I've been in fandom one way or another for thirty years, and I always said it comes down to this - if you’re comfortable as (or at least driven to be) one kind of outsider, it's far easier to become one one in other areas.

100% with you, Annalee.

Correction: Also canon (and pretty good) are the three book trilogies dealing with the Psi Corps, the Cantauri and the Technomages.

Not yet mentioned: JMS has said B5 can be summed up as being about three things - Choice, Consequence and Responsibility.

I'm of the Don't Skip Anything faction - though the TV movies get progressively worse! Of the tie-in books, the only one I'd recommend (and which is considered canon) is Kathryn Drennan's TO DREAM IN THE CITY OF SORROWS, which gives the backstory to Sinclair's time on Minbari and how Marcus Cole became a Ranger, Worth…

I noted two very clear Princess Bride references - the popping sound to warn of erupting steam pipes was pretty much the same as in the Fire Swamp, and torture by draining years of someone's life. Will Windmark be revealed to have six fingers on his left hand?

Adored the show since the pilot and so glad they've had the guts to make the Machine a full AI - even possibly one of Charlie Stross's "Weakly godlike intelligences"

[Child eats ice cream]

Also conspicuous by their absence: Eddie and Emily Jessup, ALTERED STATES. She risks her life for him (twice), he claws his way back from total destruction at the heart of existence for her.

Ah yes - the video Charlie Stross reviewed thus: "shame the script is mind-blowingly, offensively, unthinkingly sexist" - [twitter.com]