Malfador Shuts Down

[NullAshton]

I watched farscape during a marathon they had. Two whole weeks of back-to-back-to-back... They showed every epsiode, from 8:00 to 4:00, 8 hours of it every day. I missed a few, but most of them I watched...

Now, TNG? I've watched all of those. They show them every day, 3 times a day... so why not watch it? Some of the episodes are good.

[Sivran]

Hunpecked said:
General Woundwort writes: "There was no fifth season. Trust me. It was a vile rumor. It never happened."

The term "fifth season" refers to that agonizingly prolonged anti-climax that followed the climactic fourth season.

Best line of the entire series, delivered by the recently resurrected Sheridan: "I was dead. I'm better now." Unfortunately, the show wasn't. Dead, I mean. Or better.

Second best part of the series: At the climax of the war, the pipsqueak humans tell the mighty Vorlons and Shadows, their superiors by millions of years, to "get the hell out of our galaxy!"--and they GO!

The best part of the series actually happened BEFORE the show started, apparently just so they could call it "Babylon 5" instead of "Babylon":

They said it was *daft* to build a space station in a swamp, but I showed them!
It sank unto the swamp. So I built a second space station. That sank into
the swamp too. My third space station sank into the swamp. So I built a fourth
one. That fell into a time warp and _then_ sank into the swamp. But the fifth
one... stayed up! --Monty Python/Babylon 5

The 5th season of B5 would've been much better if UPN hadn't given jms the run-around. When it appeared to jms that B5 would be cancelled after the 4th season, he stuffed 5th season stuff into the 4th season, so the show could have some closure. This left little material for the 5th season when B5 was picked up by Sci-Fi.

Thus, blame B5's bad 5th season on UPN.

[Atrocities]

Season 5 of B5 was not ran on UPN, it was ran on TNT and it was TNT who gave them the shaft in scheduling.

[Hunpecked]

Sivran writes: "Thus, blame B5's bad 5th season on UPN."

But who do I blame for the lame ending of the Shadow War in Season 4? If that was JMS's intent from the beginning, then bad, bad JMS! If he changed it to fit into Season 4, then bad on him again.

I discovered the show early in Season 3, and subsequently caught most of the early episodes in reruns. I got the impression there was a decent 3-season story hiding somewhere in those 5 seasons. Perhaps with a faster pace (three seasons) the ratings would have justified a "Bab 5 Reloaded" series at the end of the first, e.g. to cover the telepath war.

[Xrati]

General Woundwort said:
I second the B5 sentiments here. I have all four seasons on DVD , and watch them regularly. I can't think of any major character that didn't shine, and it also produced my all-time favorite throw away line ("I want to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike...")

I personaly like Delenn's "Go ahead, make my day quote", when she warped in to save B5. "... the only Earth commander to defeat a Mimbari is behind me! You are in front of me. If you value your life you will be somewhere else!"