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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2170649" data-attributes="member: 14159">As has been said, the early seasons of B5 were done on off-the-shelf Amigas & Video Toasters.     The show was made on a shoestring budget (especially early on) and CGI was the only way they could even really afford to show anything in space.  Those Season 1 effects date back to 1993 as well (which were considered quite good for the time), and it really was the first show to use CGI for all the effects (not because it was trendy, because it was cheap and the could show a lot more space battles with CGI for the same budget as models).The CGI does get somewhat better later on, as they get more of a budget, and the DVD transfers get better as well.  Anyway, the real strength of B5 is not in the special effects, it's in the writing and acting, which is really better than any TV Sci-Fi show in history.  Unlike a lot of shows, the characters really change and grow, they aren't afraid to kill off or seriously change main characters, and things aren't all the same at the end of an episode. To somebody who's watching it for the first time: pay attention to the little things.  The show makes a big point out of foreshadowing and setting things up in early seasons which you can go back later and understand what and why things happened.</blockquote>