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Yar, you be here: Babylon 5 - The Complete Second Season > Customer Reviews Babylon 5 - The Complete Second Season Customer Reviews (1 - 3 of 23 Reviews)Don't Buy Cheap Imported Copies, They Won't Play w/o Errors!
Great series - I hope JMS does many, many more shows. Just don't buy the cheaper imported copies of the real DVD! The imported versions play the bonus material fine, but the recording of the episodes is very marginal at best, with lots of disc errors or dropouts all through the episodes. I tried a whole bunch of DVD players and it happened on all of them. Buy the real thing, not the rip-offs! Ending The Pain Of Season One To Make It All Worthwhile
Season 2 of B5 fixes many of the moans and groans from the hard to watch first season. Don't get me wrong, after you've watched the whole run of the show season 1 feels much better than the first time you watched it. But for those out there who have seen some of those first episodes and dismissed the entire series as boring and low budget I'd like to see you try to stop watching after seeing season 2. You'll be in the store so fast to buy the rest of the series that your head will spin. A complete turnaround from the first Season, new music, better acting, new captain, bigger budget. And let's not forget the best plot ever. The one thing that really stands out about this show is it's fantastic plot line. Where most shows flash BACK to earlier episodes to pull plots from things familiar and mentioned before this show flashes FORWARD. A feat that can only be accomplished when the entire show's plot line has been conceived from the very beginning. A clip from Season 2 showing the future will actually come to fruition in Season 4. Things alluded to from the earliest episodes will become clear in Season 3. I don't know of another show that can honestly say that. Three cheers to JMC for providing us all with quality story writing. I hope this was helpful. An Improvement on Season One
I write this review after having seen Seasons One and Two, and before having seen the Third, which is, I believe, the perfect time for writing it. And what I have to say is this: it's worth it. Whether or not it will be worth it in the end, I know I'll be around to find out because I'm hooked into these characters and I want to know what happens. The overall quality of the episodes improves on the spotty First Season, though with some of the same pitfalls (like several bad guest-spot actors) recurring from time to time. Happily, the show presses its standing advantages, too, giving its strongest plotlines to its strongest characters, Londo and G'Kar. It's unfortunate that they had to switch Captains, mid-stream, exchanging Sinclair for Sheridan. I suspect that Sheridan will turn out to be fine for the show, but I also suspect that Sinclair would ultimately have been superior. The episodes are, generally, fun and interesting and some are powerful. The pacing of the overall plot is a little slow, at times, but then that slowness provides great anticipation. An interesting item to watch for, and please forgive the quasi-spoiler, is the never-stated but strongly-implied lesbian relationship between Ivanova and Winters. I don't know what the general fandom consensus is on that, but the looks are too significant and the direction too blatant for it not to be assumed. The plot progresses and it appears that there is some long-range thought and direction for the show and characters. So far, I'm glad for having started and I anxiously await starting in on the Third Season.
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