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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9198917">It has been about five years since I watched Babylon 5 (and that was my first time watching it actually, I was more of a star trek fan growing up). So I can't remember details well enough to make point by point defenses of it. I will say, I remember it being one of the best written shows I had seen. It certainly had its quirks but I think much of that was charming because it stemmed from feeling like it was under the control of a single creative rather than a team (I do realize their were other writers on the show, but you can feel JMS's fingerprint on everything and it seems like he has an overall vision of what he wants, which isn't how it feels to watch Star Trek TNG, as much as I like that show). Also one of the things that really impressed me about Babylon 5 was the kind of science fiction he was drawing on and the types of characters it featured. Having a captain with a Jesuit education was very interesting as a choice, and it also helped set the tone of the show (because there were some very interesting spiritual themes in it). Also, while I am sure people can pick at the story and characters now. And while I only caught glimpses of it when it first aired, it is one of the earlier shows to do the whole storyline through the whole series. We are accustomed to stuff like the Sopranos, Breaking Bad and Walking Dead now, but this was striking a different balance where each episode still had to be entertaining on its own but also had to feed into a larger storyline (personally I like that balance better than stuff like Breaking Bad----which is a great show----because it doesn't feel like I am watching episodes just to find out what happens next, each episode is still entertaining in itself</blockquote>

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