Babylon 5 was such an incredibly uneven production. There's award winning makeup production, combined with the worst 90s daytime TV soap level of taste in set design and fashion.

The feeling I get from the show is that it is absolutely earnest. Like a group of a b-tier community theater folks got the biggest budget of their lives to finally tell the story they wanted and they just swung for the fences.

It's a total, glorious, mess of a show that is as entertaining if you take it seriously as if you make fun of it. I love it.