Sadly I think my biggest active annoyance with B5 - the propagation of the ludicrous Coventry myth - is actually in one of its best "oh wow" episodes as we finally learn about the Shadows.
(There wasn't actually anything terribly unusual about the Coventry raid - an industrial town somewhere in Britain was being bombed every couple of night - Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Derby, Manchester, Southampton, Portsmouth, Bristol etc. And in fact (see RV Jones classic Most Secret War) the Enigma decodes did quite often allow them to deduce where the raid was going to be *and* they once tried to rush AA guns to that city. But evacuate an entire city every couple of days? Totally ridiculous on both practical and morale grounds.
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(There wasn't actually anything terribly unusual about the Coventry raid - an industrial town somewhere in Britain was being bombed every couple of night - Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Derby, Manchester, Southampton, Portsmouth, Bristol etc. And in fact (see RV Jones classic Most Secret War) the Enigma decodes did quite often allow them to deduce where the raid was going to be *and* they once tried to rush AA guns to that city. But evacuate an entire city every couple of days? Totally ridiculous on both practical and morale grounds.