Asked & Answered, Part 4

Asked & Answered, Part 4

Asked and Answered Part 4 is J. Michael Straczynski’s real-time history of the beginnings of Babylon 5: from before the pilot (including the online announcement of the series) and through Season 1.

Part 4 is loaded with details that never made it to the screen as well as the origins of what did eventually air.

Asked & Answered, Part 3

Asked & Answered, Part 3

Rants, religion, money, sex and Star Trek… just a few of the topics covered in the most volatile release of the entire Asked & Answered series.

Part 3 (pages 779-1,183) includes more than 1,100 missives.

Asked & Answered, Part 2

Asked & Answered, Part 2

Part 2 (pages 387-778) includes more than 800 missives grouped into the following topics: Fan Interaction, Five Year Arc, Fun with JMS, Influences, JMS on JMS, JMS on Politics, Legacy of Babylon 5, Merchandise of Babylon 5, Music of Babylon 5, Online Experiment, Physics & Babylon 5, Places & Planets, and the Production of Babylon 5

Asked & Answered: Part 1

Asked & Answered: Part 1

It’s true. The creator of Babylon 5 answers 5,296 fan questions covering every aspect of the show in over 100 categories in this new Babylon 5 book series.

J. Michael Straczynski answered these questions as they surfaced over a period of 18 years as part of an online experiment he started in 1991 and continues to this day.

Chronologies Contest Winner

We have a winner, at last (you’ll hear the discussion and selection in this week’s show, if you didn’t hear it during last week’s live feed broadcast) Congratulations to Gregory Smith (Albany NY) — You’ve won a copy of “Across Space and Time: The Chronologies of Babylon 5″!! just let me know if you want [...]

Script Book Update

Here’s the latest from the moderated newsgroup that should bring a smile to a lot of faces:  Title: Crusade by Labor Day  Author: jmsatb5@aol.com Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 07:24:14 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <3.14159265.040109.2259@B53rDage.googlegroups.com>   Now that the first of the two Crusade books is ready for print, I thought I’d jump in with a quick update on them.   Regarding the [...]

Chronologies Contest Breadcrumb Hints

As promised, here are the breadcrumb hints for the Season 4 podcast opening: It was the year of Deep Geeking… he’s one of the Cultured Pod people the year of Feedbackapalooza… the voicemail line is his and his alone the year we discussed our favorite show. the Narn is always trying something It was the [...]

Asked and Answered: Surprise gift update

Captain Jacyln wants you to know she hasn’t forgotten about the surprise mailing that she mentioned on the Babylon Podcast.   “The Scripts Team is most likely going to send the mailing next week instead of this one because the contents of the mailing have changed. Three days ago we got clearance to share something timely [...]

Chronologies Contest Hints

We thought that the entry requirements for the chronologies contest would be more fun for you guys than this. Finding the names for all the voices in the open seemed simple enough… but you have mentioned that the requirements for entering the contest were a bit too challenging, given the time frame. We hear you, [...]

Babylon Podcast #148: Babylon 5 Scripts Team

Welcome to Show #148! Tim and Summer lament about whether or not the entry requirements are too hard for the Chronologies contest, since we haven’t received any entries yet. Not a one. Is the contest entry requirement too hard? Seriously, as of 2pm PT, March 11 2009, I have received ZERO entries for this contest. [...]

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