Babylon 5: S05E11: Phoenix Rising TV Show

Babylon 5: S05E11: Phoenix Rising

When JMS indicated to the B5 newsgroups that we should be patient, this was the episode he was talking about. This is the Babylon 5 we have all come to know and love.

Babylon 5: S05E12: The Ragged Edge TV Show

Babylon 5: S05E12: The Ragged Edge

Garibaldi is sent to retrieve a witness to the shipping line attacks but his relapse into alcoholism jeopardises this covert mission to the Drazi home-world.

Babylon 5: S05E14: Meditations on the Abyss TV Show

Babylon 5: S05E14: Meditations on the Abyss

Delenn gets up in the middle of the night, something is troubling her. Sheridan asks if everything is ok, she says that it is, and then heads off for a sleazy bar !!

Babylon 5: S05E15: Darkness Ascending TV Show

Babylon 5: S05E15: Darkness Ascending

WHOA! – THE ZOCOLO IS DESTROYED, DEAD BODIES ARE STREWN ALL OVER THE PLACE, GARIBALDI IS THE ONLY ONE LEFT STANDING, BLOOD POURING FROM HIS BROW.

Babylon 5: S05E19: Wheel of Fire TV Show

Babylon 5: S05E19: Wheel of Fire

he depressing inevitability of Londo’s situation, the scary effects of Lyta’s involvement with the Vorlons and that twit Byron, gives the impression of a saga REALLY hotting up. However, the feeling that this great saga was drawing to a close was overwhelming.

Babylon 5: S05E20: Objects in Motion TV Show

Babylon 5: S05E20: Objects in Motion

We all breathed a sigh. This episode is another long and soppy end to the saga. I reckon JMS wants to extract as many tears form his devoted fans as possible – and he’s doing a good job!

Babylon 5: S05E21: Objects at Rest TV Show

Babylon 5: S05E21: Objects at Rest

Babylon 5 is left in the hands of a new crew. The main characters are dispersed throughout the Galaxy and Sheridan and Delenn have moved the Alliance headquarters from Babylon 5 to Minbar. Everything seems to be tied up nicely – Except for Londo that is.

Babylon 5: S05E22: Sleeping in Light TV Show

Babylon 5: S05E22: Sleeping in Light

This is the only episode I can’t re-watch.  It was, after all, the end of an epic story that gripped from the very first episode.  Watching ‘Sleeping in Light’ was, for most of us I think, like saying goodbye to people we had grown to like (and dislike) over the last 5 years. 

Red Dwarf: Characters: Arnold Judas Rimmer TV Show

Red Dwarf: Characters: Arnold Judas Rimmer

Rimmer is a Hologram played marvellously by Chris Barrie and is the character in the series that everyone loves to hate.  He is a cowardly, snivelling, back-stabbing, weaselly scumbag and we all love him dearly. 

Red Dwarf: Characters: Kryten TV Show

Red Dwarf: Characters: Kryten

Kryten is one of the best loved characters of the whole saga! He is a Series 4000 Mechanoid model 2X4B-523P played wonderfully by the excellent actor from Nottingham, Robert Llewellyn.

Red Dwarf: Characters: Cat TV Show

Red Dwarf: Characters: Cat

Cat is played miraculously by Danny John-Jules.
He is the coolest guy of the series; his devotion to all things shallow makes him eminently watchable and, like all the characters in Red Dwarf, never takes himself seriously.

Red Dwarf: Cultures: Cats TV Show

Red Dwarf: Cultures: Cats

Three million years ago, Lister smuggled a pregnant cat on board Red Dwarf against the ship’s most stringent regulations. He rather stupidly took a picture of it and when the knowledge of the cats existence came to the attention of the Captain (Hollister) who put him in Holo-sleep for the rest of the voyage.

Red Dwarf: Cultures: Holograms TV Show

Red Dwarf: Cultures: Holograms

The concept of the Hologram is not a new one. The technology enables a member of the ships crew can remain a member of the crew despite the normally debilitating effects of death.

Red Dwarf: Cultures: Mechanoids TV Show

Red Dwarf: Cultures: Mechanoids

Mechanoids were created to do all the menial tasks that humans find so disagreeable. They are programmed to perform such duties as the ironing, cooking and cleaning.

Red Dwarf: Cultures: Simulants TV Show

Red Dwarf: Cultures: Simulants

Simulants are Biomechanical killers created for a war that never took place.  Some of them escaped the dismantling process and now they prowl around deep space searching for a foe worthy of their attention!  They despise humans and all forms of humanoid life, believing them to be the vermin of the universe.

Red Dwarf: Cultures: GELFs TV Show

Red Dwarf: Cultures: GELFs

The only nice GELF is a Pleasure GELF which looks like a big green blob. The rest are all baddies.

Red Dwarf: Cultures: Skutters TV Show

Red Dwarf: Cultures: Skutters

Skutters are the Red Dwarf maintenance robots. They look like hover-mowers with long necks and a beak!   They have some intelligence and it seems that they also have feelings.  

Babylon 5: S05E04: A View from the Gallery TV Show

Babylon 5: S05E04: A View from the Gallery

This has got to be one of the worst Babylon 5 episodes I’ve ever seen. It was co-written by Harlan Ellison and directed by Janet Greek. They both need putting out of my misery in my opinion. This was a good story ruined by poor characterisation and a patronising script.

The show opened well, a deep space probe was destroyed by a group of unknown spaceships. But the probe managed to beam back some info to Babylon 5. Captain Lockley is woken from sleep by Lt. Corwin and informed of the attack.