askchapo

Oddly enough I think that the older B5 gets, the more forgivable the aged CGI is, because it's more and more obviously "of its time".

I haven't watched Babylon 5 (yet), but I had a similar experience with the old Dune miniseries. Yeah, the costuming's kind of silly at times, and the CGI environments look like a Command & Conquer cutscene (or just the actual Dune strategy game made by the C&C devs)... and that's a good thing! I genuinely find it kind of endearing, and to me the series was quite beautiful, honestly way more than the Villeneuve movies which just... didn't really do anything for me.

It's like puppetry, most puppets are obviously not meant to be photo-realistic representations of humans (or other creatures), and any sort of movements are going to look quite stilted in comparison to a real human with muscles, but that's part of the charm. It's its own separate artstyle, with its own vibe. Realism and high fidelity are themselves artistic choices, and going for unrealism and low fidelity is a perfectly valid choice as well (although of course, in those old TV series, it wasn't quite a choice so much as the technical limitations of the time - but some of the most beautiful art comes about due to limitations)