The Babylon 5 mini rewatch is a go

[ruuger]

People have now voted, and we have a list of episodes to watch. The results were divided pretty evenly between the seasons, so I've decided that we'll watch 3 episodes from each season (plus one Crusade episode and one movie), which includes all the episodes that had more than 2 votes, and couple of episodes that I picked with my modly powers from the ones that had 2 votes.

We'll watch episode per day, starting next Monday (so that I'll have time to schedule the posts). And here is the list of episodes:

12.1. And the Sky Full of Stars
13.1. By Any Means Necessary
14.1. Babylon Squared
15.1. The Coming of Shadows
16.1. Comes the Inquisitor
17.1. The Long, Twilight Struggle
18.1. Point of No Return
19.1. Severed Dreams
20.1. War Without End, Parts 1 & 2
21.1. The Long Night
22.1. Moments of Transition
23.1. The Face of the Enemy
24.1. The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father
25.1. And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
26.1. The Fall of Centauri Prime
27.1. The River of Souls
28.1. The Well of Forever

Comments

[muccamukk]

Excellent. I love all these episodes (or almost all of them). I'm looking forward to this. Thanks for arbitrating :D

[philstar22.livejournal.com]

Pretty good selection, although I do kind of feel like it might be important to have those two season 4 arc ender episodes as well since they are important to the show storyline as a whole.

[muccamukk]

I feel like anyone watching with this many gaps will either have seen it before and remember how season four ended, or will be very confused no matter how many filler bits we add.

[philstar22.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, I didn't mean in the people getting confused sense. I figure everyone participating in a rewatch has seen the show. I meant in the satisfactory ending sense. Maybe it's just me, but I always like to see the ending of an arc. Every time I've gone back to the show, even if I'm just watching selected episodes, I always watch those two just to get the conclusion.

[muccamukk]

Oh, I see what you mean. Maybe you could watch them anyway :D

(I personally never much cared for how that arc ended, and am thus happy to skip)

See what the Mod says, anyway. For me, this is a pretty good run.

All my B5 icons seem to be on DW. Huh.

[philstar22.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'll probably just end up watching everything anyway. I just can't get enough of this show.

The only reason I keep my account here paid is for the icon packages. I'm a serious icon addict.

[muccamukk]

Haha. Last time I tried to watch just a few episodes, I ended up doing a full rewatch.

I'm so bad about icons. They're shiny and I want them! I have a ridiculous number over at DW.

[ruuger]

You know, I hadn't even realised that S4 lacked all the 'climax' episodes because that was a season where there were enough votes that I didn't have to do any arbitration.

[azarsuerte.livejournal.com]

Is it too late to get in on this? Sounds like fun and I always love an excuse to rewatch WWE. ;-)

[ruuger]

It's never too late :) Feel free to jump in when the discussion posts go up (there will also be some other 'activities' besides the rewatch, but I'm still working on them).