Ensign Broccoli comes to visit the station! What did you think about “The Long Dark”? Please leave your spoilers in the holodeck next door.
Category Archives: Discussion Threads
Earhart’s: Spoiler Space for “The Long Dark”
Babylon 5 dips into Buck Rogers territory with a cryogenically suspended visitor from the past, Forbidden Planet territory with an invisible monster, and The A-Teamterritory with Dwight Schultz. How’d “The Long Dark” fit into the five-year arc?
Zocalo: Spoiler-free Discussion of “A Distant Star”
How does Sheridan handle his newfound fear that he’s been “beached”? Do you agree with 23rd-century dietary principles? What do you think of hyperspace in the B5 universe: a swell place to visit but you wouldn’t want to live there? And how’d Dorothy Fontana do on this script? Talk amongst yourselves, but please, leave the spoilers at home.
Earhart’s: Spoiler Space for “A Distant Star”
We have two comparably sized pinnacles of Earthforce technology: the immobile space station Babylon 5 and the star-spanning EAS Cortez. We have a captain-turned-military governor going ever so slightly stir crazy when the latter’s captain visits him at the former. We have mysteries in hyperspace.
We have a spoiler section.
So, this is where you talk about the implications of Dr. Franklin’s food plans on the five-year arc.
Zocalo: Spoiler-free Discussion of “The Geometry of Shadows”
Green!
Purple!
Green!
Purple!
Green!
Purple!
Spoile…(WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM)
Green!
Purple!
Earhart’s: “The Geometry of Shadows” Spoiler Space
If you sought your fortune from a Technomage, how do you think you’d fare? Why was Elric so tetchy? Do you have any other thoughts about the Technomages, Lord Refa, green and purple? Spoilers go here, y’all…
Zocalo: Spoiler-free Discussion of “Revelations”
What were you expecting when Delenn came out of the cocoo– er, chrysalis? What did you think G’Kar was up to? And, if you’ve never seen B5 before, where do you think it’s all going? Abandon spoilers, all ye who enter here…
Earhart’s: “Revelations” Spoiler Space
Arguably (and JMS alluded to this in his online comments at the time), this episode is “Chrysalis Part Three,” as a new status quo is fully established for Babylon 5. Talk about it, and where it all goes, here!
Zocalo: Spoiler-free Discussion of “Points of Departure”
At this point I am desperately hoping that there are at least a few of you who have never seen Babylon 5 before, are watching it for the first time, are stepping off at the spoiler jumpgate during the podcast, and had no idea what’s coming in this episode.
This thread is for you, as well as those who want to just talk about “Points of Departure” while smugly refusing to reveal the future.
Earhart’s: “Points of Departure” Spoiler Space
“Please hold, a commanding officer will be able to assist you in a moment.” But it’s probably not the commanding officer you were expecting, if you were watching B5 without the benefit of the internet community that was anxiously awaiting/dreading this episode. A new season and a turning point begin in “Points of Departure.” If you’re reading this thread, you know where it led–so what do you think about how well this episode set up the future of Babylon 5?