Babylon 5 season 5 poll

[altariel]

I've been hugely enjoying my rewatch of Babylon 5, and I've just started on season 4. Watching the first episode, 'The Hour of the Wolf', and remembering that all Cartagia-Centauri Prime doesn't particularly press my buttons, I'm starting to think that I've now seen all my favourite bits of the show, i.e. the build-up to the Shadow War. I'll keep on watching till the end of this season, because I also remember enjoying the resolution of the Earth plotline. My intention hadn't been to get season 5 at all - but is it worth it?

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Comments

[steverogerson.livejournal.com]

Season five was not as bad as some people claim, and it had some really good episodes - The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father for example.

[kradical.livejournal.com]

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.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

As to why you should buy it, see my answer. But it baffles me why you don't like the Centauri Prime scenes in early season 4, because I regularly fast forward through everything else. Not because everything else during those six episodes is bad, far from it, but because the Centauri Prime scenes are so good. Love and adore beyond measure Londo and G'Kar and Vir and Cartagia.