I first found out about B5 from the lovely people I had met in my first year of Uni at the local Sci-Fi soc. They were all saying that Babylon 5 was the dogs' proverbials! They seemed like people of taste, so I followed their recommendation.
The first episode I caught was #102 and I was *floored*. Even though at the end, I did think 'Naaahh... they're never going to follow through and tell us what it all means!'
Ahahahahaha! More fool me!
I caught bits of season one (first year) and two on Channel 4 (second year), partly because it was on at 6pm during the week (I was working part time during my second year) and I kept missing it because of my shift pattern. Thankfully I shared a house with another geek, so we could gang up on the others and watch it;) This did lead to screams of "ZOMG! THINGEE IS THINGEE!" from time to time.
Then in my final year, Channel 4 saw sense (?) and showed it at 6pm on a Sunday - no work to interfere. The then boyfriend offered to 'lend' me his tapes of Season one, I took him up on this generous offer. Within about five minutes of 'Midnight on the Firing Line' my geeky housemate leaned over and said "you are going to ask for the rest of them aren't you?"
"Oh yes!" was the feverent reply. The season opener for Season 3 was shown on that Sunday and I fell hopelessly in love with two of the things I saw in that episode. To say more will be spoilerific.
Babylon 5 will always be one of my top shows ever. Yes, I love Doctor Who and have seen at least two seasons of Battlestar Galactica (I'll watch the final two when it all wraps up) but B5 was there first.
My 'current' favourite TV show is NCIS which seems to have had at least two cast members crop up and of course, has a B5 guest star (from season 1) as a regular cast member.
The episode just gone featured another guest star from Season 1 just sitting in a room with the aforementioned regular - just talking... The flashbacks to Babylon 5 were incredibly trippy!
So, I have very happy memories (bar one but let's not talk about that yet!) of this show and am looking forward to re-watching it!
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I first found out about B5 from the lovely people I had met in my first year of Uni at the local Sci-Fi soc. They were all saying that Babylon 5 was the dogs' proverbials! They seemed like people of taste, so I followed their recommendation.
The first episode I caught was #102 and I was *floored*. Even though at the end, I did think 'Naaahh... they're never going to follow through and tell us what it all means!'
Ahahahahaha! More fool me!
I caught bits of season one (first year) and two on Channel 4 (second year), partly because it was on at 6pm during the week (I was working part time during my second year) and I kept missing it because of my shift pattern.
Thankfully I shared a house with another geek, so we could gang up on the others and watch it;)
This did lead to screams of "ZOMG! THINGEE IS THINGEE!" from time to time.
Then in my final year, Channel 4 saw sense (?) and showed it at 6pm on a Sunday - no work to interfere. The then boyfriend offered to 'lend' me his tapes of Season one, I took him up on this generous offer.
Within about five minutes of 'Midnight on the Firing Line' my geeky housemate leaned over and said "you are going to ask for the rest of them aren't you?"
"Oh yes!" was the feverent reply. The season opener for Season 3 was shown on that Sunday and I fell hopelessly in love with two of the things I saw in that episode. To say more will be spoilerific.
Babylon 5 will always be one of my top shows ever. Yes, I love Doctor Who and have seen at least two seasons of Battlestar Galactica (I'll watch the final two when it all wraps up) but B5 was there first.
My 'current' favourite TV show is NCIS which seems to have had at least two cast members crop up and of course, has a B5 guest star (from season 1) as a regular cast member.
The episode just gone featured another guest star from Season 1 just sitting in a room with the aforementioned regular - just talking... The flashbacks to Babylon 5 were incredibly trippy!
So, I have very happy memories (bar one but let's not talk about that yet!) of this show and am looking forward to re-watching it!