The latest release of Babylon 5 DVDs underscores at least two things: even padding has value, and too much of it smothers.
Babylon 5's best duo subverted sci-fi expectations and developed into the two of the show's most compelling characters.
It was the Earth year 1993, and Joe Michael Straczynski had a plan. “There has always been a plan for a series to follow. If anything, that was the point of the entire exercise...to tell a story. To ...