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[DigiFluid]

• War Zone -- "And when your world is gone--who will you serve? Who will you be?" Great words from the Drakh in this first episode of Crusade. It seems so subtle, and would be totally forgettable to a newcomer
• The Long Road -- Alwyn! I'd rather forgotten that he was the Techno-mage in this episode, after reading so much about him in their novel trilogy. Pretty neat that they cast Peter Woodward's father in the role, too
• The Needs of Earth -- Eilerson's alien porn
• The Needs of Earth -- I think this one brings something new to the table in that it's B5 moving toward morally questionable actions in pursuit of the greater good. In this way it's a little like DS9's In the Pale Moonlight, though I don't think done nearly as well. Not to put down this episode, I do like it, just that that particular DS9 episode was a Trek masterpiece
• Visitors from Down the Street -- *facepalms*
• Each Night I Dream of Home -- Richard Biggs gives one of his best performances in this episode IMO. He had quite a few great episodes in B5 of course, but his inflections and delivery while talking about the virus are so very heartfelt. And then it's a laugh to see Timothy Williams in yet another role where he's someone too lovesick to know what he's doing
• The Path of Sorrows -- One of the most compelling episodes to come out of the B5verse IMO. It's quiet, it's low-key, and it's brilliant. I love seeing the pasts of both Gideon and Galen, but most especially seeing the closing moments of the Telepath War in Matheson's memories
• Patterns of the Soul -- I hate it when people in shows do things that make no sense at all. Like in this one, after Dureena meets the dying old man, she finds the settlement of her people by....climbing up a cliff? Why not just walk around for a few minutes to find the path that the old guy walked down to get there?
• The Well of Forever -- Galen tells Dureena that the Well is about answers. More specifically he tells her that Matheson would have gotten his if he'd come to the Well, and Gideon didn't get his because "he wasn't listening". What was meant by these two cryptic remarks?
• I also really like how the second Legions of Fire novel explains Galen's repeated absences during Crusade as being because he was travelling around to work against the Drakh occupation of Centauri Prime
• Someone pleaaaaaaase find a way into an alternate universe so I can see what 5 seasons of Crusade would have looked like
• I think that for pretty much all of Crusade's run, the use of characters was skewed all wrong. Gideon is interesting, but without taking the time to explore more on the Cerberus backstory and the Apocalypse Box, he ends up being kind of....unremarkable. Dr Holden got tons and tons of screen time, for a character that was about as exciting as watching paint dry (not to mention a face that could shatter planets). Galen was fantastic, but in what, half the episodes? Lt Matheson is the biggest disappointment to me, because I think there was an AMAZING amount of potential in him, which went almost totally untapped (as well as the missed opportunities of the two Matheson-centric scripts that didn't happen due to the cancellation). And the most bizarre one of all: why was Captain Lochley even listed in the main cast? She was in a whopping three episodes and it seems there was no indication of her returning for the rest of the season

[Galileo_Galilee]

Well, I don't know about 5 seasons, but if you want to know the plans for the rest of the first season arc of Crusade, I'd recommend this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Babylon-Crusad...9020348&sr=1-3

It's called Crusade and it's for the d20 Babylon 5 Role Playing Game.

Why do I recommend it?

Because it has the synopses for the each episode in the entire season.

JMS has asked that these synopses stop being released on the internet. So you're not likely to find them anywhere else. At least i haven't and I haven't found anything for them. But they are Here in this book.

[flobo]

How detailed are they ? It it worth the 60 $ ? (I'm thinking mostly about the Bester episode)

[Galileo_Galilee]

I doubt it's worth sixty dollars. I think it's that high because they don't make the book any more.

When i first got mine I paid 25$ for it.

But yeah, they're a fairly detailed synopses.

[DigiFluid]

I imagine the two volumes of Crusade: Other Voices would be even better. From the description, it looks like they have entire scripts.