I’ve decided to do my first Babylon 5 rewatch!
Lets have a binge thread to talk about B5!
I would love to find a 4k remaster of the series, there are some great demo videos on youtube, but on the streaming sites I can only find 720p. If you have any trouble choosing which streaming service to use just search for fmhy and they will have a curated list of options.
TV shows were wild back then, 22 episodes per season, 45 minutes each; 1000 minutes per season!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusade_(TV_series)
Crusade - 1999 - Spinoff TV Series - Thoughts and Comments
Season was canceled half way through, due to some TNT executive fight. They wanted more sex appeal in the show, and it shows a few times.
A bunch of filler episodes in the 13 episode season, kinda a waste. A totally new cast, took some time to get used to them, but they do grow on me. The format changed to be more episodic wandering starship with lots of away sets. Must have been more expensive then a babylon 5 episode.
The themes of these season are Techno Mages, Cosmic Horror, Nano Machines and Central control.
The plague infecting earth isn’t a biological virus, but nano-machines with central control. We run into a techno mange nano machine plague as well, which gets taken out by finding the central computer.
I think this could have been a good show with tighter plots, and more focus on the arcs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW6SReoSpQU