The Babylon Podject Presents: PodSpace9

In which we coin the verb "Gorned" and the warcrimes airhorn is repurposed to be a bodyswap airhorn. Are anxiety dreams part of the human genome? WHO STABBED ORTEGAS WITH A LIRPA, WE DEMAND THIS INFORMATION. Also, what would happen if Jude and Justen freaky fridayed? We also talk about the other episode, which feels like it's an uncredited adaptation of "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursu...

Some recommended resources for organizations fighting abortion bans and advancing reproductive justice: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bffforaccess https://secure.actblue.com/donate/supportabortionfunds https://www.abortionfinder.org/ We discuss the philosophy of white boards, and then... the gang argues about Harold's lazy infosec, we cheer for the return of Zoe Morgan, and the veterans' (and...

Some recommended resources for organizations fighting abortion bans and advancing reproductive justice: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bffforaccess https://secure.actblue.com/donate/supportabortionfunds https://www.abortionfinder.org/ Oh god, more pet talk? Zathras quits. We admit to the temporal distortion of our show dovetail. In Super, Carter gets elevated to Team Machine, we dip into Burn N...

CW: Sean Connery A few minutes of Neelix hate? Star Trek has a very loose understanding of astrophysics. Jude comes up with a list of all the other species out there that might eat colonists. Kirk doesn't f*ck as much as you think? The cast does some deep dives into how plot armor works in Star Trek. Sorry, Scott Paladin. Connect with the show at @babylonpodject Help us keep the lights on via our...

Warning: 5 minutes of pet talk. In Get Carter, Jude gets weirdly defensive about his philosophy training, we discuss relevant numbers and machine learning, and John goes full Batman. Mutant? Vengeance demon? Something like that. Fusco is actually a good cop, but also a terrible liar. In Number Crunch, we see that Jude has learned how to write a CONCISE GODDAMN SUMMARY, Ana discusses the relative m...

Witness: metaplot 2! Justen's bad NY accents, John's questionable phone choices, and Charlie--I mean, Elias--teasing the third-act reveal in the middle of the episode. Elias is the Bester of Person of Interest. Foe: A long discussion of cold war surveillance state methods, Justen goes feral over gun porn, Jude goes even more feral over questionable gun choices, and John/Harold slice-of-life fan fi...

When was the last time you thought about The Game from TNG? 2048 doesn't give you an orgasm, unfortunately. Long side investigation into exactly when genetic modification laws were established in canon. More yelling. Some talk about the pressures of being an exemplar. Connect with the show at @babylonpodject Help us keep the lights on via our Patreon! Justen can be found at @justenwrites Ana can b...

Episode 2 continues with a DEEP level of characterization for so many of our new best friends. We continue to be in love. And REALLY horny for Pike. And thoroughly unburdened by conversational boundaries. Connect with the show at @babylonpodject Help us keep the lights on via our Patreon! Justen can be found at @justenwrites Ana can be found at @The_Mianaai , and also made our show art. Both Ana a...

Fictional gangs, questionable dining habits, and badly sold plots! John's first yellow box notation from the Machine, a ton of guest stars, and a brief diversion into suspension of disbelief about gunshot wounds. We're so glad the judge wasn't ****ing the nanny. Our first outing with Zoe Morgan is productive, and Harold gets vicious with his money. Jude narrates his BSOD upon realizing a Zoe-April...

Mission Creep: In which we get the most concise Jude summary yet, Justen categorizes a wad of S1 numbers under this episode's label, and the Elias arc kicks off. John gets some rare characterization--a soft spot for vets--while Fusco starts to think about John's safety. After some discussion of Harrison Ford shipping... Cura te Ipsum: Lots of sound design talk, a villain with the worst affluenza e...

In which Ana discovers what it's like to be on the other side of the headphones, there's a fine distinction drawn between war crimes/regular crimes/violations of civil liberties, and we discuss ships we can't discuss. In the pilot, we question Fusco's frisking ability if he can't find a goddamn grenade on an unconscious Reese, Finch is compared to a surprised owl, Fusco is named the anti-Garibaldi...

No summaries, only vibes. Jude has informed Zathras that Zathras is not allowed to apologize for what you are about to hear, so no apology will be forthcoming. Thank you all for joining us for Babylon 5, and we hope you continue with us on to Person of Interest next week. Connect with the show at @babylonpodject Help us keep the lights on via our Patreon! Justen can be found at @justenwrites Ana c...

