You must read short novels.
A little gem at the end? What like the last couple of chapters?
Sure, I can see not liking that.
In TV land, and the Bab5 universe, there were only five chapters, if you want to look at it that way. It picks up quite nicely, and a lot of boring little things in the fist chapter unfold later on.
Season two gets things rolling, and 3 & 4 are kick ass. The problem with season five was: The suits at the network. The threat of canceling after 4 changed things and made JMS try to wrap it up by four.
At least authors get to sell the book as a whole, not spool it out one chapter at a time.
Hollywood, sex drugs and rock and role - and shiny objects - rule their world.
Vaquero is not ENTIRELY wrong — I’d seen bits and pieces of B5 the 1st season, but, never quite got into it or figured it out. (Was really busy, myself, too — not sure if I watched ANY stretch of TV over 30 minutes long, besides major news stories, perhaps, that year.)
But... then one evening I happened to catch (2nd Season) “All Alone In the Dark”. Bam! I was hooked. Not long afterward, I saw “Confessions and Lamentations”. Hook, line AND sinker...