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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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  • Updated May 27

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  • Jan 19, 2011 · 55 min

    Babylon Podcast #224: Feedbackapalooza

    Tim and Summer are growing concerned, because we don't have any solid ideas for our 6th season opening yet. Hopefully, Gary and Edmund have been plotting mischieviousness on our behalf. Listener Voicemails: Time to catch up on the voicemails from the end of 2010!! And we are happy to hear the new voices chiming in after all this time! So how much alcohol will it take to get Bret to sing for us? Do we really want to find out? Source

  • Jan 6, 2011 · 1 hr 1 min

    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. Source

  • Dec 10, 2010 · 59 min

    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. Source

  • Dec 4, 2010 · 55 min

    Babylon Podcast #221: Music and Feedback

    A few weeks back on Twitter via @babylonpodcast, Summer expressed her disappointment at finding dead space where the b5crusade.com website used to be. This happened after 2am, and she happened to notice a tweet from Bear McCreary from earlier that evening expressing his excitement about his Human Target compositions... which led Summer to wonder aloud how cool it could be to have Bear score whatever new B5 project Warner Bros has been having secret talks with JMS about. Ah, to dream a little dream... Source

  • Nov 27, 2010 · 1 hr

    Babylon Podcast #220: The Needs of Earth (Crusade)

    Speculation abounds surrounding JMS' announcement that he's stepping away from the Wonder Woman and Superman monthly comics in order to focus on writing Earth One sequel instead. The full extent of his work slate seems to still be under wraps. Deep Geeking: Tonight, after a brief tangent into lamenting the short lifespan of most smart scifi shows, we geek on the Crusade episode "The Needs of Earth". Source

  • Nov 19, 2010 · 54 min

    Babylon Podcast #219: Racing the Night (Crusade)

    Tim and Summer are joined by The Jason Davis to talk about the adventure that was the records excavation that became the new volume "Artifacts from Beyond the Rim". Deep Geeking: The year we really did finally make it to Crusade. Going by the revised broadcast order, our first Crusade episode to geek on is "Racing the Night", and Jason joins us for the analysis. Source

  • Nov 4, 2010 · 46 min

    Babylon Podcast #218: The Well of Voicemail

    The first minor quakes have begun: Warner Bros has called JMS regarding preliminary inquiries on another Babylon 5 project. We eagerly await more news! Lensman Spotting: The over/under on Tim's first Lensman comment was 4 minutes. See your boohkie, or drink 4 shots Source

  • Oct 28, 2010 · 1 hr 1 min

    Babylon Podcast #217: Our “Best of Babylon 5”

    Discussion: Tim, Summer and Bret talk about the episodes they consider to be on their personal "best of" lists. It's so hard to stick to a "Top 5", and to make it fair we all intentionally didn't include the obvious episodes, like "Sleeping in Light", "War Without End", and a handful of others. Source

  • Oct 15, 2010 · 55 min

    Babylon Podcast #215: Hair and Styling on Babylon 5

    Tim, Summer and Bret give their opinions on hairstyles and hair care amongst humans and aliens in space in the 23rd century. We go through the hair and hair stylings we can think of... Source

  • Sep 30, 2010 · 55 min

    Babylon Podcast #214: Technology and Gadgets in B5

    Tim and Summer talk about the technology and the everyday gadgets found on the station and in the hands of its command staff, crew and folks just passing through. On the list this time around: ship behavior in space; handheld weapons and ship-based weapons; medical technologies; personal hygiene (showers and laundry) Also, Mike sends his heartfelt gratitude to all who have donated to the show, because your generous contributions helped us get the studio back up and running in a moment of crisis. Source

  • Sep 17, 2010 · 1 hr 1 min

    Babylon Podcast #212: Feedbackapalooza

    Summer and Bret wonder if Tim truly saw a scene that he remembers with extra dialogue between Lochley and Garibaldi about the potential of Sheridan losing his grip on reality due to his "condition". Or, Tim could have been tripping, or lucid dreaming... we may never know. Then, Summer's mind is blown from learning of a previously unknown connection between "Fist of the North Star" and B5, and how that ties into her fanfic vision of Crusade. Source

  • Sep 10, 2010 · 1 hr 3 min

    Babylon Podcast #211: A Call to Arms (Movie)

    Tim and Summer delve into "A Call to Arms", and amongst other things, talk about how the movie functions as a standalone movie rather than direct pilot for the new series, argue back and forth about some of the character development and interactions, speculate broadly on newly interpreted happenings and how they might have influenced things during later Crusade episodes that we never got, and much more. Source

  • Sep 4, 2010 · 55 min

    Babylon Podcast #210: Listener Commentary

    Tim, Bret and Gary dive into the first batch of voicemails discussing the "Babylon 5 Topics" series, addressing listener perspectives and opinions on those very topics, and theories we didn't fully discuss. Source

  • Aug 28, 2010 · 58 min

    Babylon Podcast #209: What Might Have Been, Part 2

    Last week, our heroes risked breaching the fabric of the space-time continuum by trying to follow alternate Babylon 5 storylines to parallel universes where they might have been fully played out... Discussion: Tim, Summer and Bret continue the discussion about alternate story possibilities within the original 5-year arc. Source

  • Aug 18, 2010 · 1 hr

    Babylon Podcast #208: The Babylon 5 That Might Have Been

    This episode scratches the surface of the untapped, the unexplored, and the fanciful and highly speculative Babylon 5 storylines that either never came to be or were never considered, leaving us little option other than to argue about whether or not they should have been, and how things might have worked out differently for the series as a whole. Fanfic aficionados got nothin' on us. Source

  • Jul 22, 2010 · 1 hr 4 min

    Babylon Podcast #206: Surprises in Babylon 5

    Tim, Summer and Bret (and the entire B5 fandom) are glad to hear that Jerry Doyle is doing better and recovering well. We also discuss the lingering Hollywood accounting shenanigans, and how after all these years, Babylon 5 is still considered by Warner Bros to still be $80 million in the hole. The topic this episode is all about the surprises we experienced while watching Babylon 5, both the very first time, and the subtle new things discovered on subsequent viewings. Source

  • Jul 16, 2010 · 57 min

    Babylon Podcast #205: Feedbackapalooza, Second Wind

    In addition to discussing our varying shower singing talents, Tim, Summer and Bret ponder yet more reasons why that shower curtain was there. The Vorlon encounter suits might have been used as practice rooms for Top 40 pop bands. We also settle the dispute on which of us right about when it was mentioned in the show when more than just Sinclair had been examined and interrogated by the Grey Council, but that only opens up a whole different can o' worms that bears further scrutiny and over-evaluation in only the way we can do! Source