A Niner Watches Babylon 5 (NO spoilers, please)
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You can't be serious.
I think you're cheating yourself if you skip season 1 of any show. It's like a book. You're not going to skip to the middle of the book you're reading. If you are, than you're not really reading aren't you.
Quite. Season 1 is the crucible in which we all burn. We must make them descent into the hellfire so that we can come out desperately gnawing at any scraps of goodness that are around on the table.
Besides; season 1 has some good and also some important episodes for the show. Like... uh... "Infected". Yeah. That's the plausible meal ticket.
Quite. Season 1 is the crucible in which we all burn. We must make them descent into the hellfire so that we can come out desperately gnawing at any scraps of goodness that are around on the table.
Besides; season 1 has some good and also some important episodes for the show. Like... uh... "Infected". Yeah. That's the plausible meal ticket.
I'm not sure if you're agreeing with me or mocking me, but you have seen episodes like Signs & Portants, Babylon Squared, and Chrysalis, right?
When I first took the B5 plunge, I started with S2, and didn't pick up S1 until after I finished S4. Yeah, I admit to cheating. Still, it made the early pain of S1 more bearable.
When I first took the B5 plunge, I started with S2, and didn't pick up S1 until after I finished S4. Yeah, I admit to cheating. Still, it made the early pain of S1 more bearable.
But you wouldn't know if there was Early pain unless you went through it. I'm on my second run through of the show (And kinda stuck on Paragon of Animals so need to get going but that's way down the road from this thread) and I actually came to appreciate season 1 more. That can't happen if I had actually skipped to season 2.
Also, just wondering, how did you get passed the fact that Garibaldi was in a coma if you had started Season 2 and not known why he was in that position he was in?
Well, S1's reputation certainly preceded itself. I figured it a better idea to start with where the show "got good" to see if I'd be willing to splurge further.
As for the spoiler, I didn't find it terribly disconcerting. The first two episodes of S2 -especially Revelations- do an excellent job of filling in the newbie anyway.
When I first took the B5 plunge, I started with S2, and didn't pick up S1 until after I finished S4. Yeah, I admit to cheating. Still, it made the early pain of S1 more bearable.
But you wouldn't know if there was Early pain unless you went through it. I'm on my second run through of the show (And kinda stuck on Paragon of Animals so need to get going but that's way down the road from this thread) and I actually came to appreciate season 1 more. That can't happen if I had actually skipped to season 2.
Also, just wondering, how did you get passed the fact that Garibaldi was in a coma if you had started Season 2 and not known why he was in that position he was in?
Exactly. However, I didn't experience that "season one pain" like others seemed to. My first time through Season one was opening a window into a science fiction universe unlike any I had seen before, being introduced to great characters and a big world with LOTS of stuff going on. Some episodes better than others, but even in the weaker episodes, there were clues dropped as to things to come or character bits that would inform things later.
All of which would pay off BIG TIME later.
I've been back through S1 a few times now and I've enjoyed it every time.
As always, YMMV.
While some of the early episodes were very hard to stomach (I'm looking at you, Infection) I haven't really struggled with any of the episodes since Parliament of Dreams, and I've liked three of them. It may seem that I'm marking the episodes low but that's because I try to keep the 5/10 as the average so anything on that level is okay while anything above it is mostly enjoyable.
And remember, I've spent the last year watching Voyager and Enterprise, two shows that consistently scored around 5/10 for most of their runs, so this first season is similar to the quality level I've grown used to. I made it through seven seasons of Voyager knowing that the show wasn't going anywhere, so I can easily make it through one season of this show while being told that big things are going to happen down the line.
And remember, I've spent the last year watching Voyager and Enterprise, two shows that consistently scored around 5/10 for most of their runs, so this first season is similar to the quality level I've grown used to. I made it through seven seasons of Voyager knowing that the show wasn't going anywhere, so I can easily make it through one season of this show while being told that big things are going to happen down the line.
That's the spirit.
I'm agreeing with you. The second part was a joke, so as to avoid spoiling what be the Important Episodes.
And miss episodes like "A voice In The Wilderness", "Babylon Squared" or "Chrysalis".
Those are all Sci-Fi masterpieces and they are essential to the main story arc.
And a little-known series called Star Trek.
- good one!Swap Voyager for Heroes and we're good.
And War of the Worlds and Seaquest DSV and (though I never really watched it, but just based on critical consensus) Andromeda.
In fact, is it really that much more common for a sci-fi show's 2nd season to be better than the 1st rather than the other way around.
In fact, is it really that much more common for a sci-fi show's 2nd season to be better than the 1st rather than the other way around.
*cough* Earth: Final Conflict *cough*
Disagree on Enterprise, Lost and BSG. Thought latter seasons were better on all of the, ESPECIALLY Enterprise (s 4).
On Lost and BSG, I think all of the seasons kick ass, but later ones I enjoy more.
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