Grey Sector: A Babylon 5 Podcast

Send us Fan Mail This week we review the season two episode Divided Loyalties. Joe is impressed with the 23rd Century version of an RSS feed, Mike thinks that Vordor is beautiful in the Fall, and Sarah notes that Stephen's vampirism makes him resistant to non-magical attacks.  Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:52:21 Spoiler Zone: 0:52:21 - 0:57:48 Next Episode and other Shenanigans: 0:57:4...

Send us Fan Mail This week we review the season two episode Confessions and Lamentations. Sarah wonders whether or not the blood bong in Medlab is required for new vampire creation, Joe tries to recall if the docking bay always had a portcullis, while Mike notes that when having Minbari Passover you should always leave the front door open. Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:46:31 Spoiler Zone: 0...

Send us Fan Mail This week we review the season two episode In the Shadow of Zha'Ha'Dum. Joe notes which Biblical character Mr. Morden reminds him of, Sarah opines on how Centauri teapot guns might work, and Mike asks "where are the giant Q-Tips?"  Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:59:03 Spoiler Zone: 0:59:03 - 1:02:25 Next Episode and other Shenanigans: 1:02:25 Music from t...

Send us Fan Mail This week we review the season two episode Knives. Mike starts to suspect that his sommelier notes on Brivari were written by Larry DeTillio, Sarah ponders the fine gradations of gladiator sub-classes, and Joe notes that everyone needs to watch Robert Picardo's La Donna È Mobile on Youtube . Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 1:00:21 Spoiler Zone: 1:00:21 - 1:01:59 Next Episo...

Send us Fan Mail This week we review the season two episode And Now for a Word. Sarah notes that Narn fighters are always blown up, while Centauri fighters always get the chance to surrender, Joe comes out as having D-Dar, the ability to sense when an episode of B5 is directed by Larry Ditillio, while Mike wants everyone to visit Root Down at the Denver International Airport. Spoiler-free discussi...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we review the season two episode “There All the Honor Lies.” Mike notes that B5's budget is ridiculously small for its size, Joe recounts how many CDs of Gregorian Chants he bought in high school, while Sarah posits that gift shops might have been the location of the last battle between the lawyers and the therapists. Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 1:01:23 Spoi...

Send us Fan Mail This week we review the season two episode Hunter, Prey. Joe really wants JMS to come up with a new character flaw for doctors, Sarah asks if someone can please untie that Paq'ma'ra, and Mike wonders if Dr. Jacobs is like Steve Jobs, but in vampire form. Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:58:25 Spoiler Zone: 0:58:25 - 1:05:50 Next Episode and other Shenanigans: 1:05:50...

Send us Fan Mail This week we review the season two episode Acts of Sacrifice. Sarah wants to talk about the knife sommelier, Joe realizes that star fighters are actually ineffectual death boxes, while Mike wonders how all the iguanas ended up in down below. Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 1:14:45 Spoiler Zone: 1:14:45 - 1:17:10 Next Episode and other Shenanigans: 1:17:10 As Sarah mentions in t...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we review the season two episode “All Alone in the Night.” Mike is annoyed because fusion reactors don't work that way, Sarah pines for the Wesley Crusher Resort-Wear Collection™, and Joe asks why any species bothers to have fighter ships in the first place. Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:55:34 Spoiler Zone: 0:55:34 - 1:00:24 Next Episode and other Shenanigan...

Send us Fan Mail This week we review the season two episode Gropos. Joe notes that no matter how bad it is, it's nowhere near as bad as Cathryn and Jeff at dinner, Sarah thinks Larry DeTillio is definitely a butt man, and Mike can't understand why casting didn't talk to R. Lee Ermey. Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 1:11:00 Spoiler Zone: 1:11:00 - 1:13:31 Next Episode and other Sh...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we review the Hugo Award winning season two episode, "The Coming of Shadows." Mike wonders if security has precognition, Sarah is disappointed in the lack naval battles depicted in the Imperial Wig, while Joe confirms he was definitely expecting a much bigger knife. Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 1:29:47 Spoiler Zone: 1:29:47 - 1:35:07 Next Episode and oth...

