The Babylon Podject Presents: PodSpace9

Hello, and welcome to the Babylon Podject. We are not talking about any episodes today, because earlier this week SAG-AFTRA released new guides to podcasters with relation to their strike. The guidelines for this rule defines rewatch podcasts as struck work. This is confusing because as both fanwork and critical content, we would not think this applies to us, but the wording of the statement does...

We're BACK! JMS and Amazon dropped the trailer for the new B5 movie, and Zathras brought out the ceremonial Emergency Podcast button for the gang to press. They recorded a podcast without pressing the button. No one listens to Zathras. 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 als...

S5E12 .EXE S5E13 Return Zero A discussion of the principles of rewatches. .EXE: It's A Wonderful Life time. Tesla dunking. Greer tries to convince Finch YET AGAIN that Samaritan is the right choice. Jude hates the locked room scene. Ana scores a prediction win. Return Zero : What a series finale, especially considering their season order cut. Reese's long-standing deal (GNU Jarold). Shaw gets to b...

S5E10: The Day the World Went Away S5E11: Synechtecy YES WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT THE B5 NEWS. The Day the World Went Away : Nobody really dies while the Machine is there? Minigun shenanigans. More needle drop appreciation. The ultimate mundanity of death. Fusco gets a yellow box. Dark Harold. Root and Shaw flirting during a gunfight is pretty much the peak of their relationship. Every teacher has had...

CW: discussions of a viral flu pandemic. Skip from around 6 minutes to 23:15 if that's an issue. S5E8: Reassortment S5E9: Sotto Voce Reassortment : This is about a respiratory virus. Be warned. Shaw answers the question of "what are you going to do, stab me?" with... well... Fusco throws away the camera from season 1. Is the show just lazily Anglocentric or does Samaritan only care about white peo...

But first some B5 news. Shotseeker : Yay Elias is not dead! John's love language is avenging your death. The only thing believable about this technology is that NYC would spend a staggering amount of money on it. This episode really doesn't work in the context of its airing time. A More Perfect Union : The Great Filter? Shaw's still in a simulation, John's a stripper pimp, there's a wedding, root...

CW: 6,741 contains graphic depictions of non-consensual surgery and suicide, so if that's a problem you're safe to listen through around 19:30. S5E3: Truth Be Told S5E4: 6,741 Keith David Appreciation Club Truth Be Told : TGI Blackbeard's? John does The Worst version of the "on two dates" trope. We actually run into surprisingly few characters who are not related to people John and Kara killed. Th...

BSOD : Team Machine is on the run, and we've split the party! This is a high stakes, high tension episode. Fusco may have crossed the threshold where knowing about the Machine might finally be safer. Remember PS3 supercomputers? A diversion into linguistics. SNAFU : We get a Freaky Friday! Somehow it works! We continue to stan Amy Acker. We also get a long diversion into the complex dynamics of in...

Asylum : Pneumatic tubes! Elias is classy during revenge, Martine dies a classless but perfect death. We doubt that Harold doesn't know what a pneumatic tube canister looks like. root's scene on the ledge is inteeeeense. If the bad guys don't have Fusco's kid he's functionally invincible. YHWH : Fetch quests! Fax machines! Harold seeing the results of his efforts, in many ways. Many antagonists ge...

Search & Destroy : Jude and Justen connect over South Bay vibes. This tech ceo is a scarily prescient character sketch. Jude has serious complaints about the realism of the technology... in a show about AGIs. The writer of this episode clearly knows nothing about software development. Hand stuff. Zoe is best. root treats food service employees with respect. In short, Jude's tech distress in th...

This is not a star trek podcast. Justen forgets our favorite Telepath. A coughing break was edited out for your convenience. Karma : 2010 Retro Finch, Digital Vigilante--the Harold version of a rampage. Therapist Listening Posture. We continue to hate the John-therapist plotline and spend a long time decomposing it. This episode does Fusco dirty. Skip : A really intense Harold/root episode. Discou...

Justen describes, at length, a single player board game. There's probably at least 10% Person of Interest content in this episode, but no guarantees. Q&A : Siri, MMA, and morgues. Claire returns. The stable of characters in PoI is huuuge. Any time Harold's computer gets stolen, we assume it's on purpose, like John getting into a garbage truck. Justen knows a surprising amount about MMA law. Ju...

The gang reconvenes after an extended recording hiatus (it shows...), discusses the weather, and then... MIA: This is a d&d plotline. Just a reminder--torture does not work. Ana goes on a rant about New York. The Californians counter with a nuanced discussion of west coast cartography. Tweet the show with your opinions about geography, please, Zathras begs you. The slimmed-down team feels like...

