Top 10 episodes?

[NotKosh]

Sorry if this has been beaten to death, but I figured this would be interesting.
List your top 10 episodes. If you can't really put them in order, just put up your favorite 10 eps. I am listing 2 parters as one ep.

A Voice in the Wilderness I & II
Severed Dreams
Ship of Tears
Into The Fire
Moments of Transition
EndGame
Comes The Inquisitor
Dust to Dust
WWE I & II
The Long Night of Londo Mollari

[SmileOfTheShadow]

Ooh..toughie. I think I'm gonna have to watch the show over again with my handy-dandy scriptbooks in order to make that call. I know Sleeping In Light and Comes The Inquisitor are up near the top for me, probably my one and two.

Sorry if this has been beaten to death, but I figured this would be interesting.
List your top 10 episodes. If you can't really put them in order, just put up your favorite 10 eps. I am listing 2 parters as one ep.

A Voice in the Wilderness I & II
Severed Dreams
Ship of Tears
Into The Fire
Moments of Transition
EndGame
Comes The Inquisitor
Dust to Dust
WWE I & II
The Long Night of Londo Mollari

[Jan]

Whew, tough. The first three are definitely the all-time faves. The rest aren't in any particular order.

1. Sleeping in Light

2. Severed Dreams

3. A View From the Gallery

4. In The Beginning

5. The Fall of Centauri Prime

6. The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari

7. Comes the Inquisitor

8. Atonement

9. Moments of Transition

10. Z'ha'dum

Jan

[Lunan]

you want me to what?!?!?!?!


oh ok i'll give it a try

1. Comes the Inquisitor
2. By any means Nessisary (i think, the ep with the strike and the plant)
3. severd dreams
4. the long twilight strugle
5. sleeping in the light
6. The Geometry of Shadows
7. Into the Fire
8. Intersections in Real Time (an amazing script)
9. endgame
10. day of the dead

[Shabaz]

You like A View From the Gallery that much, Jan? Not that it is a bad episode, I quite like it too, but would you mind explaining why you hold in such high regard as to include in your all time favourites together with SiL and SD? I'm just curious.

[Vyse]

1. Severed Dreams
2. Coming of Shadows
3. Sleeping in Light
4. Signs & Portents
4. War Without End
5. Babylon Squared
6. Point of no Return
7. Into the Fire
8. Dust to Dust
9. Z'ha'dum
10. Chryasilis

[Jan]

You like A View From the Gallery that much, Jan? Not that it is a bad episode, I quite like it too, but would you mind explaining why you hold in such high regard as to include in your all time favourites together with SiL and SD? I'm just curious.

I'm not absolutely sure, Shabaz. As you can see from my list, I'm very fond of the off-format episodes-that's part of it. The chemistry between the actors who played Mack and Bo was wonderful, too. The story Stephen told about how an alien doctor had saved his Dad, the growing feud between Lochley and Garibaldi, Delenn's gentleness and determination to stay on the station...it all just adds up for me. And then there's that silly floor machine...

In a different way from 'Deconstruction of Falling Stars', this episode is a series of small character stories, not a lot of heavy arc but you learn a lot about the new folks on the station and a little more about the characters we already thought we knew well.

Jan

[Lunan]

I'm not absolutely sure, Shabaz. As you can see from my list, I'm very fond of the off-format episodes-that's part of it. The chemistry between the actors who played Mack and Bo was wonderful, too. The story Stephen told about how an alien doctor had saved his Dad, the growing feud between Lochley and Garibaldi, Delenn's gentleness and determination to stay on the station...it all just adds up for me. And then there's that silly floor machine...

In a different way from 'Deconstruction of Falling Stars', this episode is a series of small character stories, not a lot of heavy arc but you learn a lot about the new folks on the station and a little more about the characters we already thought we knew well.

