Story: The Path of Sorrows
Written By: J. Michael Straczynski
Season: Crusade
The crew is investigating some ancient ruins, which seems pointless in the mission of finding a cure for the plague…especially considering how they now know it is a nanotech virus..but we must again remember how the episode order is completely screwed up so maybe they don’t know yet. Fucking dumb show.
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Anyhow…in these ruins they find an alien in a jar, and they decide to take him aboard the ship. Once there, a few go to him, and this alien essentially causes flashbacks of painful memories, which is convenient for finally giving us background on our characters. As hinted in some previous episodes, Gideon was left floating in space at some point, now we know that he was out checking some troubles on his ship, and they were attacked and destroyed by a Shadow ship, apparently long before the Shadow War actually began. He also won the Apocalypse Box in a poker game. It is still mysterious and I’m sure it won’t be resolved before the show was cancelled.
Matheson (the telepath second in command I’ve barely mentioned because he barely had a role in any episode up to this point) goes and we learn a bit about his background, and get a taste of what happened in the Telepath War, which was foreshadowed at the end of Babylon 5 and seems to have taken place before the start of Crusade.
The last is Galen who we learn had a love of his life who died, and it really pisses him off. I think I should feel some genuine emotion for this one, but I didn’t. Probably because it feels like a shoehorned in backstory, whereas there is a little bit more meat to the Gideon and Matheson flashbacks. Gideon’s had been set up a little bit more, and Matheson’s gave some explanation on something set up in B5. Galen has been in a couple episodes and I have little interest in his backstory, especially when it boils down to “my girlfriend died so now I don’t believe in any higher power.”
It is a decent character episode, which the series seriously needed, but with three episodes left, it is essentially too little too late.
NEXT TIME: Earth Refugees
Written By: J. Michael Straczynski
Season: Crusade
The crew is investigating some ancient ruins, which seems pointless in the mission of finding a cure for the plague…especially considering how they now know it is a nanotech virus..but we must again remember how the episode order is completely screwed up so maybe they don’t know yet. Fucking dumb show.
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Matheson (the telepath second in command I’ve barely mentioned because he barely had a role in any episode up to this point) goes and we learn a bit about his background, and get a taste of what happened in the Telepath War, which was foreshadowed at the end of Babylon 5 and seems to have taken place before the start of Crusade.
The last is Galen who we learn had a love of his life who died, and it really pisses him off. I think I should feel some genuine emotion for this one, but I didn’t. Probably because it feels like a shoehorned in backstory, whereas there is a little bit more meat to the Gideon and Matheson flashbacks. Gideon’s had been set up a little bit more, and Matheson’s gave some explanation on something set up in B5. Galen has been in a couple episodes and I have little interest in his backstory, especially when it boils down to “my girlfriend died so now I don’t believe in any higher power.”
It is a decent character episode, which the series seriously needed, but with three episodes left, it is essentially too little too late.
NEXT TIME: Earth Refugees
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