Our last best hope for good television

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Unlike most television series, Babylon 5 is a single story, completely planned out from day one with a beginning, middle, and end. Each episode is enjoyable on its own, but is also a piece of a larger whole, a chapter in a five-year-long novel for television.

The setting of the show is affected by events in each episode — the status quo isn’t neatly restored at the end of the hour. Characters die, are reassigned, or are forever changed by
their actions and those of the people around them. Because of that, it’s impossible to come up with a single introduction to the series and characters that applies to all the episodes.