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It was the dawn of the third age of mankind. Ten years after the Earth Minbari war. The Babylon project was dream giving form. It's goal to prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call. Home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanders. Humans and aliens wrap in two million five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal, all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. This is the story of last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5.

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A Babylon 5 DVD advertisement I ran across inside an old Star Wars comic. (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/babylon5

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I haven't watched B5 in about ten years - I was following a roadmap from a site online to try to watch them all chronologically.

Long story short, I think most of it was a straight run to the penultimate episode of Season 5, and most of the spinoff stuff occurred between that and the final episode.

I got so bogged down and fed up with Crusade and some of the spinoff long-form episodes that I gave up and never actually watched the final episode, and I've lost the storyline thread now so I think just watching it cold would lose it's impact. Shame really.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I think a lot of those guides want you to watch everything, whereas much of the extra stuff isn't worth it, including basically all of Crusade. I forget the details, but I'd recommend only a few of the films - I'd rather have quality over quantity and so remember it fondly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The best way to watch Babylon 5 is to either start with the special edition of the gathering or skip it and go to midnight on the firing line. Then just watch the show in either broadcast order or lurkers guide order. In the beginning is recommended but only after season 4 or right before the series finale. Everything else is unnecessary and should be skipped or saved for last.