The Babylon Podcast https://www.babylonpodcast.com Our Last, Best Hope for Babylon 5 Fans Sun, 16 Feb 2025 05:14:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.babylonpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/cropped-BabylonPodcast-600px-32x32.jpg The Babylon Podcast https://www.babylonpodcast.com 32 32 Babylon Podcast #143: Between The Darkness and The Light (Season 4) https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2009/02/05/babylon-podcast-show-143/ https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2009/02/05/babylon-podcast-show-143/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:30:15 +0000 https://www.babylonpodcast.com/?p=317 Deep Geeking: Tim and Summer discuss "Between The Darkness and The Light", the episode which marks a significant turning point in the war to take back Earth from Clark's forces. The morale hit taken by Sheridan's capture is turned around by them breaking him out and rescuing him, and by the White Star fleet's destruction of Earth's advanced, Shadow-tech cruisers. Is this the first glimpse we see of Lyta's steps towards her dark, angry side?

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]]> https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2009/02/05/babylon-podcast-show-143/feed/ 3 Babylon Podcast #142: Intersections in Real Time (Season 4) https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2009/01/31/babylon-podcast-show-142/ https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2009/01/31/babylon-podcast-show-142/#comments Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:00:56 +0000 https://www.babylonpodcast.com/?p=316 Deep Geeking: Tim, Summer and special guest Jarsto delve into "Intersections in Real Time", definitely one of the most difficult episodes to watch the first time around. The psychological abuse we see Sheridan being subjected to is also felt by the viewer because of the structure of the episode... there is no cut away to a B story, no time jumps in scene, and the relentless manipulation in pursuit of a truth they want to use for their own purposes. It's also another wonderful example of the use of a stage play composition, both in set design and writing/acting, to intensify the the emotional impact of the interactions and the reasons for them.

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]]> https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2009/01/31/babylon-podcast-show-142/feed/ 4 Babylon Podcast #141: Interview with Ed Wasser https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2009/01/21/babylon-podcast-show-141/ https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2009/01/21/babylon-podcast-show-141/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:30:25 +0000 https://www.babylonpodcast.com/?p=313 Interview: It's the interview almost everyone has been waiting for. Ed Wasser joins us this week, and he tells us how he thinks that the attraction to Morden comes from the undeniable allure of the mystery and the appeal of the bad guy. We also talk about how he came to Babylon 5, and how his asking for a more dangerous part led to him getting the role of Morden, his fan club and convention visits, and more. The depth and reach of Morden's plans definitely affects the entire series, even though he was only on screen for 13 episodes. It's a testament to the writing and the performances that major characters that only appear from time to time can have such a large impact on the overall series story arc.

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]]> https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2009/01/07/babylon-podcast-2008-year-end-special/feed/ 4 Babylon Podcast #140: The Face of the Enemy (Season 4) https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/12/20/babylon-podcast-show-140/ https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/12/20/babylon-podcast-show-140/#comments Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:58:49 +0000 https://www.babylonpodcast.com/?p=303 Deep Geeking: This week, Brad and Mike join Tim, Jeffrey and Summer to discuss “The Face of the Enemy”. Summer comments on the Clark's propaganda against The Army of Light. Tim talks about how the tension level is very high due to the compressing of the story arc for season four. The gang go on to talk about cult of personality and how Clark assumes Sheridan is the center of the organization, even though he has always made it about the goal, not the man. Jeffrey reminisces on the Harlan Ellison / Walter Koneig scene.

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]]> https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/12/20/babylon-podcast-show-140/feed/ 3 Babylon Podcast #139: The Exercise of Vital Powers (Season 4) https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/12/03/babylon-podcast-show-139/ https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/12/03/babylon-podcast-show-139/#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:30:43 +0000 https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/12/03/babylon-podcast-show-139/ Deep Geeking: This week, Tim and Summer discuss "The Exercise of Vital Powers", and Tim continues to exercise his right to vital puns. Summer's appreciation of this episode comes from the complete break from what had been the traditional storytelling style in the series, and diving into old school hard-boiled pulp detective thriller territory. From Garibaldi's opening monologue, through his working for the power player who's suspiciouly far beyond his usual clientele, to his having to resist the damsel in distress who almost always lures the private eye to his doom... this episode is all pulp, all the time.

