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Interesting! I love Babylon 5 and watch/re-watch it every few years. I've even watched it with several friends over the years and discussed it in depth with eac
by lelandbatey 9y ago
Interesting! I love Babylon 5 and watch/re-watch it every few years. I've even watched it with several friends over the years and discussed it in depth with each of them.
It's definitely a strange show, but it's sheer story is like almost nothing I've ever seen. It's like a proto-BSG, where we're following many characters and their arcs through a very intense and far-reaching series of events with long-lasting consequences that may show symptoms only very slowly. Like I said, it has this in common with other shows, and it's great. But unlike almost any other show I've ever seen, the first three seasons comprise one cohesive story.
I've consumed other media with stories that are meant to span large volumes of content, but almost all of them end up wandering around a bunch before eventually remembering that they're supposed to be dealing with the larger plot (cough Wheel of Time cough). So to see such a long-reaching cohesive story, something I'd never seen on TV before or since, and have it actually be good, made Babylon 5 an amazing show for me.
- tnecniv 9y ago> So to see such a long-reaching cohesive story, something I'd never seen on TV before or since, and have it actually be good, made Babylon 5 an amazing show for me. A benefit of JMS planning seven seasons of plot before starting and remaining a consistent part of the writing staff.
- throwanem 9y agoFirst four seasons, not first three. Also, I don't really think "proto-BSG" is especially reasonable, considering first that B5 isn't unrelentingly grim and miserable just for the sake of it, and second that, where JMS planned out the story arcs to completion before production began, Ronald Moore has come out and admitted that he was making shit up as he went along - rather say that BSG was an honorable, but ultimately vain, attempt to live up to the standard set by Babylon 5.