So, why should you avoid the Babylon 5 pilot? Pilots are usually important, after all, even with their warts, right? Several of the characters are replaced: Lt. There are other major and minor changes. Ambassador Delenn is initially presented as androgynous, an experiment that is quickly and rightly discarded. Some of the alien design is eliminated, specifically puppets that wildly diverged from human size and form.
Perhaps the most important change from pilot to series, though, is the change in the soundtrack. The pilot was initially scored by Stewart Copeland of The Police, and has a distinctly cock-rock flavor. If there are guitar wails over the intro sequence, turn it off immediately. Michael Straczynski generally known as JMS, for obvious reasons , acknowledged the validity of many of the criticisms of the pilot when he re-edited it for TNT after Babylon 5 moved to that network in This pilot attempted to introduce at least glimpses of a fully fleshed-out universe, several different characters, an epic overarching story, its own single-episode story, and interesting political and philosophical themes.
This was, quite simply, too much to accomplish in an hour-and-a-half. You just have to take the good with the bad. But as I said, if you're skeptical, skip it. Delenn : Do you not have files on the Vorlons? Jeffrey Sinclair : Absolutely, very large files.
There's nothing in them, of course. Sign In. Babylon 5. Episode aired Feb 22, Unrated Unrated 1h 29m. Action Adventure Drama. Director Richard Compton. Michael Straczynski. Top credits Director Richard Compton. See more at IMDbPro. Photos Top cast Edit. Michael O'Hare Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair as Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair. Tamlyn Tomita Lt. Laurel Takashima as Lt. Laurel Takashima. Mira Furlan Delenn as Delenn. Johnny Sekka Dr. Benjamin Kyle as Dr. Benjamin Kyle.
Steven R. Mark Rogers NominSim NominSim I would submit that watching In the Beginning before the series acts as a bit of a spoiler. The way the series was written, they give you bits and pieces of background story slowly. There's something to be said for leaving a bit of mystery while watching the start of the series.
Watching In the Beginning after season 4 fills in the backstories without spoiling major plot points. NominSim - Have taken the liberty of turning your answer into a diagram, as I have with a few other answers like this. Please revert if need be, or ask me for any changes and I'll ba happy to make them or you can copy the Google document and play with it yourself.
The original document is here. Great chart! You need to add the novels as well as they wrap up some of the story lines very well eg.
Londo, techno-mages. Would be nice to include the crusade episodes chronological order from scifi. I finished watching The Legend of the Rangers last night. I was getting ready to watch Sleeping In Light the rest of season 5 , when I noticed on the Wikipedia page for Legend of the Rangers that Sleeping in Light occurs in , after everything else. Show 14 more comments. This is too big for a comment, so I'm posting it as another answer: If you plan on watching the Crusade spinoff, don't watch it in airdate order.
Other much more spoilery advantages to this order include: The nanotech shield. Among others. Izkata Izkata Just to let you know, you have linked Wikipedia from here, but the Wikipedia version of "chronological order" differs from yours in a couple of places. Wikipedia has them the other way around, which would make no sense to someone watching for the first time.
The only other difference is that "Needs" and "Memory" are swapped in Wikipedia's version compared to yours, but I'm not sure that makes a huge amount of difference. Kidburla Hm, it's changed since I made the links The hash-part of the URL no longer exists on the page. Kidburla Y'know what, here's a link to the Wikipedia page from when I posted this answer - it has at least one major difference from all other versions I can find online from a quick search, including from later in to now on that same page: Ruling from the Tomb is 3 in that list and this answer , and seemingly not 3 on any other list across the internet.
Later I'll try to remember to go through them and find an explanation. The edit was made by Wikipedia user B5historyman who claims in this talk page section to be Terry Jones, a writer who wrote the official version of the B5 chronology signed off by jms.
However I still disagree with him as I'm sure you do. Finally, on Terry's talk page he says he's never found a problem with the running order and that the continuity is based on a date on the podium stand of June 15th However maybe he's never watched the final episodes as his "order" makes no sense, and as a commenter on his talk page points out, it's much " easier to ignore the banner date than to believe that Lochley and Gideon's memories of each other work backwards ".
Show 3 more comments. This is good background material for the next movie Watch "In The Beginning" immediately after Season 4 Episode 9 and before Episode This is the best time to watch the movie as you don't get spoilers and it ties in really well with episode 9 in Season 4. Watch the 13 episode series Crusade next. Watch the Season 5 episode "Objects in Motion". Watch the movie "River of Souls" as this takes place in the year between "Objects in Motion" and "Objects at Rest" in Season 5 and makes the most sense to watch here.
Watch "Objects at Rest" and the grande finale "Sleeping In Light" Watching these 2 episodes back to back has the best emotional impact. Scott Taylor Scott Taylor 1 1 silver badge 3 3 bronze badges. Legend of the Rangers 3. River of Souls 5. Legend of the Rangers 6. I just watched both of them, and thought they were subsequent days, with only a matter of hours between. In Lost Tales, Lochley is Colonel. In River of Souls she's Captain.
Makes absolutely no sense to watch that way O. I know, trivial detail but Ruben Ruben 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. If we start excluding trivial details, I don't think the site will be long for this world. The Lurker's Guide makes a good argument that Zack wasn't receiving his uniform in that scene, he was getting it refitted after the fistfights in Thirdspace.
Otherwise the entire movie would take place between scenes in 4x The exceptions I think should be made are: The film "Thirdspace". It was the first produced movie, although the second to be released.
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