The Babylon Podcast

Deep Geeking: Tim and Summer contemplate the mysteries and metaphors in "Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" For a long time... this is a good one. Source

Listener Feedback: Feedbackapalooza! It's a word that's sticking now. Mick comments on the baseball talk in both Babylon 5 and Star Trek: in B5, baseball is still alive, and in Star Trek the sport is long dead, but in DS9 baseball is back and strong. How'd that happen? Source

Deep Geeking: Summer welcomes SciFi Ranter Girl , graphics designer and huge B5 fan Cat Hulberg, and Susie the Southern Geek How to Grow Your Geek to come onboard and Deep Geek on "The Hour of the Wolf", the Season 4 premiere episode. Here you have the women in John Sheridan's life going through various stages of denial, grief and bargaining, in an attempt to find out for sure what happened to him...

Deep Geeking: Call it uber geeking. Mike McCafferty rejoins Tim and Summer to discuss "Z'ha'dum", the season 3 finale, containing one of the most delicious and exasperating cliffhangers ever visited upon scifi tv fans. Source

Interview: This week, George Johnsen, Babylon 5 co-producer (and apparently one of Jeffrey's cohorts in mischief), at last joins us! We talk to George about the show, including some of the questions sent in by listeners, and the anecdotes and production details are both fascinating and fall-down funny. Did you know George was also an original Cylon? Summer didn't, and that just warms her heart. So...

Deep Geeking: "Z minus 7 Days". After the silliness dies down, Tim and Summer discuss "Shadow Dancing", the episode that culminates in Sheridan's and Delenn's goal to get all of the League Worlds to work together in mutual self-defense against the Shadows. The B-story deals with Franklin dealing with the consequences of his actions and his choices, by literally talking things over with himself. An...

Tim, Jeffrey and Michael geek over some of the latest space flight news, and lament over the lack of space flight and space news coverage on the mainstream news. Tim also lets us know that March 26 is the both Jesus Treviño's and Ed Wasser's birthdays. Feedbackapalooza: Lots of voicemail and email. We answer and discuss. Source

Deep Geeking: This week, Tim and Summer discuss "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place", and the intrigues undertaken by Londo regarding G'Kar and Lord Refa, a boost in morale from messages from the Resistance on Earth relayed by several visiting religious dignitaries, and Sheridan and Delenn discovered the method behind the madness that the Shadow attacks that have been plaguing the sector for...

Deep Geeking: Tim and Summer geek on "Grey 17 is Missing", and the consensus is that half the episode is amazing, in terms of story, future implications, and charged emotional situations, and the other half is... well, I think even after 10 years we're still trying to figure that out. Source

Deep Geeking: Edmund joins Tim and Summer for episode geeking this week, covering "Walkabout", a bridge episode that packs a lot of punch in some areas and that seems to fall off pace in others (in Summer's opinion, anyway). We see Dr Franklin, hanging around in Down-Below, searching for something, but not quite sure yet. What he finds for a time could be a reflection of his own situation, or some...

Interview: John Warner, Best Boy and Key Grip on Babylon 5, joins us to talk about his time on set, and making sure everyone's lit correctly and all the cameras move where they need to, and manipulation of the sets. So head on down to your nearest production, and if it's safe to get into the studio, go hug a key grip for all that they do. Source

Voicemail: Voicemail. Questions. Email. Questions. Some Answers. Source

Deep Geeking: We have a Deep Geeking treat for you... a guest geeker! Mike McCafferty, actor and geek, joins us to share his long pent-up Babylon 5 theories. He believes that "War Without End" is the Grand Retcon of the series, and we all discuss a lot of points from casting to plot adjustments and future Retcon necessities in the series. Source

Deep Geeking: This week, the geeking goes for "Interludes and Examinations", and Jeffrey sticks around to give us some behind the scenes info on The Day the Vorlon Died. Source

Deep Geeking: This week, we talk about "Ship of Tears", an episode with a tour de force performance by Walter Koenig. We get to see Bester as his usual menacing self, and we're surprised with a suprisingly human and vulnerable aspect to the character we'd come to despise. Alliances are shaken and shifted. Lines are being more clearly drawn in the upcoming battle between the forces of Order and Cha...

Voicemail: Monty Vorlon's Flying Circus... nothing more need be said. We go through voicemails and emails this time around, and truly, no one can stop the puns. Source

Deep Geeking: This episode, the geeking revolves around "A Late Delivery from Avalon". We look at cause and effect of choices with devastating consequences, and parallel mythologies, and Monty Python jokes. We need more instances of agreeable thumps. Source

Deep Geeking: Tonight's geeking focuses on "Sic Transit Vir", and discussion on how the characters start adjusting to their new roles as leaders of a breakaway station all alone in the night. It takes a few viewings to appreciate just how much humor is running just below the surface. Source

Tim, Summer and Jeffrey ring in the first Babylon Podcast of 2008 with puns. And some New Year's resolutions broken mere seconds after they're made. But we're playing on the new mixer, so it's all good. And many props to Brad from PodCulture for editing together the Holiday Specials. Source

Enjoy Part 2 of our look back at 2007's Babylon Podcast highlights. Happy New Year to all of our listeners and all Babylon 5 fans everywhere. Source

Enjoy Part 1 of our look back at this year's Babylon Podcast. Happy Holidays to all of our listeners and all Babylon 5 fans everywhere. Source

Deep Geeking: Tonight's geeking focuses on "Ceremonies of Light and Dark", and some of the undercurrents simmering below the surface story. Source

Tim, Summer and Jeffrey discuss space travel, future plans for the new kosh.org, and of course, the voicemails and emails that have been piling up behind the scenes. Source

Kurt from The ScapeCast recorded Claudia Christian's panel at this year's Dragon*Con, and was kind enough to make it available to share with Babylon Podcast listeners. Source

Deep Geeking: "Severed Dreams". All Geeking, All the Time. Jeffrey sticks around for the geeking on this episode, and adds some anecdotes from his time on the set during the filming. Source