What's more believable, this, or CNN?
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Yeah, Babylon 5 is an oldie, but I'm only just getting around to watching it. Damn, things really ramped up in Season 3. I can only imagine what would be going through the creators' minds, as they probably tried to imagine this as "the inevitable path of the Republicans," while we've been closer than ever to the entire Earthdome corruption scenario in the past few years.
Aye, I was a latecomer to it as well. It wasn't as readily available when I was younger and I didn't really "get it" until I saw a few episodes a few years ago. The first season is quite a slog though.
Worth noting that almost the entire show was written by the show's creator, Straczynski. He wrote 92/110 of the episode scripts himself. It's kind of crazy too since he used to be one of the main writers for He-Man and that entire franchise, along with a couple of the script editors he brought on-board for B5.
The show had some remarkably solid takes on a lot of topics, and Straczynski had the creative boldness to depict a multi-pronged totalitarian takeover of Earth's government as an integral part to the show's entire story arc. Which was not the kind of thing you'd normally see in sci-fi shows back then.
JMS and Babylon 5 really predate 'modern' politics by - good god - over a decade. Decades?
JMS is one of the few writers I'd judge as being a fairly even-handed about portraying 'both sides' in a fair manner, despite his personal politics.
And I only just noticed that both leads share initials with the creator.