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"You are technically correct. The best kind of correct." Nice, Futurama call back.

Wow! I finally got the closure I didn't even know I needed!

I really hope the Centaury and Narn got to hear the full extent of Londo and G'Kar tragic, lifelong dance and, through it, find some common ground at last.

Some of those scenes came from old stat trek movies

The Centauri trilogy books were particularly hard to find even back in the 90s when they were first published, so this has always been a missing part of the canon for me. Also, someone took a shot at Londo only to graze his head before he was hustled away by his guards? B5’s prescience and relevance never ceases to amaze..

Big fan of B5.. thank you very much for sharing this..🪐

It was brilliant & stands the test of time but BSG & The Expanse are simply on another level.

I'm rewatching the entire B5 series and it is the best. Every other scifi show (except the Expanse) pales by comparison. Hope it gets a "rebirth" and huge new following just the Star Trek reruns did in the 70's.

Roman dude looks like the dude who played jean-luc Picard

Yes. Severed Dreams is the pinnacle of B-5.

Was a great sci-fi show

19:20“Did this all work out the way you expect” is a child talking. Only a fool has expectations of something out of their control.

I would certainly not want to speak ill of Chekov, but Bestor is definitely my favorite role of Walter Koenig. He does a really good job of being a bad guy, and a bad guy you WANT to see get his own, but know that he usually gets away. And with rhe Chekov role, it's like he knew what it had meant to be a hero, and now we get Bestor, who's all rhe worse because he has the same face. Best thing is, Bestor does have some motivations; he's not JUST a Saturday morning cartoon villain, but even when we know what that motivation us, it still has that feeling of "Or at least that's the lie he tells himself, so he can be the hero of his own story." I liked most of B5, but it did fall off for me, after the Shadow War, and Bestor could be a fun excuse stay interested, even through seasons 4 and 5.

Always wanted more from Keffer, Byron is the worse.... the whole telepath story line wasn't good just felt boring after the while major stories were all done...

All the major moments of the masterpiece have been discussed a lot, so I won't add to them here. I wanted to bring up two more minor moments that I thought were just brilliant in their execution. - During the space battle, the Churchill rams and destroys the Roanoke and the camera cuts to Ivanova in her Starfury watching. As she's watching it, her computer starts to call out 'collision alert'. It's easy to think the computer is talking about those two big ships, but in fact, it's warning Ivanova that she's the one who's about to collide. She snaps back to reality and saves herself at the last second. That definitely drives home the confusion that can take place in the heat of battle. - When Delenn's fleet arrives, they're first identified as additional jump points coming in on top of the station. The viewer initially thinks they're just more of Clark's reinforcements, and it takes a couple of seconds to realize who they are. That momentary misdirection added to the punch when it's revealed that the cavalry had come.

I mean....I was on Mollari's side even though I knew him without this episode. This is definitely an unpopular opinion with those who don't actually think about what they're seeing, but only consume what has been presented: The Narn brought the SECOND war against the Centauri and the subsequent occupation (the first one was pure Centauri aggression...and had been over for decades by the show's start) on themselves. Not the mass drivers or slave labor camps, of course. I'm not saying that the Centauri were angels. They weren't. But what I'm saying is that the second Narn-Centauri war was something the Narn brought on themselves. And then Sheridan - who we're supposed to idolize - decides to do whatever he can to drag Earth into that war because G'Kar kisses his ass, and Mollari doesn't.

A battle filled with tension between two ships is much better than many ships firing on each other.

Remember Byron!

Babylon 5 made it very clear to us how much the Star Trek franchise had failed to achieve its potential.

@Phintasmo The 'obscure Shakespearean actor' is Sir Patrick Stewart, one of the greatest actors of this generation.

Keffer Who??? I don't even remember seeing his name in Credits, Network executives stick nose where doesn't belong. Keep working on paperwork

Don't get me wrong, I admire Patrick Stewart, but he's starting get Shatner Syndrome. Thinking his opinions are more important than writers and producers of movies. Some other actors have written and directed episodes of TV series. But movies are different beast altogether. When step outside cannon and establish Story Arc your asking for failure. That also applies to Rick Berman too

IT'S THE STORY TELLING THAT MAKES IT SITTING ON THE EDGE OF YOUR SEAT TV. NOT SO MUCH ON GRAPHICS.

The Producers of Babylon V should be commendable for the way they concealed true reasons for Micheal O'hares sudden departure from series. And O'Hare make least one guest appearance before his untimely passing. RIP

Im just an old curmudgeon but I'd rather watch Insurrection than Discovery or Picard.

Perfection from the first episode to the last, with no fillers. An amazing achievement. And to think that I was very sceptical when it was announced, because Gilliams's movie is one of my all time favorites.

I never understood why they cancelled this, and gave 5 seasons to Killjoys. Anyways, Continuum and The Sarah Connor Chronicles are very good scifi shows that you could present in an upcoming video.

I was a kid when I watched Babylon Squared for the first time when it aired, and then came War without end, and my mind was blown. I already really liked B5, but from then on I was in love with it. I knew some of the facts here in this video, but not all of them. And with the videos about 12 Monkeys and Dark Matter, (both shows in my personal top 10 of all time) you won a follower today.

They were not ment to be funny. The whole premise was for Zooty to have the opportunity for his "final line" to Sheridan. You know, the whole Shadows thing.

