Lost, Game of Thrones, the Battlestar Galactica reboot, to a lesser extent Justified, all that high concept serialized event television owes their existence to B5. Babylon 5 is the series for whom the term “wham episode” was coined. Written and structured as one long, continuous story rather than an adventure a week, in the 1990s.
Babylon 5.
Lost, Game of Thrones, the Battlestar Galactica reboot, to a lesser extent Justified, all that high concept serialized event television owes their existence to B5. Babylon 5 is the series for whom the term “wham episode” was coined. Written and structured as one long, continuous story rather than an adventure a week, in the 1990s.
Lost actually has a lot in common with a previous “plane crashes on a mysterious island” series:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_People