Before prestige TV was a thing that pop culture critics talked about, and well before most genre shows were serialized by default, Babylon 5 was changing the nature of TV in the 1990s. Remembered fondly by its fans today, B5 has several crucial turning points, some more famous than others. While most fans will point to various season finales or two-part episodes as major moments for the series (“Z'ha'dum” and “War Without End” come to mind), there are a few episodes that are sneakily pivotal.
Thirty years ago, one example of a game-changing B5 episode that recontextualized the entire show was Season 2’s “Divided Loyalties,” an episode that brutally changed the nature of one character and revealed a hidden truth about another.
