I started watching B5 in Germany. My previous fandom was Trek - TOS, TNG, DS9, and I ended up giving Voyager and even Enterprise a fair chance several years later. I have no particular memories of liking the series more than other SF TV during the first season or two. I then moved to the US in 1996, which meant that I missed almost a full season (parts of S2 and S3, I think), which was really weird (Who were these people? What was going on?), but I caught up and was hooked. And then S5 moved to cable and my grad dorm didn't have cable, woe, WOE, but by that time I had discovered the internet and found a lovely woman in California who taped all of S5 for me and mailed a big box of old-school video tapes to NJ, where I mainlined all 23 episodes over three days during the 1998 Christmas break. I recently "acquired" the first few seasons again and am up to S4, and loving it. It's smart, expects you to pay attention, has characters that actually develop, and it's fun.
(I don't think I've ever read fanfic for B5, oddly enough, even though I read voraciously in a number of fandoms, from Stargate, which I got into because of the fantastic fanfic, to Buffy to HP.)
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I then moved to the US in 1996, which meant that I missed almost a full season (parts of S2 and S3, I think), which was really weird (Who were these people? What was going on?), but I caught up and was hooked. And then S5 moved to cable and my grad dorm didn't have cable, woe, WOE, but by that time I had discovered the internet and found a lovely woman in California who taped all of S5 for me and mailed a big box of old-school video tapes to NJ, where I mainlined all 23 episodes over three days during the 1998 Christmas break.
I recently "acquired" the first few seasons again and am up to S4, and loving it. It's smart, expects you to pay attention, has characters that actually develop, and it's fun.
(I don't think I've ever read fanfic for B5, oddly enough, even though I read voraciously in a number of fandoms, from Stargate, which I got into because of the fantastic fanfic, to Buffy to HP.)