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And Farscape spent too much time on disgusting bodily fluids

I'm with you! The series was pretty good - nowhere near B5 caliber - but could have been better. They got off on unnecessary gross-ness, as well as the occasional utter disregard of physical laws which any intelligent grade-schooler would know. (Crichton surviving minutes outside in the total vacuum and absolute zero of space is the one I have in mind.)

I also think that Crichton was a pu**y WAY too many times! There were SO many instances when I had to grit my teeth in frustration, as he let yet another enemy live, who later came back to haunt him. ARGH! To get by, I pictured what Garibaldi, Delenn, Sheridan, Ivanova, or almost any major B5 a**-kicker would have done in the same situation. SPLAT!

Delenn at the helm of a warship was a fearsome sight. Remember the stem-to-stern hosing of that alien "zoo" prisoner ship early on in the series? Or her simple order to Lennier on another occasion: "End this!" My kind of woman!

As for Farscape, sadly, these last few episodes of Farscape have been among the best, and I am very sorry to see the series go.

Good post. I like Farscape, but its storyline has none of the scope of Babylon-5. Farscape is a better "Trying To Get Home" story than Voyager was, and the special effects and puppetry make it stand out among other sci-fi television shows, but nothing had the emotional impact of Babylon-5. It really had the sense that it was going somewhere. It didn't use a lot of violence, but when it did it was to drive home a point.

What was great about Babylon 5 is they weren't afraid to kick butt, either. Take this quote from the end of season two (The Fall of Night) where Sheridan was chastising the Centauri ambassador for putting him in the position of firing on a Centauri warship to protect a Narn one:

"I apologize. I'm... sorry. I'm sorry we had to defend ourselves against an unwarranted attack. I'm sorry that your crew was stupid enough to fire on a station filled with a quarter million civilians, including your own people. And I'm sorry I waited as long as I did before I blew them all straight to hell... As with everything else, it's the thought that counts."

Can you imagine Captain Janeway ever saying anything like that? No way.

I'm with you! The series was pretty good - nowhere near B5 caliber - but could have been better. They got off on unnecessary gross-ness, as well as the occasional utter disregard of physical laws which any intelligent grade-schooler would know. (Crichton surviving minutes outside in the total vacuum and absolute zero of space is the one I have in mind.)

Actually, you can survive for at least a minute in space. You won't explode like your high school science teacher said you would. See this how stuff works page for more info.

I know, I thought it was bogus too, but apparently the writers did their homework. They even had him exhale before he went into space, which is supposed to help reduce internal pressure (from what I read in a nother article by a scientist on the same subject).