The original episodes were fine but in the series as we saw it (if we saw it at all) they were pushed around so they fitted in with TNT's new vision of what the then unbroadcast show should have been like.

So the pilot ended up being half way through the truncated season, the new pilot wasn't even finished and was rubbish and they had to come up with an instory explanation for why the uniforms and sets had changed and changed back, which is a stupid way to run a show.

Some of the stories were really solid as were some of the characters until TNT got their hands on them.

I don't know if you are familiar with the series bible but it showed it could have been a much stronger show than B5 was.

It annoys me that executives green light things and then back peddle and screw up what they actually agreed to do. The Lost Tales suffered the same problem, it ended up being almost a fan film, so many people actually volunteered their work on that project because Warner Bros wouldn't give them the money they agreed they would. The discs still sold well but JMS wouldn't do anymore on that sort of set up (a huge station full of people and all they could afford was a corridor full of nothing, that's hard to work around in terms of story).

The same thing happened with Firefly with some of the episodes being shunted around so they no longer made sense.

So many potentially interesting shows have suffered the same way with Fox that I'm convinced it's a way of buggering up things for their competitiors rather than actually making shows for themselves.

Tru Calling and Threshold were two other shows shafted just as they were getting off the ground.