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]]> https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/12/03/babylon-podcast-show-139/feed/ 3 Babylon Podcast #138: Feedbackapalooza https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/11/19/babylon-podcast-show-138/ https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/11/19/babylon-podcast-show-138/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:30:04 +0000 https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/11/19/babylon-podcast-show-138/ Feedback: This week, Tim and Summer run the gamut of the rest of the voicemail and email feedback left over from last week, all alone in the night. Summer is really jonesing for access to the Titan Magazines stash of Babylon 5 pics that they used in creating the now-defunct Babylon 5 Magazine. Yeah, those would be nice to have.

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]]> https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/11/19/babylon-podcast-show-138/feed/ 6 Babylon Podcast #137: Feedbackapalooza https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/11/12/babylon-podcast-show-137/ https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/11/12/babylon-podcast-show-137/#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:30:31 +0000 https://www.babylonpodcast.com/?p=296 Feedback: This week, Tim, Summer and Brad handle the Feedbackapalooza! There's so much feedback, we may were not able to contain it all in one show.

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]]> https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/11/12/babylon-podcast-show-137/feed/ 2 Babylon Podcast #136: Babylon 5 Scripts Team https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/11/05/babylon-podcast-show-136/ https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/11/05/babylon-podcast-show-136/#comments Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:00:08 +0000 https://www.babylonpodcast.com/?p=295 Interview: This week, Tim and Summer talk with Jaclyn and Jan from the Babylon 5 Scripts Project, and by a twist of fate, the date of this interview, October 29th, was the 3rd anniversary of the release of the first scriptbook! Jaclyn and Jan give us as many details as they can about how this project came about, and the scope of putting something on this scale together, possible future volumes, and much much more!

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]]> https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/11/05/babylon-podcast-show-136/feed/ 4 Babylon Podcast #135: No Surrender, No Retreat (Season 4) https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/10/29/babylon-podcast-show-135/ https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/10/29/babylon-podcast-show-135/#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:30:29 +0000 https://www.babylonpodcast.com/?p=293 Deep Geeking: This week, Tim and Summer delve into discussion about "No Surrender, No Retreat". We talk about the decision to ask the League to stay on the sidelines until the fighting's done; the timing of some of the events in the course of the episode; the difference between Sheridan choosing a philosophical solution to end the Shadow War versus resorting to a shooting fight to free the colonies that were under siege; and more.

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]]> https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/10/29/babylon-podcast-show-135/feed/ 3 Babylon Podcast #134: Moments of Transition (Season 4) https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/10/23/babylon-podcast-show-134/ https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/10/23/babylon-podcast-show-134/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:00:47 +0000 https://www.babylonpodcast.com/?p=291 Deep Geeking: This week, Tim, Summer and special guest Gary discuss "Moments of Transition". There's some disagreement on the perceived speed of Neroon's change of heart, some great appreciation of Ivanova's performance in the final scene, and more.

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]]> https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/10/16/babylon-podcast-show-133/feed/ 13 Babylon Podcast #132: Rumors, Bargains and Lies (Season 4) https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/10/08/babylon-podcast-show-132/ https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/10/08/babylon-podcast-show-132/#comments Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:29:30 +0000 https://www.babylonpodcast.com/?p=285 Deep Geeking: Tim and Summer chat about "Rumors, Bargains and Lies". Everyone on B5's playing an angle, but who's really running the game and who's being played?

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]]> https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/10/01/babylon-podcast-show-131/feed/ 4 Babylon Podcast #130: Conflicts of Interest (Season 4) https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/09/27/babylon-podcast-show-130/ https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/09/27/babylon-podcast-show-130/#comments Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:00:43 +0000 https://www.babylonpodcast.com/?p=281 Deep Geeking: This week, Tim and Summer chat about "Conflicts of Interest". Tim points out how much more CGI was in this episode than usual, and appreciates how the heightened tensions were played out between characters. We discuss how much of Garibaldi's alienation of his friends is likely the result of the programming "enhancing" some of his natural tendencies, and of the machinations that both Sheridan and Delenn must start putting in motion to save their resepective homeworlds.

