• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • About
    • Stream the Show Live!
    • Contact Us
  • Podcast Promos
  • B5 Links
  • B5 Merchandise

The Babylon Podcast

Our Last, Best Hope for Babylon 5 Fans

  • News
    • Books
    • Blog
  • Shows
  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3
  • Year 4
  • Year 5
  • Year 6
  • Year 7

Babylon Podcast #183: Movements of Fire and Shadow (Season 5)

January 6, 2010 by Summer 5 Comments

https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.babylonpodcast.com/media/shows/B5_Show183_100106.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:03:11 — 58.1MB)

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | iHeartRadio | Stitcher | Podchaser | RSS

Welcome to Show #183… Happy New Year everyone!

Is the end of The Babylon Podcast looming near? Will the podcast be able to complete it’s own 5-year arc? Are there enough B5 related things for us to talk about to get us to February 2011? Is there even a remote possibility to push it to a 6th year?

Deep Geeking: Tim and Summer discuss “Movements of Fire and Shadow”.

Tim believes the episode doesn’t quite pull together in as good a cohesive satisfying whole as it could have been, saving graces of the ability of various bipedal races to fart on command notwithstanding.

Does the episode suffer from having too many storylines going on at the same time? Would the story have been better served by being split into one more episode, or would the sense of urgency have been lost?

Discussion: Whoever called in the “Delenn the Ex-Minbari” Christmas parody, please call back and let us know who you are… props are well deserved!

Summer is enamored of the parodies listed on the “Ramming Speed” album by Sci-Fried, and be sure that we’ll be hearing more from them soon.

Steve from Denver corrects how many Shuttle flights are left; Fred from NJ relates that there’s a letter in support of Harlan Ellison written by JMS, dated July 1982, that’s “An Edge of My Voice” (a collection of Harlan’s LA Weekly columns from the 1980s, available from the Baen Webscriptions website); Hated Bunny wonders if the technology used by the Brakiri in “Day of the Dead” came from the technomages; Arkle doesn’t think Lyta’s appearance to Garibaldi was a dream, that it was her experimenting with her telepathic powers; and Mark sends an email to thank us for the hours and hours of entertainment we’ve given him.

Oh, and “Leave Garibaldi Alooooooone!”

Lurker’s Guide 2.0: Summer is expanding the documentation to be covered at Lurker’s Guide 2.0, the major change being converting the episode guide into a full Wiki with cross-referenced topics, tidbits and everything youโ€™d want in a Wiki. She’s also still searching for pictures of rare collectibles, photos of magazine covers and toys, and all sorts of other B5 goodies that didn’t get included in the original guide during the years after Crusade. Let her know if you want to lend a hand.

Babylon Podcast Social Communities:
Twitter: @babylonpodcast

Babylon 5 Information Gathering: If you know of a dead or abandoned B5 related website that may be in need of a new home, let Summer know! Maybe we can mirror it here or house it on a sister site.

If you can, Please Donate to the show!

Promo: Tuning Into Scifi TV
Promo: Variant Frequencies: Hath a Darkness

Filed Under: Shows, Year 4 Tagged With: music

Save 10-50% on in-stock toys at TFAW.com.

Related Posts

Babylon Podcast SE #10: Remembering Jeffrey O'Hare
Babylon Podcast SE #10: Jeffrey Willerth Remembers Michael O’Hare
Babylon Podcast #238: Rebootapalooza
Babylon Podcast #238: Rebootapalooza
Babylon Podcast #265: Comics: In Valen's Name
Babylon Podcast #265: Babylon 5 Comics: In Valen’s Name
Babylon Podcast #278: Penultimate Palooza
Babylon Podcast #278: Penultimate Palooza

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Gary The Great says

    January 8, 2010 at 3:59 am

    The Brakiri using technomage tech? If Tim didn’t hate that story enough already, he will now.

    Reply
  2. Mo says

    January 9, 2010 at 4:15 pm

    Yes, we missed you! So glad y’all are back!

