Babylon 5 (1993)

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After Shows, Tv & Film, Tv Reviews

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🗓️ 31 August 2016

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Special thanks to Brian Strader for bravely and against all odds commissioning the 90's era sci-fi drama "Babylon 5". Jim and I thought such a sprawling project couldn't be properly covered in just three episodes, given our bias against the series dated FX, questionable set and costuming, and our rabid pro-Trek bias. But, amazingly, he selected three beauts that we feel gave us a newfound respect and understanding of the Babylon 5 fandom. Tune in if you want to hear a lot of comparisons and contrasts between B5 and DS9, discussion of interstellar sex, and appreciation for the emoting of snake men and owl people. If you want to join us on the journey, the episodes we watched were 207, “Soul Mates”, 209, “The Coming of Shadows”, and 220, “The Long Twilight Struggle”. Brian was helpful enough to assemble a "Babylon 5" primer, providing the backstory to this trio of episodes. Also, friend of the show Jason Shankel from the Nattercast wrote a story for io9 charting the strange evolutionary process that brought the show to television, and provides context for B5's place in the pantheon of proto-"Golden Age" television shows. He also provided a list of "essential" Babylon 5 episodes, if you, like me, what to know more but have no idea where to start. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Oh, Hey everybody welcome back to another bald move commission
0:30.8	podcast this one was commissioned by one Brian Strader and he's a very brave
0:37.2	individual. He plucked three random episodes. Well not random actually he spent a lot of time giving a thought actually.
0:44.8	He wrote his primers and everything. He carefully curated three episodes from the
0:50.5	classic science fiction 90 science fiction fiction series Babylon 5.
0:55.0	Something I think we've talked about because we're Star Trek fans.
0:59.0	Neither of us have much of a background of Babylon 5.
1:02.0	I know that we've talked about being kind of put off initially by the makeup and special effects because we kind of audiovisual horrors. We kind of had a semi-disasters lost podcast that made a lot of fans feel
1:16.0	unsatisfied and so we we then we had a whole bunch of people running on
1:22.3	television shows we have never watched like Buffy and of people
1:23.0	we haven't ever watched like Buffy and Babylon.
1:25.0	We wrote to these people and begged them.
1:27.0	Begg them.
1:28.0	Not the Commission.
1:29.0	These podcasts are going to be terrible and they preservered on.
1:32.0	Brian was one of those. He selected
1:34.3	2007 soulmates. This is season two of course. 2007 soul mates.
1:38.8	2009 the coming of shadows and 220, the long twilight struggle, Babylon 5, 1993, science fiction, the B-squad to deep space 9.
1:49.2	What do you think, Jim?
1:52.2	But can I say like a notch above a show like far escape or something?
1:56.8	I'm sure or the Kevin's sort what was that the Kevin Sorbo joint? Oh, that the Hercules joint? No, no. No I know what you're talking about though. Which one was that? I don't know.
2:05.2	This is a notch above that for sure. Like even after the legendary space journeys, I think is what it was.
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