In which we discuss the best song to block a telepath with, and then dive into the stories at hand. Objects in Motion: Qualitatively the horniest episode of the show? Jude puts out a call for G'kar/Lyta fics, we could have had so much more Number One, and we talk about the relative merits of pure technobabble vs. trying to explain things. Objects at Rest: In which DragonCobolt is one of the unluck...

So.... yeah. Hi. We're doing Trek now. And it rips so far. Connect with the show at @babylonpodject Help us keep the lights on via our Patreon! Justen can be found at @justenwrites Ana can be found at @The_Mianaai , and also made our show art. Both Ana and Justen can also be found on The Compleat Discography , a Discworld re-read podcast. Jude Vais can be found at @eremiticjude . His other work ca...

In which we spend way too long avoiding the episodes in question. In The Fall of Centauri Prime, we discuss the poorly animated hentai dick monster and how it should have been a muppet, the number of repeat actors typecast for prosthetic tolerance and believable assholery, and we mourn the end of Londo's redemption arc and the damp thud of Lennier's arc. In The Wheel of Fire, we get one of the las...

And All My Dreams Torn Asunder, in which we discover Justen's numeralogical quirks, Jude's distaste for loafers, and there are big questions about SheriDelenn as #relationshipgoals. And then in Movements of Fire and Shadow: Wait, Lochley is still on this show? Don't go to Garibaldi for hotel recommendations because you're guaranteed to have some goons come over your balcony. Lyta has big Emma Fros...

Meditations on the Abyss, in which Jude barely contains his snark over the Lennier plotline, we discuss the logistics of 23rd century fast food localization, we realize that Vir started with regicide and worked his way down to vandalism, and intercultural cuckolding is argued about at length. So many meme references. Darkness Ascending, where we quarantine the Garibaldi plot, there's a disagreemen...

We're joined by David Gordon Buresh to talk about one of the standout episodes of Season 5, "The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" After some reminiscing about growing up in similar frozen tv deserts... Jude has a very short episode summary (LIAR), we learn what a PsyCorps internship looks like (spoiler: be warned), what a PsyCorps procedural would look like (yikes), and Bester is surprisingly...

CW: discussion of alcoholism In which the gang discusses the abruptly truncated telepath storyline (and a fun tongue twister), Bester implanting Asimov's Laws in Garibaldi, JMS writing himself into a corner and then painting a door to escape, the utility of a bucket of wrenches, comparisons are made between Lochley and Bester, and we point out repeatedly that the only nice thing to ever happen to...

Zathras dips into alternate timelines to find other shows that we thought about covering. Zathras is contractually obliged to be sorry for what you are about to hear. Connect with the show at @babylonpodject Help us keep the lights on via our Patreon! Justen can be found at @justenwrites Ana can be found at @The_Mianaai , and also made our show art. Both Ana and Justen can also be found on The Com...

Genre-aware Centauri architects, a Doctor Who crossover?, G'Kar and Londo doing NOTHING to dissuade the shippers, Jude yells at John Sheridan for a while. The story challenges of making a surprise season 5 are discussed at length. Connect with the show at @babylonpodject Help us keep the lights on via our Patreon! Justen can be found at @justenwrites Ana can be found at @The_Mianaai , and also mad...

CW GENOCIDE, and also a detailed discussion of a sex scene. Skip from 6:00 to 56:45 to skip Secrets of the Soul. We're joined by Richard Kreutz-Landry @rkreutzlandry ! Lightbulb tweetstorm here . Descent into Midnight: @DIMrpg Secrets of the Soul: In which we discuss tentacle-to-glowing-ball ratios, telepath power creep, nurses in adverse working conditions (pak'ma'ra and telekinetic), telepath OR...

In which Jude has strong opinions about seated meditation, the implications of stuffing 5 years of plot into 4 years and ending up with less-than-enlightened centrism and n*zis, vigilante justice by way of diplomatic immunity, real-live free-range criminals as training dummies, and the problems implicit in hiring your ex to captain the space station you currently use as your seat of power for an i...

What do Hamlet, Animal Crackers, The West Wing, and the best Star Trek series (don't @ justen) have in common? This week's BabPod episode! In "The Paragon of Animals" we have principles, war crimes, telepaths, and Garibaldi owning up to his disreputability, while in "A View from the Gallery" Jude dunks on SOMEONE for not knowing how to pronounce Ares, Justen has some x-wing/starfury thirst, and An...

In which we change up our intro and discuss oaths of office. In "No Compromises," we trade out a fiery brunette and a British man for the budget versions of each, and talk about how not to introduce a new character. Ana also immolates a man alive with a burn. In "The Long Night of Londo Mollari," we discuss what happens when your tarot deck starts bleeding jelly, the sci-fi trope of people playing...