Yet again, Star Trek talk. And then we get a 10 minute tour of Justen's bedroom furniture. IKEA, sponsor us--this podcast resembles one of Jude's bookcases, for sure. If/Then/Else : It's Remedial Chaos Theory! The show played with the format of broadcast tv to emotionally whiplash you, and it doesn't come across as well on streaming, but that doesn't make this any less of an amazing episode... Sha...

Zathras warning: LOTS of Star Trek in the beginning of this one. Like, nearly 10 minutes. The management apologizes. The Devil You Know : The theme of this episode is "who does the protecting, and who do they choose to protect." Where the hell did Shaw hide a P90 in a cosmetics counter? ELIAS! You know a goon is done for when you finally learn his name. Fusco kicks butt. Elias may be a moral monst...

Jude goes a long way to make a gif. The fundamental warcrimes component of Battletech. Honor Among Thieves : We hit the warcrimes airhorn a lot. Some of the logistics seem unrealistic here, in a show about godlike AIs. The threat of a pandemic was much more fun when it wasn't a thing we'd actually experienced. Shaw is a bisexual icon. The fundamental differences between The Machine and Samaritan,...

Prophets : This episode hits different in 2023. John's sexytimes sad motif means a recurring character, and John is a terrible spy. Samaritan is taking active measures. AIs don't understand morals, in Finch's view. Root is great in this episode. Has John ever voted? No one mock Ana for her bravery in this episode. Pretenders : John has a fanboy. Elias and Dominic meet. Good nerd-flirting. Surprisi...

Justen hates auto-zoom. Wingman : Which PoI writer has written the most Fusco F*cks episodes? John isn't allowed to do his favorite things (kneecapping) any more now that he's a cop. Bear is the best boy, yet again. Harold gets to buy an anti-tank weapon. Jude admits he's wrong. Fusco looks good in purple, but why can't they tailor his jacket right? The wingman guy isn't pickup artist 2.0, he's ge...

Samaritan got to Jude's audio, sorry. Be prepared for a ranking of all Nolans. The show has shifted from Wealthy Man Procedural to AI Apocalypse. Panopticon : Shaw is a perfume girl, John is an undercover cop, and Finch is a professor. Ana was close on her predictions with Shaw at least. Elias--welcome back! Root and Finch have switched places motivation-wise and it's delightful. Harold doesn't ge...

A House Divided : Five numbers, all relevant... to The Machine. Shaw and John have to work with the O'Terminator. Root has a B-Team? Oh great, Vigilance is running a toooootally fair trial. Seeing Root's whole background thing is really cool. The Greer/Finch dialogue should have won an Emmy. Collier is divisive. Deus Ex Machina : Four Oh Shit Episode. This is a questionable trial. The GLOMAR defen...

You know software is evil if it doesn't have Dark mode. Death Benefit : The Rules Committee does... something, we think? root asks Shaw out on a murder spree--sorry, date. John reverts to his CIA training. AI murder, the sexiest ethical dilemma. No, actually, it's not sexy, it's fascinating to watch Harold finally come to grips with what he's created. "I've sort of gotten used to saving people" is...

S3E18: Allegiance S3E19: Most Likely To... Alternate episode names: Grosse Pointe Root/Bear is Fred, Right? Justen can't remember where Ohio is. Zathras aggressively edited the bullshittery but you might want to skip to 5:48 to avoid 3 minutes of old people complaining about colds. Allegiance : Who needs fancy tracking devices when you could just use Bear. Numbers of the Week are now almost exclus...

We were bored and decided to get together to talk about what we'd done this year but had not yet made content about. Some content snuck in. Sorry. You should feel no obligation to listen to this whatsoever. *** Connect with the show at @babylonpodject and at @atuin_pod , or if Twitter is dead by now, @compleatdiscography@mendeddrum.org on Mastodon. Help us keep the lights on via our Patreon! Juste...

Jude is sleepy, Ana is a vindictive mathematical hitwoman, and Justen keeps an even keel. Last Call : Expanding on the word "no". What this episode fails to do is what PoI normally does well--taking a trope and genre-shifting it. Someone knowing how electricity works should not be the highlight of an episode. There's so much they could have done with this episode but nothing works and everyone's c...

In which Jude is tortured by the memory of Elmo. 4C : Holly, the flight attendant, carries this episode on her shoulders. The offer to bribe John in bitcoin is perfection. John can't ignore the fact that half of First Class is unconscious. The Machine knows that the ISA might be the cause of the Number, and thus cannot hand him over. Really, a flight attendant f*** buddy makes a lot of sense for J...