The Babylon Podcast
By Tim Callender, Summer Brooks and Jeffrey Willerth
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Podcast Description
The Last, Best Hope for the Study and Analysis of Babylon 5
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Babylon Podcast #254: Tried and True (Crusade) | Deep Geeking: Tim and Summer discuss the unproduced Crusade script for "Tried and True", which can be found in the "Crusade: Other Voices, Vol 2" scriptbook. This would have been a remarkable Dureena performance, and comparisons can be drawn between this draft and what we saw in Season 4's "Intersections in Real Time", especially given the "one room play" stage-like setting in both stories. Also, folks preparing to review and discuss the comics and novels with us (or for us), get ready... your turn will be coming up soon! | 11/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #253: Captains Challenge | Welcome to Show #253! Deep Geeking: Tim throws out the challenge to Gary and Jeremy: compare and contrast your favorite Captains: Sheridan (Babylon 5), Gideon (Crusade), Reynolds (Firefly) and Kirk (Star Trek: TOS) | 11/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #252: Neilapalooza 2 | Welcome to Show #252! Lots and lots of feedback, speculation, and general random geeking... enjoy! Also, folks preparing to review and discuss the comics and novels with us (or for us), get ready... your turn will be coming up soon! | 10/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #251: Value Judgments (Crusade) | FYI: Bret is not Shatner. Deep Geeking: Tim, Summer and Bret discuss the unproduced Crusade episode "Value Judgments", written by Fiona Avery. This episode was very close to being shot, with contracts out to Walter Koenig to guest star, and Mike Vejar to direct. That it didn't get produced is our loss. | 9/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #250: To the Ends of the Earth (Crusade) | Welcome to Show #250! So, what happens when you have a milestone episode, and everyone forgets to notice? Well, you end up with Tim distracted by shiny toys, with Summer distracted by baseball, and Bret distracted by poking fun at Tim and Summer. Deep Geeking: This week, Tim, Summer and Bret discuss the unproduced Crusade script "To the Ends of the Earth". | 9/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #249: Neilapalooza | Feedback spill on aisle 5! | 9/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #248: Appearances and Other Deceits (Crusade) | Deep Geeking: Tim and Summer delve into discussion on "Appearances and Other Deceits", the final produced episode of Crusade. | 8/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #247: Opinionspalooza | Tim stumbled across the iFanboy website, and relays to us an article by Ron putting JMS at #10 on his list of "worst things in comics in 2010," and explains where he feels the JMS shortcomings fell. Maybe Tim should be upset about him also dropping the ball on the Lensman movie. | 8/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitBabylon Podcast #246: Interview with Tucker Smallwood | Tim and Summer enjoy a chat with renowned character actor Tucker Smallwood, who played Mr David Endawi in the S3 episode "Matters of Honor", and Commodore Glen Van Ross in Space: Above and Beyond. Tucker talks about war as used in science fiction and his being a fan of science fiction literature growing up, and how his experience as an infantry commander in Vietnam informed his work and contributions to Space: Above and Beyond. He also talks about studying acting after being severely wounded, about struggling with and working through PTSD years after the fact, and more. | 7/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #245: Twitterpalooza | We celebrate the new Babylon Park website, as well as the expanded materials available there, and you can follow them on Twitter, @babylonpark. Shiny. Bret strongly recommends following @patriciatallman, merely for the hilarious entertainment value, Tim reads us a status update on various JMS writing projects. | 7/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #244: War Zone (Crusade) | Walter Koenig at last has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame! It's about damned time. Deep Geeking: Tim, Bret and Summer discuss "War Zone", demonstrating amazing feats of recall considering that Summer watched the wrong damned episode this week. | 7/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoBabylon Podcast SE #8: Jeffrey Willerth Remembers Jeff Conaway | For those who hadn't seen Jeffrey's heartfelt remembrance of Jeff Conaway, here's the full video. I don't think there are many others who could have said it any better. | 7/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #243: Questions and Answers | Jeffrey shares with us a message about what it meant to him to have had Jeff Conaway in his life for a time. Listener Feedback: Strangely, Tim adored Neil Gaiman's Doctor Who episode, "The Doctor's Wife"... to be expected? | 7/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #242: