Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

How sad is this?

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The best way to think of Babylon 5 is not as a TV show, but as a mythology. The TV aspect of it is slightly dated and has some weakness, but the story is so extraordinary that none of that matters. It starts slowly, and you're not always sure where it's headed, like a lot of great fiction, but it pays off enormously, offering some of the best character and plot development ever conceived. It's the kind of story that can be told at the campfire and still fascinate and inspire the imagination. Give it a chance, stick with it, and look past your television set into Babylon 5's heart. It will not disappoint you!

As the title suggests. Even if you are not a sci-fi fan, but are a bit interested in anything to do with humanity, you must watch it. But watch the whole series (and preferably the movies as well). Please be patient, give it time, it does have an acquired taste. It was made in the 90s and, as my father very well put it "Good sci-fi TV has to have bad acting in it, it is part of the genre". I think this series and any movie or TV depends on the writing. And the writing is fabulous. I hope they reboot the series or the Babylon 5 Universe with a movie, but only with JMS as writer. Thank you, JMS, you gave me so many answers in life. And so many further questions too. :) I can only recommend.

I have not seen anything like this before or after Babylon 5 came out.In most series like this you have good people and bad people.People in a way of speaking of course.Anyway in this show you had god people who did bad things for completely sensible reasons if you looked at it from their perspective.Shame it changed after season 4.Personally i missed Ivanova.And to be honest after the series quit the only thing you ever heard about most of the actors was that they either died of did something completely different.So i wish it had gone on with the same actors as it started off with from season 2.As I said besides the real sf part the main characters were neither completely good or bad.They were real personalities who did bad things for in their eyes good reasons.And it had some good ideas it went against sexism by show strong women and in a way it went against racism.Maybe some people now should watch it again.After seeing the whole show again for the i know how many times I think this is the best ever made but i think it went on too long or got in too much trouble to make a decent fifth season after losing both Marcus and Susan Ivanova they should have wrapped it up and say well we had 4 seasons we have been Lucky.The fifth was pretty much below part Lockley was a disappointment and her being an ex-wife of Seridan was just a rescue missing for a show that wanted to make a fifth season cause they set out to but did not have the means to do it right anymore.So up to season 4 this is better then Startrek will ever be.

I rarely give a 10 and all I can say the full series, that I recently borrowed from the local library, I watched twice. Unfortunately I followed it with Battleship Gallacia, that I found wanting and had a very convoluted plot. Although it had also great actors, music scores, etc.Considering this was made in the 1990s, it was revolutionary and it was very easy for me to identify with the screen writer's intentions and overall creative narrative, and see the characters evolve. The booklet attached to the various disc series was also helpful.Who could not love the various characters, Londo and Vir, but one little thing puzzled me, what happened to the Drahk, who had the keepers. They seem to have disappeared from their captured planet when Vir became Emperor. Maybe they died out all but the one that given by Londo for David's coming of age. I believe he went off his head after a drinking bout.I really can't say any more in praise of this series. I loved it. It was a masterpiece of concept, continuity, and the writer well you are a master. No other Sci-Fi series comes close, even though I am a Star Trek fan. I hope to get the five movie length discs sometime in the future.