Season 5 of B5 was about five or six hours of good television. Unfortunately, there's twenty-two hours of it. The season was done in by two disastrous casting decisions: the wooden Tracy Scoggins as the thoroughly uninteresting Elizabeth Lochley (Lochley actually worked better on Crusade, where she had Gary Cole to play off of), and the don't-hate-me-because-I'm-beautiful Robin Atkin Downes as the unconvincing underground leader Byron (I kept wondering, if he's been living in Downbelow all this time, where did he get the hair gel?????)
There are individually good episodes, but the fifth season is (pardon the pun) a shadow of a great show's former self -- particularly coming after the slam-bang fourth season.
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Date: 2005-06-29 12:11 pm (UTC)There are individually good episodes, but the fifth season is (pardon the pun) a shadow of a great show's former self -- particularly coming after the slam-bang fourth season.