Rules of the Game (Crusade) | Deep Geeking: Tim and Summer get Marjean's thoughts on "Rules of the Game", particularly the development of the relationship between Dr Chambers and Max Eilerson, discovering what and who Max cares about, and of course, Dr Chambers' impeccable fashion sense and combat timing. And yes, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Once her new project, Three Moon Rising, is ready, we'll be talking with her again about it over at Slice of SciFi! | 6/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #241: Interview with Peter and Kathleen David | Tim, Summer and Bret chat with Peter David and Kathleen David, with Peter telling us about how he got into writing episodes for the show, how he needed to divert from "writing for Star Trek" in order to get the Babylon 5 feel correct in the episodes and the novels, finding character voices, and more. Kathleen talks a little about logistics behind getting the Del Rey B5 novels published, from author selection to publishing schedule and more. And there's stuff people STILL can't talk about, even after all this time. | 6/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitBabylon Podcast #240: Interview with Pat Tallman | Tim, Summer and Bret chat with Pat Tallman, mostly about the Lyta Alexander Favorites Poll, how the poll came about, and maybe even a hint about an upcoming book from our friends at B5Books.com. Seriously, who doesn't like seeing chicks kicking butt? | 6/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #239: Interview with Carrie Dobro | Summer and Gary chat with Carrie Dobro (Dureena Nafeel)! Carrie talks about how much fun she'd had on the show, the challenges of her costume and her contact lenses, about the possible character development paths that Dureena might have gone on with both Galen and Gideon, and much much more. | 6/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #238: Rebootapalooza | We get a minor "Thor" report from Bret, who totally forgot to keep an eye out for the JMS cameo, but he liked the movie. Then came the flood of voicemail... | 5/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #237: Ruling From the Tomb (Crusade) | Tim, Summer and Bret discuss "Ruling From the Tomb", written by Peter David. Tim has questions about the execution of this episode's premise. While he's good with the cropping up of doomsday cults, the abundance of coincidental meetings and convergent threads doesn't sit well with him. There are pieces of this episode that were changed or removed between earlier drafts and the final shooting, and details about those are in Crusade: Other Voices, Vol 2, and we can't wait for Peter David to join us to talk about them. | 5/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #236: Adampalooza | Feedbackapalooza: Telepath smackdown? Either way, this episode seems to be chock full of questions from Adam from start to finish. | 5/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #235: Interview with Marjean Holden | Tim and Summer chat with Marjean Holden, our honorary co-host for this episode! Marjean talks about her ventures into writing for television and film, her love of the science fiction genre, the anticipation of experiencing Crusade's story shift after they'd found the cure but would be chased down to prevent them from distributing it, and the loss of not being able to follow and finish that story. Let's start the rumor mill ourselves: Marjean Holden is on board for that secret Crusade miniseries project! | 4/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #234: Feedback From Down the Street | We have more voicemail from you guys to go through! Tim and Summer also lament the fact that they completely forgot to ask David Allen Brooks about the pak'ma'ra porn gag. Kudos to Gary's April Fool's Joke that he posted here... but be wary of payback in kind, sweetheart! | 4/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #233: Interview with David Allen Brooks | Tim and Summer chat with David Allen Brooks, about how he got into acting, how he approached the character of Max Eilerson, the research into being a scientist and archaeologist, the differences he observed between working on a science fiction drama compared to "just another" police procedural, the fans of Max, where Max's story arc might have taken him, and much more. | 4/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast SE #7: Crusade: Other Voices, Vol 1 | The Babylon 5 Scripts Team sent Tim and Summer a surprise this week, and just around the same time that they are releasing this latest scriptbook into the wild, you can hear us give you a sneak peek into the book's contents. | 4/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #232: The Path of Sorrows (Crusade) | Deep Geeking: Tim and Summer are joined by The Jason Davis and Edmund Boys to discuss "The Path of Sorrows". Questions abound because of this episode, about the pasts of our crew, about how many more secrets may have been revealed to us over time, and much more. Jason talks about how this episode was one of the points of