Babylon 5 was only interesting to me 'cause a lot of girls I knew at the time were into it. It's pretty difficult to find chicks who are into any sci-fi shows at all.
...and I had a thing for that redheaded telepathic chick. Wow-wee.
Babylon 5 you just couldn't pick up. It was as densely plotted as a soap opera so to get into it you had to have someone explain all the characters and secrets and interrelationships. A casual remark in season 2 could return with gale force in season 3.
I admired about it that unlike Star Trek...
1. Humans are no better in the Babylon 5 future than the are now. Poor people still eat out of garbage cans. Not the socialist, secular utopia of Star Trek. You have organizations like Home Guard (an anti alien KKK) and Night Watch and murderous tyrants like President Clark.
2. Every human state I ever heard of had a resource conflict between localism and the central government. The civil war that breaks out in the Earth Alliance is President Clark's extreme Empire of Earth policy towards the colonies.