Jan

i agree with you here jan, while a veiw from the gallirey is not on my top 10 it does deserve an honorable mention. personally i think it was a brillant concept and i really wish some other shows would do something similar, plus it makes us imagine the story going on around it by inference, it was so well done that you can hear the story behind it without needing to see it

[Shabaz]

I'm not absolutely sure, Shabaz. As you can see from my list, I'm very fond of the off-format episodes-that's part of it. The chemistry between the actors who played Mack and Bo was wonderful, too. The story Stephen told about how an alien doctor had saved his Dad, the growing feud between Lochley and Garibaldi, Delenn's gentleness and determination to stay on the station...it all just adds up for me. And then there's that silly floor machine...

In a different way from 'Deconstruction of Falling Stars', this episode is a series of small character stories, not a lot of heavy arc but you learn a lot about the new folks on the station and a little more about the characters we already thought we knew well.

Jan

Thank you for your answer.

Yeah, I quite like the off format episodes too. And, with a show that is intentionally focused on the political decision makers, I really liked seeing the working man side to the Babylon 5 space station. Makes the place feel more real, you know? I really liked by Any Means Necessary for the same reason. It made the station feel more real, and less of an idealized place than, for instance, the Trek universe.

Those mystery red helmeted aliens in A View from the Gallery looked a bit silly, though.

[SLerman]

Since there are a couple non-list posts now, I'll toss in my comment.

Top 10? Are you sure you didn't miss a key? Maybe you meant Top 110?

[Garibaldi's Hair]

Since there are a couple non-list posts now, I'll toss in my comment.

Top 10? Are you sure you didn't miss a key? Maybe you meant Top 110?

Sorry, I value my sanity too highly to even attempt to list all the episodes in order of preference. However, here is today's top 10 - tomorrow's would likely be different - in no particular order:

Severed Dreams
Interludes and Examinations
Confessions and Lamentations
The Coming of Shadows
Sleeping in Light
Intersections in Real Time
The Long, Twilight Struggle
Babylon Squared
The Fall of Centauri Prime
And The Sky Full Of Stars

Cheers,

[phazedout]

I couldn't possible do 10, but here's afew off the top of my head (As it were)
A view from the gallery (just love the off-format stuff, I'm with you Jan)
Sil (I mean duh)
Believers (so much non-star-trek that this was the pooint I decided I must have the whole series on DVVd, now)
The longnight of Londo Mollari (wonderfuly arcy)
sh*t gonna have to wander off to the lurkers guide for this one but the Niel Gaiman ep in S5 (got it Day of the Dead) just love the way it reveals aspects of each characters past, even got me to like lochley
WWe part I & II (if only for the londo hokey cokey stuff and the ivanova is god quotes.
Racing Mars (the interaction between Steven and Marcus is just great
Paragon of animals (because G'kar reading the DoP melts me every time
<edit, hmm there's 9 there, I'm sure I can make it ten. OK can't remeber the ep title but the one where Talia is reavealed to be a psi-corps spy.
That's all
bear in mind I;m naming eps from memory so may have got a few (Neil Gaiman aside) title wrong, I'm open to correction which is why I put the details in.
Phaze
on the "that was fun, now I'm hingry and when you're hungry, you're hungry*" ID
* yes that is a quote from an interview on the babylon podcast

[ordzo]

To me, all episodes are top, maybe some are less , but i take this as full story.

[Circular Reason]

Based on recent viewings.....

1. Passing through Gethsemene
2. Comes the Inquisitor
3. Whatever happened to Mr Garibaldi?
4. Confesions and Lamentations
5. Endgame
6. Sleeping in Light
7. The Fall of Centauri Prime
8. Interludes & examinations
9. And the rock cried out ' no hiding place '
10 . Signs and Portents.

Then again if this question pops up again in a years time then it will probably have changed.

Such is the quality of the show.....

[Ulkosh]

Coming of Shadows
In the Shadow of Z'ha'Dum
The Long, Twilight Struggle
Chrysalis
Confessions and Lamentations
Interludes and Examinations
War Without End 1&2
Z'ha'Dum
Into the Fire
The Fall of Centauri Prime