6.29.2005
Babylon 5: Signs and Portents (Season 1)
6 disc set
Amazon site
JMS's Babylon 5 site
Overall grade: A
How could this not get an A? This is B5 for cryin' out loud! This most excellent season is where it all began. All the naive attaches, all the unnerving ambassadors, all the officers still building their relationships to each other. And of course, you can miss out on Cmdr. Sinclair, who of course, disappear right after this season, for mysterious reasons that you will only find out down the road. Babylon 5 is seriously one of the best sci-fi shows around because it takes itself seriously, but not so seriously that the characters don't have fun. The premise is that a decade after a devastating war with the superior Minbari, humans have built a space station in neutral space to act as a meeting place for commerce and diplomacy. Along with the station officers, main characters include the major ambassadors from the Minbari, Centauri, Narns, and Vorlons, as well as a commercial telepath who shows up every now and again. What is great about B5 is that it is epic in scale. You really do have to watch most every episode and every season to follow all the subplots and conspiracies through. I love it when they bring back in details or explanations down the road, and you're like "OHHH, so that's what that was about!"
Amazon site
JMS's Babylon 5 site
Overall grade: A
How could this not get an A? This is B5 for cryin' out loud! This most excellent season is where it all began. All the naive attaches, all the unnerving ambassadors, all the officers still building their relationships to each other. And of course, you can miss out on Cmdr. Sinclair, who of course, disappear right after this season, for mysterious reasons that you will only find out down the road. Babylon 5 is seriously one of the best sci-fi shows around because it takes itself seriously, but not so seriously that the characters don't have fun. The premise is that a decade after a devastating war with the superior Minbari, humans have built a space station in neutral space to act as a meeting place for commerce and diplomacy. Along with the station officers, main characters include the major ambassadors from the Minbari, Centauri, Narns, and Vorlons, as well as a commercial telepath who shows up every now and again. What is great about B5 is that it is epic in scale. You really do have to watch most every episode and every season to follow all the subplots and conspiracies through. I love it when they bring back in details or explanations down the road, and you're like "OHHH, so that's what that was about!"
Labels: genre: scifi, media: DVD
