Babylon 5, The Series

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind. Ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. The Babylon Project was a dream given form. Its goal: to prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call. A home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Humans and aliens wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal - all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place but it's our last, best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5.

Every time I have tried to explain somebody what is Babylon 5, the only thing that I can give is a general description in no way good enough to describe how the series is and how good it is. You may think I'm bad explaining myself, and, in this case, you might be right, but let me tell you in these few lines, what is Babylon 5 for me.

There was a time, many years ago, when they emitted Sea Quest DSV for the first time, in which the series, that had something interesting for me, were just simple histories. One day, in the evening, I was watching TV, channel "La 2", and there it was, Babylon 5, a series that didn't look like anything I saw before. An enormous space station, ambassadors from different worlds, aliens, interplanetary wars, and one history of gigantic proportions. I did not hear about this series before. It had had been emitting for a time and I was missing it. I just began to see it when they were finishing the first season. Damn.

If I had to compare the great scale of this series I would compare it with something as enormous as "The Lord of the Rings". It is not a conventional series, but it is not either a tremendous innovation. What makes it great is the way in which all the good great histories are mixed to tell a unique, exciting and thrilling adventure. In it, unlike other series, the dialogs are not conventional simple phrases. Each thing that happens in Babylon 5 has its consequences at all levels. We can enjoy twice these conversations because the second time we hear them we know the history and we can rediscover hidden and double meanings on them. The characters are not flat, they change because of their decisions and these changes are not unnatural, every change has its reasons like in real life.

Babylon 5 is a TV series that I enjoyed a lot the first time and much more the second time.


Space Station Babylon 5

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Información en imdb.com
Una enciclopedia de Babylon 5
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