5th season is based on the 5th book which is easily top 3 of the whole series.

the 4th season and the 4th book are widely considered below average for the series.

if you liked the first 3 seasons, you'll feel right at home with s5.

I disagree. Most of S5 so far has been personal stories, not space opera. I'm still finding it entertaining, but I wouldn't recommend the show to anyone on the basis of season 5.

Just finished the season finale. Keep watching, it’s worth it.

I was bored by the cookie-cutter Scary Alien Machine Planet and weird physics in S4, but season 5 is a great improvement. It brings the story back to Earth and the Rim, with real people making consequential decisions.

Exactly. 4th season felt superfluous/boring. 5th gets back to basics. Maybe a little repetition (razorback, nuke, Mrs.) but it is fun.

That's not at all how I feel, Season 5 is the best of all of them IMO. 4 was definitely a let down but 5 has been fantastic.

Many people have said this, but it really does reflect the book material.

The upside is that we can expect the last season to pick up again.

Fifth one is better then 4th and I would say also better then 3th.

For me 4th was boring and even more disappointing considering that, after all they suffered to open the portal, all that they found was a ruined, minefield piece of shit planet.

Fith is being a little more entertaining but also turning the back to the portal.

Edit: also there's sound in space. IIRC that wasn't the case in the first seasons.

> Edit: also there's sound in space. IIRC that wasn't the case in the first seasons.

I haven't noticed. I usually interpret the sound in space as sound that ship makes inside, the one that came to you through comm or something etc.

Nah, it's systemic. At some moment there were some missiles. There's no way to explain that, unless you believe the missiles make a transmition to the ship that launched them, to say in their noisy missile language that they're pursuing the target :)