Recent content by JonLaidlow

Oh I know. But I hadn't been to this forum in an age (the recent good news brought me back), and this thread started as a request for more Crusade, so...

Some of the Crusade storyline is available in Jeanne Calvelos's series of B5 spin-off novels, the Techno-Mage trilogy. I believe it was based on an outline and/or notes from JMS. Its very good. I enjoyed it far more than I normally enjoy spin-off novels. J

I think the Angel finale suffered due to lack of budget - it was a great theme for the end of the series, but we knew it had just been thrown in because the network had pulled the plug. An apocalypse needs a budget. J

I just bought a UK copy of Season 5 from the www.choicesdirect.co.uk B5 sale (17.99). I can confirm that the psi-corps logo is present and correct in "The Corps is Mother..." and the "Fall of Centauri Prime" now has the correct opening, so Warners are shipping corrected discs now. J

Okay the big difference between Rangers and BSG is that by the time Sci-Fi were willing to do BSG they were willing to throw money at it. Rangers looks cheap and probably was cheap. Cheapness has always been B5's curse. Much as we love it it's hard not to wish budgets hadn't been bigger and...

I've been promising that I'll read these when they're finished ever since an unassuming proof copy of the first one turned up in the bookshop where I then worked and said "take me home". I did. I read half. I thought to myself - this is going to be so frustrating when I get to the end and I have...