KoshN
Super Moderator
I got some new comments posted to the Crusade page at IMDb. There are a couple typos ("kept" ??? Argh!) and formatting errors (missing carriage return/line feeds), which I am going to try to get corrected.
http://amazon.imdb.com/CommentsShow?0149437
KoshNaranek
Ambridge, PA, USA
Date: 20 April 2003
Summary: Crusade - It Sure Seems To Improve With Time.
Compared to what passes for sci-fi on TV today, Crusade is a breath of fresh air, a reminder of the good old days when The Sci-Fi Channel actually tried to get sci-fi series.
I watched the first five episodes of Crusade again when it recently aired in Sci-Fi's Daytime Rotation (April 11th, 11AM-4PM):
1. "RACING THE NIGHT" 2. "THE NEEDS OF EARTH" 3. "THE MEMORY OF WAR" 4. "THE LONG ROAD" 5. "VISITORS FROM DOWN THE STREET" ...and it looks better every time I see it.
The rest of the episodes are scheduled to air as follows on The Sci-Fi Channel on May 1st, 11AM-4PM:
6. "THE WELL OF FOREVER" 7. "EACH NIGHT I DREAM OF HOME" 8. "PATTERNS OF THE SOUL" 9. "THE PATH OF SORROWS" 10. "RULING FROM THE TOMB" ...and May 27th, 11AM-4PM:
11. "THE RULES OF THE GAME" 12. "WAR ZONE" 13. "APPEARANCES AND OTHER DECEITS"...and starting over... 1. "RACING THE NIGHT" 2. "THE NEEDS OF EARTH."
Now if only they'd drop the "Scare Tactics" animated popup ads, which take up 43% of the screen height (a new record, and not something to be proud of)! There's nothing quite so gratifying as seeing a favorite show stepped on by a piece of garbage. :-( I hope a real sci-fi network steps up to the plate and re-starts this series, because there's precious little sci-fi on TV anymore. About all that's left (in production), that's respectable, is Stargate SG-1.
I'll leave you with some favorite Crusade quotes. Unlike a lot of shows today, Crusade actually *has* memorable dialogue.
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Galen: "What do you want?"
Gideon: "To find a cure to the Drakh plague, before it wipes out all life on Earth."
Galen: "Where are you going?"
Gideon: "Any where I have to."
Galen: "Who do you serve and who do you trust? ... (intensely) Who do you serve and who do you trust?!"
Gideon: "...I don't know."
Galen: "Then, I will go with you."
(The above dialogue means more after you've watched all the episodes and read the three unfilmed scripts, and so become more aware of Galen's mission.)
**********
Eilerson: "The story of my life. I finally find a city like this, intact, deserted for ten thousand years. Probably contains hundreds of patents that I could exploit and I'm going to die. I can appreciate dramatic irony as much as the next person, but this is pushing it a bit."
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Eilerson: "There is a number of things that I hate, Captain. I hate it when I pull up a piece of skin next to my nail and it catches every time I put it in my pocket and hurts like a son of gun. I hate it when I go to movies with kids in the audience, because there's always someone there that tells me I can't kill them when they get loud. Now who makes up these rules anyway? And most of all, I hate contradictions. This is a contradiction, ...a big one."
**********
Gideon: "I've already made that promise times three hundred."
Galen: "Have you kept it?"
Gideon: "No, not yet."
Galen: "Then when the time comes, I will help you kept yours, as you have helped me kept mine. Perhaps then we can both forgive ourselves our common crime." (keep. )
Gideon: "What crime?"
Galen: "Being alive."
**********
Gideon: Nothing much good on TV tonight anyway." (The Memory of War)
**********
Gideon: "It's easier not to want forgiveness, or to expect it. We just keep trying to fix the mistake so we don't have to ask. But you end up trying so hard to atone for one set of mistakes that you overcompensate and make new ones. And then you can never break out of the cycle. You just keep going around and around. No way out and no where to go."
**********
Eilerson: "They must have placed their whole culture in cryonic freeze, set the machines in place to conduct biological tests on anyone who came by. It makes sense. It's perfectly logical, reasonable, well, ...as these things go."
Gideon: "I wouldn't call the systematic murder of innocent civilians logical or reasonable."
...
Gideon (angry, to the alien): "You can't murder someone because it's a convenient form of testing!"
**********
Galen: "How you ever wondered why there are so many dead worlds out there? Let me tell you why. It's because despite the best advice of people who know what they are talking about, other people insist on doing the most massively stupid things. This is one of them."
**********
Kendarr: "The truth has never been anyone's best interests."
Durkani: "The truth is..."
Kendarr (cutting Durkani off): "...out...of fashion."
**********
Galen (to Matheson in the bullet car): "I think this is where I get off, metaphorically, metaphysically, and literally. But do go on riding. Go around enough times and with any luck, you might come to the same conclusions that I have."
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This would be a GREAT sci-fi series to RE-START. However, in it's place we'll probably get dozens of "Reality" TV shows that have little or nothing to do with sci-fi (like Crossing Over with John Edward, Dream Team, and Scare Tactics), and half-baked remakes of long-dead TV series that should stay dead.
