The Great TV Meme Day 4 -OR- Who are you? What do you want?

The Great TV Meme Day 4 - Your Favourite TV Show

Babylon 5.

There are many shows that I love, but my favourite shows tend to be Sci-Fi - Star Trek, Doctor Who, Twilight Zone, Jericho- but one stands out above the rest, and that is Babylon 5.

Babylon 5 was created, produced and written by J. Michael Straczynski (JMS). JMS is one of my favourite writers and he conceived the series as a 5 year story with a clearly defined beginning, middle and ending. Joe often says this about plot: "If you fire a gun in Act 3 Scene 1, then you must show the gun in Act 1 Scene 1. Conversely, if you show a gun in Act 1 Scene 1, you must fire it by Act 3 Scene 1." Babylon 5 is the most satisfying long story that I've read or seen because of the fact that there are very few cheats; what you see is what you get, and what you get is brilliant.

The characters are also some of the absolute best I've come across, and this is what ultimately makes Babylon 5 my favourite. They are not perfect, they make mistakes, some horrible mistakes, some not so horrible, but they also overcome them. I've yet to find characters that I have cared more about. It's ironic that that a show largely about aliens is at it's heart as human as it gets.

Thanks, Joe.