What about, lost tales "Voices in the Dark: Over Here" ?

G'Kar and Londo had become true friends with a friendship forged in the fires of their pasts. Londo knew how he was going to die and roughly when, he had 'scene' it. That's why he knew he had to keep G'Kar close after the assassination attempt.

2:22 Sir Patrick Stewart

There were a tonne of amazing B5 episodes but this one is definitely one of the greatest. No question.

Most hated? No. Sheridan was, for me. Because of the way he was written - the writers meant us to see him as a paragon, where he absolutely wasn't. Gave me the same kind of vibes as North Korean propaganda: Great Leader can do no wrong, and even if he can - which he can't - it would be right anyway because he's Great Leader.

Babylon 5 did horror really well when it dealt with the horror of the mind. "Waiting in Gethsemane" was a fantastic study into forgiveness and coming to grips with doing horrible things. Speaking of which, while "A Late Delivery from Avalon" wasn't really a horror episode, it was another emotional gut punch that handled the pressure and horror of what the character had done really well. There was also the Orwellian horror of the PsiCorps and the scene where Bester is talking to Garibaldi in the tube is genuinely creepy and watching Bester's lover lose her mind as a tool for the Shadows and build a nest of cables and wires like Tetsuo the Iron Man was skin crawling. Basically, JMS was at his horror peak when he was dealing with factions and characters that intentionally stripped other people of their agency and forced them to act as puppets.

Those books would have been a wonderful addition to the B5 saga! It's a pity they were never put on film.

Severed Dreams is really the 3rd episode in a 3 episode arc that starts in "Messages from Earth"

Nearly every episode of B5 is a key to the overall story arch, there are no crappy filler story episodes that are there just so they could have a certain number of episodes per season like many of the other SCI-Fi shows had. This is mainly because JMS wrote nearly all the stories for every episode for 5 seasons. That is unheard of in TV shows. This gave the show a constant story line that flowed through out. This show should have won many Emmy's for writing and acting, it was the GOT before there was GOT.

I keep hoping that HBO or someone will back up a truckload of money to MJS's house and tell him to do a remake or a reboot...I have a fictional cast in my head🤪

One of the things that stood out for me was how Lockley, normally a control freak, was willing to leave things be at the end of the episode.

I actually like the soundtrack from the original and there are many things I think were weird. Like Delen and how she looks. but the original description they were supposed to be androgynous that is achieved. The zoo scene could’ve been recommended as actually having a zoo. Not that the investors are on display. The camera angles and shot style of the pilot was actually pretty good I actually missed the style with the series started, and I did like the smoky atmosphere a pilot had. The gorilla bar could easily be explained. Not necessarily inhaling so much as somebody who’s a cyberpunk enthusiast who has replaced their brain into a gorilla body. But that wouldn’t be his style or match anything going on… That is if he wanted to do damage control, and keep it in there is many ways you could do it When the series started, and by the way, it was proposed before Deep Space 9 was even filmed or thought about in fact it was pretty much proven. Paramount stole the idea of a space station as the center of activity…..

I relent reading this novel years ago it was a good read

Khan quotes Moby Dick at his end, naval influences indeed

If you’re worried about the fate of Centauri prime, what the last episode it’s bright when they get veer who is emperor of the Ari remember, he inherited from Londo just watched the very last episode. He goes to the dinner with John and Dylan and all of them, we know Centauri primes of OK I mean, we might not know all the details, but you can get that much from the freaking last episode of Babylon 5 Cause Lando dies and all that’s happening and then it’s a bright clear day when veer is picked up at the palace and told to come to the dinner with the Lynn and Jhon and all the surviving members of the cast and then each one reminisce is about one of the past Away members Jakarr Marcus one that didn’t die, but left linear I’m using voice type so it probably has all wrong spelling, but I don’t feel like changing it but you get the gist.

This would have been one of the best Babylon 5 Movies had they but made it. It would have tied up so many loose ends. And the actors would have looked their age.

President Clark violated the constitution of the Earth Alliance when he made an executive order declaring the Earth Alliance senate traitors to the Earth Alliance and had them arrested. Clark did this so he could declare martial law throughout the Earth Alliance and seize control of the Earth Alliance government and military. Captain Sheridan publicly opposed the illegal order to arrest the Earth Alliance senate and declare martial law. President Clark's followers had already made the decision to prop the President up as a dictator. And then there were the people caught in the middle. Commanders loyal to the Earth Alliance but recognize the fact that the constitution has been tossed out the window. If you are surrounded by Clark's people you can't go the public rout. So you stay quiet and listen. You have to learn what Sheridan's intentions are moving forward. Because as a military commander who is secretly opposed your illegal orders you can't just throw in with Sheridan if he is just going to turn around and make himself the next dictator after the shooting is over. That would be irresponsible. It's really good writing.

The most likable bad guy in television history.

Oh, I agree with JMS: the technical aspects he hated, were obviously weak- every. single. one of them. What sucked me in, was the enormous expanse of the universe and the STORY line. In other words, it was JMS's writing talent that won me and my spouse over.

"Soul Hunter" freaked me out when it first aired. I think it was the gut-wrenching horror of Delenn's scream when she regained consciousness after being captured by the mad Soul Hunter. That, and the squick factor of someone doing something to your body while you're helpless.

Thank you so much for filling This in for all of us who were wondering, but never read the books.