The Babylon Podcast

Deep Geeking: Tim throws out the challenge to Gary and Jeremy: compare and contrast your favorite Captains: Sheridan ( Babylon 5 ), Gideon ( Crusade ), Reynolds ( Firefly ) and Kirk ( Star Trek: TOS ) Source

Lots and lots of feedback, speculation, and general random geeking... enjoy! Also, folks preparing to review and discuss the comics and novels with us (or for us), get ready... your turn will be coming up soon! Source

Deep Geeking: Tim, Summer and Bret discuss the unproduced Crusade episode "Value Judgments", written by Fiona Avery. This episode was very close to being shot, with contracts out to Walter Koenig to guest star, and Mike Vejar to direct. That it didn't get produced is our loss. Source

So, what happens when you have a milestone episode, and everyone forgets to notice? Well, you end up with Tim distracted by shiny toys, with Summer distracted by baseball, and Bret distracted by poking fun at Tim and Summer. Deep Geeking: This week, Tim, Summer and Bret discuss the unproduced Crusade script "To the Ends of the Earth". Source

Feedback spill on aisle 5! Source

Deep Geeking: Tim and Summer delve into discussion on "Appearances and Other Deceits", the final produced episode of Crusade . Source

Tim stumbled across the iFanboy website, and relays to us an article by Ron putting JMS at #10 on his list of "worst things in comics in 2010," and explains where he feels the JMS shortcomings fell. Maybe Tim should be upset about him also dropping the ball on the Lensman movie. Source

Tim and Summer enjoy a chat with renowned character actor Tucker Smallwood , who played Mr David Endawi in the S3 episode "Matters of Honor", and Commodore Glen Van Ross in Space: Above and Beyond . Source

We celebrate the new Babylon Park website, as well as the expanded materials available there, and you can follow them on Twitter, @babylonpark . Shiny. Bret strongly recommends following @patriciatallman , merely for the hilarious entertainment value, Tim reads us a status update on various JMS writing projects. Source

Walter Koenig at last has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame! It's about damned time. Deep Geeking: Tim, Bret and Summer discuss "War Zone", demonstrating amazing feats of recall, considering that Summer watched the wrong damned episode this week. Source

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

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 h...

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 autho...

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

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

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

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...

Feedbackapalooza: Telepath smackdown? Either way, this episode seems to be chock full of questions from Adam from start to finish. Source

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....

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

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

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

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 ho...

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 enc...

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