Hello and welcome to Who Are You? We're the Babylon 5 watch cast by a couple of former strangers who are now friends and still getting to know each other over one of their favorite shows from their childhood, Babylon 5. I'm Laura.
And I'm Ja'far.
And today I think we have a quiz.
We got a little quizzy do.
Yay. I'm so excited. All right. About a show I've only seen four episodes of.
Yeah, this is a Crusade specific quiz. And I haven't read all of the questions, but my screen has up through number three and it's about an episode we haven't watched. So I'm not expecting us to do particularly well. The average score is 13 out of 20.
That sounds tough, too. Or maybe it's a show problem.
this quiz was last updated December, 2021.
Who was
way too recently.
Well, you know, maybe that was somebody's pandemic thing. Like, maybe they got into Babylon 5 and hit Crusade real hard, and then they had to go update some shit.
Yeah. okay. I got, I'm going to read some questions here. This first one I already know the answer for because I did all the planning. So it's how many episodes of crusade were filmed and aired.
Filmed and aired. They're not the same number, right?
You're correct. But the number of aired episodes was only five in America. I'm assuming that this was done by someone not in America.
Oh, okay.
In which case the number of filmed episodes was 13, which is
Yeah, I was gonna say it's 13, but only 5 aired. Okay.
Yeah, our options are 11, 16, 13, and 8. So, we're gonna go
We got this. We got that one.
The first five episodes filmed were the last five aired. Now, this is in not production not DVD order, right?
huh.
And the answer to this is yes.
was just a yes or no question?
a yeah, it's a true or false, um, and I'm pretty sure it's a yes because I remember there being lots of complaints about the show's quality dipping after it aired and the first five episodes produced being the strongest. And one of the advantages of the watch order we've chosen is it breaks up those episodes.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I could see that. Knowing,
Racing the Night. Galen quotes a phrase from the Bible and Gideon identifies this book this quote comes from. What book is it? Solomon? Job? Judges? Or Song of Songs? I'm not a Bible person. Is Song of Songs a book of the Bible?
I'm not sure. I know there's the Song of Solomon,
Yeah.
heard.
There's Psalms. I know that's a book of the Bible, but that's not, that's with a P. That's not what this is.
yeah, but Psalms are songs, like, yeah Song of Songs. I'm just going to pop that in the old Google. Yeah, no, that's, that's a book in the Bible, apparently.
a book of the Bible? Okay.
Yeah, I really wish I knew context about the episode, because I feel like there's, like, Job is referred to often, so, and there's like the struggles of Job and whatever, so I, I don't know, I'm just going to go with that one.
I will take your word for it.
I have no context of what the episode's about, so I can't really go any closer, but I, people love to talk about the Book of Job, so, why not?
yeah. Alright, what is the name of the ship in Crusade? Is it
Oh, there's the Excalibur!
it's the Excalibur, yeah. But our options are Crusader, Antares, or the Rotaran. The Rataran being a Klingon bird of prey, if memory serves.
Yes, yes. I forget which series it's from, but yeah.
Which Babylon 5 TV movie provided the backstory for Crusade?
Call to Arms, we've been through that, yeah.
Okay. In the episode, The Well of Forever, which is not one we've watched, Galen says a eulogy for his dead beloved. Part of what he says is a quote from a Shakespeare play. Which one? Our options are Romeo and Juliet, Sembeline, Hamlet, or Othello.
Can't be Hamlet, right?
That would be a weird choice for,
would be weird, too.
well, so it is a eulogy though.
Okay,
So, I mean, I could see a little, is the last poor Yorick, is that Hamlet or Macbeth?
hamlet.
Okay, yeah, so that's the one about death being is death an endless slumber to, or is it dream and heaven and stuff? Like, there's stuff in there that I could see in that monologue that you might, if you're, if you're Galen, you might work into a eulogy.
I really want it to be that, and I want it to be that speech, but I want it to be him talking about, I'm assuming a beloved woman, some sort of beloved, and him just saying, Alas, poor so and so, I knew you well.
Do we just want to say Hamlet
Yeah, let's go with Hamlet, why not?
Okay, well, speaking of that person, what is the name of the person Galen is mourning? Isabelle? Susanna? Ernesta or Morgan?
