{"id":323,"date":"2009-08-01T17:28:07","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T16:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/?p=323"},"modified":"2009-08-01T17:28:07","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T16:28:07","slug":"crusade-why-i-like-it-in-5-minutes-or-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"Crusade &#8211; Why I like it, in 5 minutes or less"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7232\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-323-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/musings\/StaggeringStoriesAudioMusing-AdamCrusadeHerdNurdle.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/musings\/StaggeringStoriesAudioMusing-AdamCrusadeHerdNurdle.mp3\">http:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/musings\/StaggeringStoriesAudioMusing-AdamCrusadeHerdNurdle.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/musings\/StaggeringStoriesAudioMusing-AdamCrusadeHerdNurdle.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"StaggeringStoriesAudioMusing-AdamCrusadeHerdNurdle.mp3\">Download<\/a> (2.2MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" title=\"Crusade: Captain Matthew Gideon, Dureena Nafeel and Galen\" id=\"image322\" alt=\"Crusade: Captain Matthew Gideon, Dureena Nafeel and Galen\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/crusade_crew.jpg\" \/>Welcome to the Staggering Stories Audio Musings.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m Adam Purcell, and I&#8217;ll be your host for this musing.<\/p>\n<p>This is my third and final, at least for this set, musing about Herd Nurdles &#8211; things I like that I often think I&#8217;m completely alone on.<\/p>\n<p>So I present to you my justification for liking the 1999 Babylon 5 spin-off series, Crusade&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Poor old Crusade, the Babylon 5 spin-off.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of Babylon 5.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m never sure if Babylon 5 or Doctor Who is my favourite TV series &#8211; there&#8217;s nothing between them.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m not going to pretend that Crusade is up there with B5 or Doctor Who but I really enjoyed it nonetheless, what there was of it, that is.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t last long, TNT (the cable TV station behind it) meddled terribly to the point of killing it.\u00c2\u00a0 Probably worse even than Firefly got from Fox.<\/p>\n<p>Basically for the first couple of seasons or so, it was to be about our heroic heroes venturing forth into the unknown to search for a cure to a nasty plague that was about to wipe out everyone on Earth.\u00c2\u00a0 Going in, we kind of of knew Earth would be safe &#8211; we&#8217;d seen the final B5 episode, Sleeping in Light, set some 10-15 after Crusade season one and Earth was fine then.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not the point, though.\u00c2\u00a0 The B5 universe is littered with history.\u00c2\u00a0 Wars between the First Ones raging over billions of years, younger races rising all falling throughout that time.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s all about the crew of the Excalibur searching the dead worlds left behind by these conflicts and getting into bother.<\/p>\n<p>No, it&#8217;s not even about that.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Who do you server and who do you trust.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s Galen, an apparently kindly Technomage who is manipulating Captain Gideon and his crew, for reasons we, sadly, never really discover.\u00c2\u00a0 You also have the wonderful &#8216;Apocalypse Box&#8217; an ancient alien- <em>something<\/em> that Gideon &#8216;won&#8217; in a card match.\u00c2\u00a0 It speaks to him, demands he keeps its existence secret.\u00c2\u00a0 It too is manipulating Gideon and it hates Galen (but Galen doesn&#8217;t know about it).\u00c2\u00a0 Clearly there was a showdown due to happen between Galen and the Apocalypse Box &#8211; who would Gideon serve or trust.\u00c2\u00a0 We never got to see it.<br \/>\nLike first season B5, there&#8217;s more going on here than meets the eye.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s fun to watch and speculate what is going on.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s some great characters &#8211; Gary Cole&#8217;s Gideon, David Allen Brooks&#8217;s amoral archaeologist Eilerson and I actually thought Peter Woodward&#8217;s Galen was great.\u00c2\u00a0 I did, really!<\/p>\n<p>Cut down before its prime &#8211; it&#8217;s worth a reevaluation.\u00c2\u00a0 I believe it is still available on DVD, probably for a very reasonable price if you look around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Staggering Stories Audio Musings.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m Adam Purcell, and I&#8217;ll be your host for this musing. This is my third and final, at least for this set, musing about Herd Nurdles &#8211; things I like that I often think I&#8217;m completely alone on. 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