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Babylon 5 - Crusade: Favorite Season

What is your favorite Babylon 5 - Crusade Season?

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tomswift2002

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I'm just finishing up Babylon 5 for like the 3rd time since I got the DVD's about 5 years ago, and even though the show was done in the 90's, I think it still kicks a lot of the newer shows out of the ballpark. Sure it had it's bad episodes (Grey 17 Is Missing, The Deconstruction Of Falling Stars, The Long Road), but for the most part, Babylon 5 and Crusade managed to present very good TV (and hopefully Warner Brothers will authorize a proper remastering to HD at some point in the future).

So, out of all 6 seasons of Babylon 5-Crusade, what was your favorite season?

I think my favorite season was Season 3 when Sheridan finally declares that Babylon 5 succeeds from the Earth Alliance.
 
B5 season three which is the climax of the series. Everything after is falling action.


And The Deconstruction of a Falling Stars was not a bad episode. It simply stepped out of the story to offer its context.
 
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I thought the title of this thread meant you thought Crusade was your favourite season at first ;)
And shouldn't this be in the SF/F forum?


I've only seen the show once, a few years ago via a DVD binge, so it's pretty blurred together. But I think I'd probably say s4 (although s3 has my favourtie theme tune/intro version)
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Epic. Even the cheesy 90s soap opera style turning heads adds to its charm.



Also for the record I'm not a s5 hater. Apart from the character of Byron being a bit of a dickhead (and that awful Penn-Teller one) I enjoyed s5 a lot.
 
Ethros said:
I thought the title of this thread meant you thought Crusade was your favourite season at first ;)
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I thought the thread title meant "what was your favorite season of Crusade?"

And I was gonna be like, "half of season one I guess." :lol:
 
Season 5 for me.

It's not as epic as previous seasons, but does feel like the perfect 'epilogue' to all of that epicness with its more intimate and self-contained conflict, and I liked the dynamic between the returning characters and Lochley.

The only thing I think the season lacks is that it doesn't feature Lochley in Sleeping in Light (yes, I know that episode was filmed before Scoggins joined the cast, but it wouldn't have been that hard to film some additional stuff during the course of the season and edit it into SiL before it aired), but that's my only real issue with it.
 
Ethros said:
I thought the title of this thread meant you thought Crusade was your favourite season at first ;)
And shouldn't this be in the SF/F forum?


I've only seen the show once, a few years ago via a DVD binge, so it's pretty blurred together. But I think I'd probably say s4 (although s3 has my favourtie theme tune/intro version)

Epic. Even the cheesy 90s soap opera style turning heads adds to its charm.



Also for the record I'm not a s5 hater. Apart from the character of Byron being a bit of a dickhead (and that awful Penn-Teller one) I enjoyed s5 a lot.
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That trip along the station with that music STILL gives me chills!
 
My issue with S5 is more that all the psi corps stuff had a lack of direction and seemed to "Mustache-twirlify" Bester, who was previously a more complex villain.

It also pissed me off the way the characters treated Leeta after she won the damn war for them.
 
Seasons 2-3-4 of Babylon 5 are arguably the apex of good serial storytelling in the television medium. It's too bad the teething problems of S1, and the studio / cast / jms burnout issues of S5 seriously detract from the overall product IMO...

Mark
 
JirinPanthosa said:
My issue with S5 is more that all the psi corps stuff had a lack of direction and seemed to "Mustache-twirlify" Bester, who was previously a more complex villain.

It also pissed me off the way the characters treated Leeta after she won the damn war for them.
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I recall Pat saying it was a rough time on the set, because those feelings bled over into real life. None of the cast meant to treat her poorly, but it just sorta happened.
 
Season 3 and Season 4 battled it out, but the "Messages from Earth," "Point of No Return" & "Severed Dreams" group of episodes combined with the "War Without End" Two Parter win it for Season 3.
 
Mark_Nguyen said:
Seasons 2-3-4 of Babylon 5 are arguably the apex of good serial storytelling in the television medium. It's too bad the teething problems of S1, and the studio / cast / jms burnout issues of S5 seriously detract from the overall product IMO...

Mark
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Don't forget that from about the last quarter of Season 2, to the 6th episode of Season 5, JMS wrote 56-consecutive episodes, so in terms of serialized storytelling, we were basically hearing right from Straczynski himself half-the story of B5.

As for the thread title I was trying to include Crusade as Season 6 of B5 (and in the UK it was released in the B5 complete series box set). But it's to bad that station politics got in the way of Crusade, since the 13 episodes only present strands of story lines.
 
2, 3, & 4 are all really good. I couldn't really choose between them.

Crusade I didn't enjoy so much, I got 2 or 3 episodes in a few times and gave up. I revisited it some years later though, and really enjoyed it. :shrug:
 
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