I really want it to be Ernesta. I don't think it is though. Mm,
I'm disappointed.
mm hmm. You think the beloved is a techno mage?
Oh, it's Galen. It has to be.
Mm, okay. I mean his parents were, so I could see that. I think, I'm feeling Susanna for some reason. I don't know why.
You thinkin that uh, Dark Tower? Maybe.
I don't know.
Alright. What crusade regular was 5? We talked about this the other day. They haven't shown up yet, but it's Lockley. He's in the main credits.
Give me some more Lockley.
what is unique about Lieutenant John Matheson?
Telepath.
Yeah.
Cheekbones.
Cheekbones. The other options are Technomage, Blind, or all of the above.
Yeah, a blind techno mage telepath. I love it. Yes, give me that guy.
Which actor had his father play a major guest character in one of the episodes?
Oh, was it
We just talked about this on the Discord. Yeah. Galen's actor Peter Woodward is one of the options. The others are David Alan Brooks, Daniel A. Kim, and Marjean Holden.
Yeah, we didn't clock it in that episode where he
We didn't, but the Discord saved us on this quiz.
Yeah, thanks Discord.
Thank you! How many years does the crew have to find a cure to the drach plague?
Five, right?
Mm hmm.
They have a five year mission.
Um, which character has a sister trapped on Earth? Hmm.
Sarah Chambers.
Correct. Our doctor. whose ex wife do we meet in the course of the series?
Probably Sheridan's.
Right? Well, I
technically,
Yeah, he's not on the list though. We've got Galen, Captain Gideon, Lieutenant Matheson, or Max Eilerson.
feel like Max Iverson has got to have an ex wife.
A string of ex wives that, in that guy, you can tell he's the type.
Yeah. Yeah. Gideon might too, but Max Eilerson, I don't know that any one woman could put up with that for her whole life. Jesus Christ.
Speaking of Max Eilerson, what is his specialty?
Linguistics. Yeah.
Yes, that is one of the options. Cooking, painting, and navigation were the other choices.
mean, he could be good at cooking and painting. We just don't know at this point.
We got 5 questions left, we're on 15. Well, I guess 6 questions left then. When Galen visits Darina in her quarters, he asks her why she has made everything so small. What is her reaction? 1. She attacks him. 2. She laughs. 3. She tells him to leave her quarters and never return. Or 4. She's made everything the right size. She tells him she's made everything the right size.
I mean it should definitely be number three. This man should turn around and go away and never come back. But I feel like maybe it's number four? I don't know, this is a weird question.
It is. What sci fi series is the episode Visitors from Down the Street a spoof of? Is it Star Trek, Babylon 5, Lost in Space, or The X Files?
I feel like it's gotta be like X Files or something, right? Like,
That seems right.
this is a very X Files y kind of show. Like, we're a lot more mysterious.
Yeah. Um, How did Gideon come to be in possession of the Apocalypse Box?
Okay, we need to talk about the Apocalypse Box, but that is the end of this episode, my guy. We have to save it.
Yeah. I didn't know that's what it was called, but here
I think that's what it is, yeah.
It has to be it. Uh, Did he win it in a game of poker? Was it given to him by his father? Did he steal it, or did he find it on a deserted planet?
It's probably a deserted planet, like, we're going to a lot of those for some reason, yeah.
Yep. Which Babylon 5 character appeared in the episode, Each Night I Dream of Home? Was it Garibaldi, Delenn, Veer, or none of these?
I mean, it could be Lockley.
I, I think it's none of these. Because I, well, um, I'm pretty sure we know, Call to Arms is the last thing Jerry Doyle did in Babylon 5. I remember that being a thing.
Okay.
I don't remember D'Len or Veer showing up in Crusade. I know Veer
Has directed.
but I don't think he shows up in episode I don't recall D'Len showing up either.
Okay, so let's just say none.
I think that might be the episode that Franklin is in. But
okay.
I'm not certain.
Alright, go with none.
we're
You've convinced me.
Complete the quote. There's always hope. It's the one thing and then our options. You can rely on nobody's figured out how to kill yet. I truly believe in or that all races, alien, and human have in common.
