The Audio Guide to Babylon 5
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The Audio Guide to Babylon 5
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Episode 112: “Sleeping in Light”
It’s the end, but the moment has been prepared for. Steven Schapansky joins us for the Babylon 5 finale. We’ll be back, after a good long hiatus, to c...
Episode 111: “The River of Souls”
The station may be emptying out, but we’re not quite done yet. Jason Snell reminded us this Babylon 5 “movie” aired before the series finale, so we’re...
Episode 110: “Objects at Rest”
Final departures, fateful errors, and a first-and-last message to a child. Not to mention THE SHOT. Which SHOT are we talking about? Find out as we di...
Episode 109: “Objects in Motion”
So many feels: a huge chunk of our cast reaches their points of departure and Babylon 5 approaches the fall of night. JMS’s endgame is in sight.
Episode 108: “Wheel of Fire”
So we can all just breathe now that the conflict with Centauri Prime is over, right? You would be wrong, friend! See Lyta go rogue as she’s never gone...
Episode 107: “The Fall of Centauri Prime”
What more can we say? Lizbeth Myles joins us as all of Londo’s chickens come definitively home to roost.
Episode 106: “Movements of Fire and Shadow”
All year long, Sheridan and Delenn have been trying to pull together a historic political alliance. They’ve been contending with not only the forces o...
Episode 105: “And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder”
Reckoning. War. One of the most powerful episodes of Babylon 5 ever, during the underrated Season 5. So powerful, in fact, that our Control Group, one...
Episode 104: “Darkness Ascending”
Things are ramping up: Lennier, the hero. Lyta, the opportunist. Garibaldi, the watched. Londo, the lonely. The threads are all coming together as we...
Episode 103: “Meditations on the Abyss”
Almost the full ensemble gets together for what might be the calm before the storm, with lots of character beats in an episode that–spoiler alert–we a...
Episode 102: “The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father”
“I want to see the TV series set in the HR department at Psi Corps.” –James Thomson
Episode 101: “Day of the Dead”
The legendary Neil Gaiman made his American television debut writing the only episode of B5 not authored by Joe Straczynski since late Season 2. Was t...
Episode 100: “The Ragged Edge”
This episode has epic ’90s computer matte compositing of a balcony, set to a particularly stirring Christopher Franke score! Oh, and Garibaldi does th...
Episode 99: “Phoenix Rising”
It’s the end of the Byron arc, in dramatically tragic fashion–which means it is of course time for our own harbinger of doom, Jason Snell, to return t...
Episode 98: “A Tragedy of Telepaths”
The two threads–the telepath colony crisis and the secret Centauri attacks on ISA ships–get pulled tighter together, with an unexpected rescue of Na’T...
Episode 97: “In the Kingdom of the Blind”
No more pastels for the Regent, no. Damian London portrays a very different Regent from the sweet old man we used to know as Londo begins to suspect v...
Episode 96: “Secrets of the Soul”
As Steven discovers a long-buried secret about an Alliance race, Byron discovers an even more deeply buried secret about telepaths in EVERY race–just...
Episode 95: “Strange Relations”
We all come together in a better place to find a roomful of singing telepaths, an irritated Bester, an irritated Lochley, an irritated Garibaldi, and...
Episode 94: “Learning Curve”
We use the word “spackle” a few times in this podcast. We like that word. Rolls off the tongue. MEANWHILE, for the second episode in a row the stars o...
Episode 93: “A View from the Gallery”
DEPLOY THE GREEK CHORUS! Two never-before-seen minor characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern their way through the space station and their cast. In Sp...
Episode 92: “The Paragon of Animals”
Telepath politics. Gunboat diplomacy. Newlywed apartment living. Doesn’t sound like much. SPOILER ALERT: We absofragginlutely loved this episode.
Episode 91: “The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari”
It’s the second episode of a brand new season with a brand new status quo, so what do you do? Ignore all the new people and new situations, and do a c...
Episode 90: “No Compromises”
Somewhat to their surprise, the cast and crew and showrunner got their fifth season. But to quote some guy way back in the first, “Nothing’s the same...
Episode 89: “Thirdspace”
Creepy Cthulhu aliens from beyond Firstspace and Secondspace! This Untold Tale of Babylon 5 was produced after the fourth season when they had no hint...
Episode 88: “In the Beginning”
Four years into BABYLON 5, JMS took a mulligan with a brand new prequel movie that served as a pilot for the series’s relaunch on the TNT network! Is...
Episode 87: “The Deconstruction of Falling Stars”
It’s a season finale, and it’s entirely cuckoo bananapants! We look into the distant future of the B5 universe along with our traditional season-endin...
Episode 86: “Rising Star”
Boy howdy, does this feel like the last episode of the entire series! Where could B5 possibly go from here? (We’ll talk about that in spoiler space, o...
Episode 85: “Endgame”
So. Much. Happens. Y’all. All of Sheridan’s planning comes together and the Earth Civil War is at an end. Did it happen too fast, or was the payoff wo...
Episode 84: “Between the Darkness and the Light”
It’s a little known fact that American television regulations were changed following the initial broadcast of this episode because it was determined t...
Episode 83: “Intersections in Real Time”
Welcome to John Sheridan’s darkest ordeal. Good morning. (Artificial daylight comes on.) Shall we begin?
Episode 82: “The Face of the Enemy”
Steven Schapansky rejoins us because (1) Mike Vejar and (2) Michael Garibaldi–as we find out just exactly WHAT has been going on underneath Steven’s f...
Episode 81: “The Exercise of Vital Powers”
Two out of three podcasters surveyed loved “(The) Exercise of Vital Powers.” Worldbuilding! One out of three didn’t. Lots of talking! Find out who’s o...
Episode 80: “No Surrender, No Retreat”
Well, Sheridan promised us last episode that things would get super serious. JMS wastes no time; there’s a reason all of Season 4 shares a title with...
Episode 79: “Moments of Transition”
Stuffed to the gills with plot, “Moments of Transition” puts a pin in the Minbari Civil War, puts the screws to Lyta Alexander’s career, puts Michael...
Episode 78: “Rumors, Bargains and Lies”
John “Machiavelli” Sheridan manipulates the alien governments into a fiendish conspiracy against Earth! (Or that’s how ISN might broadcast it these da...
Episode 77: “Conflicts of Interest”
On this episode of Garibaldi, P.I., Michael does NOT don a Hawaiian shirt nor acquire a Ferrari. Instead he picks up a new job opportunity that takes...
Episode 76: “Lines of Communication”
We are sorry to report that our Control Group, one Steven Schapansky (not appearing in this episode) had a conniption fit over the lack of descriptive...
Episode 75: “Racing Mars”
Somehow we made it through the whole episode without a John Barrowman reference. Chip considers this a personal failing. But, hey, let’s advance the E...
Episode 74: “Atonement”
OK, did this episode have the best guest casting find ever in B5 history, with Reiner Schone, or did it have the best guest casting find ever? Yeah, t...
Episode 73: “The Illusion of Truth”
It’s the B5 directorial debut of one Vir Cotto (not appearing on your screen this time) and the flip side to Season 2’s “And Now for a Word.” Call the...