babylon 5 - watch blog seasons 1-3.1

Watching Babylon 5 and decided to share my thoughts.
It was aired parallel to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. There were watchers who switched from DS9 to Babylon 5, the so-called 9 to 5ers. The reason given was that Babylon 5 has a continuing story line and most  of the episodes are written by the series' creator J. Michael Straszynski, and that DS9 is patchwork: episodes in which a story arch is in the background and very sketchy (i.e. the Android Data explores Art and Music to become more human). However, I think that the writing in DS9 is better and somewhat denser than it is in Babylon 5. I might come back to this point later in a review of an episode.

Season 1-3. Continuous storyline. Climax is the war against the shadows. Again, at the end of season 3, Captain Sheradon is stylized to be a redeemer, a messianic figure. They even let him come back from the dead. The background story is problematic. There are the so-called "First Ones", an old race that watches the birth and development of the younger races. Humanity is one of them. The Shadows and the Vorlons are old races, their war was about humankind deciding which way to follow: either progress by learning process (Vorlons) or progress out of conflict (Shadows).
Season 4: Sheradon is reborn indo a wiser version of himself.