Babylon 5 Reviews

Babylon5. The mere mention of the word causes grown men like myself to go weak at the knees and utter four additional ones. Best. Sci-fi. Series. Ever. A while back, JMS or J. Michael Straczynski decided it would be a cool idea to have a single core science fiction storyline that spanned five years. Nothing quite like this had come ...  Read the complete review

In the nineties, there was a covert war: the war between the people who watched Star Trek and those who favoured Babylon 5. As televised science fiction goes, Babylon 5 is regarded as ground breaking. Its story spans five seasons and is almost entirely written by Michael J. Straczynski with Harlan Ellison as conceptual consultant. The first season ...  Read the complete review

In the late nineties (1994-1998) many hard-core science fiction fans had to make a choice Star Trek- Voyager or Babylon 5. I never had this problem, I watched both! WHAT IS IT ABOUT The year is 2258, ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. The last hope for a lasting peace to be established in the universe is Babylon 5 an ...  Read the complete review

I used to HATE Babylon 5. I would purposely avoid it when it was on TV. I was an avid Star Trek fan you see, and Babylon 5's entire style and concept were contradictory to my taste in sci-fi. I liked the clean-cut scientific purity of Star Trek: The Next Generation. In comparison B5 looked dumb, cheap and weird. I didn't like the way ...  Read the complete review

Babylon 5 was probably the best sci fi ever, the long running story arc made it stand out against such competition as Star Trek with it's tidy ending to every episode. The series long main plot was quite spooky at times with the 2 surviving 'old' races trying to push their own interests onto the 'younger' races in their own ...  Read the complete review

A Sci Fi based on a space station and it's not Star Trek? Surely not! Now, I'm not going to get involved on the Star Trek v Babylon 5 discussion, or which came first. Honest. Babylon 5 is set on a space station called, oddly, Babylon 5. Why 5? Well, as we're told in the pilot, Babylons 1-3 were sabotaged, and 4 ...  Read the complete review

With the cancellation of Crusade after only 13 episodes, the B5 universe is back - this time the focus is on the Rangers in a TV movie produced by the Sci-Fi Channel. The story will apparently follow the rangers in the struggle to rebuild after the great war. The cast will apparently include G'Kar and other regulars from the original ...  Read the complete review

Before i comment a quick summary of B5 is required. Its the mid 24th century, late 2256 to be exact and Babylon 5 space station goes on line. Commander Sinclair is the senior commander. Humans are no longer the only race in the universe. There are now several main races : Centuari, Narns, Mimbari, Vorlorns and league of non aligned worlds who act ...  Read the complete review

This opinion is meant to act as a guide to Babylon 5 - something to help people dig into it, without giving away too much. Babylon 5 is a 5 year "television novel", that charts the begining of the third age of mankind (Whatever that is...). It is a series set on a space station - unlike in Star Trek, the problems come to the ship, ...  Read the complete review

By far the best sci-fi produced, Babylon 5 more than outshines Star Trek (in any of it's forms). As with Star Wars, the entire story was written long before it was made into a program or a series and is very compelling viewing. Having watched the entire series from start to finish, each time I've watched it, I've picked up on ...  Read the complete review

Babylon 5 - perhaps the most impressive story I have ever seen or heard or read. I remember when I first sat down and watched an episode. It was from the fourth season and even though I had no real idea of the story arc, the central theme, I became hooked. Like someone else mentioned on here, B5 is full of story lines which, while set in ...  Read the complete review

When I first tuned into this programme, I disliked it. The pilot was terrible, the make-up awful, and every character seemed awkward with everyone else. It’ll never last, I thought. How wrong I was! The Star Trek viewers often argue that it is difficult to get into that you need to watch all the episodes to know what it going on, and to ...  Read the complete review

Babylon 5 is a 5 year novel on TV. It is this unique attribute to the series that has endeared it to millions but also turned millions of others away. Unlike other sci-fi series', Babylon 5 largely follows one central storyline. It is the tale of a spacestation, the last of the Babylon stations, designed to be a centre for peace and ...  Read the complete review

BABYLON 5 first aired in the US in 1993. It is set on a space station in the 23rd Century. It was created by J. Michael Straczynski, who had previously worked on the 1980s version of THE TWILIGHT ZONE and who also wrote a script for an new version of 'V' (entitled THE NEXT CHAPTER) which was unfortunately not picked up. This is a shame as ...  Read the complete review

Babylon 5 might always be considered as a copy of Star Trek that will never be as popular but as a sci-fi show its hard to beat. Channel 4 should be given credit for showing it even though it is screened late at night which probably prevents the show coming to the attention of many viewers. It probably also prevents it form becoming as ...  Read the complete review

Without a doubt Babylon 5 is one of the best Sci fi shows to hit our screens over the last few years. It beats all of the Star Trek attempts into a cocked hat. Basically B5 tells the 5 year story of a space station (Babylon 5 itself) and its involvement in a war between the Shadows ( an evil alien race) and the Vorlons (a not so evil race) that ...  Read the complete review

The never boring www.themedepot.com site which you can access for free through Yahoo Messenger, has finally come up with a few great Babylon5 themes. If you don't know about this site, it is where one can download cool themes for the Yahoo Messenger main window. And boy do they have some great themes. I just downloaded Kosh (my ...  Read the complete review

In many peoples eyes this is the finest sci fi series ever. It;s probably due to the 5 year arc that was put on the table at the very beginning, and which hardly changed over the years. The characters are extremely well played by the actors, and the 90% of the episodes are brilliant in one or another. The graphics were computer generated ...  Read the complete review

For my money you'd have to travel a long way to beat Babylon 5 as a masterpiece of sci-fi TV. It's set in a space station where 'humans' and alien races can interact (supposedly peacefully) with all sorts of results... Like any good series it has well constructed plots with some storylines that are resolved in an ...  Read the complete review

Babylon 5, while not as popular as Star Trek, is very loved by it's legions of fans. If you're not one of those fans you probably won't be greatly interested in it, probably because the best thing about Babylon 5 is it's Arc story which spans 5 seasons and 110 episodes, as well as 5 TV movies. Most of the stories except the two ...  Read the complete review