Last week Michael and I watched seasons 3 and 4 of Babylon 5. Hence, the silence here and lack of exercise, as we were watching episodes from the time we got home until past our bedtime, in the deadly, “This ended badly, just ONE more episode,” maneuver.

So Seasons 3 and 4 were FULL of cliffhangers. In fact, Season 3 ended with a character jumping into a chasm and disappearing and another character not returning from a battle. If I’d been watching that real time, my head would have exploded. Luckily, we could immediately put in Episode one of Season 4 and find out what happened.

Well sort of. It actually took many episodes to resolve everything, but at least we reached a point where we could turn the DVD player off and go to bed.

In summary, despite my misgivings about Seasons 1 and 2, Seasons 3 and 4 were very, very good. Firstly, the CGI got a lot better. Secondly, the story suddenly came together, and bits and pieces from earlier episodes finally made complete sense. I have to say that these two seasons contain some of the best storytelling I’ve ever seen. I love the way things came together, and things that happened in passing, or happened and were forgotten about, finally bore fruit. Absolutely lovely.

However, overall, I still don’t like this as well as I liked Deep Space Nine. It’s good–very good–but I still like DS9 better.

And I’m not sure about Season 5. We watched the first episode of Season 5 and decided to take a hiatus. Partially because we had things to do, and partially because I wasn’t that excited about the episode and all the changes. Two of my favorite characters are gone, and we’ve barely seen another of my favorite characters, so I was having a hard time getting into it. Thus a break is best.

Plus, that was a lot of time spent in front of the TV.

So, we definitely liked Season 3 and 4, but we’re not too sure about Season 5.

But for now it’ll be good to take a break.