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]]> https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/09/27/babylon-podcast-show-130/feed/ 4 Babylon Podcast #129: Lines of Communication (Season 4) https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/09/17/babylon-podcast-show-129/ https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/09/17/babylon-podcast-show-129/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:30:37 +0000 https://www.babylonpodcast.com/?p=279 Deep Geeking: Tim, Summer and Brad chat about "Lines of Communication". The funny thing is, Tim has no recollection of seeing this episode ever before. There must be a rogue PsiCop around doing mind wipes, because it's very very hard to forget the dancing Drakh scene.

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]]> https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/09/17/babylon-podcast-show-129/feed/ 8 Babylon Podcast #128: Racing Mars (Season 4) https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/09/12/babylon-podcast-show-128/ https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/09/12/babylon-podcast-show-128/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:00:10 +0000 https://www.babylonpodcast.com/?p=276 Deep Geeking: Tim and Summer talk about "Racing Mars", delving into the abundant humor playing around the relationship between Franklin and Marcus and their cover story for going to Mars, in Ivanova relieving Sheridan of duty and in trying to make deals with smugglers in the hopes of opening up new supply lines for the station.

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]]> https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/09/12/babylon-podcast-show-128/feed/ 4 Babylon Podcast #127: Atonement (Season 4) https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/09/05/babylon-podcast-show-127/ https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/09/05/babylon-podcast-show-127/#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:00:31 +0000 https://www.babylonpodcast.com/?p=274 Deep Geeking: This week, Tim and Summer talk about "Atonement", and we pick nits about the pacing and some aspects of the execution in this episode... notably on why Delenn's clan waited so long before taking issue with her relationship with John Sheridan, and what exactly is the purpose of the assistant in The Dreaming, anyway? Was Lennier's guidance colored by his feelings for her, and his subconscious hopes of separating Sheridan and Delenn?

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]]> https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/09/05/babylon-podcast-show-127/feed/ 5 Babylon Podcast #126: The Illusion of Truth (Season 4) https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/08/27/babylon-podcast-show-126/ https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/08/27/babylon-podcast-show-126/#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:00:17 +0000 https://www.babylonpodcast.com/?p=273 Deep Geeking: This week, Tim and Summer talk about "The Illusion of Truth", and the impact of propaganda, and how Sheridan's hopes for getting their side of the story out to the people of Earth and the Earth Alliance by manipulating the ISN crew that comes on board backfire, creating the exact opposite impression that they wanted to make. Discussion: Mike plays a B5/Gnome mashup that appeared in the Slice of SciFi Voicemail Show... Garden Gnome 5!

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]]> https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/07/31/babylon-podcast-show-122/feed/ 14 Babylon Podcast #121: Discussing the JMS Announcement https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/07/23/babylon-podcast-show-121/ https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/07/23/babylon-podcast-show-121/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:00:17 +0000 https://www.babylonpodcast.com/?p=263 Discussion: We've already reposted JMS' comments on moving forward with more Babylon 5, and the fan reactions are still flying all over the Internet. So Summer, Jeffrey, Gary, Michael and Brad discuss, in great detail and depth, with occassional comment from the chat room.

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]]> https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/07/23/babylon-podcast-show-121/feed/ 7 Babylon Podcast #120: Into the Fire (Season 4) https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/07/17/babylon-podcast-show-120/ https://www.babylonpodcast.com/2008/07/17/babylon-podcast-show-120/#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:00:57 +0000 https://www.babylonpodcast.com/?p=260 Deep Geeking: Tim and Summer delve into Deep Geeking on "Into the Fire" the pivotal episode in the confrontation between the younger races and the Shadows and Vorlons. Tim thinks it's a flawed episode, and so the discussion begins...

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