If you must know how it turned out, get the books. The Psi Corps trilogy details how the Corps started and how it ended, complete with the revenge of Mr. Garibaldi.
In Valen’s name, dude! You been living under a rock?
And don’t you know that’s no hiding place?
I loved that the Earth Alliance was about middle of the pack technology wise when compared to the other major groups.
The payoff to the Morden/Vir character arc was just great. I mimic Vir’s little wave if I’m saying goodbye to some members of my extended family that I don’t like much.
The advantage to such an arced show, written by basically one person is that you can plant all sorts of things that pay off later. My favorite of the whole show is just a throw-away line by Lyta in one of the last episodes that calls all the way back to the pilot:
“Darkness Ascending”: *“Oh, and you mentioned wondering what my pleasure threshold is. I just recently found out. … I don’t have one. Have a very, very nice day, G’Kar.” *
That is a fantastic wave, isn’t it? I think I might use it myself for certain people
I do love that quote though when he said, “as a reminder that some favors come with too high a price.” Lots of great quotes in the show but for some reason that really just sticks with me 
Makes you psy. . .
3 months does not a zombie make.
The wife has never seen the show, so we are using my summer break to work our way through the show at about 5 episodes a day. We just finished “Ship of Tears.”
It still holds up, even after all this time. I’d forgotten how spiritual JMS could be for an atheist.
Check out the AV Club reviews, if that’s your thing.
The reviewer is going through the entire series again and writing reviews as he goes. He’s around 1/3 of the way through Season 3 and reviews 1 or 2 episodes every Friday.
In more than the obvious ways, it’s not a show that could be done now. Beyond the very 90s special effects and production values, you can tell it was written before 9/11. It’s very much a product of the 90s and the geopolitical situation we had back then.
It’s also unfortunate just how well the Night Watch holds up.
Pretty sure I said this several times as I was talking about my experience watching the show, but having absolutely no nostalgia attached to it whatsoever, I completely agree. It’s hard to watch something you loved from the past and know if it’s actually any good because you’re constantly wondering, “Am I just viewing this through the rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia?” For me, never having even seen a minute of it until late last year when I started to watch it, it’s easily as good as any of the best TV being put out today, and that’s saying a lot since the quality of TV in general has basically skyrocketed since the 90’s when B5 came out.
While I am a fan of Star Trek, in all its incarnations, I do love B5 as well. It’s like watching a game being played by a different team, with a different coach. I never bought into the whole “either/or” thinking that drives so much of internet “debates” on the subject.
“There comes a point in a man’s life when he looks into a mirror and realizes that what he sees is all he’s ever going to be. He either accepts it or he kills himself. Or he stops looking into mirrors.”
Most people forget that atheism does not mean screaming god-denunciation. Spiritual issues, with a tinge of reality and a basis in real beliefs, are as valid a story element as any other sf/f/mainstream fiction one, and if someone can write a deep and moving vampire or zombie story, then one about beliefs and ethics should be no more improbable.
As for holding up, I suppose we’ve watched the series through about every 18 months or so. I always start with those trepidations… was it as good as I remember? am I sentimentalizing it? will I be disappointed this time through? and the answers always come back Hell Yes, No, and You Gotta Be Kiddin Me.