Our Last, Best Hope for Babylon 5 Fans
Speculation abounds surrounding JMS’ announcement that he’s stepping away from the Wonder Woman and Superman monthly comics in order to focus on writing Earth One sequel instead. The full extent of his work slate seems to still be under wraps.
Deep Geeking: Tonight, after a brief tangent into lamenting the short lifespan of most smart scifi shows, we geek on the Crusade episode “The Needs of Earth”.
Tim and Summer are joined by The Jason Davis to talk about the adventure that was the records excavation that became the new volume “Artifacts from Beyond the Rim”.
Deep Geeking: The year we really did finally make it to Crusade.
Going by the revised broadcast order, our first Crusade episode to geek on is “Racing the Night”, and Jason joins us for the analysis.
As seen in the poll we took, the listeners have spoken, and the order in which we’ll watch and discuss Crusade has been chosen.
We can’t seem to come to a consensus on whether or not to discuss Crusade in the original TNT broadcast order (which is the same order as on the DVD set), or in the JMS preferred story order (which can be found here).
So, you tell us how you’d rather we approach the series discussion and analysis.
Tim and Summer delve into “A Call to Arms”, and amongst other things, talk about how the movie functions as a standalone movie rather than direct pilot for the new series, argue back and forth about some of the character development and interactions, speculate broadly on newly interpreted happenings and how they might have influenced things during later Crusade episodes that we never got, and much more.
Inside CRUSADE: WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED? Volume One’s 402 pages, you will find: J. Michael Straczynski’s introduction, revealing– * The first part of what the hell really did happen to CRUSADE, in Straczynskian detail, chronicling what he describes as the “birth, short life and long painful death” of the series. * How he nearly wandered […]
I just read the announcement at B5 Books, saying that the Crusade: What the Hell Happened? books are finally coming our way, with Volume 1 releasing on August 25… Then, I read the good part: “Why,” you inquire, “is this a FOUR-volume series when we were promised THREE in the introduction to CRUSADE: BEHIND THE […]
Interview: The Jason Davis, Senior Editor at Synthetic Worlds Publishing, chats with Tim, Summer, and Bret about Crusade: Behind the Scenes, which is available for purchase right now at Babylon 5 Books.
It’s here. The entire behind-the-scenes story of Crusade as told by the actors and crew…while the show was actually filming.
From the first frame of film until the last, these cast and crew interviews occurred “as-it-happened” so they are free of any revisionism. Nothing is forgotten. No detail spared.
Accomplished actor Edward Woodward, best known for his role on the television series, “The Equalizer” has passed away at the age of 79.
