Babylon 5: The Gathering (1993)
I have dusted off my old complete DVD boxset, and that was really fun revisiting this again after so many years. Couldn’t the plot as such, but I was immediately reminded of why Garibaldi, G’Kar and Mollari were such great characters. And I had almost completely forgotten about Sinclair. While it is clearly a pilot with some drawbacks compared to what the show later become in terms of quality, it still establishes many of the important characters and the overall setting without explaining too much. It really feels like we are just thrown into a setting where plenty has happened before and we get to piece the things together. Especially the former conflict between Earth and Minbari becomes extremely vital to the rest of the series, and we get some great little foreshadowing of that as well. Maybe it will be time for a rewatch of the entire series.
Rating: 3.5