We’ve received many emails containing links to Lost Tales information. This first one goes to the Babylon 5 Script books website, and features blog entries and photos by JMS.

This link takes you to the website of the CG Society. The article on their site is great for all you SFX geeks out there, but be warned: SPOILERS, RIGHT AHEAD!

And lastly, this link comes from the B5JMS news digest, and is recommended by the Great Maker himself. It’s not B5 related, really, but as JMS wrote: To quote Abraham Lincoln, “If you like this sort of thing, it’s the sort of thing you’ll like.”

I can tell you, I like it very much.

Just to let everyone know, there will not be a live feed to listen to Wednesday night, March 21. We should be back next week, but that also means that there won’t be a show next week.

It’s been a rough time the past couple of weeks, with the latest news about Joe Murphy’s health coming over the past few days. For those who haven’t been aware, or don’t listen to the other FarPoint Media shows and don’t know who Joe is, see some of the updates that have been posted at Wingin’ It (especially Show #101) and Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas. There is a button on the Wingin’ It website to donate to help him out, and Michael and Evo are working on setting up a “Wish” for him.

For those people who frequent the Babylon Podcast forums, we have a new forum. I’m still waiting to hear from the admins on whether or not threads from the old site can be imported to the new site, but if not, go play on the new site, over at FarPoint Forums: http://www.farpointforums.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=31.

Be Seein’ Ya.

Welcome to Show #59!

Pardon the audio quality. We know it sounds like crap.

Jeffrey tells about the benefits of green beer. Who knew Kosh was Irish?

Brad from Podculture is busy adopting B5 novels that he’s finding in used book stores in his area, and we’ll have those available. Not sure how yet, but we’ll figure something out.

Deep Geeking: No Deep Geeking this episode. It’s all voicemail, kids!

Listener Feedback: Elias makes another connection between “Infection” and “All Alone in the Night”: Marshall Teague played Nelson and Ta’Lon; Gary from Jacksonville comments on Bruce Boxleitner’s guest appearance on CBS’ “Cold Case”; we’re treated to a Londo-G’Kar montage; Gary from Jacksonville also comments on products from Mongoose Publishing; Edmund from Greenville comments on “All Alone in the Night” and the power shift that results from the imbalance created on the Grey Council; comments on Summer’s comments that Kosh didn’t know about Lorien being at Z’ha’dum and why Lorien’s waiting for someone; Edmund comments on the SuperNova podcast featuring Mira Furlan, and her insights about JMS’ use of the real conflict in the Balkans to infuse the fictional conflict between the Narn and Centauri; Chris from NZ reveals that he never knew Zima was a real and actual product that people consumed in a fit of insanity, and he’s happy he never drank it; T’jon of the Narn Regime accuses Jarsto of being a Centauri agent attempting to hijack the Babylon Podcast and other FarPoint Media productions; Martin in England lets us know how B5 was aired on Channel 4 back during it’s original run, and the nods JMS inserted for the British viewers; Jarsto laments the overuse of puns; Edmund defends the practice of taping TV shows to cassette to listen to later; Curt in St George comments on the similarity between the dream sequence in “All Alone in the Night” and the dream sequence in “Twin Peaks”, and makes the B5 connection with “Twin Peaks” by using The Hidden which guest starred Claudia Christian.

Your feedback does matter, and is welcome! You can call us at 206-338-2259, or email us and tell us what you think… and likely hear it played or read on the show. Please try to keep the voicemail comments as brief as possible.

Vote for us! Let’s get this show’s rank into The Pickle’s Top 100!

Shameless related begging: Summer’s also really hoping to convince any publisher to eventually do an essay collection on Babylon 5. If you’d be interested in buying one if they did do a B5 collection, let Summer know, either here in comments, or over in the Babylon Podcast forums.

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Here’s a special treat for you.

Scott Sigler’s Evil Plan ™ continues to unfold.

