The Babylon Podcast

Tim Callender, Summer Brooks, and Jeffrey Willerth

Our Last, Best Hope for Babylon 5 discussions

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Jul 2, 2011 · 1 hr 2 min
Babylon Podcast #243: Questions and Answers
Jeffrey shares with us a message about what it meant to him to have had Jeff Conaway in his life for a time. Listener Feedback: Strangely, Tim adored Neil Gaiman's Doctor Who episode, "The Doctor's Wife"... to be expected? Source
Jun 25, 2011 · 51 min
Babylon Podcast #242: Rules of the Game (Crusade)
Deep Geeking: Tim and Summer get Marjean's thoughts on "Rules of the Game", particularly the development of the relationship between Dr Chambers and Max Eilerson, discovering what and who Max cares about, and of course, Dr Chambers' impeccable fashion sense and combat timing. And yes, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Once her new project, Three Moon Rising, is ready, we'll be talking with her again about it over at Slice of SciFi! Source
Jun 19, 2011 · 59 min
Babylon Podcast #241: Interview with Peter and Kathleen David
Tim, Summer and Bret chat with Peter David and Kathleen David, with Peter telling us about how he got into writing episodes for the show, how he needed to divert from "writing for Star Trek" in order to get the Babylon 5 feel correct in the episodes and the novels, finding character voices, and more. Kathleen talks a little about logistics behind getting the Del Rey B5 novels published, from author selection to publishing schedule and more. Source
Jun 9, 2011 · 52 min
Babylon Podcast #240: Interview with Pat Tallman
Tim, Summer and Bret chat with Pat Tallman, mostly about the Lyta Alexander Favorites Poll, how the poll came about, and maybe even a hint about an upcoming book from our friends at B5Books.com. Seriously, who doesn't like seeing chicks kicking butt? Source
Jun 2, 2011 · 59 min
Babylon Podcast #239: Interview with Carrie Dobro
Summer and Gary chat with Carrie Dobro (Dureena Nafeel)! Carrie talks about how much fun she'd had on the show, the challenges of her costume and her contact lenses, about the possible character development paths that Dureena might have gone on with both Galen and Gideon, and much much more. Source
May 26, 2011 · 55 min
Babylon Podcast #238: Rebootapalooza
We get a minor "Thor" report from Bret, who totally forgot to keep an eye out for the JMS cameo, but he liked the movie. Then came the flood of voicemail... Source
May 19, 2011 · 51 min
Babylon Podcast #237: Ruling From the Tomb (Crusade)
Tim, Summer and Bret discuss "Ruling From the Tomb", written by Peter David. Tim has questions about the execution of this episode's premise. While he's good with the cropping up of doomsday cults, the abundance of coincidental meetings and convergent threads doesn't sit well with him. There are pieces of this episode that were changed or removed between earlier drafts and the final shooting, and details about those are in Crusade: Other Voices, Vol 2, and we can't wait for Peter David to join us to talk about them. Source
May 7, 2011 · 57 min
Babylon Podcast #236: Adampalooza
Feedbackapalooza: Telepath smackdown? Either way, this episode seems to be chock full of questions from Adam from start to finish. Source
Apr 27, 2011 · 56 min
Babylon Podcast #235: Interview with Marjean Holden
Tim and Summer chat with Marjean Holden, our honorary co-host for this episode! Marjean talks about her ventures into writing for television and film, her love of the science fiction genre, the anticipation of experiencing Crusade's story shift after they'd found the cure but would be chased down to prevent them from distributing it, and the loss of not being able to follow and finish that story. Let's start the rumor mill ourselves: Marjean Holden is on board for that secret Crusade miniseries project! Source
Apr 22, 2011 · 1 hr 2 min
Babylon Podcast #234: Feedback From Down the Street
We have more voicemail from you guys to go through! Tim and Summer also lament the fact that they completely forgot to ask David Allen Brooks about the pak'ma'ra porn gag. Kudos to Gary's April Fool's Joke that he posted here... but be wary of payback in kind, sweetheart! Source
Apr 16, 2011 · 58 min
Babylon Podcast #233: Interview with David Allen Brooks
Tim and Summer chat with David Allen Brooks, about how he got into acting, how he approached the character of Max Eilerson, the research into being a scientist and archaeologist, the differences he observed between working on a science fiction drama compared to "just another" police procedural, the fans of Max, where Max's story arc might have taken him, and much more. Source
Apr 13, 2011 · 10 min
Babylon Podcast SE #7: Crusade: Other Voices, Vol 1
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. Source
Apr 7, 2011 · 1 hr 3 min
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. Source
Apr 1, 2011 · 51 min
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. Source
Mar 24, 2011 · 54 min
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. Source
Mar 17, 2011 · 1 hr 7 min
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 Source
Mar 10, 2011 · 56 min
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. Source
Feb 24, 2011 · 53 min
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. Source
Feb 12, 2011 · 54 min
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... Source
Feb 3, 2011 · 1 hr 1 min
Babylon Podcast #225: Feedbackapalooza 2: Palooza Harder
Continuing the Feedback marathon, Tim, Summer and Bret discuss their alcoholic beverage selections for the evening. And Summer has kettle corn, so between salty, sweet, and hoppy, we're all ready to go. Listener Voicemails: Despite what you hear, this episode is not the Neilapalooza, and no, we still don't know why Bret became fixated on Corwin having a mullet. We really should have talked about the Booze of Babylon 5, shouldn't we have? Source