It’s Psi Cop Bester’s turn for a day-in-the-life episode as we continue toward the end of the series. Here’s the place to talk about any events going forward from this point as well as events in the novels/comics/other tie-in media.
Episode 101: “Day of the Dead”
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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 this mystical character piece too much of a departure from the “house style”? What the heck was Morden doing in Lennier’s quarters? We bring back the Space Mob’s biggest fan, first-time B5 watcher Steven Schapansky, for a fresh look at a story by a pre-American Gods and Coraline storyteller.
Zocalo: Spoiler-Free Discussion of “Day of the Dead”
What happens when a sci-fi show that has made it to the last of its planned seasons lands one of the hottest writers in comics to pen an episode?
You get a Babylon 5 episode that goes to some interesting places.
Here you can talk about Neil Gaiman’s “Day of the Dead” and the things that came before it.
Earhart’s: “Day of the Dead” Spoiler Space
Here we can freely talk about the fallout from Lochley actually selling a part of the Babylon 5 station to the Brakiri when the Drazi had put in an offer first. And also Rebo and Zooty’s stellar careers as politicians, ushering in an era of peace that lasted centuries.
Or, you know, true spoilers from “Day of the Dead”.
Episode 100: “The Ragged Edge”
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This episode has epic ’90s computer matte compositing of a balcony, set to a particularly stirring Christopher Franke score!
Oh, and Garibaldi does the secret agent thing, hamstrung by his return to the bottle; G’Kar becomes the Narn Pope; Franklin gets a job offer (name-checking a character not mentioned in 99 episodes), and Londo inadvertently fingers his own government. Just another ordinary day in the life of Babylon 5–in our 100th episode!
Zocalo: Spoiler-free Discussion of “The Ragged Edge”
Here’s the big thing we commented on as we recorded the podcast: this is the first time in ages, it feels like, that we’ve had the whole core cast involved in the story. What’d you think? No spoilers!
Earhart’s: “The Ragged Edge” Spoiler Space
Now that we’re done with the Byron arc, what do you think about the stuff set up in “The Ragged Edge”?
Zocalo: Spoiler-free Discussion of “Phoenix Rising”
We shall not see the likes of that hair again.
Earhart’s: “Phoenix Rising” Spoiler Space
So we can’t spoil anything about Byron’s future, because, well. But what does this coda to the telepath crisis imply for the rest of the season, and is it paid off?
Episode 99: “Phoenix Rising”
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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 to delight in misfortune.