Send us Fan Mail This week we review the season two episode "A Race Through Dark Places." Sarah realizes that Sheridan may actually just be a Libertarian, Mike starts coining new words that will totally be in the dictionary soon, and Joe finally confirms the true name of the Narn home world. Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:58:33 Spoiler Zone: 0:58:33 - 1:04:22 Next Episode and other...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we review the season two episode “Soul Mates.” Mike wants to forget that this episode has both a B and a C plot, Joe comes around to the idea that Stephen might actually be a vampire, while Sarah notes that a man definitely wrote this. Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:54:54 Spoiler Zone: 0:54:54 - 0:56:11 Next Episode and other Shenanigans: 0:56:11 Music from this e...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we review the season two episode “A Spider in the Web.” Mike argues that Dark Shadows is definitely a legitimate soap opera, Sarah tracks the cast usage of the Apple Newton throughout the episode, and Joe articulates the fine distinction between various hand-based weapons in Larry DiTillio scripts. Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:57:23 Spoiler Zone: 0:57:23 - 0:59:...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we review the season two episode “The Long Dark.” Sarah thinks someone from the League of Non-Aligned Prosthetics might have started a True Crime podcast, Joe notes the obvious lack of a chief engineer on the station, while Mike tries to quantify the exact amount of grapa it takes Joe to use the word contretemps. Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:56:23 Spoiler Zone:...

Send us Fan Mail This week we review the season two episode A Distant Star. Joe has trouble remembering a certain character exists, Mike prepares Bagna Cauda, and Sarah has a startlingly plausible new theory about Dr Franklin. Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 1:01:06 Spoiler Zone: 1:01:06 - 1:03:00 Next Episode and other Shenanigans: 1:03:00 Music from this episode: "Surf Punk Rock" By...

Send us Fan Mail When recording a Distant Star, we had a side discussion about the name of the ship, as JMS is attributed to have a... problematic... quote about it. JMS, let us know, this was the 90s after all, so time and context may change people's feelings on all sorts of things, including genocidal "explorers."  Not sure there's much funny in this one, but we thought this...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we review the season two episode “The Geometry of Shadows.” Sarah pines after Londo’s oil painting of himself that Vir probably painted, Joe wonders who grows the food during the Drazi fighting year, and Mike thinks the techno-mages were on their way to Burning Man. Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:54:53 Spoiler Zone: 0:54:53 - 1:00:00 Next Episode and other Shenani...

Send us Fan Mail This week we review the season two episode Revelations. Joe is pretty sure Lou is a Sax man, Sarah explains the rules of jump gate usage, and Mike thinks genocide is Londo's love language. Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:59:42 Spoiler Zone: 0:59:42 - 1:05:21 Next Episode and other Shenanigans: 1:05:21 Music from this episode: "Surf Punk Rock" By absentrealities...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we start Season two with a bang, reviewing the first episode, "Points of Departure." Mike doesn't know why General Hague reminds him of the dad from Brady Bunch, Sarah thinks Londo might be six times as qualified to be the captain as Sheridan is, while Joe recalls the tale of the 47 Ronin, which is definitely not an inspiration for this episode in any way...

Send us Fan Mail This week we look back over season one and talk about the good, the bad, and the hats. Sarah uncovers the secrets of soul-powered antigravity, Mike can't figure out why duct tape is so terrible in the future, and Joe has 👏 so 👏 many 👏 questions 👏 about tentasticularite-based fraud.  Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 00:38:08 Next Episode: 00:38:30-00:40:43 Other Shenanig...

Send us Fan Mail This week we review the season one finale Chrysalis! Joe questions the coordinate system in the B5 universe because it makes no sense, Sarah desperately wants to subscribe to the Angel One Menswear Catalog, and Mike ponders the size (measured in square miles) of Down Below. Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 1:14:56 Spoiler Zone: 1:14:56 - 1:22:46 Next Episode and other Shenanigan...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we review the season one episode "Legacies." Sarah finds her long lost Minbari caste generator in GDrive, Joe gets distracted cataloging the incredibly long list of random shit on Sinclair's desk, while Mike laments the lack of a heist scene in this episode that was all about a heist. Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:52:41 Spoiler Zone: 0:52:41 - 0:55...

Send us Fan Mail This week brings us a special bonus episode, our interview with Julie Caitlin Brown, who played Na'Toth! Julie recounts her time as Sarah Douglas' stand in on Falcon Crest, reminisces about her experiences in the jungle with Jason Momoa, and reveals what JMS had planned for her character's original plot arc before she left the show. Julie awesomeness: 0:00:00 - 0:34...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we review the season one episode "TKO." Mike tries to determine if a round is a unit of time or a level of inebriation, Joe observes that fight scenes juxtaposed with shiva are great storytelling and don't feel weird at all, while Sarah wonders if Babylon 5 credits are actually just cryptocurrency. Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:54:08 Spoiler Zone:...