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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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Help motivate us to watch season 5 (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/babylon5

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So my wife and I were watching through Babylon 5 on Tubi. We've both never seen it and have really enjoyed it. We hit the end of season 4 and it really felt like the end of the show (I'm aware of the background issues and also that the season 5 finale was filmed for the end of season 4 but then shifted around) and we were very satisfied with where everything was left. We took a break to put a hold at our library on a DVD of the movies to watch "In the Beginning" before we started season 5. Got the DVD, started watching it, and my wife started falling asleep, so we stopped and just...haven't gone back. I can't explain it, but neither of us feel super motivated to continue even though we were really enjoying the show.

So, B5 fans who have watched the whole series, what can you say to motivate us to continue watching?!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you're emotionally invested in seeing out the Londo/G'Kar story arc, then it's worth suffering through the telepath storyline to get to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

the telepath storyline

aka "the kelly family in space"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's not as good as seasons 3 or 4, but it's still good. Better than Andromeda or some other shows from the same era

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

andromeda had a nice premise but i never liked the fact that civilizations agreed so easily to rebuild the commonwealth

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Season 5 follows the single episode format.

Did you notice that on every 50 minute episode, pretty much everything gets resolved 40 minutes in, then you have the last 10 minutes or so?

Season 5 is the seasonal equivalent of that last 10 minutes. :)