I've just seen "Midnight on the firing line", and the show is pretty interesting, but there's so many episodes, I'd rather not spend 100 hours of time watching all of them on my first run. Starting from the first season and on, which episodes would you recommend, or are critical to the story (BTW, Is there an over-arcing story of the show?)
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Yes. Yes, there is a pretty epic over-arcing story-line that spans seasons 2-5 (not so much season 1). So I would of course recommend that you watch every episode
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Yeah, I recommend watching the entire show too. The first season I suppose you could skip, but then again I wouldn't do it. However season 1 isn't the best and if you want to skip it that's fine, but I'd watch all of seasons 2-5.Jack: Good morning campers!
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People say you can skip the first season... Well, I suppose you could skip some of it but there are some incredible episodes in that season:
"Mind War"
"And the Sky Full of Stars"
"Signs and Portents"
"Babylon Squared"
"Chrysalis", to name the absolute classics.
You can definitely skip episodes like "Infection", "The War Prayer", "Believers", and "TKO", and maybe "Grail" and "The Quality of Mercy".
I guess I agree that you can just start with Season 2 if you want, but I would personally just watch everything.sigpic
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Another thing you might do for Season 1 is to only watch the J. Michael Straczynski episodes, skipping "Infection".
Besides "Infection", every episode that he wrote that season was solid (and since JMS was the only one who knew where the story was going, that might serve your purposes).
An interesting approach; I'm just throwing things out there for you to consider...sigpic
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I would watch it all, and I'm not just saying it as I'm a huge fan. I think that as the Sinclair/Minbari mystery plays out across the whole season, you should follow that to fully understand the later episodes. Anyone who skips Babylon Squared wants their head read!
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I wouldn't skip any to be honest.
Trust me, you don't think that watching all 110 episodes is appealing. But the more you watch it the more you'll grow to love the characters, and you'll be glad you didn't skip any episodes when you've reached the last one.
My Da and I r watching through it all at the moment. We're up to No Surrender, No Retreat ^_^
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You should 'definately' skip TKO! And I wouldn't reccomend Sleeping in Light either!Comment
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Sleeping In Light is a great episode!
But yeah, skip TKO.
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"The War Prayer" - this introduces Home Guard, which is a pretty important element in the series, at least during the first half of the series.Originally posted by Ulkesh47 View Post
"The Quality of Mercy" - introduces the alien healing device, which appears again at the beginning of Season 2 and at the end of Season 4.
But, I would agree with the others you mentioned. Although "TKO" does have an important thread for Ivanova's character.sigpic
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I still wouldn't say it's worth watching. That episode was horrible.Originally posted by McClance View Post
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Man, "Sleeping in Light" almost made me cry. The episode's a bit maudlin, but man, that scene in the hallway where Sheridan's going out and runs into Delenn... yeesh.Originally posted by Matt G View Post
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"Sleeping in Light" is definitely the best series finale ever!
Sure, it's sad. But, it's supposed to be sad.sigpic
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Watch everything the first time. On a rewatch there are a few episodes I always skip. TKO isn't one of them, however.sigpic
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Out of curiosity, what do you skip?Originally posted by maneth View Post
And I concur, watch them all first time through and maybe even the second. That way you know for sure if an episode has no redeeming qualities...
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