contention between TNT and JMS because it was character building (just not how they asked for it?), and more. | 4/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #231: Patterns of the Soul (Crusade) | Deep Geeking: Tim and Summer discuss "Patterns of the Soul", an episode that gives us our first glimpse of conspiracies and ulterior motives that may be exploiting opportunities brought about after the introduction of the plague to the human population. They discuss what types of patterns the episode title might refer to, and how the various secrets being guarded by each party involved in this encounter are related, in how they color everyone's actions. | 3/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #230: Tangentopalooza | We have a report from Danny in Adelaide about Armageddon Expo! He talks about Pat Tallman's appearance and a Skype call from JMS. The big news is about the Sherlock Holmes-Harry Houdini story that JMS sold to Dreamworks, and that there are whispers in the dark about a Babylon 5 project broached by WB to The Great Maker. | 3/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #229: The Palooza of Wine and Candy | Summer has Stone Levitation, Bret has Jack Daniels and Diet Coke, and Tim is drinking red wine and eating M&Ms. That explains a lot about Tim, doesn't it? It's Feedback Time | 3/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #228: Each Night I Dream of Home (Crusade) | Tim and Bret mull over ways of keeping better tabs on their teenage kids than their own parents kept on them. It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse... Deep Geeking: Tim, Summer and Bret chat about "Each Night I Dream of Home", an episode that ties into the importance of Excalibur's mission, and shows us just how complex the task of decoding the Drakh plague virus truly is. Tim recalls how he originally disliked this episode, because of what he thought was the "stunt casting" of characters from the original series to hook old fans; and Summer disagrees that it was "stunt casting" solely to garner ratings for TNT. | 3/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #227: The Well of Forever (Crusade) | Deep Geeking: Tim, Summer and Bret chat about "The Well of Forever", and there's several points of disagreement on the content of the episode, and it could quite possibly be from either some lack of perception on our parts, or from looking to hard for a complex answer when it's really much more simple than we think. Summer believes the B story with Matheson and Mr Jones might have been served better as the A story, just because of the character depth and development potential that simmered underneath. Additionally, Bret observes that Earth Alliance military ships with Greek names are doomed. They are the red-shirt ensigns of the B5 universe, and should be avoided at all costs. | 2/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #226: Visitors from Down the Street (Crusade) | Deep Geeking: Tim, Summer and Bret chat about "Visitors from Down the Street", an episode filled with snark and more than wink and nod towards The X-Files. Time has changed Tim's perception of this episode, and now Bret wishes he'd done his homework and watched it! And where do captains of deep space exploration vessels get their supply of Hawaiian shirts? Inquiring minds want to know... | 2/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #225: Feedbackapalooza 2: Palooza Harder | Continuing the Feedback marathon, Tim, Summer and Bret discuss their alcoholic beverage selections for the evening. And Summer has kettle corn, so between salty, sweet, and hoppy, we're all ready to go. Listener Voicemails: Despite what you hear, this episode is not the Neilapalooza, and no, we still don't know why Bret became fixated on Corwin having a mullet. We really should have talked about the Booze of Babylon 5, shouldn't we have? | 2/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #224: Feedbackapalooza | Tim and Summer are growing concerned, because we don't have any solid ideas for our 6th season opening yet. Hopefully, Gary and Edmund have been plotting mischieviousness on our behalf. Universal Studios has put the Lensman feature film project on hold, and Tim goes into mourning. Listener Voicemails: Time to catch up on the voicemails from the end of 2010!! And we are happy to hear the new voices chiming in after all this time! So how much alcohol will it take to get Bret to sing for us? Do we really want to find out? | 1/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #223: The Long Road (Crusade) | In this episode, Tim and Summer discuss "The Long Road", the games technomages play, whether or not dragons should still invoke a primal fear in space-faring races, and more. Tim has a different appreciation for this episode when watched in the current order, and Summer likes how much better some of the character relationships have developed in this current viewing order. | 1/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #222: The Memory of War (Crusade) | Deep Geeking: Tim, Summer and Bret discuss "The Memory of War", and this one, in Tim's estimation, disappoints. Talk ranges from the music matching the dramatic sequences and falling short on the action sequences, the quality of the CG scenes, and throwing the flag on gratuitous use of slow motion effects. Discussion also touches upon the disappointment at the collapse of the show due to the complex situation surrounding Crusade on TNT and later on SciFi Channel. | 12/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #221: Music and Feedback | A few weeks back on Twitter via @babylonpodcast, Summer expressed her disappointment at finding dead space where the b5crusade.com website used to be. This happened after 2am, and she happened to notice a tweet from Bear McCreary from earlier that evening expressing his excitement about his Human Target compositions... which led Summer to wonder aloud how cool it could be to have Bear score whatever new B5 project Warner Bros has been having secret talks with JMS about. Ah, to dream a little dream... | 12/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #220: The Needs of Earth (Crusade) | Speculation abounds surrounding JMS' announcement that he's stepping away from the Wonder Woman and Superman monthly comics in order to focus on writing Earth One sequel instead. The full extent of his work slate seems to still be under wraps. Tim also recounts his appearance on Casting Game Podcast, and gives us a list of who he'd suggest in recasted roles in a new version of "The Gathering" (and yes, we know that Russ was under the shower curtain for the pilot) | 11/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #219: Racing the Night (Crusade) | Tim and Summer are joined by The Jason Davis to talk about the adventure that was the records excavation that became the new volume "Artifacts from Beyond the Rim". Jason talks about how they came across the material by chance, about the perfect timing of it to match up with the B5 Books 5th Anniversary, and the depth and breadth of the materials they found. And Summer really hopes the merchandising gods smile down and make it possible for us to get a Psi-Corps manual based on JMS' notes and input, and maybe get a few more original novels into the publishing pipeline. | 11/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #218: The Well of Voicemail | The first minor quakes have begun: Warner Bros has called JMS regarding preliminary inquiries on another Babylon 5 project. We eagerly await more news! Lensman Spotting: The over/under on Tim's first Lensman comment was 4 minutes. See your boohkie, or drink 4 shots | 11/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #217: Our “Best of Babylon 5″ | Tim, Summer and Bret talk about the episodes they consider to be on their personal "best of " lists. It's so hard to stick to a "Top 5", and to make it fair we all intentionally didn't include the obvious episodes, like "Sleeping in Light", "War Without End", and a handful of others. | 10/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #216: Feedback Party | Listener Feedback: One more show, catching up on the voicemails! | 10/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #215: Hair and Styling on Babylon 5 | Tim, Summer and Bret give their opinions on hairstyles and hair care amoings humans and aliens in space in the 23rd century. We go through the hair and hair stylings we can think of... | 10/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #214: Technology and Gadgets in B5 | Tim and Summer talk about the technology and the everyday gadgets found on the station and in the hands of its command staff, crew and folks just passing through. On the list this time around: ship behavior in space; handheld weapons and ship-based weapons; medical technologies; personal hygiene (showers and laundry) Also, Mike sends his heartfelt gratitude to all who have donated to the show, because your generous contributions helped us get the studio back up and running in a moment of crisis. | 9/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #213: Feedbackapalooza, Deuce | We are Gary We stand between the Edmund and the Neil I am Gary I stand between the Voicemail and the Phone | 9/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #212: Feedbackapalooza | Summer and Bret wonder if Tim truly saw a scene that he remembers with extra dialogue between Lochley and Garibaldi about the potential of Sheridan losing his grip on reality due to his "condition". Or, Tim could have been tripping, or lucid dreaming... we may never know. Then, Summer's mind is blown from learning of a previously unknown connection between "Fist of the North Star" and B5, and how that ties into her fanfic vision of Crusade. | 9/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #211: A Call to Arms (Movie) | Tim and Summer delve into "A Call to Arms", and amongst other things, talk about how the movie functions as a standalone movie rather than direct pilot for the new series, argue back and forth about some of the character development and interactions, speculate broadly on newly interpreted happenings