    Reply
  3. Duge says

    January 11, 2010 at 5:16 pm

    Nice to have the Babylon Podcast back for another episode although some of the voices seemed a bit muffled (or maybe it was just my car radio- listening to it via my iPhone plugged into my car radio). I was quite surprised at the negative reaction towards this episode. “Movements of Fire and Shadow” and “The Fall of Centauri Prime” were two of my favorite episodes of the series perhaps surpassed only by “Z’Ha’Dum” and definitely were two of the best episodes of S5 although I really love the entire Centauri story arc of S5 (“Meditations on the Abyss” through “The Fall of Centauri Prime”).
    I didn’t really see the problems with the episodes that Tim did in terms of having a lot of storylines going and some pacing/editing problems. A lot of the episode for me is setting up the dominoes (or “pebbles” if you will) that are going to be knocked over and, indeed, blown to bits in the very next episode. There was, at least for me, nothing inconsequential about anything that happened in the episode and there was some kind of eventual payoff for everything that happened (the new class of ships that John and Delenn discussed were likely what led to the creation of the new ships in “Call to Arms”, right?).
    I particularly loved the ending of the episode when Londo (and I think even the Regent) realize what is going to happen with the defense grid de-activated and the fleet gone. Also, I thought that Londo’s “slow motion” run was actually pretty dramatic, particularly when paired with Christopher Franke’s intensifying score. However, of course, I realize that everybody has their own tastes.
    One other point that I wanted to mention was that I was confused about what you were talking about in regards to G’Kar helping Londo get out of the cell by……..farting???? Thankfully, they never showed anything but I was under the impression that G’Kar had regurgitated the previous night’s supper (“I’m concentrating on last night’s supper” or something to that effect). So, did he just fart, really?????
    Anyway, looking forward to next week’s discussion of “The Fall of Centauri Prime”. I’ll be interested to hear your thoughts on THAT episode!!! Take care!!! ๐Ÿ™‚

    Reply
  4. Arkle says

    January 11, 2010 at 10:55 pm

    Duge: Re; G’Kar, that’s what I thought too. It certainly looked to me like he was trying to vomit on command.

    Reply
  5. Jhonny from Uppsala/Satai says

    January 13, 2010 at 1:38 am

    I to always regarded it as barf humor rather then fart humor.

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Random Quotes from the Podcast

“Do I have to put an "Explicit" tag on this show now?”
— Summer Brooks,  Babylon Podcast #153

Search Babylon Podcast

Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
B5-Patreon

Subscribe to The Babylon Podcast

Apple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsiHeartRadioStitcherPodchaserRSS

Follow The Babylon Podcast

  • twitter
  • apple-podcasts
  • playerfm
Tweets by babylonpodcast

Recent Comments

  • Big Ian on Babylon Podcast #287: Interview with Mira Furlan: “RIP Mira ๐Ÿ™”
  • Richard Batey on A Reimagined “Babylon 5” Series is coming to The CW: “Working my way through the podcasts atm to continue with my B5 fix, though I can live without it, honest…”
  • Summer on A Reimagined “Babylon 5” Series is coming to The CW: “They are hiding for the moment. Lots of other work taking up more time than previously expected.”
  • Gary on A Reimagined “Babylon 5” Series is coming to The CW: “When do the new podcasts start? -Asking for a friend”
  • Chris Beute on Streaming News: “Babylon 5” Coming to HBO Max: “Just finished with Season 3, they left the order alone, which makes sense. I’d expect that going forward in 4,…”

Footer

Contact

The Babylon Podcast
Slice of SciFi
1121 Annapolis Rd PMB 238
Odenton MD 21113

VM: 602-635-6976

Site Artwork

Banner and Podcast artwork by
Tim Callender

Sister Sites

Slice of SciFi
Writers, After Dark
Charlie Jade Verse
Horror Happenings
Scifi Shop Talk

Babylon Podcast
Slice of SciFi
Writers, After Dark

Copyright © 2006–2022 The Babylon Podcast ยท Log in