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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 4772900" data-attributes="member: 813">The problem with appreciating OOTS it transitions from a gag-a-comic strip to an epic story. The epic story is great but like the first season of Babylon 5 doesn't appear very often in the first 100+ strips.It's funny the talk about Elan being a moron. Read yesterday's strip #647 and tell me Elan is still a moron. He's grown as a character. Believably. And it is that believability that keeps people coming back. At least, those folks who are not upset that the ratio of rules gags to story gags is much lower than in the first 100 strips.{can't resist mild sidetrack}Unfortunately, had you asked a fan of B5 how to "get into" B5 and told them "I'm only going to give it one season". They would have told you to watch season 3. Then once you were hooked, you could go back and watch season 1. Season 1 has 2 stories that are core to major story arc contained in the first 4 seasons. In season 3 80% of the episodes are major contributers to the arc. This was how the show was planned.{back on target}Similarly, if you want to know why OOTS is good, you can't start from strip #1. I'm not sure where the best strip to start from is, but having flipped through the books a bit, I'm going to pick 190. From 190 to 251 covers the essence of OOTS pretty nicely without relying TOO much on prior information and the mix of comedy/story is pretty decent.</blockquote>