Here’s the thing: Babylon 5 is just about my favorite thing in the whole universe.  It is one of my favorite TV shows. It’s one of my favorite stories in any medium. It contains several of my favorite fictional characters.  My mom showed it to me out of parental duty to make sure I saw probably the best scifi show ever aired, and I think she was right. I rewatch it at least once every two years, and more frequently for the last few years, yearly.  It’s some of my go to depression media: Even when I don’t care about anything else, I care about B5.

We’re under a quarantine, I’m recovering from major surgery, politics are dire, and it’s time to watch B5.

I’m going to be rewatching the series and sharing my thoughts about every episode!  I already do that when I rewatch B5, except I do it privately at friends, so now I’m making it public and better punctuated!  Some episodes will get more than others; I have more to say about some plots than others. You should probably be ready for spoilers for the entire series from the start, because one of my favorite things about B5 is that it builds, it suggests, it foreshadows, and I’m not going to be able to resist watching something in season one and going, “Wow, they already had the groundwork set for that shit in season four!”  But I’m not gonna explain the like entire plot of everything the moment it shows up.

Midnight on the Firing Line