Part of this is -- B5 is a really, really hard show to hook people on after the fact. There's too much arc, and the acting in the first season is so so wooden. There are many different strategies, most of them involving starting people at the end of season two or mid season three, but then you don't get the awesome, awesome arc coming to fruition! So you're all "you should watch it from the beginning!" except then people give up. So you can't win! And it makes you defensive. And sad.
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Part of this is -- B5 is a really, really hard show to hook people on after the fact. There's too much arc, and the acting in the first season is so so wooden. There are many different strategies, most of them involving starting people at the end of season two or mid season three, but then you don't get the awesome, awesome arc coming to fruition! So you're all "you should watch it from the beginning!" except then people give up. So you can't win! And it makes you defensive. And sad.