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Babylon 5 Is a Perfect, Terrible Series (www.tor.com)
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"I hope the future will be like Star Trek, but I’m afraid it’s going to be like Babylon 5."

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[–] profdc9 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I enjoyed it and I give J. Michael Straczyinski a lot of credit for being able to conceive and tell a good story even with some difficult production and casting problems. While the plot can be simplistic there are not a lot of loose threads and there are many interesting characters. I think for the time (the 1990s) it was incredibly ambitious before streaming made more dedicated audience participation possible.