Babylon 5: you'll have to watch the whole thing. It won't be incomprehensible, but when something is that well put together, you'll want to give yourself the entire experience.
B5 was Straczynski's complete baby, and he didn't have to write for anyone else's characters in it. I haven't read his Marvel writing, but I can imagine that there would be some key differences. B5 has plenty of dark themes, but the overriding message and the consistent subtext is that heroes are heroes and Good Guys win. There is cynicism, there are bad people, but there's also idealism and heroics. Some characters are flippant, some are not.
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Date: 2010-08-03 10:54 pm (UTC)B5 was Straczynski's complete baby, and he didn't have to write for anyone else's characters in it. I haven't read his Marvel writing, but I can imagine that there would be some key differences. B5 has plenty of dark themes, but the overriding message and the consistent subtext is that heroes are heroes and Good Guys win. There is cynicism, there are bad people, but there's also idealism and heroics. Some characters are flippant, some are not.