Zocalo: Spoiler-free Discussion of “And Now for a Word”

Here’s a poser for those of you who have never seen Babylon 5 before, and those of you who can put yourselves in that frame of mind: would you show “And Now for a Word” to someone who’d never seen B5 before? Could it stand on its own? Is it an effective introduction to the show?

And what else did you think of it? (No spoilers, thankyouverymuch.)