Babylon 5

[Guy Gardener]

A fiend of mine tied to encapsulate the revelations from the technomage trilogy before he'd actually finished the book...

Spoiler

They dress all in black and use organic technology? Who do we already know dresses all in black and uses organic technology? The technomages were not a third party in the shadow war, they were conscientious objectors, guilty of being serious bastards over the course of the last million years, but who were now, finally sick of the Shadows shit, and wanted to sit this war out and probably the next one too.

Of course in the books, it's been a thousand years, and no Technomage still alive in 2259 remembers that they work exclusively, loyally and without reservation for the Shadows, they are morons who think that they are the good guys, even though they have no idea where their technology comes from and cannot build more. The have to harvest their organic technology from their own dead, and pass it on to the next generation, which would restrict their birthrate.

 

[Forbin]

A thing to remember when watching Crusade is that TNT interfered with the airing order of the episodes, and caused some of them to be rushed. So some eps had special effects that don't look very good because of being rushed. Also there's a change of uniforms because TNT didn't like the originals, and this results in a stupid episode about, yes, a fashion designer on the ship. Changing the order of the eps also results in some story elements seeming out of place, making you wonder why a character didn't remember something happening before. Oh, and TNT wanted the first ep to have more action, so JMS filmed a new ep with a fist fight and put it first, making the actual first ep seem out of place when it's aired later.
Oy vey.

 

[Frightscape One]

Ultimately, TNT messed with CRUSADE so much that JMS just had it with them and left. I have the original CRUSADE box set that contains the JMS commentary where he was airing some of his issues with them. It's been years since I listened to it, so I don't remember the extent he took it, but I'm pretty sure he was pretty blunt.

(If I remember correctly, later reprints of the set removed the commentary.)

 

[David cgc]

(If I remember correctly, later reprints of the set removed the commentary.)

My recollection is that the commentary on the initial release was edited without his consent, so JMS insisted it be removed entirely from later pressings rather than letting them put words into (or rather, take them out of) his mouth.

 

[DonIago]

Geeze...I would rather hear some of it than none of it.