The Babylon 5 Scripts Team sent Tim and Summer a surprise this week, and just around the same time that they are releasing this latest scriptbook into the wild, you can hear us give you a sneak peek into the book’s contents.
Crusade
Babylon Podcast #232: The Path of Sorrows (Crusade)
Deep Geeking: Tim and Summer are joined by The Jason Davis and Edmund Boys to discuss “The Path of Sorrows”.
Questions abound because of this episode, about the pasts of our crew, about how many more secrets may have been revealed to us over time, and much more.
Jason talks about how this episode was one of the points of contention between TNT and JMS because it was character building (just not how they asked for it?), and more.
Babylon Podcast #231: Patterns of the Soul (Crusade)
Deep Geeking: Tim and Summer discuss “Patterns of the Soul”, an episode that gives us our first glimpse of conspiracies and ulterior motives that may be exploiting opportunities brought about after the introduction of the plague to the human population.
They discuss what types of patterns the episode title might refer to, and how the various secrets being guarded by each party involved in this encounter are related, in how they color everyone’s actions.
Babylon Podcast #230: Tangentopalooza
We have a report from Danny in Adelaide about Armageddon Expo! He talks about Pat Tallman’s appearance and a Skype call from JMS. The big news is about the Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle-Harry Houdini story that JMS sold to Dreamworks, and that there are whispers in the dark about a Babylon 5 project broached by WB to The Great Maker.
Babylon Podcast #229: The Palooza of Wine and Candy
Summer has Stone Levitation, Bret has Jack Daniels and Diet Coke, and Tim is drinking red wine and eating M&Ms. That explains a lot about Tim, doesn’t it?
It’s Feedback Time
Babylon Podcast #228: Each Night I Dream of Home (Crusade)
Deep Geeking: Tim, Summer and Bret chat about “Each Night I Dream of Home”, an episode that ties into the importance of Excalibur’s mission, and shows us just how complex the task of decoding the Drakh plague virus truly is.
Tim recalls how he originally disliked this episode, because of what he thought was the “stunt casting” of characters from the original series to hook old fans; and Summer disagrees that it was “stunt casting” solely to garner ratings for TNT.
Babylon Podcast #227: The Well of Forever (Crusade)
Deep Geeking: Tim, Summer and Bret chat about “The Well of Forever”, and there’s several points of disagreement on the content of the episode, and it could quite possibly be from either some lack of perception on our parts, or from looking to hard for a complex answer when it’s really much more simple than we think.
Babylon Podcast #226: Visitors from Down the Street (Crusade)
Deep Geeking: Tim, Summer and Bret chat about “Visitors from Down the Street”, an episode filled with snark and more than wink and nod towards The X-Files.
Time has changed Tim’s perception of this episode, and now Bret wishes he’d done his homework and watched it!
And where do captains of deep space exploration vessels get their supply of Hawaiian shirts? Inquiring minds want to know…
Babylon Podcast #223: The Long Road (Crusade)
In this episode, Tim and Summer discuss “The Long Road”, the games technomages play, whether or not dragons should still invoke a primal fear in space-faring races, and more.
Tim has a different appreciation for this episode when watched in the current order, and Summer likes how much better some of the character relationships have developed in this current viewing order.
Babylon Podcast #222: The Memory of War (Crusade)
Deep Geeking: Tim, Summer and Bret discuss “The Memory of War”, and this one, in Tim’s estimation, disappoints.
Talk ranges from the music matching the dramatic sequences and falling short on the action sequences, the quality of the CG scenes, and throwing the flag on gratuitous use of slow motion effects.
Discussion also touches upon the disappointment at the collapse of the show due to the complex situation surrounding Crusade on TNT and later on SciFi Channel.
