Babylon 5 unfairly treated?

Right, I am a huge Sci-fi fan, in fact it's probably my most favorite genre when it comes to television series. And so of course I have watched all the Star Treks - the bread and butter of sci-fi, Stargate, Battle Star Galactica, Sliders, Farscape (another series that warrants the same question) but Babylon 5 completely fell through the gap for me. In fact, I don't think I really even was aware of the series 10 years after the show had ended and while I find this quite sad it was awesome to watch them all consecutively.

Here are a list of reasons why I think Babylon 5 has become probably my most favorite sci-fi series of all time:

• The story arcs are epic. Great stories that focus on major sci-fi themes such Order verses Chaos and Freewill verses Authoritarianism. The Order/Authoritarianism verses Chaos/Freewill theme manifests itself round 2 powerful ancient races, the Vorlons (Order) and the Shadows (Chaos), each with they're own ideologies. This is different from Good verses Evil and although, initially anyway the Vorlons could be reprieved as good and the shadows evil this is really not the case. The other major story line is Babylon 5 breaking away from Earth and creating it own government.
•  The dialog, I thought was brilliant. I really liked Bruce Boxleitner as John Sheridan, I thought he had some really powerful lines. I love when a series has a huge cast of secondary major characters who aren't in every episode but maybe every other episode. This gives a really good feeling of a station port were people come and go. G'Kar and Londo Mollari are two such characters who were utilized really well and they're character development was outstanding. G'Kar portrayed by Andreas Katsulas is a fantastic actor and had lots of great scenes.
• The race diversity is great.
• I like the telepath story arc
• The films are great, some better than others, but that's always the case
• The spin off Crusade was really good, I'm disappointed it only lasted 1 series, it would have been great. I liked the development of the techomages and thought Peter Woodward as Galen was an excellent character.

I'll maybe expand those points out at a later date, I'm really just mind dumping at the moment.

I really love the way the series is based around the 4 questions (taken straight from wikipedia):

• Who are you? (The Vorlon Question)
• What do you want? (The Shadow Question)
• Why are you here? (Emperor Turhan's Question)
• Where are you going? (Techno Mage's Question)

I recently bought a meditation audio book and those were pretty much the exact same questions asked and so I was wondering if the Babylon 5 questions were based on the meditation questions. I think the idea of the questions is not really for yourself to answer but rather let the universe answer it for you that's what I had taken from the audiobooks anyway.

So those are just a few short reasons of why I really like Babylon 5, like I said I may expand on a few of those points but I'm not sure I need to. Wikipedia is your friend. I have also look on amazon to see if there were any Babylon 5 books written in the expanded universe and luckily there are some and so I have ordered The Technomage Trilogy. I have heard good reviews about it. I'll update this post about what I thought of it later.

Please post your thought on why you like or dislike (boo) this franchise.