I've been a fan of B5 since the original airings, more or less. My dad and I watched the pilot together, but he told me that it was a movie that they then based a TV show off of, so I figured that the show wouldn't be nearly as good as the movie and didn't make a point of watching it. (I think it conflicted with one of the many Fox 90210-type dramas on around that time, which I watched because I wanted my shows to have ongoing plot and I didn't know that such things could be found in non teen drama form at the time.)

However, during 3rd season I was in a high school math class that was basically all the smart kids taking advanced algebra and only getting the teacher's time for half a period so he could also teach pre-calculus during that period in the other half of the room. We were supposed to spend the other half of the period working on our homework together, but everyone near me was talking about B5 instead. One kid even had a giant binder with every page of the Lurker's Guide in it, and they'd spend that half of the period talking about various wild theories on what would happen next. I decided to start watching regularly again, and never looked back. I taped the end of 3rd season and all of 4th season off of the air (I still have those tapes somewhere, probably) and then had my dad tape the whole thing from the start when it came out on cable for 5th season. I dragged my mother and at least two boyfriends through the series using those tapes, and picked up the DVDs as soon as they came out.

Since I don't really watch television anymore, I tend to stay away from fandom since there are always random spoilers for other things I haven't seen yet and that gets old quickly. Other shows that I like and have seen all of, however, include Avatar and Firefly. Back when I watched television I was really into Gargoyles (which I still enjoyed when I picked up the DVDs) and Sliders (which I now find pretty painfully bad).