With a series like B5, a reboot has a very high bar to clear to be as good as the original; good characters, good writing, good plot.
A reboot like Battlestar Galactica worked because the original 1970’s series, while it had an interesting premiss, was underfunded and ended up coming across as pretty cheesy looking. The reboot did justice to the original and in many ways improved on it. Human looking Cylons, some of whom didn’t know they were Cyclons, genius.
Heck, we don't need fiction now, we got real world Human looking Marxists, who don’t know they aren't Americans.
I have yet to see the entire reboot of Battlestar. I like the idea of the whole origin of the Cylons. A great mythology.
And Bear Mccreary’s music is fantastic.