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.
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I just read the announcement at B5 Books, saying that the Crusade: What the Hell Happened? books are finally coming our way, with Volume 1 releasing on August 25…
Then, I read the good part:
“Why,” you inquire, “is this a FOUR-volume series when we were promised THREE in the introduction to CRUSADE: BEHIND THE SCENES?”
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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.
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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.
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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.
iTunes Loves Us!
The Babylon Podcast got a little iTunes love this week!
iTunes sent out their “Sci-Fi Spotlight” email on Thursday, and we were featured in the podcast section
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!
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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!
Additional Topics of Discussion
The questions were broached in Show #203, so now we officially pose it to our fans and listeners:
What topic or theme from Babylon 5, something that goes beyond being an episode-specific event, do you think should be or needs to be discussed here?
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.