It's either that one, or the one thing we haven't killed yet.
I
it to be that one.
I like it that one, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
And uh, what was the name of the last script completed for the show, but never filmed?
Oh, we have that, right? Thank you.
We have this. Appearances and Other Deceits, uh, which is a filmed episode. End of the line. Tacking into the wind. Or the changing face of evil.
Well, you're the one who has it, so you tell me.
I don't remember.
Oh no, crap!
Um, I, end of the line seems appropriate. It's probably not, but we'll, I'm gonna hit submit. Are we good with these answers?
I'm great with all these answers. Let's find out how we did.
Okay. Oh, we did good.
Yeah? Yeah, better than average?
We got 16 out of 20. 13 is the average score.
Oh
so the ones we got wrong do you want to know? Because they're spoilies.
that's fine.
The Shakespeare quote comes from Cymbeline.
Okay. Sure.
Care no more to clothe and eat, to thee the reed is as the oak, the scepter learning psychic must, I'll follow this and come to dust. All lovers young, all lovers must, consign to thee and come to dust.
Okay.
Uh, And that was for Isabelle, not Susanna.
Damn. Okay.
Um, and then, how many years does the crew have to find a cure for the Drak Plague? Four.
What?
we s The Drak Plague takes five years but they only have four years to find the cure.
Oh, cause you gotta like, manufacture it, I guess.
Apparently, after that, Gideon promised the alien government's Excalibur will return to Earth in order to enforce the quarantine. And it quotes an episode that hasn't happened yet. So, I don't feel bad about getting that one wrong.
Yeah, no, me neither.
And then finally, how did Gideon come into possession of the apocalypse box?
Oh, do tell.
We got it wrong. I don't Um, I don't know that I'm going to tell you. It,
though. Okay, listener. The apocalypse box. Did you watch the episode, listener? Because the, the highlight of this whole episode for me was at the end, when Gideon sits in his quarters and talks to his magic box. But I think that the episode where he gets the magic box was never filmed, is what Eryn said. It
no, it's, it's episode four, the path of sorrows,
Oh, okay, okay.
we will be watching as our second episode back after the movie break.
Okay.
So we won't find out for until Oh God, that episode airs September 11th. But. That's when we'll find out where the apocalypse box comes from. Oh, no,
Oh, I can't wait to see how
frame it in these very specific criteria, it feels very bad.
so excited. We get
Well, we've got a lot of crusade to talk about before we get there. So, why don't we get started on that? We've got our fourth episode of coverage, the tenth episode in DVD air order, the memory of war.
a great in media media open. More
I love it in media media.
It's one of my favorites. We get the ISN news lady we've seen before. She's talking about we've got economic collapse due to this pandemic. That checks out. That seems legit. Orbital transport has been banned. We talk about Pope Bernadette II, which I feel is a very optimistic view of how things are going to go for the Catholic Church. And Dr. Franklin is appearing before the Senate to, to presumably talk about the pandemic and stuff.
The crew has found a planet that looks like it got plagued.
Hmm.
But, Before they can start to investigate, Galen shows up to warn them off. That they're all going to die, probably.
Where's Galen been? Cause I didn't realize he was gone, but you know, these episodes are not in like
Yeah, he comes and goes. Uh, He, he boards the ship in a sequence that I can only describe as Zoolander esque.
yes, there is a little Zoolander energy about this man.
Yeah.
I like it.
They, the senior staff meets to discuss this planet as Galen is dramatically walking in, in what has to be the smallest boardroom in history. Like. They have infinite basketball courts, but not a meeting room that has a seat for Galen.
Yeah. Well, you've got to have your priorities. Like basketball courts, very important. Meetings, not important. Could have been an email. Yeah.
You know, that's so optimistic. I really appreciate that, actually.
Yeah. They make it sound like they have been looking for this planet specifically, like something in a previous episode. was leading us here. But Galen is not happy with it. He doesn't think anyone will survive if they go down.
