Story: The Well of Forever
Written By: Fiona Avery
Season: Crusade
Galen asks for the Excalibur’s help in finding “The Well of Forever” a sort of mystical place hidden somewhere in hyperspace. He thinks he has found it with his ship, but his own ship couldn’t sustain itself in hyperspace the way Excalibur can. He claims it could provide info for the plague so they go for it. But when they get there it turns out it is actually a mausoleum for technomages and other wise beings. Galen wanted to go there to fulfill a promise, taking his dead girlfriend’s spirit or something there in a necklace.
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It is a decent episode, sad that the show’s best episodes are finally starting to shine through right before it is over. Though I must admit none of these are so brilliant or exciting that I really wish the show hadn’t been cancelled. Even in creative and well made episodes, something is lacking to get me too invested.
There is also a subplot about Lt. Matheson having to deal with some telepath watcher, making sure he hasn’t been reading others minds without permission. The watcher is, as you’d expect, actually just a prick who is not following the very rules he was meant to enforce. It feels like a tired Strazcynski plot point, even if he didn’t actually write the episode.
Decent premise, the Well of Forever is a neat idea and it actually looks neat (in this shows dated CGI effects), and while I would certainly call this one of the better episodes of Crusade, it still lacks that certain something that made me a fan of Babylon 5.
NEXT TIME: The Most Holy
Written By: Fiona Avery
Season: Crusade
Galen asks for the Excalibur’s help in finding “The Well of Forever” a sort of mystical place hidden somewhere in hyperspace. He thinks he has found it with his ship, but his own ship couldn’t sustain itself in hyperspace the way Excalibur can. He claims it could provide info for the plague so they go for it. But when they get there it turns out it is actually a mausoleum for technomages and other wise beings. Galen wanted to go there to fulfill a promise, taking his dead girlfriend’s spirit or something there in a necklace.
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There is also a subplot about Lt. Matheson having to deal with some telepath watcher, making sure he hasn’t been reading others minds without permission. The watcher is, as you’d expect, actually just a prick who is not following the very rules he was meant to enforce. It feels like a tired Strazcynski plot point, even if he didn’t actually write the episode.
Decent premise, the Well of Forever is a neat idea and it actually looks neat (in this shows dated CGI effects), and while I would certainly call this one of the better episodes of Crusade, it still lacks that certain something that made me a fan of Babylon 5.
NEXT TIME: The Most Holy
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