We finished the 5th season of Babylon 5 today. Michael and I agreed that we feel let down. Someone suggested watching through Season 4 and stopping, and I’m not sure I disagree too much, except maybe I’d say watch through Season 4 except the last episode of season 4, and then watch the final episode of season 5.

Erin said that after time when she went back to watch some of the Season 5 episodes she thought they were pretty good, but as a whole, I found it disappointing. And the final episode probably reinforced that, because Ivanova was back, and it reminded me how much I’d missed her character throughout season 5.

So, to make up for our feeling of mild disappointment, we watched the pilot for Wild Wild West.

I have to admit that I was a little bit worried. I absolutely adored this show as a kid, and I was afraid that it might not live up to my memories of it.

Amazingly, it was just as I remembered it. Although I have to admit that I think that Artemus was less cool in the pilot than I remember him being (he was my favorite character on the show). But this was the pilot, and they were still working things out.

If you–like Michael–somehow managed to have never seen Wild Wild West–I highly recommend it. If you remember loving the show years ago, I highly recommend checking out the DVDs. They seem to have done an excellent job cleaning up the film (I didn’t realize this until we watched the promo for the show–that was as grainy and blurry as I remember the show being when we saw the re-runs) I won’t know if the video quality of the rest of the episodes is as high, but I’m really hoping it is.

Because this show really is a lot of fun to watch.