But it doesn't matter, because the uh, the crew's going anyways. They're excited to learn what they can. I mean, they take this from a very, like, measured approach. Like, well, We can learn what didn't work. That might be helpful both in managing, like, the population and the crisis on Earth, and then also, like, the plague itself. Like, there's more to learn than just, possibly, like, a potential lead on the cure. Yeah.
we come back from Thiem. They're talking about how this planet was wiped out by the same virus. Mm hmm. Or appears to have been wiped out
A similar virus, some, some type of similar virus, yeah.
Mm hmm, yeah. Galen is being very sassy. And so we're still in new uniform territory in this episode. And I know I gave them a lot of shade in the last episode. Maybe they look better now. I'm It's growing on me. I'm okay with it.
Yeah. So, I think because it's episode eight in air order that got the new uniform. So, anything after that is gonna be the new uniform. So, we're gonna be in new uniform land for a while and then with our watch order, we go back to old uniforms towards the back end.
Yeah. I knew it was going to be weird, but I'm like, okay, it's growing on me. I like it better. Gary Cole's doing his best to fill that thing.
Yeah. Yeah, it doesn't feel as Galaxy Quest when it's actually being worn by everyone. And also, his is a little different because he's got that, like, captain motif. It's a little different, so.
Everybody's gotta, like, have a little extra pizzazz on the captain, right?
If you're the captain of a starship and you don't have an action jacket, are you even the captain of the starship?
Great question. Yeah. So Max Eilerson is all enraptured by the idea of all this new alien technology that might be down there.
hmm.
But Galen is still being very weird and says all the Technomages know this place is bad and diseased. Ooh, haunted maybe, you
Yeah, ooh, this place sucks. Don't go. Why are we doing this? This is dumb.
Yeah, he says the last Technomage who tried to go to this place died.
But fuck it, the crew are going anyways. And uh, They will uh, Try To, at the very least, learn something here.
Eylerson is an idiot, though. His logic. As he preps his whole team to go down, is stupid and bad.
Yeah. This is just the dichotomy here, of like, Eilerson's all like, I'm bringing y'all with me so they have to rescue me, and Gideon being all like, here's what happens if I go down, here's the plans. You're captain.
Yeah, Eilerson sucks.
Yes.
and he was all mopey in the last episode about getting somebody killed, you know? And he's like, nah, you two peons are coming with me. Nevermind the danger, like, and he gets the one of them killed in this episode, doesn't he? One or both.
Mm hmm.
God, he sucks.
He is the worst. Before they head down, Galen shows up in Gideon's quarters to try and guilt him into not going because he'll miss them and making new friends sucks.
No, but that's real.
So real. I feel, I felt, so felt.
It's so hard. Oh, man. Yeah, but, yeah.
Uh, He shares the uh, The last words. Genius Loki, the spirit of the place. As Gideon and crew grab some mobile infantry and head on down to the planet.
Galen disappears in his, like, traditional Technomage mysterious way, and we have, like, some space wind, and I really, really missed, at this moment, the lens
Uh,
I needed those, so we could have some, some tinkling of the, the wind chimes as he space winds away. Mmm.
they launched all these probes early in the episode and when they get down to the surface they found that they're charcoal now for some reason. It is never explained.
Yeah. And no one is worried that the virus could still be active here in some way. Like, I guess maybe the probes told us that. I don't know.
Darina explores and finds a cool light bridge that leads to the most inconveniently placed data crystal in history.
Yeah, what is going on here? Like, why is this there? Or are they all Is everything just in the blockchain? And you just, like, take one piece and you've got it all? I don't know.
That is not, you know what? Fuck it, that's how blockchain works, nevermind. Nevermind.
I just want it to be okay. It's the cloud blockchain, but yeah, it's like on the side of a building.
Those words don't go together like that. I
The look on his face as he like dies, as I say, just dumb words and put them together.
had to deal with cloud strike yesterday.
I'm sorry. I should have been more sensitive to year. experiences.
okay. It all turned out okay. It wasn't that bad for
Yeah, yeah. But like, why, why do we put this data crystal on the side of a building that is like way up in the air? Just so we can have this little light bridge, like, oh god, it's gonna come up, it's gonna stop.
You know what? Actually, in my notes, I questioned this a ton, but literally after yesterday, why do we push an update at 1am that breaks any computer that's running in the world? I'm not gonna ask these questions anymore. Maybe this is a safe place to hide something. It's out of the range of the Wi Fi, so Windows Update can't break it.
