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Originally Posted by xerxes
@Wraith
Babylon 5 was great. It had the great continous arc. However, the show several flaws:
1) extremely bad CGI. If they ever redo it, i will surely buy the DVDs.
2) very very bad acting. Except for Garibaldi, Mollari and G'kar character, other character were not well acted.
3) The Ivanov chracter totally and I mean totally sucked. It was always boring dry-humor with her.
4) The entire show had a very good arc, but then after so much building up (three seasons), the Shadow War ends in just six episodes. I guess it is always easier to tease and buildup, then do an actual release. It is like the TNG episode Best of the Both Worlds: an all time classic. Part 1 was great, awesome, classic, the feel of impending doom, but part 2 failed to deliver on that. It is always like that. Now I also know that in case of Babylon 5, the show was earmaked to be cancelled by the end of season 4, therefore seaons 5 material was actually bonus stuff that we got, and had the show originally went the way it went (full 5 seasons), then the Shadow War would have been better ended.
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1. Only when compared to today's. The original Star Wars had terrible effects by modern standards, does that mean they sucked? Besides the CGI imporved markedly as the show progressed and I can forgive them for actually showing rotating sections and Newtonian physics.
2. Boxleitner was excellent as Sheridan. It's true Delenn was acting well all the time, but the character was well written enough to still make her compelling.
3. I didn't think she was too bad.
4. The show was orignally slated for five seasons, adn the narrative was preplanned. When the show was cancelled, they had to wrap up the Shadow War quicker than expected. When TNT picked up Season Five they had to pull together stuff on short notice, hence the noticeably poorer quality (though there were some great episodes like The Long Night of Londo Mollari, The Fall of Centauri Prime, and Sleeping in the Light).