{"id":986,"date":"2017-09-17T17:50:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T21:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/?p=986"},"modified":"2018-01-20T20:40:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T01:40:29","slug":"episode-88-in-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/?p=986","title":{"rendered":"Episode 88: &#8220;In the Beginning&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6195\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-986-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/podcasts\/B5AG-088.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/podcasts\/B5AG-088.mp3\">http:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/podcasts\/B5AG-088.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/podcasts\/B5AG-088.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/?powerpress_pinw=986-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/podcasts\/B5AG-088.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"B5AG-088.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_140\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-140\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/B5AG-009-steven.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"140\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/?attachment_id=140\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/B5AG-009-steven.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"150,150\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS REBEL T2i&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1353690799&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1250&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"B5AG-009-steven\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Steven Schapansky&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/B5AG-009-steven.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/B5AG-009-steven.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-140\" src=\"https:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/B5AG-009-steven.jpg\" alt=\"B5AG guest and Radio Free Skaro host\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steven Schapansky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Four years into BABYLON 5, JMS took a mulligan with a brand new prequel movie that served as a pilot for the series&#8217;s relaunch on the TNT network! Is it a better beginning to B5 than the original pilot, &#8220;The Gathering&#8221;? Does it strain credibility to have our cast of characters interacting during the Earth-Minbari War, portrayed by actors who are not actually ten years younger? And why do we call it the Earth-Minbari war instead of the Human-Minbari war or the Earth-Minbar war? And why is Chip only now asking that question? Luckily we don&#8217;t distract our recurring guest Steven Schapansky with those last questions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/podcasts\/B5AG-088.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSFour years into BABYLON 5, JMS took a mulligan with a brand new prequel movie that served as a pilot for the series&#8217;s relaunch on the TNT network! Is it a better beginning to B5 than the original pilot, &#8220;The Gathering&#8221;? Does it strain credibility to have our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/?p=986\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Episode 88: &#8220;In the Beginning&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[63],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","tag-in-the-beginning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/B5AG-088-featured.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p74nkr-fU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b5audioguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}