Our Last, Best Hope for Babylon 5 Fans
Deep Geeking: Edmund joins Tim and Summer for episode geeking this week, covering “Walkabout”, a bridge episode that packs a lot of punch in some areas and that seems to fall off pace in others (in Summer’s opinion, anyway).
We see Dr Franklin, hanging around in Down-Below, searching for something, but not quite sure yet. What he finds for a time could be a reflection of his own situation, or something else entirely.
Interview: John Warner, Best Boy and Key Grip on Babylon 5, joins us to talk about his time on set, and making sure everyone’s lit correctly and all the cameras move where they need to, and manipulation of the sets.
So head on down to your nearest production, and if it’s safe to get into the studio, go hug a key grip for all that they do.
Voicemail: Voicemail. Questions. Email. Questions. Some Answers.
Deep Geeking: We have a Deep Geeking treat for you… a guest geeker!
Mike McCafferty, actor and geek, joins us to share his long pent-up Babylon 5 theories. He believes that “War Without End” is the Grand Retcon of the series, and we all discuss a lot of points from casting to plot adjustments and future Retcon necessities in the series.
Deep Geeking: This week, the geeking goes for “Interludes and Examinations”, and Jeffrey sticks around to give us some behind the scenes info on The Day the Vorlon Died.
Deep Geeking: This week, we talk about “Ship of Tears”, an episode with a tour de force performance by Walter Koenig. We get to see Bester as his usual menacing self, and we’re surprised with a suprisingly human and vulnerable aspect to the character we’d come to despise.
Alliances are shaken and shifted. Lines are being more clearly drawn in the upcoming battle between the forces of Order and Chaos.
Voicemail: Monty Vorlon’s Flying Circus… nothing more need be said.
We go through voicemails and emails this time around, and truly, no one can stop the puns.
Deep Geeking: This episode, the geeking revolves around “A Late Delivery from Avalon”. We look at cause and effect of choices with devastating consequences, and parallel mythologies, and Monty Python jokes.
We need more instances of agreeable thumps.
Deep Geeking: Tonight’s geeking focuses on “Sic Transit Vir”, and discussion on how the characters start adjusting to their new roles as leaders of a breakaway station all alone in the night.
It takes a few viewings to appreciate just how much humor is running just below the surface.
Tim, Summer and Jeffrey ring in the first Babylon Podcast of 2008 with puns. And some New Year’s resolutions broken mere seconds after they’re made. But we’re playing on the new mixer, so it’s all good.
And many props to Brad from PodCulture for editing together the Holiday Specials.
