Indeed. I watched due to a friend's mad love. I got caught up around mid-4th season, and was continually amazed at the pacing of eps being so OFF to what I'd expected since all the setup was done in previous eps and not in Act 1 and the beginning of Act 2
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technically, they WERE cancelled. They had enough advance notice to make "Sleeping in Light", and only afterwards did TNT come forward and offer the money to host the final season. By which point JMS had to scramble to come up with a story to tell in S5, which is why S5 is so uneven compared to the rest of the series.
So, yeah, I'm with you: I never saw most of S5, although mostly because I didn't get cable at the time, and I'd never really missed it. (Although I'm currently re-watching it with danceswithwords, so I guess I'll end up watching the EmoTelepath storyline after all... ::sigh::)
I'm still cranky about Claudia Christian dropping the ball on her contract renewal. It was stupid, and she's never done anything nearly as interesting since.
There are a few bits of season 5 that are, I think, well worth watching. Not that your life would be incomplete for having missed them, but it's not completely made of fail, particularly toward the end of the season. Perhaps it helps that G'Kar and Londo were my favorite characters and theirs my favorite relationship, and they remain in pretty good form in season 5--Londo especially.
Unfortunately, there's an awful lot of EmoTelepath storyline to slog through before "The Fall of Centauri Prime"...
I can see how at the time it might have seemed to Claudia Christian like a good idea to move on to other things. In retrospect however, and in light of the other things that she hasn't really done, it does seem a mistake. And season 5 felt the lack of Susan quite acutely.
I didn't hate season 5. I think it was actually better, overall, than I was expecting. I think it was largely saved for me because my two favorite characters in my favorite relationship--G'Kar and Londo--remained fairly true to form, and most of the actually interesting things that happened in season 5 happened to them. It was hardly a stellar season, by any stretch, but it didn't bother me as much as I feared it might. On one hand, I never got quite invested enough in this show to feel personally slighted when it didn't go as I might have wished; I enjoyed it very much, but it never found a position of mad love with me. And on the other, I don't like to dwell on aspects of a show I dislike if I can help it. When I find that I'm complaining more than I'm enjoying, I stop watching; and because I don't like to stop watching, I tend to hunt out the positive as much as I can
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only a billion years late with this comment, but i just got home, i hope you will forgive me. ;)
It continues to baffle me as absolutely the most uneven television show I've ever seen: what it does well it does exceptionally well, and but when it crashes and burns, that, too, is spectacular.
i think that's probably the best summary of babylon 5 i've read thus far. ;) it really is amazing how the series can do that. overall though, i must say that i enjoyed it tremendously. once i got over the first half of the first season, that is. ;) i loved the mythological elements of it, the way mjs managed to combine them with real character drama. usually you get one or the other, but this series had both.
i don't know, i think that's all i had to say. for some reason i never managed to get overly meta when it came to this series. although i think i'd love to write something with regard to benjamin sisko (of ds9, i'm not sure whether you're familiar with that particular show or not), laura roslin and john sheridan. even if laura roslin is
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I enjoyed it tremendously overall, as well. I came to really love many of the characters, and the drama of it was incredibly compelling. If there were nothing in the show besides the Londo and G'Kar arc it would still be outstanding, I think, because that particular storyline is among the most interesting relationship trajectories I've ever seen. Yet sometimes it falls so very flat! Ah well!
As for DS9, you know my recent "oh, how intriguing!!!" thoughts about that!
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technically, they WERE cancelled. They had enough advance notice to make "Sleeping in Light", and only afterwards did TNT come forward and offer the money to host the final season. By which point JMS had to scramble to come up with a story to tell in S5, which is why S5 is so uneven compared to the rest of the series.
So, yeah, I'm with you: I never saw most of S5, although mostly because I didn't get cable at the time, and I'd never really missed it. (Although I'm currently re-watching it with danceswithwords, so I guess I'll end up watching the EmoTelepath storyline after all... ::sigh::)
I'm still cranky about Claudia Christian dropping the ball on her contract renewal. It was stupid, and she's never done anything nearly as interesting since.
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Unfortunately, there's an awful lot of EmoTelepath storyline to slog through before "The Fall of Centauri Prime"...
I can see how at the time it might have seemed to Claudia Christian like a good idea to move on to other things. In retrospect however, and in light of the other things that she hasn't really done, it does seem a mistake. And season 5 felt the lack of Susan quite acutely.
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It continues to baffle me as absolutely the most uneven television show I've ever seen: what it does well it does exceptionally well, and but when it crashes and burns, that, too, is spectacular.
i think that's probably the best summary of babylon 5 i've read thus far. ;) it really is amazing how the series can do that. overall though, i must say that i enjoyed it tremendously. once i got over the first half of the first season, that is. ;) i loved the mythological elements of it, the way mjs managed to combine them with real character drama. usually you get one or the other, but this series had both.
i don't know, i think that's all i had to say. for some reason i never managed to get overly meta when it came to this series. although i think i'd love to write something with regard to benjamin sisko (of ds9, i'm not sure whether you're familiar with that particular show or not), laura roslin and john sheridan. even if laura roslin is ( ... )
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As for DS9, you know my recent "oh, how intriguing!!!" thoughts about that!
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