Crusade: The Complete Series
	Release Date: 2004-12-07
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Review by: Nelson Templar, Frederick, MD USA
Rating:
Good Show but Episodes are out of Order.
This is a good successor to the Greatness of Babylon 5, but the order of the episodes can confuse you, since they were aired out of their proper sequence. Sadly TNT lists the episodes in the order that they originally aired not in their proper chronological order. Here is the way it should be if you want to watch it the way it was supposed to be seen. <br /> <br /> 1. War Zone <br /> 2. The Long Road <br /> 3. Ruling From the Tomb <br /> 4. Appearances and Other Deceits <br /> 5. The Memory of War <br /> 6. The Needs of Earth <br /> 7. Racing the Night <br /> 8. Visitors From Down the Street <br /> 9. Each Night I Dream of Home <br /> 10. The Path of Sorrows <br /> 11. Patterns of the Soul <br /> 12. The Well of Forever <br /> 13. The Rules of the Game <br /> <br />I hope this helps you in your further enjoyment of this series. <br /> <br />Sadly due to the network executives at TNT who wanted to take control of from JMS, the series was canceled. It just goes to show that TV shows should remain in the hands of people who know what they are doing, their creators, and NOT network execs who only make shows just to make more money.

Review by: R. L. Frank
Rating:
A sorry sequel.
I loved Babylon 5. I was hoping Crusade would be of the same caliber. I'm sorry it wasn't. Right out of the gate, it was hampered by its very concept...a five-year mission. Where have I heard that before? They were racing from one part of the galaxy to another in a race to find the means to save Earth. That automatically meant that for all five years, except the last 3 or 4 episodes, they would fail. While some episodes were interesting, you knew each week, they would come up empty. <br /> <br />Now, let's talk about the music score. I have never had to endure such a barrage of atonal plonking in my entire life. <br /> <br />I won't talk about the acting. Almost every new show has a period where the actors have not quite gotten into their characters, and Crusade was no exception. <br /> <br />I think JMS laid an egg with Crusade. <br /> <br />Still, if you can find it cheap, there are enough episodes that are decent, to nake it worthwhile for a B5 fanatic.

Review by: setzco
Rating:
Another good show cut before it could complete
I really like this show it is unfortunate it dead ended before it could complete its story line it would have been nice if they could have closed the story line out or done a move to close it like they did with firefly.

Review by: D. L. Wallace, Lebanon, Ohio United States
Rating:
A bit talky but a must for the dedicated B5 fan
Everyone who knows B5 lore already knows the story of the "Crusade" series so I'll skip the angsty polemic. <br /> <br />When Crusade aired in the summer of 1999 on TNT, I was hungry for the B5 story to continue... in pretty much any form. At the time I was uncritically admiring of the show. It was a stillborn scrap and I'd take it. <br /> <br />Since that time 11 years ago, so bloody much Sci-Fi on TV has aired that owes its look, feel and scripting style to the little universe that JMS created for Babylon-5. Much of the Stargate franchise, for example, feels like a B5 imitation with the dark sets and the multi year story arcs. <br /> <br />Crusade also had that strong feeling of a story that could and should be continued. Instead, we now have to be satisfied with an incomplete run of one season of a story that could have been. Other SF shows with strong promise have been cut off at the knees after one season: Firefly, and more recently, ABC's "Life on Mars", "Defying Gravity", and "Flash Forward". <br /> <br />So, Crusade, forgive me, but it has been 11 years since we last parted ways. I WANT to learn and understand and really feel for your characters. But being shafted out of your promise of a majestic story, as well as several other series' aborted liftoffs in the last decade, makes me skeptical of investing the emotional energy again. It's a merry go round. So, not this time. <br /> <br />The acting is very good to excellent... the scripts are not terribly tight - there is too much talk for my taste and verges on the tedious at times. The characters are generally sympathetic but a few like "Trace" come off as half-baked and awkward. There is the doctrinaire "violent extremist religion is bad, m'kay?" episode, which aired two years before 9/11 happened. The entire show has very non literalistic, metaphoric elements like a recurring "mystical search for truth" schtick that (IMO) compromise the action. <br /> <br />And you get to see a pre-Lumbergh Gary Cole sans red stapler wielding office nerds. He starred in "Office Space" immediately after this series was made, and the show's trivia states that he wore the prop Earthforce Academy ring while filming "Office Space." <br /> <br />But, it's a different flavor of B5. And if you love B5, you really should own it. <br /> <br />The DVD is spartan and dead to the extreme. Each disk lands you in a very static home page screen with no music or animation.

Review by: M. Ford, Brooklyn, NY, US
Rating:
Great Series
This was a great series but it was not complete, they never finished it. I enjoyed it but was disapointed it did not have an ending, it would have been nice to see the earth saved?