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Does anyone remember the first season of Babylon 5? It was pretty appalling on the whole, but lifted by a couple of good performances, characters that clearly had somewhere to go and actors capable of taking them there in style - crucially, Peter Jurasik's Londo.
The first five episodes of Crusade are just as bad as the start of season 1 of B5, but without any characters to speak of. And the different writers don't appear to agree on much, so the opening episodes are decidedly fragmented. The redeeming features are good cgi work, a cut above B5's, interesting music - the change of composer looks like it's going to work out - and a good anchor of a central performance from Gary Cole, who is making an effort while most around him go through the motions or look uncomfortably miscast.
It would appear from some other reviews here that the show picks up. So did B5, so here's hoping. So far, it appears to be an effort to make a show that's more accessible on a week-by-week episode, which means no powerfully sustained tensions, no complex politics, no complex characters, no complex plots, no long words, no interesting thoughts. Not altogether surprising, but a pity all the same.
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Jeremy-93 5 September 1999
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