motorcycle accident.  what a great character he was.

B5 is very similar to StarTrek Deep Space 9 in setting, which we're also in the middle of watching(me for the second time). You can *almost* switch the races, locations and characters with eachother and have the same plot. Nothing wrong with that.

There was a rumour  going around  that B5 was originaly offered  to Paramount?  but later  turned  it to down after  having the scripts  for quite a while.  A year or 2 later,  DS9 was born.  got to love conspiracy's
I did enjoy DS9, well mostly. The  2 part  final  ending was quite cool,  but why  in all of it's seasons  did  the borg not come a knocking?  seems strange as they was everywhere else but there, not even mentioned i don't think.

Once you've finished B5 you must watch "StarWreck: In the Pirkining", a fan-made comedy which mixes StarTrek and B5. Absolutely hilarious, and it has great special effects. The translations are also very amusing.

Great funny show yea, loved it.