Pen's Nest

It really is. That's the first time we see the Shadow ships and on first viewing you don't realise just how important they're going to be. It's only really on re-watching that the amount of foreshadowing (rather a fitting term) in the early episodes starts to become clear, although for various reasons nothing comes of some plot points that might have been gone into further if actors hadn't left or otherwise become unavailable. JMS had everything planned out but must have left himself some wiggle room in case he didn't get to make the full 5 year story.

I wasn't planning on posting, mostly because my daily fic posts already take up anywhere up to 2 hours, posting to 5 sites, ctross-posting to communities, and then juggling my mod duties, posting prompts and other stuff. If I try to do more posts I won't have time to watch the episodes. Anyway, I've seen them all so many times, and you're watching with fresher eyes. I don't want to give stuff away if I accidentally get ahead of you.

Where are you up to now? I just watched episode 16, Eyes. I'm watching on DVD so that's the end on disc 4. You're probably watching on a streaming service?

How about you PM me and let me know which episode you're up to so I can adjust my viewing schedule to yours, then I won't talk about episodes you haven't re-watched yet.

I will say that even on the episodes I'm not so keen on (Soul Hunter, Mind War, TKO) there are still some great scenes, character moments, and dialogue. I never skip episodes. One of my favourite G'Kar moments is at the end of Mind War where Catherine Sakai asks about what happened to her near Sigma 957 and why G'Kar sent a ship to help her. Scenes like that really make the characters grow. JMS has a very clever way of sneaking exposition into seemingly ordinary conversations so he doesn't have to do too many big info dumps to get viewers up to speed.