And then, What turns out to be on it later, I think, is even more like, why is this on the side of a building?
Oh, it makes no sense whatsoever.
yeah, it's just the worst. Oh, did you catch that the Starship Troopers helmets are back?
I did. The guards maybe see something while Max decodes the crystal.
Eilerson gives her shit about bringing back just
heh.
uh, she definitely would like to push him off a bridge here. And I'm all for that. Go ahead,
Yeah, just put him on the bridge. Also, why does the bridge stop working when she pulls the data crystal? Also, why does the bridge retract instead of just failing?
Instead of just,
It's made of light. That doesn't make any, ugh. Oh
worse the more you think about it.
no.
Then we see a security guy gets got while patrolling the perimeter.
Um, it's okay. I have to, this guy gets got and we cut back and forth with Max Eilerson, right? At this point, Beth walked in the room,
Uh
Looked at the screen, and goes, why is Michael Bolton listening to alien Edgar Allen Poe?
He does have a big Michael Bolton vibe,
And done.
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Yeah, I like it.
God, you can tell it's like 11 o'clock at night. Okay.
late.
your fault. Heh
Yeah, so Eylerson is decoding the last message of one of the planet's inhabitants that was on the side of this building for some reason. I just want to stress that so hard. Stress
It's just this alien's live journal entry just hanging out on the side of a building that is only accessible by a retracting light bridge. Also, if the only way for this thing to be there is when the crystal is on the other side, how did they put it there? Heh heh.
So
There was no ledge over there for them to stand on to put it in in the first place. Heh heh.
Why would, why isn't it in your room? Were you worried about somebody finding your last will and testament when everyone on your planet is dead? Like, can't let anybody see my, my, my space from, you know, 2004. so as he's doing this, one of his linguists also gets God to commercial. So way to go. I listen.
Yeah, it starts with the screaming, and the dying. Uh, They send bodies up for autopsy uh, which the doctor performs while talking to Galen, and the doctor knows that they have all died, very differently. Uh, Galen taps into the probes uh, while Dr. Chambers actually solves the fucking riddle. It's a nanovirus that is impacting other people and making them kill the less infected ones.
Yeah, so not the Drak Plague.
yeah. And while they're looking at the nanovirus, Galen sees a sigil.
Hmm.
Letting him know the origins of this thing. But yeah, Dr. Chambers goes on. It's the least infected who are dying and the more infected are killing them. deduces the attacks come at night because the solar interference during the day prevents them.
Oh yeah, the nanobots can't function with the sunlight, basically.
because it's a multi star system, and there's a bunch of electromagnetic interference that fucks with them. Um,
analog? Maybe werewolves.
Space, I was going to say Space Vampires, because they can come out any night. Werewolves only come out specific
Oh, true, true. I wasn't thinking of vampires as like causing wanton destruction though. So we've really just like merged the two. Yeah. Okay. Cool.
he deduces that there must be a control center broadcasting the commands.
Yeah. Away from the sun and any solar interference.
So he uh, heads down to the surface to find this thing, uh, and he does not let Gideon come with him when he goes to find it.
Smart move. If Gideon is infected and goes down into the, away from the sun, he would be a problem, right?
Exactly. It makes sense, which is why when Gideon immediately takes care of the people back at camp and then goes anyways, it's like, bro, you are the problem. You are the wild card here.
Yep.
Ugh. Galen finds the Technomage AI that's doing all of the killing, and this thing is just set on being a fucking menace.
Yeah. There's a lot of Technomage shade going around. I love it.
Yeah. This Technomage AI is the guy who dressed up as Keith Ledger's Joker for six Halloweens in a
Uh huh. Yeah. Yeah.
He's just not someone you want to associate with.
Yeah. No. No good. Eylorson back, we're like cutting back and forth between the Technomages and what's happening with Eylorson. barricaded himself in a room, and now he's got the zombies pounding at the door. So, the consequences of your own actions coming at you.
Right? Doreena, who's been gone for like 40 minutes, finally shows back up to kill Galen. But uh, Gideon is like, actually completely useless here. Mm
of completely useless, Eilerson gets the classic, here's Johnny, from his other linguist guy. Breaking down his door at the same time.
