Wondering what the new books from the script team are about? Find out March 4th at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific on the Babylon Podcast live feed. Though a special arrangement with Captain Jacyln and the scripts team, Tim and Summer will be getting advanced copies of the book. They will announce the book and talk about […]
Archives for February 2009
JMS Wins “Movies for Grownups” Award
While J. Michael Straczynski didn’t pick up a BAFTA for Changeling, there is a new award for it in his portfolio: Best Screenwriter 50 and Over J. Michael Straczynski, Changeling He’s already one of television’s top writers of fantasy and science fiction; and although Changeling is based on a true story, Straczynski’s tale of a […]
Babylon Podcast #146: Endgame (Season 4)
Tim reads some news from JMS on his screenplays in progress, including World War Z, Lensman, and Ninja Assassin, and some teaser news that he’s been offered some directing gigs.
Discussion: Tim and Summer discuss “Endgame”, the climax of the struggles gone through during the battle phases of the Earth Civil War. We compare more speeches again, too.
Babylon Podcast #145: Feedbackapalooza
Discussion: Tim and Summer revisit the discussion about Ivanova’s “I am Death Incarnate” declaration before leading the White Star fleet up against the advanced EA Destroyer fleet. We compare it to President Laura Roslin’s speech from the recent BSG Season 4 episode “Blood on the Scales”, and Summer amends her previous assessment of Ivanova’s speech. She doesn’t hate it, like Tim and Mike do, but it definitely doesn’t rank as high in her estimation as before.
Babylon Podcast #144: Babylon 5 Scripts Team
Interview: Jan Schroeder and Jason Davis of the Babylon 5 Scripts Team join us to talk about the TV Movie Scripts book, and to tease us about a series of mystery books that will be coming our way starting in March.
Jason tells us how he came to the project, and his history of doing JMS interviews; both Jan and Jason talk about the finished movies vs the original scripts and extra materials that paint a different about of the movies, especially “Legend of the Rangers”.
Musical Confusion
Okay, I’m stumped. I had always thought that the Season 5 opening theme was on the “Best Of” soundtrack. Even regular listeners and chat room denizens told me that it was there. But it’s not on my copy of that CD. The cover art is the same, but the track listing on the CD is […]
Babylon Podcast #143: Between The Darkness and The Light (Season 4)
Deep Geeking: Tim and Summer discuss “Between The Darkness and The Light”, the episode which marks a significant turning point in the war to take back Earth from Clark’s forces.
The morale hit taken by Sheridan’s capture is turned around by them breaking him out and rescuing him, and by the White Star fleet’s destruction of Earth’s advanced, Shadow-tech cruisers.
Is this the first glimpse we see of Lyta’s steps towards her dark, angry side?
TV Movie Script Book
The Babylon 5 Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski: The TV Movies is now on sale for $29.99 through Feb. 5. After Feb. 5, the price will be $39.99
