wilvis-93963 I have not seen anything like this before or after Babylon 5 came out.In most series like this you have good people and bad people.People in a way of speaking of course.Anyway in this show you had god people who did bad things for completely sensible reasons if you looked at it from their perspective.Shame it changed after season 4.Personally i missed Ivanova.And to be honest after the series quit the only thing you ever heard about most of the actors was that they either died of did something completely different.So i wish it had gone on with the same actors as it started off with from season 2.As I said besides the real sf part the main characters were neither completely good or bad.They were real personalities who did bad things for in their eyes good reasons.And it had some good ideas it went against sexism by show strong women and in a way it went against racism.Maybe some people now should watch it again.After seeing the whole show again for the i know how many times I think this is the best ever made but i think it went on too long or got in too much trouble to make a decent fifth season after losing both Marcus and Susan Ivanova they should have wrapped it up and say well we had 4 seasons we have been Lucky.The fifth was pretty much below part Lockley was a disappointment and her being an ex-wife of Seridan was just a rescue missing for a show that wanted to make a fifth season cause they set out to but did not have the means to do it right anymore.So up to season 4 this is better then Startrek will ever be.

george-896 I am a big science fiction fan. I have watched thousands of sci-fi movies and seen 100s of sci-fi series. I have enjoyed the Star Trek franchise (not so much since the J J Abrams reboot) and also a little bit of Star Wars when I was a child (but only the original trilogy). I think that Terminator 2 is THE best cinema movie ever made.But nothing compares with Babylon 5 and how it keeps stunning me to this day. Since the 90s when I first saw it on TV I keep the Babylon 5 universe close to my heart. The characters, the drama and tragedy, but also the humor and development remains completely competition-free to this day. I know nothing that compares with Babylon 5. (maybe Perry Rhodan can compare when it comes to Depth of Universe development)So what I keep doing every 5 years or so is binge-watch the whole series (Babylon 5 series, the movies and then crusade) until I am satisfied. Then I hope that over the next 5 years I forget enough of the details so that I can re-watch it again like it was fresh (forgetting something has never been such a blessing, LOL)I have done so for 4 times already over the past 20 years, and always have I been in a different period of my life, with different problems, tasks and struggles, and Babylon 5 always manages to put my own struggle in perspective when I can re-experience the struggle between chaos & order, authority & freedom, control & risk, as it is shown so masterful in this series.

patlightfoot I rarely give a 10 and all I can say the full series, that I recently borrowed from the local library, I watched twice. Unfortunately I followed it with Battleship Gallacia, that I found wanting and had a very convoluted plot. Although it had also great actors, music scores, etc.Considering this was made in the 1990s, it was revolutionary and it was very easy for me to identify with the screen writer's intentions and overall creative narrative, and see the characters evolve. The booklet attached to the various disc series was also helpful.Who could not love the various characters, Londo and Vir, but one little thing puzzled me, what happened to the Drahk, who had the keepers. They seem to have disappeared from their captured planet when Vir became Emperor. Maybe they died out all but the one that given by Londo for David's coming of age. I believe he went off his head after a drinking bout.I really can't say any more in praise of this series. I loved it. It was a masterpiece of concept, continuity, and the writer well you are a master. No other Sci-Fi series comes close, even though I am a Star Trek fan. I hope to get the five movie length discs sometime in the future.

veit-esl I don't know where to start actually, it can be phrased in just one sentence. Babylon 5 is even after 20 years of its first appearance the absolute best a Sci-fi series can offer to a viewer. i started watching the series in 1994 i believe and it never catched me but there was one reason why it was that way. im from Germany and the synchronisation of the dialogs where not only been flawed in many ways it took away the soul of each character and left the viewer with a sorry excuse of a translation of events and feelings. i started watching the series from scratch in 2000 and in the mothertongue ( englisch ) and its a difference of night and day. i learned my englisch thanks to this series. i just made an account because i feel that babylon 5 doesn't get enough credit for what this series really is. Its a magnificent story telling of events / Masterclass Actors and producers. I don't even know where to begin of praising this fantastic and absolute top notch Sci-fi series. In my humble opinion there is nothing in the last 20 years that can even consider themselves to be on the same level as Babylon 5.I can only urge everyone who haven't seen this fastastic top notch series to just give it a try in englisch. Its a journey where you get pulled into and you surely don't want to come out again.I can only give this series a defnetly 10 out of 10... hell no i'd give it an fkn 20. By far my favorite series ever created in a Sci-fi environment. Even the Special effects seems now in 2014/15 a littly rusty just imagine this series was created with limited resources and not much budget in 1994 ! And now after 20 years i say Thank you with all my heart to all people who were there to created this absolute stunning masterpiece.Thanks a lot. Veit / Berlin 9.12.2014