So I've just watched 1.01 for this week, but the plan is to watch both next week :P I wasn't able to convince my 11-year-old to stick around for the whole thing, although she liked Londo. But I liked it! There was a lot packed into this episode, and it definitely did the job of a pilot (second pilot?) in getting me invested enough in the characters to want to watch more about them.

- Susan Ivanova and Talia Winters along with Ivanova's backstory and the basics about the Psi Corps and the legal situation of telepaths in this universe

I'm really interested to see what happens with this!

For example, this time around I found Claudia Christian a bit stiff at first (not just during the initial encounter between Ivanova and Talia, when she's meant to be), with her coming across as the Susan Ivanova I remember only in the last scene with Talia when she talks about her mother.

Yes, I agree! But that last scene sold her to me.

G'Kar in his conniving expansionist smugness.

Heh, I liked G'Kar too, and it did remind me of

I can never decide whether Garibaldi's fondness for Warner cartoons is there because the series was produced by WB. Here in this episode it feels a bit too quirky.

I did laugh at that! But it did seem a bit... weird.

The scene with Garibaldi stopping Londo

I really liked this scene. I really liked Garibaldi and his annoying extremely-competent self. I have this vague feeling from osmosis that he gets more annoying over the course of the show, but I did like him in this episode :)

And Great Maker - when you watch that scene where he tells Sinclair about the dream for the first time you have NO idea what's coming, and yet, it's all there. This feels to me this time around a bit like an Agatha Christie novel where in retrospect you can spot all the clues, but only in retrospect.

Welp, I look forward to finding out, then, because I definitely have no idea what's coming!

I also appreciated the advice above not to (in general) read the comments, but omg that's going to be hard! I don't suppose it would be possible to ask for rot-13-ing explicit spoilers? I do rather enjoy interacting with other people in comments, as you know, lol :)