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Yeah, the S5 music is definitely a departure from the rest, but I still like it.
What was awesome about S1-4 the fact that they were variations of the same theme, and perfectly matched the mood of the seasons, from the exotic/alien/new-agey S1 to the decidedly militaristic march of S4, while remaining in the character of the show.
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The credits for the first two seasons of B5 are okay, but I usually skip them.
Season 3 was where is started to get great. When I first heard Ivanova say, in an almost matter-of-fact manner, - "
The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace. It failed", it just really hit me. An absolutely gut-wrenching line.
The season 4 credits, where all the main characters get a say, is stunning. The dialogue perfectly sums up the season - "
It was the year of fire... the year of destruction... the year we took back what was ours. It was the year of rebirth... the year of great sadness... the year of pain... and the year of joy. It was a new age. It was the end of history. It was the year everything changed. The year is 2261. The place: Babylon 5." In one of the B5 script books, JMS said that, since they thought this would be the last season at the time, he deliberately wanted everyone to get their place in the sequence.
So, when he came to do season 5, he then had nowhere else to go but in the complete opposite direction. Which was why he went without a new voiceover, instead deciding to go just with the snippets-of-dialogue approach, which I personally find terribly effective. In fact, season 5 would be my favourite of all the B5 credits.