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Does Babylon 5 hold up compared to modern prestige television? Always heard great things.

• Tomte 2y ago
  Story? Yes? Graphic effects? The remaster is okay to watch, but a few sequences are painfully old. All in all? YES! Just don‘t listen to people who claim there is a fifth season.
  • nython 2y ago
    The deconstruction of falling stars.. the jailbreak plot device was implausible to me when I was younger, somewhat plausible when I was introduced to VMs, and now with LLMs we're probably already there.
  • f4c39012 2y ago
    Don't miss the 2nd half of S5
• conception 2y ago
  S1 isn’t great, it’s more adventure of the week to get used to the characters, life on the ship etc. is not bad but it’s pretty dated. But it sets the backdrop for 3 seasons that changed TV reaching out even today - planned multi season story arcs.
• f4c39012 2y ago
  Prepare to work for it. Series were longer back then, and all of season 1 is slow. Later season 2 starts to reward this effort. There are a couple of episodes in S3 & S4 that aren't great. Otherwise - S3 and S4 are absolute top notch. They blow the shit out of any TV made before or after, on every level and in every way. Be prepared for B5 to set a standard everything else fails to meet by a very, very, very long way. Try to avoid spoilers.