and how they might have influenced things during later Crusade episodes that we never got, and much more. | 9/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #210: Listener Commentary | Tim, Bret and Gary dive into the first batch of voicemails discussing the "Babylon 5 Topics" series, addressing listener perspectives and opinions on those very topics, and theories we didn't fully discuss. | 9/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #209: What Might Have Been, Part 2 | Last week, our heroes risked breaching the fabric of the space-time continuum by trying to follow alternate Babylon 5 storylines to parallel universes where they might have been fully played out... Discussion: Tim, Summer and Bret continue the discussion about alternate story possibilities within the original 5-year arc. | 8/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #208: The Babylon 5 That Might Have Been | This episode scratches the surface of the untapped, the unexplored, and the fanciful and highly speculative Babylon 5 storylines that either never came to be or were never considered, leaving us little option other than to argue about whether or not they should have been, and how things might have worked out differently for the series as a whole. Fanfic aficionados got nothin' on us. | 8/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #207: Law and Justice in Babylon 5 | This episode is all about the justice, law, and the legal system as portrayed on Babylon 5, and how much it did or didn't influence the story as a whole. | 8/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #206: Surprises in Babylon 5 | Tim, Summer and Bret (and the entire B5 fandom) are glad to hear that Jerry Doyle is doing better and recovering well. We also discuss the lingering Hollywood accounting shenanigans, and how after all these years, Babylon 5 is still considered by Warner Bros to still be $80 million in the hole. The topic this episode is all about the surprises we experienced while watching Babylon 5, both the very first time, and the subtle new things discovered on subsequent viewings. | 7/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #205: Feedbackapalooza, Second Wind | In addition to discussing our varying shower singing talents, Tim, Summer and Bret ponder yet more reasons why that shower curtain was there. The Vorlon encounter suits might have been used as practice rooms for Top 40 pop bands. We also settle the dispute on which of us right about when it was mentioned in the show when more than just Sinclair had been examined and interrogated by the Grey Council, but that only opens up a whole different can o' worms that bears further scrutiny and over-evaluation in only the way we can do! | 7/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #204: Feedbackapalooza | Tim, Summer and Bret jump back in the saddle in the new-old studio! Tim also reads an announcement about the new Wonder Woman outfit and story that's the result of JMS taking over the reboot of the comic that he'll be writing. And Tim is still bitter that there's not forward movement on the Lensman project. Hang onto your hats... it's Feedbackapalooza time again! | 7/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Babylon Podcast #203: Religion in Babylon 5 | Tim was inspired by our discussion on "River of Souls", which leads to tonight's topic. Tim, Summer and Gary discuss religion, faith and spirituality as portrayed in Babylon 5. From the premise and purpose of the Soul Hunters, to the clashes between science and faith, to the waning old faiths contrasted with the rise of new ones, there are no simple answers, which is why we keep debating the questions. | 6/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 54 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Shadows in the Night
I purchased B5 on DVD and I have had a great time watching the series again after all these years. The Babylon Podcast is a great companion to my endeavor as I can listen to key players from the show while the episodes are fresh in my mind. It is cool to get the inside story from these folks. I agree it would be nice to have more episode specific comments from the players. Maybe we should all get together for a B5 viewing marathon. I'll bring the DVDs and the Babylon Podcast can bring the stars and behind-the-scenes folks to tell their stories and myths.
Very much appreciated!
THANK YOU for this, you guys! Please keep up the great work!
Keep Going!
This is a terrific idea. The interviews are interesting, some more than others. The mystery interview concept was cute but has played out, don't you think? Get one of the interviewed to watch an episode important to their contribution just before you call them for the interview. Your quality is good, the clarity is good, you don't talk over each other, you are respectful of each other's opinion. If you can keep up the quality, JMS will be drawn to The Babylon Podcast. We'll all wait until then. <g> Jeffrey, Summer, and Tim, congratulations all around!
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