Movie #23 of 2025: Babylon 5: The Road Home (2023) This is, for now, the latest screen entry in the winding Babylon 5 franchise, though there’s no indication that it’s meant to represent a conclusion or anything. In fact, this title is a prequel of sorts — taking place near the end of the TV …
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Movie #16 of 2025: Babylon 5: The Lost Tales (2007) “Movie” is probably a bit of a misnomer here, as this title wasn’t initially intended to constitute a standalone feature at all. Instead it would be merely the first installment of a new Babylon 5 series pitched as an anthology of smaller-scale stories, in contrast …
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TV #48 of 2025: Crusade, season 1 A pretty underwhelming spinoff to Babylon 5 following the events of the TV movie A Call to Arms, which ended with an alien plague infecting everyone on earth. That’s an effective cliffhanger, and its resolution was supposed to be provided by the characters on this 1999 series, who …
Movie #9 of 2025: Babylon 5: A Call to Arms (1999) This was the first of Babylon 5‘s various TV movies to air after the show ended its regular run, and my understanding is that it functions primarily as a bridge to the upcoming spinoff Crusade, which ran for one abbreviated season later that year. …
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TV #32 of 2025: Babylon 5, season 5 The last season of this 90s sci-fi show is somehow even weaker than the previous one, although there are enough saving elements here and there that I’ll still give it a three-star rating overall. (And it is better than some of the movies, at least.) The problem …
Movie #8 of 2025: Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers (2002) This TV movie aired four years after the end of Babylon 5, but I’ve chosen to watch it where it apparently falls in the continuity, sometime between the earlier film The River of Souls and the regular series finale. In truth, it could …
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Movie #7 of 2025: Babylon 5: The River of Souls (1998) I’ve been watching my way through the last season of Babylon 5, and the viewing guide that I’m following situates this film (and the later one The Legend of the Rangers) just before the finale. Plotwise, that checks out, as the events here do …
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Movie #6 of 2025: Babylon 5: In the Beginning (1998) Produced in the run-up to the fifth and final season of the TV show, which would soon be airing on a new network, this Babylon 5 film seems partially aimed at attracting new viewers to the sci-fi franchise. It’s a presentation via flashback of certain …
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TV #22 of 2025: Babylon 5, season 4 By far the weakest iteration of this 90s sci-fi series yet, although things turn around enough near the end (starting approximately when Sheridan is captured by his enemies and the standout episode “Intersections in Real Time”) that I’ll still rate it as three-out-of-five stars. Too much of …
Movie #3 of 2025: Babylon 5: Thirdspace (1998) This TV movie aired during the middle of Babylon 5‘s fifth/final season, but I’ve chosen to watch it where it apparently falls in continuity, which is immediately after episode 4×8 “The Illusion of Truth.” I’m satisfied with that decision, but in all honesty, this is such a …
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