Babylon 5 Season 5

DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:

I admit it, I’m a sci-fi junkie. I’ll give any sci-fi more than an even break, and that’s what I did with Babylon V. I thought that the premise of the show sounded a bit trite and cliched. I thought that some of the first season episodes were somewhat lame. I wound up changing my mind on all of that.J. Michael Strazynski claimed to have a five year story arc in mind, and in the early days of this show I was highly suspicious of that claim. I’d seen it before and I’d been let down.

This first time through, I liked the show but I wasn’t completely sold on it … but I kept watching (see my first sentence). By the later seasons, I realized that JMS DID have a long term story arc going on, and he was living up to his promise. Events that seemed odd and poorly thought out the first time through suddenly made sense in the context of later plots. The show absolutely turned out to be unique in that there obviously was a long term plan from the planning stages of the show that was carried out through the course of the five seasons.

I thought the show just got better and better through its run.The good news is that DVD sets for Babylon V have been out long enough that you can get great deals on them. I recently bought all five seasons for a total of sixty-five dollars … thirteen bucks a season. That’s a good deal in anyone’s book.Unlike some TV series, you’ll want to watch every season of this one. Some things that happen in season one don’t really make sense until season five. Events in season five won’t make much sense unless you watched season one.

Through the show, the acting is uniformly solid. As in many shows, actors grew into their roles over time, and so some of the performances in season one, especially in the first few shows, were a bit immature compared to later in the series. That’s unavoidable in most cases.

I’m not reviewing most of these “seasons” individually, because you don’t get this series for a season. If you decide to watch it, you need to be all in.

Highly recommended.

-Brent Butler

DVD Wholesale Main Features:

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Richard Biggs, Bill Mumy
Producers: Douglas Netter, J. Michael Straczynski
Format: Multiple Formats, Box set, Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 6
Rated: NR-Not Rated
Studio: WarnerBrothers
DVD Release Date: June 16, 2009
Run Time: 968 minutes
ASIN: B002BAW6GS