Yep. Galen saves the day by sacrificing his staff to kill the AI. Okay.
at this point, do we? No.
I want to bitch about this.
Because he seems very attached to this thing, but we don't know a
We get a whole monologue about how this staff was a gift. It's a source of power as a Technomage. It's keyed into him, but it cancels out other Technomage stuff, and you needed a Technomage thing to break a Technomage thing. All this shit. It's so important. I sacrificed so much. And then Darina walks in with it 30 fucking seconds later. This is the opposite of Chekhov's gun.
Yeah,
Uh, I'm gonna go ahead and coin a literary term here. This is Abram's Droid. Thus named after the Rise of Skywalker.
Okay.
they set up A ton of characters for growth through sacrifice. C 3PO can like, read the Sith Artifact if they reset his memory. And he loses all of his adventures and all of his memories of all nine fucking movies, right? And they're like, it's this whole thing. They build you for this emotional moment. They do it. He reads the thing. And then R2, like five seconds later, just dies. plugs in and gives him his memories back,
Nah.
thus undoing all of the sacrifice that would have let these characters fucking grow. It never fucking mattered. It is a It, like, if Chekhov's gun is the plot device that you set up early to use later, Abram's droid is the plot device you build very quickly and then make completely fucking pointless within 30 seconds.
Yeah, yeah.
so much about how important Galen's staff is, after he just sacrifices it, only for him to immediately get it back. It is fucking worthless. It is a waste of dialogue.
Yeah, this is something that, and I was trying to give it the benefit of the doubt that like, okay, maybe since we're watching things out of order, like, maybe it's been set up earlier that like, Oh, the Technobage staff is super important. They didn't plant any seeds any earlier in the episode than this, for sure. And you would think that if this is the first place it's gonna come up, you would do it earlier in the episode, right? Uh, But we did not.
And I do like Darina getting to like, have the last word of like, I'm so much fucking better than you guys. Go away. Like.
There's no way anyone could possibly retrieve it. And she's just all like, here you go, fuck
Yeah. Yeah. Maybe there's no way any man could retrieve it, but she's not. did we, did we talk about how Gideon shot Darina? Like I guess Gideon wasn't so infected that the sunlight didn't totally
I mean, he could have been. He could have just been so infected that he shot Darina. That's how the virus works. Doesn't
point. I thought he did it because he was on Galen's side, but that's not necessarily true. Okay. Okay.
Yep. Very ambiguous, and doesn't matter.
Oh, we didn't talk about how when this machine fucking explodes. There is a giant fireball with the Tectomages face in it. Did you see that?
How absurd.
It's so absurd. It's like, what? Why? Were you trying to make me feel something here? Because the only thing I feel is laughter coming out of my belly because this is hysterical.
Yeah. so after all this wraps up, Dr. Chambers has taken the nanomachines and adapted it to allow it to protect someone from getting infected on earth for 48 hours.
Yeah, so we have like a little. Nanosuit we can put on and maybe go help people, maybe?
Yeah, you can go down there for two days and maybe do some experiments or see a loved one, but there's a very limited supply of it, so you should probably be very careful with how you use it. Dr. Chambers, totally not going to go visit your niece or something. Um,
You should have you should have been able to hear Ja'far's eyebrow when he said, see a loved one, because it was pretty loud. That's all I'm saying.
got a lot of forehead for them to go up on. Lots of, lots of space up there. Yeah, it's a bit much. It's cool though. Hey, it's cool. It's a
idea. Yeah. Maybe that can be made to work better somehow and longer. Cool.
Yeah.
Gideon comes by asking Galen if he's gonna stay on board. Oh, Galen has, like, little nanobots himself that are, like, repairing his moons.
Yeah.
So interesting.
That's very techno magey.
Yeah. But this is when he's, like, having his huge bum out about the staff being destroyed in the machine.
Yeah. We wrap this episode up with a scene with Gideon and Gideon. In his quarters. Talking to what I can only assume is the apocalypse box. A chest within a chest.
Yeah, it's like got a glowing thing in it, because of course.
Laura, I have to ask you. Wahapa her?
