So, we’ve finally settled down to watch Babylon 5. Michael had wanted this is the next TV series he got, and we’d been told by several people, “it’s even better than Deep Space Nine!

Well, we’re halfway through Season One, and I’m not seeing it.

Michael insists that he remember it as being better than this, and I’m having a hard time believing that so many different people were so deluded.

But really. Someone of these episodes are down there with Season 2 of Next Generation. I mean, the CGI is absolutely horrific. I’ve seen better graphics in video games. And some of the acting… (shudder) Though the characters I’m least impressed with apparently don’t come back in Season Two.

I have to admit that some things are improving as the season progresses. There is more of a sense of movement and time to the story–in the first few episodes I couldn’t tell how much time was passing and when people had moved from one place to another. But that has improved a bit as the series has progressed.

But still. There is no way this is better than Deep Space Nine, and I’m not even sure it’s better than Next Generation. (Though it has something in common with TNG–they’re both very easy to mock. Michael keeps referring to it as, “some bad CGI”. As in, “do you want to watch some bad CGI this evening?”)

So this had better get better, considering how much much these DVDs cost.