if teenage sci-fi fans had anything remotely approaching a life, shows like babylon five would be screwed. even creator j. michael straczynski freely admitted that you needed to watch three episodes in a row to begin to understand the show.

“why is babylon 5 fighting earthforce? why does delenn have hair? garabaldi’s being controlled by the guy who played chekov?” all perfectly valid questions, none of which the series would even make an attempt to answer.

it’s like when you walked in five minutes late to class, and your teacher would say, “i’m not gonna waste the other kids time by repeating myself.” by the way, when your teacher said that, what she was really saying was, “stop looking down my dress, asterios, i’ve got kids.”

that’s exactly what watching babylon 5 was like.

i watched it again a few months ago, and it still holds up pretty damn well. even though the speechafying reaches sorkinian levels, sheridan killing shadow vessels with minbari telepaths and exploding jumpgates is still insane. and because the DVD sales have made warner brothers over 100 million dollars, we’re gonna finally get some damn bablyon 5 direct to dvd movies.

that you won’t possibly be able to understand.