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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 1164157" data-attributes="member: 177">I'll also go on record as saying that you don't want to skip the first season.All specific plot content aside, the first season establishes who these people are.  One of the greatest things about B5 is character development.  The characters at the end of the series are not the same people they were when they started.  And you must watch the first season to understand their journey.  Plot summaries from websites are not an adequite substitute.Put on top of that the relevant plot bits, and in gneral the 1st season can't be skipped.  They may not be quite as snappy as the rest of the show, but you see the same in other media - the first chapters of a book aren't usually as spectacular as the rest, but that's because the later chapters build upon the earlier ones.</blockquote>