It doesn't look good for sci-fi on TV. Enjoy Crusade (and Babylon 5) on TV while you can.
http://amazon.imdb.com/CommentsShow?0149437
KoshNaranek
Ambridge, PA, USA
Date: 20 April 2003
Summary: Crusade - It Sure Seems To Improve With Time.
Compared to what passes for sci-fi on TV today, Crusade is a breath of fresh air, a reminder of the good old days when The Sci-Fi Channel actually tried to get sci-fi series.
I watched the first five episodes of Crusade again when it recently aired in Sci-Fi's Daytime Rotation (April 11th, 11AM-4PM):
1. "RACING THE NIGHT" 2. "THE NEEDS OF EARTH" 3. "THE MEMORY OF WAR" 4. "THE LONG ROAD" 5. "VISITORS FROM DOWN THE STREET" ...and it looks better every time I see it.
The rest of the episodes are scheduled to air as follows on The Sci-Fi Channel on May 1st, 11AM-4PM:
6. "THE WELL OF FOREVER" 7. "EACH NIGHT I DREAM OF HOME" 8. "PATTERNS OF THE SOUL" 9. "THE PATH OF SORROWS" 10. "RULING FROM THE TOMB" ...and May 27th, 11AM-4PM:
11. "THE RULES OF THE GAME" 12. "WAR ZONE" 13. "APPEARANCES AND OTHER DECEITS"...and starting over... 1. "RACING THE NIGHT" 2. "THE NEEDS OF EARTH."
Now if only they'd drop the "Scare Tactics" animated popup ads, which take up 43% of the screen height (a new record, and not something to be proud of)! There's nothing quite so gratifying as seeing a favorite show stepped on by a piece of garbage. :-( I hope a real sci-fi network steps up to the plate and re-starts this series, because there's precious little sci-fi on TV anymore. About all that's left (in production), that's respectable, is Stargate SG-1.
I'll leave you with some favorite Crusade quotes. Unlike a lot of shows today, Crusade actually *has* memorable dialogue.
**********
Galen: "What do you want?"
Gideon: "To find a cure to the Drakh plague, before it wipes out all life on Earth."
Galen: "Where are you going?"
Gideon: "Any where I have to."
Galen: "Who do you serve and who do you trust? ... (intensely) Who do you serve and who do you trust?!"
Gideon: "...I don't know."
Galen: "Then, I will go with you."
(The above dialogue means more after you've watched all the episodes and read the three unfilmed scripts, and so become more aware of Galen's mission.)
**********
Eilerson: "The story of my life. I finally find a city like this, intact, deserted for ten thousand years. Probably contains hundreds of patents that I could exploit and I'm going to die. I can appreciate dramatic irony as much as the next person, but this is pushing it a bit."
**********
Eilerson: "There is a number of things that I hate, Captain. I hate it when I pull up a piece of skin next to my nail and it catches every time I put it in my pocket and hurts like a son of gun. I hate it when I go to movies with kids in the audience, because there's always someone there that tells me I can't kill them when they get loud. Now who makes up these rules anyway? And most of all, I hate contradictions. This is a contradiction, ...a big one."
**********
Gideon: "I've already made that promise times three hundred."
Galen: "Have you kept it?"
Gideon: "No, not yet."
Galen: "Then when the time comes, I will help you kept yours, as you have helped me kept mine. Perhaps then we can both forgive ourselves our common crime." (keep. )
Gideon: "What crime?"
Galen: "Being alive."
**********
Gideon: Nothing much good on TV tonight anyway." (The Memory of War)
**********
Gideon: "It's easier not to want forgiveness, or to expect it. We just keep trying to fix the mistake so we don't have to ask. But you end up trying so hard to atone for one set of mistakes that you overcompensate and make new ones. And then you can never break out of the cycle. You just keep going around and around. No way out and no where to go."
**********
Eilerson: "They must have placed their whole culture in cryonic freeze, set the machines in place to conduct biological tests on anyone who came by. It makes sense. It's perfectly logical, reasonable, well, ...as these things go."
Gideon: "I wouldn't call the systematic murder of innocent civilians logical or reasonable."
...
Gideon (angry, to the alien): "You can't murder someone because it's a convenient form of testing!"
**********
Galen: "How you ever wondered why there are so many dead worlds out there? Let me tell you why. It's because despite the best advice of people who know what they are talking about, other people insist on doing the most massively stupid things. This is one of them."
**********
Kendarr: "The truth has never been anyone's best interests."
Durkani: "The truth is..."
Kendarr (cutting Durkani off): "...out...of fashion."
**********
Galen (to Matheson in the bullet car): "I think this is where I get off, metaphorically, metaphysically, and literally. But do go on riding. Go around enough times and with any luck, you might come to the same conclusions that I have."
****************************************
This would be a GREAT sci-fi series to RE-START. However, in it's place we'll probably get dozens of "Reality" TV shows that have little or nothing to do with sci-fi (like Crossing Over with John Edward, Dream Team, and Scare Tactics), and half-baked remakes of long-dead TV series that should stay dead.
It doesn't look good for sci-fi on TV. Enjoy Crusade (and Babylon 5) on TV while you can.