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Rating:  -
Love the adventures of Babylon 5! Will watch it over and over again...It came within a week and was factory sealed....Kudos for a job well done..thanks...roxanne
Rating:  -
This was my first taste of Babylon 5. After the first episode, I thought 'Why did I buy this?' Only the prospect of real quality sci-fi to come kept me watching. Looking back, I'm glad I did. About the first third of this is dreck: the special effects were very dated, the acting was forced, and the storylines were not cohesive, making it difficult to care about what was happening or the characters' plight. However, everything about the show improves drastically closer to the end of the season: the storylines tie together, the characters are better portrayed, the dramatic moments become actually dramatic, and even the special effects seem to look more sleek. The season ends with a bang, and I can't wait until Season 2 arrives in the mail! I give the first season only three stars because, as I mentioned, the first few episodes really are bad.
Rating:  -
I'm a big fan of the series, but you have to look at it like a book. This season is the preface, then the middle three are great, the final is an epilogue. I picked up the middle three, but not the first or last. Purely my opinion, and if you didn't see this season by all means watch it, but it's not on par with the later ones.
Rating: -
I finally got around to watching Babylon 5 (found the entire 5 seasons at a local wharehouse store for $100). It's been one I've wanted to see for some time, but before now, it has always been too expensive to justify purchasing.
Now to the review. Note, this review is for season 1 only. In fact, with the exception of the first few episodes of season 2 now, it is the only complete season I have yet seen.
My first impression was, I admit, embarressment. I could not believe that I had spent money on this as I watched the first episode and the only thing that kept me plodding along was the fact the friends who are fans of the series always told me it improved as the series went on.
Fortunately, they appear to be right. Season 1 itself improved, but is far from being the best of Sci-fi (my current impression of this series is that of a poor man's DS9).
The human characters in this season seem far too wooden, especially the commander himself, though he enventually developes into a likable character (still wooden throughout the series, though). The rest of the human characters don't feel real. I don't know if it's that they are simply miscast or given poor lines/direction, but they do not convince me that they are the characters they are portraying.
The alien characters, however, are a different story and they are what makes the first season most enjoyable. They are much more convincing then their "human" counterparts. Unfortunately, most often they are minor characters.
The special effects are only OK. They remind me of some I've seen on some of the better SW fan films on TFN, or perhaps on a video game. The ships look good, but lack a feeling of substance.
Overall, not a bad effort and enjoyable enough to watch the whole season in a little under a month. The first few episodes were a bit difficult to get through, but once the story started falling into place, it no longer became a struggle to watch.
Rating:  -
If you're looking at this series, you probably already know about Babylon 5, and so your question is whether to buy the seasons individually, or to get them altogether 5-season multipack. I opted for the individual seasons, having read multipack reviews that talked about scratched discs and people having to return items.
Two of my five individual season packages came damaged in shipping, and had to be returned. However, because some had arrived intact, I was still able to enjoy some episodes while waiting to have the other seasons exchanged in the mail. Had I ordered the multipack, I expect I would've had to have returned everything at once, and been frustrated to wait until a replacement arrived (which may or may not have also been damaged.)
I like the series -- no complaints on the work of JM Straczynski. I do feel a bit disappointed in the DVDs though. The packaging is poorly assembled; for the $40 amount charged per boxed season, I would expect more than a nickel's worth of krazy glue to be holding the binding together. Its definitely low-quality enough that I would not consider the season sets to be collector worthy; you have to look at the boxes solely as a shipping medium.
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