Babylon 5: A Distant Star

[G-Man]

So, Bawn-ya Cuh-ow-da.

[Tanan]

So, Bawn-ya Cuh-ow-da.

Yeah. Yeah, that works.
Thanks!

[planescaped]

I kinda wonder if he will ever cover Crusade. For a show birthed from one of the best sci-fi series ever to be so horrible is a great talking point in and of itself.

I'd be very curious to hear his breakdown of everything that went wrong. That show had all of the lore of Babylon 5 to draw from combined with the fresh tone of being on a ship instead of a space station... and they went full Voyager/Enterprise with it...

[Yukaphile]

I haven't advanced far enough to see Crusade, sadly.

[Deledrius]

I kinda wonder if he will ever cover Crusade. For a show birthed from one of the best sci-fi series ever to be so horrible is a great talking point in and of itself.

I'd be very curious to hear his breakdown of everything that went wrong. That show had all of the lore of Babylon 5 to draw from combined with the fresh tone of being on a ship instead of a space station... and they went full Voyager/Enterprise with it...

It also got heavily Firefly'd by the network, so it's really a sad mess. I didn't think it was all that bad, honestly, it just never got where it was going. Imagine if B5 had only aired half of its first season and it's all we had to judge it on! Which, incidentally, is why I think it's a mistake to neglect making engaging episodes during your world-building season: it's bad for the ratings you need to be successful enough to continue, and if you don't make it at least you put out something people can enjoy on its own merits, instead of just in retrospect.

[Artabax]

I kinda wonder if he will ever cover Crusade. For a show birthed from one of the best sci-fi series ever to be so horrible is a great talking point in and of itself.

I'd be very curious to hear his breakdown of everything that went wrong. That show had all of the lore of Babylon 5 to draw from combined with the fresh tone of being on a ship instead of a space station... and they went full Voyager/Enterprise with it...

DS9 is awesome because it is a B5 rip-off. Crusade is crap because it is a VOY rip-off. You can boldly go for evah. Crusade had the specific mission of curing Plague. VOY had the specific mission of a shining planet named Earth. The whole point of the Mission is to end the Show.

[Yukaphile]

Ripoff implies they were stealing ideas during the show's run, when if you wanna go that route, the White Star was a ripoff of the Defiant. Someone behind the scenes even said, "It's a cool ship, just like the Defiant!" More like paying homage, even if the genesis by Brandon Tartikoff was 100% theft, they went in different directions. I've seen most of B5 and all of DS9 to tell you that is the case.

[FaxModem1]

Crusade was building up. And the show seemed to be going somewhere. The initial episodes were also much better than season 1 of B5, aside from the music, which I think needed to be reworked. But that's a subjective thing.

[Yukaphile]

I liked Babylon 5 Season 1 music. Better than the music DS9 had of the same time.

[FaxModem1]

I liked Babylon 5 Season 1 music. Better than the music DS9 had of the same time.

Just in case I'm not being clear, I'm saying that Crusade's music isn't that good. Example, their intro sequence: link