The top ten episodes / two-parters here, are those Babylon 5 episodes that had the most impact. Is the relatively stand-alone season one, which built the stepping stones for future stories, largely out of the equation? The same for the Shadow build up in season two? Does the conflicts of season three and four dominate? And what about season five, which looses a huge momentum for the first half with the Byron arc and then redeems itself with the fall of Centauri Prime? And that’s not accounting for a number of superb stand alone episodes even among the epic storytelling of the larger arcs. Picking the 10 best episodes / two-parters from the show then, becomes something of a challenge. While much of the first two and a half seasons were a mix of stand-alone episodes and arc-based episodes, when the Earth / Shadow war really kicked off, almost every episode until the end of season four was essential viewing.
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Conceived as The Lord of the Rings in space, the show centred around several massive story arcs – the continued fallout and mysteries surrounding the Earth / Mimbari war, the legacy of the telepaths and the insidious Psicorp, the Narn / Cebtauri war, the coming of the Shadows and the galactic conflict that followed and an increasingly corrupt Earth, that would see the station swear independence and then lead a war to free Earthforce from President Clark. White it shared some similarities with rival Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Babylon 5 was imagined as a five-year novel by creator J Michael Straczynski. In a time where Star Trek dominated the sci-fi television landscape, Babylon 5 was a very different beast.
This time, we head back into space to look at the 10 greatest episodes of Babylon 5…
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In a new series of features for The Digital Fix, our team of writers are selecting the 10 greatest episodes / two-parters from a whole host of TV shows. In the next TDF Top 10, Baz Greenland looks back to the greatest episodes of the 90s sci-fi icon…
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