[cgbg]

a production model that yields a great deal of control to the creator-writer-show runner.

In the sci-fi world that was demonstrated earlier in the amazing Season 3 of Babylon 5--check it out if you have never seen it.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Rewatching B5 the last few days. Season 3 was fantastic.

[Rockingham]

I watched B-5 when it first aired years ago. For me, the show veered too much between character and situation based story-telling and flamboyant space opera. I especially disliked the incorporation of smug liberal pieties of the Clinton era.

More than once I shut the show off in the middle of an episode, hoping that my next viewing would reveal the hopelessly shattered wreck of B-5 after an enemy attack -- the most plausible end for a UN adrift in space without the protection of a superpower.