Babilonas 5 Walkabout (1994–1998) Online

I realize it's been a few years since B5 has been on the air, but Plankton's comment lacked so much intelligence that I had to register just so I could comment. "Walkabout" was an excellent episode, in which the Doctor's character grew beyond that of a self-centered addict into someone more real, if also more jaded. Admittedly he's never been my favorite character, but I thought more of him after he stopped whining about how hard things were for him & did something about it.

Erica Gimpel's guest appearance also deserves some credit, both for her acting and her voice as a singer. If anyone knows where I can buy or download the two songs she did for that episode, please let me know.

It's odd, but two of the poorest episodes of Babylon 5 have a lot in common--the Doctor and his unbridled hormones! While the characters on the show are usually exceptionally well-written, twice now the writing for the Doc has fallen apart. In THE LONG DARK (season 2), a woman is taken out of suspended animation and the crew suspects her of having murdered the other crew member. So what does the doctor do? Yep, sleeps with the lady in spite of common sense dictating you WAIT to be sure she isn't evil! Now, in season 3, the Doc is back to his horny ways as he decides the best way to treat his drug addiction is to aimlessly wander through the worst parts of the ship in search of a sick relationship. It must be his motto "when in doubt, sleep with her". Frankly, for a smart man, he seemed awfully dumb in this episode and spent so much of his time whining and looking for a lady who might be even more screwed up than he was. Hadn't anyone in the 23rd century ever heard of AA or the Betty Ford Clinic? The episode had many frequent lapses into lousy writing--too many clichés and the characters just didn't act like they had a brain. This MIGHT be good for some characters in some roles, but the Doctor is supposed to be a smart guy and one of the best and brightest on the station!

OK while i agree this was not the best episode of the season i would not call it the worst of the show.Erica Gimpel is a good singer no doubt.And having the doc meet someone while on walkabout is natural.And this part of the episode is no worse then the episode in season 1 where Londo meets a woman and gets attracted to her.If a series was just about wars and death it would not be a good show.Besides in the same episode you get a confrontation with the Shadows that is important for the rest of the show.Besides in season 5 there are a lot more bad episodes then this one.Personally i think they should have quit after 4 years when they killed off Marcus and Claudia Christian (Susan Ivanova) left.Her replacement and the backstory they had for that character was almost something out of a soap-opera.Every now and then the show does get a bit over dramatic.As for this episode there is more to it then just the Steven arc.If you miss it you miss something important

Make no mistake, this wasn't the worst episode of the series (or even of this season), BUT its only flaw was that the "opera" part of it was very poor. Had it been only the "space" part of it, this episode would have rated as a 9 or so, as the story is of major importance and very well done, but that rushed "love story" musical part of the episode had no reason to be included here (other than filling the remaining minutes or promoting a virtually unknown singer, maybe). Even if they were to include such an "opera" part in the episode, it could have been done much much better (like they superbly managed to do the Londo Mollari - Lady Adira story earlier in the show, which spanned for rougly the same amount of minutes, for example). This time, added to the fact that these 2 parts of the episode didn't mix well AT ALL, the romance part wasn't great either, didn't properly engage the viewer emotionally and the singing was great only if you loved the genre or the singer.

All in all, this was a missed oportunity to have another 9+ rated episode in the series. It would have been better to put this attempt of a musical part in another filler episode than to damage an episode with such great potential like this one.

What a weird episode. After the past few episodes, this episode had big shoes to fill, and it mostly fails in my opinion. This is due to the subplot involving Ex Doc Franklin and another character with a proclivity for singing. Much like the more emotional episodes in Star Trek with Geordi LaForge, it comes off as cringeworthy and creepy as opposed to it's actual intent of deepening our connection and empathy level for the character. Let's hope they either stop doing this (this is the second time now for Franklin) or they do it right.