He’s passing out the full-length PDF of Ancestor, and wants everyone who wants to get the print version of the book to go to Amazon and order it on April 1st.

Read. Go. Now.

Welcome to Show #58!

Jeffrey tells us all about his newest project, producing episodes for HGTV’s “Over Your Head”. Then, for some reason, we venture into Vorlon-morphed TV show names, and that game continues in the chatroom for at least 20 more minutes after we cut to the first break.

Brad from Podculture is busy adopting B5 novels that he’s finding in used book stores in his area, and we’ll have those available. Not sure how yet, but we’ll figure something out.

Deep Geeking: Tim and Summer delve into discussion about “Hunter, Prey”. In this episode, Sheridan begins to deal directly with Kosh, and the staff begins to wonder more closely about the hints dropped about Vorlon ship technology.

After being informed that Dr Everett Jacobs, the former presidential physician, is a wanted fugitive, and initiating a search for him by station security, Sheridan learns that all that he has been told about Jacobs may not be what it seems. He was reluctant to believe in Franklin’s support of Jacobs, until being informed by a liasion from General Hague that Jacobs is being hunted because he may possess information damaging to Clark’s given rationale for leaving Earth Force One before it exploded.

We also see Kosh begin to interact more with Sheridan, and even deign to instruct him in the finer points of being himself.

“Hunter, Prey” is available for download from iTunes.

Listener Feedback: It’s all email, all the time for this show. Jefferson in the UK chimes in for Jeff’s call for UK listeners; Loz comments on GROPOS and who’s sleeping (or not sleeping) around; Greg clarifies the content in a few of the necessary of B5 novelizations; Katrina in PA wants to know what our Top 5 and Bottom 5 shows for the entire series might be; Tim wants to know what Jeff’s personal Top 5 and Bottom 5 in terms of production were.

Your feedback does matter, and is welcome! You can call us at 206-338-2259, or email us and tell us what you think… and likely hear it played or read on the show. Please try to keep the voicemail comments as brief as possible.

Vote for us! Let’s get this show’s rank into The Pickle’s Top 100!

Shameless related begging: Summer’s also really hoping to convince a publisher to eventually do an essay collection on Babylon 5. If you’d be interested in buying such a B5 collection, let Summer know, either here in comments, or over in the Babylon Podcast forums.

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Welcome to Show #57!

Brad from Podculture is busy adopting B5 novels that he’s finding in used book stores in his area, and we’ll have those available. Not sure how yet, but we’ll figure something out.

Deep Geeking: Tim and Summer delve into discussion about “Acts of Sacrifice”. Please pardon the crappy Skype connection that Summer had to use instead of a Gold Channel connection.

G’Kar is faced with insubordination from the Narn on the station, who want to exact revenge against Centauri citizens for the great losses of Narn civilian lives in several attacks. The command staff is trying to figure out how to still deal with Londo in a diplomatic fashion, and that strain is reflected in the previously genial relationship between Londo and Garibaldi.

Ivanova is given another diplomatic task, in negotiating an alliance with a very quirky and standoffish race, the Lumati. Their belief that interaction with species that they believe are inferior is a weakness that Susan is able to exploit in order to get out of a particularly distasteful side requirement for the deal.

“Acts of Sacrifice” is available for download from iTunes.

Listener Feedback: Voicemail. Jeffrey. ‘Nuff said.

Your feedback does matter, and is welcome! You can call us at 206-338-2259, or email us and tell us what you think… and likely hear it played or read on the show. Please try to keep the voicemail comments as brief as possible.

Vote for us! Let’s get this show’s rank into The Pickle’s Top 100!

Shameless related begging: Summer’s also really hoping to convince any publisher to eventually do an esssay collection on Babylon 5. If you’d be interested in buying one if they did do a B5 collection, let Summer know, either here in comments, or over in the Babylon Podcast forums.

Link: Smart Pop Books
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