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...
Nowadays most series requires one to watch from the beginning. Many People wait until the series comes out in its entirety and watch marathon style.
I did that with Breaking Bad. Back when B5 came out with it was a new concept. Most shows could be watched as one offs.
If B5 is a 5 season novel as many have said, I suppose the only way to watch it properly is from first to last episode.
I will consider doing that....perhaps in the winter.