Dragon*Con Report: Gary goes into detail on the handful of B5 panels, and some of the scheduling challenges introduced by the powerhouse event featuring William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy; and makes all fans jealous with anecdotes of his interactions with the series attendees Bruce Boxleitner, Tracy Scoggins, Claudia Christian, Peter Jurasik, Stephen Furst, and Julie Caitlin Brown.
Archives for September 2009
Babylon Podcast #173: The Ragged Edge (Season 5)
Deep Geeking: This week, we discuss “The Ragged Edge”, a pivotal episode in the growth of both the Interstellar Alliance and G’Kar; and in the fall of both Centauri Prime and Michael Garibaldi.
And remember…
When seeking instant enlightenment,
You must put your face in the book.
Babylon Podcast #172: Interview with Artist Gary Hasson
Interview: Gary Hasson of Lightspeed Fine Art joins us to chat about how his involvement with scifi television and Babylon 5. He’s done art for Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate, Xena, Hercules, Farscape, BSG, and many more as well.
Win Dinner with Harlan, Help an Author
Jeanne Robinson, co-author of the Hugo and Nebula award-winning “Stardance” books (and wife of Spider Robinson) is fighting a rare form of cancer and a number of us are helping raise funds to help her with costs not covered by Canada’s health service. One of the ways supporters are helping raise funds is through eBay […]
JMS MIT Lecture back online
The Julius Schwartz Lecture at MIT featuring J. Michael Straczynski is back online at MIT’s Comparative Media Studies website and on YouTube!
Pak’ma’ra and Zombies
I have a feeling that this topic will not go away any time soon, and it’s our own damned fault for going down the crazy trail chasing the idea. Feel free to add your own theories on whether the Pak’ma’ra would consume zombie flesh. Would Pak’ma’ra consider them dead, and thus carrion for the taking, […]
Babylon Podcast #171: Phoenix Rising (Season 5)
Deep Geeking: Tim and Summer discuss “Phoenix Rising”, and the beginning of the fallout from Byron’s death and the resulting uprising of rogue telepaths against the Psi Corps. The emotional impact of Byron’s death on the free telepaths, and the emotional impact of the manner of the rogues’ death on Bester are apparent, so Summer likes the payoff much better than some elements of the story leading up to the conclusion.
Babylon Podcast #170: Feedbackapalooza
Feedbackapalooza: Voicemail highlights this episode: Arkle theorizes on the real reason for some of the fans’ deep dislike of Byron; the three unproduced Crusade scripts are summarized in the Crusade supplement of the Babylon 5 Role Playing Game book… who knew?
