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Babylon 5! I was born in 94, when it premiered and have always watched it (along with Star Trek). It was one of the first shows that really pushed the continuous plot over serialized and it makes rewatches a game of finding the hints.
I've said before that Babylon 5 is the more realistic depiction of if we had made contact with aliens over star trek (at least the early ones), but the heros are still that.
I am curious where the down votes came from. I hope no one thought I was disparaging Star Trek. I love em both, they're just different.
Uhh... no. Dallas and other soap operas had long and convoluted plots decades before. One entire season was just a dream!
It's pretty obvious that you're under 30.
That and I don't watch soap operas other than S.O.A.P. It's a very different genre, but it has been called an opera in space before, so you've got that haha
Edit; I also has said 'one of the first' so non definitive. I just meant in terms of 'prime-time television'. It seems like people didn't like that.