Reply #13: I came late to the Babylon 5 party

[gratuitous]

I was a casual watcher until the episodes when Earth central government started being taken over by totalitarians. There was some Earth News broadcast stating that a number of dissidents had been rounded up and jailed. As the Captain (was it still Sinclair?) watched the newscast, they ran the names of the dissidents at the bottom of the screen, including Paul Jarrico, Ring Lardner and Dalton Trumbo. That hooked me.

So, after the show ended, I went out and bought all five years of the series and I watched the whole thing from start to finish, turned on the commentary tracks and everything. So, yeah, hopelessly geeky.