I saw it on Channel 4 as well. My older brother dragged me in to watch it (somewhat against my will because I had no idea what it was and had it vaguely confused with some kind of sports program with a number in the name). The first episode I saw was, I think, Infection. I must have been about twelve at the time. I don't remember how quickly I was hooked, but I know that by the end of the first season I was so in love with the show that I was totally resistant to changes promised in the TV Times at the start of season two. ...Which taught me a Valuable Lesson about not assuming you're going to hate changes to a show until you've given them a fair chance, and that's stuck with me through all my later fandoms.
B5 was probably my first real fandom, more or less simultaneously with the X-Files. (Which I was introduced in exactly the same way - I owe you, big brother. I don't think I even knew the X-Files was a series until he made me watch it, because the only episodes they advertised with trailers were Squeeze and then Tooms so I wound up with the impression that it was a one-off special type thing.) I was also big into Due South in much the same era. Sadly, this was years before I had an internet connection, so I never really got into the web communities or fic-writing fandom for any of them.
Since then, I've bounced with various degrees of fannishness through BtVS, The West Wing, Harry Potter, Stargate SG-1, and my latest infatuation, Alias. I never paid much attention to Trek when it was on, but I've since had a bit of a revival and have just recently bought season one of DS9 to check out. But Babylon 5 will always have a special place in my heart as my first big fannish obsession, and one of very few shows I ever watched totally unspoiled.
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B5 was probably my first real fandom, more or less simultaneously with the X-Files. (Which I was introduced in exactly the same way - I owe you, big brother. I don't think I even knew the X-Files was a series until he made me watch it, because the only episodes they advertised with trailers were Squeeze and then Tooms so I wound up with the impression that it was a one-off special type thing.) I was also big into Due South in much the same era. Sadly, this was years before I had an internet connection, so I never really got into the web communities or fic-writing fandom for any of them.
Since then, I've bounced with various degrees of fannishness through BtVS, The West Wing, Harry Potter, Stargate SG-1, and my latest infatuation, Alias. I never paid much attention to Trek when it was on, but I've since had a bit of a revival and have just recently bought season one of DS9 to check out. But Babylon 5 will always have a special place in my heart as my first big fannish obsession, and one of very few shows I ever watched totally unspoiled.