This is my first time watching Babylon 5 I'm almost falf way through the frist season. Is there anything I should know or watch out for going forward??

So, I finished my first rewatch in years 1,5 weeks ago. I watched it with my son and our scheduling miraculously was such that he could watch Sleeping in Light on his 14th birthday. I warned him beforehand that I'd cry. He hasn't cried to anything happening in films or tv in years (the previous ones were a character death in a children's show, and Jurassic Park was too scary for him at first sight until he realised he loved it).

I was moved, but didn't really cry. He did.

Now he's thinking about it all the time and has surprised a couple of his teachers when they've asked what his favourite tv show is.

I know they just put it back on Amazon Prime but does anyone know where to find The Gathering or the other films? The first season starts with episode 1, not the Gathering. I hate that, they did it with Battlestar Galactica too, miniseries was separate but at least I could find that.

I always used to skip season 1, having seen it once and getting all the little story bits from it. Usual thinking of all the good plot points happening from season 2 onwards. I have all the others on DVD but thought for a new rewatch i'd start from the beginning. It's kind of been a little rough here at the minute, so watching O'Hare's performances, knowing now what he was going through, I'm just in pieces. What a struggle it must have been for the man to deliver all those scenes and those iconic lines he had. 'Hold the line... No-one gets through...'

And what are the layouts of the decks?

I mean, looking at a 3d model, there were about 20 decks on the ship's core spine, and i haven't counted the three wings.

Can you answer this?

Babylon 5 has tons of mysteries and unresolved plots. Some might be intentional.

What are the ones you would like to have resolved and how?

Where is Captain Sheridan when Korea needs him?

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I love the allegory.

"It's the time between 3:00 and 4:00 in the morning. You can't sleep, and all you can see is the troubles and the problems and the ways that your life should've gone but didn't. All you can hear is the sound of your own heart. I've been living in the hour of the wolf for seven days, Lyta. Seven days. The wolf and I are now on a first-name basis. In times like this, my father used to take one large glass of vodka before bed. 'To keep the wolf away,' he said. And then he would take three very small drinks of vodka, just in case she had cubs while she was waiting outside."

Enough said... Now in case I am up at 3 am in the morning, this is what I call it.

So I get that huge amounts of energy are required to travel between planets and to use the jump gate but what I keep thinking about is how did people get up out of the gravity well? Was there some miracle rocket technology that happened? So many sci-fi universes seem to leave this on answered

Yet I can't find any such direct reference in searches.

Am I mis-remembering?

Let's face it! We will never get new episodes. And even if there would be a reboot with new episodes, it would not be the same with Andreas Katsulas and the others who went from us too early.

So, which books would you recommend that meet most of the original B5 spirit?

I just wanted to mention, for those who have asked, that absolutely nothing whatsoever happened today in sector 83 by 9 by 12. I repeat, nothing happened. Please remain calm.

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Rewatching again - and now this episode hit right away: "And what are you? -Alive. Everything else is negotiable. " I think Steven's ark is the most important there, even the space battle is spectacular.

Saw some reports Babylon 5 is meant to be back on prime from 1st Dec, hope shows soon!

Now, there has been some reevaluation of the prequels in recent years, and rightly so, but it still remains fairly agreed on that taken on their own without the context of Palpatine’s shenanigans the political debates and senate hearings for Phantom Menace don’t really hold up, boring C-Span affairs and such. Babylon 5, on the other hand, makes these scenes scintillating and interesting (or legitimately hilarious) every time they pop up in earlier seasons or later on when the intrigue returns again. I know why I personally like them better, but I’m curious if other people could confirm for me why these scenes work in Babylon 5 and not the Phantom Menace.

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No, it is not a certain person who represents his associates to find out what people want; it is Frank Zappa.

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Also, one of the funny episodes with some references. That exactly Robert Englund played a cult leader who wanted to bring the perfect predator to life.

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Look at his fingers...

I am halfway into Season 2 now (I know Season 1 is considered the low point of the show), but there's just something "off" about the acting and I mean this for virtually every character, besides maybe the ones playing the aliens.

Every person on this show has this weird "overacting" with their expressions, it's hard for me to describe, but it's stuff you would see on old 80's/90's soap operas. Like you see one character say something, and the other constantly moves their eyebrows up and down and makes these huge gaping expressions with their mouths or when they're smiling. There's also weird cuts with the camera when it shifts from person to person (as well as during the action/fight scenes), that feels awkward to me. Also when the blonde psychic woman is sensing something that frightens her/scares her reactions and acting is so poorly done.

I don't know, I've watched Star Trek all my life and even in the worst episodes of Trek, the main cast still gave good performances.

I was visiting Raleigh, NC today and was completely unaware that Sector 100 by 17 by 3 was here. You learn something new everyday.

So Valen, a Minbari not born of Minbar, and some weird alien Zathras just show up with a free space station being escorted by Vorlons.

The Minbari were losing the Shadow war so maybe they don't ask where these two stole a space station from.

How did the Minbari know how to operate a stolen space station? Did they wonder what language everything is written in? Did Valen bring an instruction manual in Minbari for them to read? Or were the Minbari in the past so much more advanced than Earth's technology at the time of B4 that the Minbari just knew how everything worked?

Watching Babylon 5 for the first time and I really loved this episode. Great piece of world building and super creative