There are a few shows I’ve finished watching that were cancelled (Lie to Me, The Unit, OT, Army Wives) in which they have subplots that remain unresolved leaving those parts a cliffhanger never having a conclusion, even if they tried their best to provide closure that doesn’t come off as being rushed. For parts left unresolved, the only thing one can do is create fanfiction on assuming how it’ll end if the show itself is cancelled never to be rebooted.
The problem with Babylon 5 is they shouldn’t have made that spin off series.
Babylon 5 was always supposed to be 5 seasons. that’s it. no more. But for whatever reason TNT were like “ok, lets do a spin-off post B5” which just wasn’t that great to begin with. B5 itself wrapped up nicely IMHO. Crusade was…yeah I’m sorry but I don’t think it needed to happen. They could have dealt with the Drakh stuff in another movie. Plus there was conflicts with that show before it even got off the ground. TNT wanted a show with more “sex and violence” while JMS didn’t. TNT also wasn’t thrilled with actually making it since they said people who watched B5 didn’t watch anything else on TNT and people who watched TNT on the regular didn’t watch B5.
there was a spinoff???
yeah, Crusade.
So at the end of Babylon 5 there’s a race that was allied with the Shadows called the Drakh. they used the last Shadow planet killer ship to attack earth which was defended by the ISA and two new ships that were joint Earth and Minbari projects (think really big White Stars) called Excalibur and Victory. they all defend the Earth but lose the Victory in the process. before the Drakh are defeated they release a virus into Earth’s atmosphere that will activate and kill everything after 5 years. So the whole main plot for Crusade was to take the last Earth/Minbari ship, the Excalibur, and go out into the universe to find a cure within 5 years (JMS really likes his 5 year storylines). there’s some side plots too like the psychic civil war on earth between Psi-Corp and random telepaths, Mars getting it’s indipendence, and random other races finding Shadow tech.
It only lasted 13 episodes before getting cancelled and IMHO wasn’t anywhere near as good as Babylon 5.
huh. you know I played the pen N paper rpg with a few folks and there is a lot on psi that I did not recognize and now im thinking it was from that show.
On of the main characters was a technomage, so we got lots more lore about them in the show.