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

It's only just occurred to me that the Shadows might be based on Sauron from The Lord of the rings. Ancient dormant evil, there have been wars in the past and they have retreated back to Zha'Daum (Mordor). Agents out doing their work for them. It takes an alliance of races to fight them back.

If that's the case are the Vorlon's based on the Elves perhaps?

…what would you like to see done differently? Personally, I would love if the show had the budget to properly show the interior of the station. B5 is such an interesting idea, a fully realized O’Neil cylinder. However, the budget never allowed them to show what such a station should look like. For instance, I always found it weird that the ambassadors not only had no staff, but conducted official business in the living room of their quarters. Even the station commander lacked a secretary. For reference, most countries have fairly extensive missions to the United Nations. Related to this, we spend very little time in the “garden”. The garden is where you would expect most people to spend their free time. I get that B5 lacked the budget to show such things and that the VFX were not up to the task. However, I would hope that a new show would be in a better position to show such things. The game Mass Effect completely copies the concept, but gives you a better picture of what a UN on a space station might really look like.

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One of the sad things about Babylon 5 is the number of people who have already passed away. Andreas Katsulas and Richard Biggs should be included in this picture. Compare this to Star Trek TNG, where - to my knowledge - everyone from the main cast still lives.

Imagine meeting some of them in person; whom would you choose? And whom would you add from the already deceased ones?

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One group I would have loved to learn more about were the Techno-mages.

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It seems that they - although powerful - simply did not want to get involved in the shadow war. One viewer might think that even if these powerful people are wary of the shadows, how powerful must they be?

I really would love to see a spin-off of Babylon 5 with more presence of the techno mages.

I loved the idea that suddenly someone could come to Babylon 5 and introduce himself as Arthur Pendragon, and I also loved how the story evolved.

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My favorite moment was when a fight loomed and "Arthur" got unexpected assistance.

To my surprise Sleeping in Light does not have its own Wikipedia article.

Should this be rectified.

Unpopular though my opinion may be, I really think The Legend of the Rangers is the best B5 movie; I enjoyed it far more than any of the others! I can understand why some don’t like it as a standalone movie, but viewed as a series pilot, it’s great! I would have loved to have seen that series, and wish they’d made it. Ah well.