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The Babylon Podcast

Tim Callender, Summer Brooks, and Jeffrey Willerth

Our Last, Best Hope for Babylon 5 discussions

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  • Mar 21, 2012 · 55 min

    Babylon Podcast #263: Overview of Babylon 5 Comics and other Collectibles

    Discussion: Tim, Summer, Jeremy and guest Gary from Jacksonville discuss the plan for talking about the Babylon 5 comics published by DC Comics and by Titan Books. Many issues surrounded the actual creation, writing and publication of the series, and Gary gives us a little bit of that wacky history. Source

  • Mar 14, 2012 · 50 min

    Babylon Podcast #262: Mondopalooza Part 2

    There's nothing quite like playing Devil's Advocate in a Babylon 5 argument you're having with yourself. Feedbackapalooza: The Feedbacking continues, as we hack our way through the backlog, clearing the way for future voicemails to come in about the comics, novels, and collectibles. Source

  • Mar 7, 2012 · 47 min

    Babylon Podcast #261: Mondopalooza Part 1

    The new theme music for Season 7 makes it's official debut, and it's a snippet of the theme created by Stewart Copeland for the original version of "The Gathering" that aired in 1993. Feedback: Tim, Summer and Jeremy respond to the backlog of voicemails that have come in over the past month or two, and as happens quite often, tangents rule. Source

  • Feb 22, 2012 · 1 hr 23 min

    Babylon Podcast #260: The Lost Tales, Revisited

    Welcome to Show #260, and the start of Season 7 of the Babylon Podcast! Get ready, Babylon 5 fans... the coverage of the comics, novels, guidebooks, games and collectibles is about to commence. But first, we have to find a way to get copies of some of them into Tim's, Bret's and Jeremy's hands... after we digress into a discussion about physical vs digital books. Deep Geeking: Tim, Summer, Bret and Jeremy discuss the last officially produced Babylon 5 video content, The Lost Tales. Source

  • Feb 15, 2012 · 1 hr 13 min

    Babylon Podcast #259: Legend of the Rangers (movie)

    Deep Geeking: Tim, Summer and Jeremy discuss the last Babylon 5 made-for-TV movie, Legend of the Rangers, which aired in January 2002. Yes, ten years ago, people. A treatment for this movie exists in Scriptbook Volume 10, and the full script is in the TV Movies scriptbook, so compare and contrast at your leisure. Let the nitpicking begin: there aren't many real issues with the actual story, just some execution miscues. Source

  • Feb 1, 2012 · 41 min

    Babylon Podcast #258: Little Bugs Have Lesser Bugs (Crusade)

    Deep Geeking: Tim and Summer discuss the unproduced Crusade script, "Little Bugs Have Lesser Bugs", which was written by Peter Woodward and slated to be a Season 2 episode. The larger implications from the plot of this script are intriguing, given that it revealed a previously unknown vulnerability in the Drakh, and also gives us a storytelling conundrum, trying to obsessively figure out where in Season 2 this episode would have aired. Source

  • Jan 18, 2012 · 52 min

    Babylon Podcast #257: Feedbackapalooza

    It's been way too quiet on the Babylon 5 front AND the Crusasde Script Books front. What's going on? Feedbackapalooza Time! Also, folks preparing to review and discuss the comics and novels with us (or for us), get ready... your turn will be coming up soon! Source

  • Dec 14, 2011 · 52 min

    Babylon Podcast #256: The End of the Line (Crusade)

    Deep Geeking: Tim, Summer and Jeremy discuss the unproduced Crusade script, "The End of the Line", which was slated to be the Season 1 finale. As always, Captain Gideon's dogged pursuit of the truth behind the destruction of his old ship leads him and his crew into knowledge that shakes their trust in their superiors, and Gideon himself to a personal crossroads... and a cliffhanger that could have been as intriguing as Z'ha'dum leading into Hour of the Wolf. Source

  • Nov 30, 2011 · 52 min

    Babylon Podcast #255: The Dureena Trilogy (Crusade)

    Deep Geeking: Tim, Summer and Bret talk about the unproduced Crusade scripts that would have made up the Dureena Trilogy (the stories to explain her absence after her initial contract expired): "War Story", "The Walls of Hell" and an untitled story by JMS. Also discussed are three spec pitches by Richard Mueller, for "Fire in the Blood", "House Odds", and "Mixed Blessings". Source

  • Nov 16, 2011 · 50 min

    Babylon Podcast #254: Tried and True (Crusade)

    Deep Geeking: Tim and Summer discuss the unproduced Crusade script for "Tried and True", which can be found in the "Crusade: Other Voices, Vol 2" scriptbook. This would have been a remarkable Dureena performance, and comparisons can be drawn between this draft and what we saw in Season 4's "Intersections in Real Time", especially given the "one room play" stage-like setting in both stories. Source

  • Nov 4, 2011 · 1 hr 5 min

    Babylon Podcast #253: Captains Challenge

    Deep Geeking: Tim throws out the challenge to Gary and Jeremy: compare and contrast your favorite Captains: Sheridan (Babylon 5), Gideon (Crusade), Reynolds (Firefly) and Kirk (Star Trek: TOS) Source

  • Oct 28, 2011 · 55 min

    Babylon Podcast #252: Neilapalooza 2

    Lots and lots of feedback, speculation, and general random geeking... enjoy! Also, folks preparing to review and discuss the comics and novels with us (or for us), get ready... your turn will be coming up soon! Source

  • Sep 23, 2011 · 54 min

    Babylon Podcast #251: Value Judgments (Crusade)

    Deep Geeking: Tim, Summer and Bret discuss the unproduced Crusade episode "Value Judgments", written by Fiona Avery. This episode was very close to being shot, with contracts out to Walter Koenig to guest star, and Mike Vejar to direct. That it didn't get produced is our loss. Source

  • Sep 16, 2011 · 1 hr

    Babylon Podcast #250: To the Ends of the Earth (Crusade)

    So, what happens when you have a milestone episode, and everyone forgets to notice? Well, you end up with Tim distracted by shiny toys, with Summer distracted by baseball, and Bret distracted by poking fun at Tim and Summer. Deep Geeking: This week, Tim, Summer and Bret discuss the unproduced Crusade script "To the Ends of the Earth". Source

  • Aug 13, 2011 · 58 min

    Babylon Podcast #247: Opinionspalooza

    Tim stumbled across the iFanboy website, and relays to us an article by Ron putting JMS at #10 on his list of "worst things in comics in 2010," and explains where he feels the JMS shortcomings fell. Maybe Tim should be upset about him also dropping the ball on the Lensman movie. Source

  • Jul 22, 2011 · 1 hr 4 min

    Babylon Podcast #246: Interview with Tucker Smallwood

    Tim and Summer enjoy a chat with renowned character actor Tucker Smallwood, who played Mr David Endawi in the S3 episode "Matters of Honor", and Commodore Glen Van Ross in Space: Above and Beyond. Source

  • Jul 14, 2011 · 54 min

    Babylon Podcast #245: Twitterpalooza

    We celebrate the new Babylon Park website, as well as the expanded materials available there, and you can follow them on Twitter, @babylonpark. Shiny. Bret strongly recommends following @patriciatallman, merely for the hilarious entertainment value, Tim reads us a status update on various JMS writing projects. Source

  • Jul 7, 2011 · 57 min

    Babylon Podcast #244: War Zone (Crusade)

    Walter Koenig at last has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame! It's about damned time. Deep Geeking: Tim, Bret and Summer discuss "War Zone", demonstrating amazing feats of recall, considering that Summer watched the wrong damned episode this week. Source