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It was the dawn of the third age of mankind. Ten years after the Earth Minbari war. The Babylon project was dream giving form. It's goal to prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call. Home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanders. Humans and aliens wrap in two million five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal, all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. This is the story of last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5.

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A Babylon 5 DVD advertisement I ran across inside an old Star Wars comic. (lemmy.world)

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[–] Makeitstop 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I know a lot of people beat up on season 5, but I prefer to remember how happy I was to find out that there was a season 5.

I watched Babylon 5 when it originally aired, but I was a kid with few sources of info, no cable, and no internet. As far as I knew, The Deconstruction of Falling Stars was the series finale. And while it's a fine little episode for what it is, it's a terrible way to close the series.

It was years later that I found out that B5 had moved to cable and got a fifth season plus some movies and a short lived sequel series. Seeing in the beginning was a treat, and while I found season 5 to be uneven, I was also thrilled to have more, and to see things wrap up. And then finally getting the real finale, it was a weight lifted from the deepest, nerdiest depths of my soul.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I haven't watched B5 in about ten years - I was following a roadmap from a site online to try to watch them all chronologically.

Long story short, I think most of it was a straight run to the penultimate episode of Season 5, and most of the spinoff stuff occurred between that and the final episode.

I got so bogged down and fed up with Crusade and some of the spinoff long-form episodes that I gave up and never actually watched the final episode, and I've lost the storyline thread now so I think just watching it cold would lose it's impact. Shame really.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I think a lot of those guides want you to watch everything, whereas much of the extra stuff isn't worth it, including basically all of Crusade. I forget the details, but I'd recommend only a few of the films - I'd rather have quality over quantity and so remember it fondly.

[–] Makeitstop 1 points 5 months ago

The best way to watch Babylon 5 is to either start with the special edition of the gathering or skip it and go to midnight on the firing line. Then just watch the show in either broadcast order or lurkers guide order. In the beginning is recommended but only after season 4 or right before the series finale. Everything else is unnecessary and should be skipped or saved for last.