Babylon 5 marathon

[JoeD80]

BTW, since the chronology I suppose can be considered "official" now that the book has been released this is the season one order from there (at least from the magazine. I assume the new book does the same order, but someone can correct me if it's wrong since I don't have the book yet):

Midnight on the Firing Line
Soul Hunter
Infection
Born to the Purple
The Parliament of Dreams
The War Prayer
And the Sky Full of Stars
Mind War
By Any Means Necessary
Deathwalker
Believers
Survivors
A Voice in the Wilderness Part I
A Voice in the Wilderness Part II
Babylon Squared
Legacies
Grail
Signs and Portents
TKO
Eyes
The Quality of Mercy
Chrysalis

 

[Neroon]

I would think that the Terry Jones chronology at least would have been considered "official" even prior to the book. It had been published in the B5 magazine, and consequently must have been approved of a sort for that reason.

 

[Jan]

The Jones chronology was reviewed in detail by Fiona Avery, reference editor for B5 back when it was first done. As Terry says in his introduction, he had access to her and to JMS to ensure accuracy back then. Before it came out, he updated it and some fans on the team also reviewed it.

Which isn't to say that some things in it might not still be subject to interpretation, I'm sure there are. That's part of the fun, isn't it?

Jan

 

[Reverend]

I had never considered watching season one in any order other than the order they're in on the DVD set, that is until I started amending the timeline section on the B5 wiki and noticed that the entire second half of the season seamed to take place mostly between july and october. Now that I have the chronology, it makes allot more sense than it did. Is there any particular reason why the first season was so scrambled?

 

[JoeD80]

Since production started early on season one, they figured the episodes should be arranged by production needs rather than story needs, so the air-date order had to be given to PTEN separate from production numbers. However, some episodes got juggled around for other reasons -- Mind War was moved up to #6 when the network really liked it. Grail was moved back when the CGI wasn't done in time. And sometimes PTEN switched episodes from the order they had been given (TKO aired when Quality of Mercy was supposed to). Season 2 production started later than season 1 so the episodes had to be produced closer to air-date order to have all the episodes ready on time for airing.