Quote Originally Posted by Balzac View Post
It's sci-fi and the one rule of sci-fi is "It doesn't have to make sense, it's smurfing sci-fi".
It depresses the <img src="http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif" alt="skull" /><img src="http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif" alt="skull" /><img src="http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif" alt="skull" /><img src="http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif" alt="skull" /> out of me to see something like this. I want to know where sci-fi went wrong, if a complete lack of internal consistency is acceptable and even expected. Sci-fi doesn't have to have any bearing on the real world, but it does have to be coherent. Doctor Who isn't sci-fi, it's just silliness that uses sci-fi tropes.

Or you might be right, and an attempt at internal consistency, overarching plot, coherent characters, and general believability isn't why Babylon 5 is one of the greatest things ever made.