TURNER SALVAGES `BABYLON 5' FROM THE GALACTIC SCRAP HEAP.(Television)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: January 21, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Season five of ``Babylon 5'' begins meekly tonight with an overly chatty addition to the collection. Focusing as it does on explanatory dialogue among a quintet of main characters, ``Babble On 5'' might seem a more appropriate title for this installment.

No biggie. Fans of the sci-fi series aren't likely to desert en masse. Even a tedious revival is better than a funeral, which was a real alternative last summer, when J. Michael Straczynski's vision of a five-season story arc was in serious jeopardy of disappearing into a black hole. Given the battle that loyalists fought to ...

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