Well now you know and I don't. But this fucking magic box. I was like, up until this point, like, I was like, okay, this is an okay episode, I guess. And then at the magic box, I was like, what the fuck is this? What the fuck is this? He
What is going on?
magic box that is talking to him and glowing. And I was like, well, I'm sold. This, this is why we should reboot Crusade. Because I, this is so fun. But the magic box also doesn't trust Galen.
No, don't trust Galen, ooooh,
Yeah, why, why can't we trust Galen? I have to know.
ooooh, it's a mystery. Hahahaha
and he turns on his playlist as he's gonna like chill out and fly away somewhere else in space. And it is full out. Of tribal beats. This, this is the music they have chosen to end this episode on. Just like tribal drums.
You couldn't even get, like, Nine Inch Nails Ghosts. Like, you can tell me that that's all Technomages ever listened to was the Nine Inch Nails Ghosts albums. And I would 100 percent believe you. That makes perfect sense to me. It's like all that survived for them. It's all like, all their brains are interested in comprehending. Is, is just fucking instrumentals from Trent Reznor. It's all they want. But no, we get. Really weird tribal beats.
To theme. That's the end of this episode. So, Ja'far, I really want to know how you rate this episode.
We We said one out of four. Er, yeah, one out We have to pick a number of main guns ranging from one to four.
Mhm.
Implying that one is the floor. Heh. Um, look. I had fun making fun of this episode.
Mhm.
That does earn it some credit. From me. It is not a good episode, um, but it's absurd and every, every opportunity they had to do something that makes sense they chose not to. From the very start of the episode to the very end.
Mhm. Mhm.
And uh, Abram's droid, as I've coined it, has been a long standing pet peeve of mine. So I really don't want to give this, this, this anything, but if I do give this the two out of four main guns I'm going to. It is solely for the entertainment value of our conversation, and not for actually watching the episode.
That is the same logic that I am applying to this, but I'm giving it all four main guns firing because I had, I I, was fucking wheezing at the end at the magic box and the tribal drums. I could not stop laughing for like 20 minutes. I was like, I cannot wait to talk to you about this fucking magic box and these drums. And that is what I'm getting out of this show is like this stuff. is bonkers.
Some of it is, some of it is not entertainingly bonkers, but some, most of it so far is just hilarious to talk about.
yeah, it was, it's so funny, it's so absurd.
Last, the episode before that, cause we watched, Aaron and I watched these two right in a row. So we had Kevin and then we had the magic box and the tribal drums. And I was just like, this is fun. I love talking about this show with my friend. So it really got me. This episode got me good.
Okay. Well, let's hope we get something like that out of the next episode. We've got Crusade episode 11, The Needs of Earth. Ben, my uh, podcasting padre over on Last Time On uh, is gonna be joining us. And uh, the episode synopsis is succinct, even for Crusade.
Oh no.
Gideon conducts an illegal raid. To free a fugitive with information that could save Earth.
Well, we know Gideon doesn't play by anybody else's rules.
But he gets the job done.
gets the job done. He's like the bad boy of earth force science exploration.
Him in jail. Good old jail pipes always gets the job done. Oh, all right. Well, I'm looking forward to watching, I haven't watched that one yet, but uh, I'm looking forward to watching it and talking about it with you.
Yeah, it's going to be double the fun, because there will also be Ben, so Eight main guns firing, pew pew pew!
Well, let's hope so. But before we get to those main guns firing, we do have to, of course, thank a handful of people who have had an impact on the podcast that are not here to thank themselves.
To accept their thanks.
Good answer. Jeremy Siegel. Thank you so much for composing our theme music. We appreciate the hell out of it. You can find more of Jeremy's work at Jeremy Siegel 42 dot Bandcamp. com or on streaming services as Nuclear Jaguar where he just dropped some music. He's about to drop some music. I think he's about to drop some music. Maybe by the time this airs, it will have dropped.
Yeah. Yeah. You've got some time.
Yeah. Yeah, this is a couple weeks still.
Get it out, Jeremy. Okay. Okay.
to it.
And thank you to Angry Duck Time Machine on Instagram for our podcast artwork. Yeah.
this podcast and making it sound coherent. We really appreciate it.
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