The Great TV Meme Day 6 - Your favourite episode of your favourite TV show.
I have to pick? Yikes.
There are so many great episodes of Babylon 5, so many that I love. There's the brilliant Season 3 trio of "Messages from Earth", "Point of No Return" and "Shattered Dreams", then there's also "Z'ha'dum", "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" and the series finale "Sleeping in Light", and that's just to name a few.
But if I had to pick a favourite, I'd go with the two part "War Without End" (you knew I'd find a way to cheat a little).
In WWE, we see the flipside to the Season 1 episode "Babylon Squared" and how Babylon 4 (the station built before Babylon 5) disappeared. We see into the future of several of our main characters (Sheridan, Delenn, Londo and G'Kar), as well as the future of another pivotal character which ends up being in the past...it's a bit wibbly wobbly timey wimey, but that's why I love it so.
And it also has Zathras:
This has some of the best "payoffs" I've ever come across (Valen); and you know you're in good hands when you're shown the end of certain stroylines more than two seasons before we even see the beginning of those ends (G'kar and Londo). WWE has almost a mythic feel to it, not surprising really giving the immense span of time it covers. (I think the final season of LOST would have worked better if 'Darlton' had used an approach similar to this when explaining about Jacob and the Man in Black.)
Ah, Zathras... :)
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