TV #11 of 2025: Babylon 5, season 3 Babylon 5 is so very nearly frustratingly close to being a good show. There are times when it manages to kick into that higher gear, such as this season when the rising authoritarianism on earth forces the station crew to openly break away from their homeworld and …
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TV Review: Babylon 5, season 2
TV #49 of 2024: Babylon 5, season 2 This science-fiction series has been steadily improving and growing darker in tone, but I’m still not ready in this second season to bump my critical rating up out of the midrange three-star tier. At its best, I’m really interested in the larger serialized story that the show …
TV Review: Babylon 5, season 1
TV #38 of 2024: Babylon 5, season 1 Although an improvement over the pilot movie The Gathering, this first full season of Babylon 5 still isn’t at a consistent quality level for me to raise it higher than my personal 3-star rating tier. I thought I might, during a few episodes! The comparison to its …
Movie Review: Babylon 5: The Gathering (1993)
Movie #15 of 2024: Babylon 5: The Gathering (1993) Okay, I like this. I don’t love Babylon 5 as a franchise quite yet, but this TV pilot movie is a solid setup for the sci-fi framework to follow. If I were a Warner Brothers executive in the 90s, I likely would have ordered a full …
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