Grey Sector: A Babylon 5 Podcast

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This week, we review the Hugo Award winning season two episode, "The Coming of Shadows."

Mike wonders if security has precognition, Sarah is disappointed in the lack naval battles depicted in the Imperial Wig, while Joe confirms he was definitely expecting a much bigger knife.

Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 1:29:47
Spoiler Zone: 1:29:47 - 1:35:07
Next Episode and other Shenanigans: 1:35:07

Music from this episode:

• "Surf Punk Rock" By absentrealities is licensed under CC-BY 3.0
• "Please Define The Error" By Delta Centauri is licensed under CC-BY 3.0
• "The Haunted McMansion" By Megabit Melodies is licensed under CC-BY 3.0

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This week we review the season two episode "A Race Through Dark Places."

Sarah realizes that Sheridan may actually just be a Libertarian, Mike starts coining new words that will totally be in the dictionary soon, and Joe finally confirms the true name of the Narn home world.

Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:58:33
Spoiler Zone: 0:58:33 - 1:04:22
Next Episode and other Shenanigans: 1:04:22

Music from this episode:

• “Surf Punk Rock” By absentrealities is licensed under CC-BY 3.0
• “Please Define The Error” By Delta Centauri is licensed under CC-BY 3.0
• “The Haunted McMansion” By Megabit Melodies is licensed under CC-BY 3.0

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This week, we review the season two episode “Soul Mates.”

Mike wants to forget that this episode has both a B and a C plot, Joe comes around to the idea that Stephen might actually be a vampire, while Sarah notes that a man definitely wrote this.

Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:54:54
Spoiler Zone: 0:54:54 - 0:56:11
Next Episode and other Shenanigans: 0:56:11

Music from this episode:

• "Surf Punk Rock" By absentrealities is licensed under CC-BY 3.0
• "Please Define The Error" By Delta Centauri is licensed under CC-BY 3.0
• "The Haunted McMansion" By Megabit Melodies is licensed under CC-BY 3.0

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This week, we review the season two episode “A Spider in the Web.”

Mike argues that Dark Shadows is definitely a legitimate soap opera, Sarah tracks the cast usage of the Apple Newton throughout the episode, and Joe articulates the fine distinction between various hand-based weapons in Larry DiTillio scripts.

Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:57:23
Spoiler Zone: 0:57:23 - 0:59:58
Next Episode and other Shenanigans: 0:59:58

Music from this episode:

• "Surf Punk Rock" By absentrealities is licensed under CC-BY 3.0
• "Please Define The Error" By Delta Centauri is licensed under CC-BY 3.0
• "The Haunted McMansion" By Megabit Melodies is licensed under CC-BY 3.0

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This week, we review the season two episode “The Long Dark.”

Sarah thinks someone from the League of Non-Aligned Prosthetics might have started a True Crime podcast, Joe notes the obvious lack of a chief engineer on the station, while Mike tries to quantify the exact amount of grapa it takes Joe to use the word contretemps.

Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:56:23
Spoiler Zone: 0:56:23 - 0:57:49
Next Episode and other Shenanigans: 0:57:49

Music from this episode:

• "Surf Punk Rock" By absentrealities is licensed under CC-BY 3.0
• "Please Define The Error" By Delta Centauri is licensed under CC-BY 3.0
• "The Haunted McMansion" By Megabit Melodies is licensed under CC-BY 3.0

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When recording a Distant Star, we had a side discussion about the name of the ship, as JMS is attributed to have a... problematic... quote about it. JMS, let us know, this was the 90s after all, so time and context may change people's feelings on all sorts of things, including genocidal "explorers." 

Not sure there's much funny in this one, but we thought this was important enough to discuss it publicly. Let us know your thoughts on Twitter (assuming Twitter still exists by the time this is published).

Warning: This one has B5 spoilers

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This week we review the season two episode A Distant Star.

Joe has trouble remembering a certain character exists, Mike prepares Bagna Cauda, and Sarah has a startlingly plausible new theory about Dr Franklin.

Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 1:01:06
Spoiler Zone: 1:01:06 - 1:03:00
Next Episode and other Shenanigans: 1:03:00

Music from this episode:

• "Surf Punk Rock" By absentrealities is licensed under CC-BY 3.0
• "Please Define The Error" By Delta Centauri is licensed under CC-BY 3.0
• "The Haunted McMansion" By Megabit Melodies is licensed under CC-BY 3.0p

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This week, we review the season two episode “The Geometry of Shadows.”

Sarah pines after Londo’s oil painting of himself that Vir probably painted, Joe wonders who grows the food during the Drazi fighting year, and Mike thinks the techno-mages were on their way to Burning Man.

Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:54:53
Spoiler Zone: 0:54:53 - 1:00:00
Next Episode and other Shenanigans: 1:00:00


Music from this episode:

• "Surf Punk Rock" By absentrealities is licensed under CC-BY 3.0
• "Please Define The Error" By Delta Centauri is licensed under CC-BY 3.0
• "The Haunted McMansion" By Megabit Melodies is licensed under CC-BY 3.0
• “Demons Inside Me” By Underbeat is licensed under CC-BY 3.0 [XXX Sarah, can you add a link, I Shazam’ed the music but couldn’t find a link to this exact piece, though you mention DDDM in the credits, so maybe we need to add something more?XXX]

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This week we review the season two episode Revelations.

Joe is pretty sure Lou is a Sax man, Sarah explains the rules of jump gate usage, and Mike thinks genocide is Londo's love language.

Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:59:42
Spoiler Zone: 0:59:42 - 1:05:21
Next Episode and other Shenanigans: 1:05:21

Music from this episode:

• "Surf Punk Rock" By absentrealities is licensed under CC-BY 3.0
• "Please Define The Error" By Delta Centauri is licensed under CC-BY 3.0
• "The Haunted McMansion" By Megabit Melodies is licensed under CC-BY 3.0

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This week, we start Season two with a bang, reviewing the first episode, "Points of Departure."

Mike doesn't know why General Hague reminds him of the dad from Brady Bunch, Sarah thinks Londo might be six times as qualified to be the captain as Sheridan is, while Joe recalls the tale of the 47 Ronin, which is definitely not an inspiration for this episode in any way.

Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:49:35
Spoiler Zone: 0:49:35 - 0:55:43
Next Episode and other Shenanigans: 0:55:43

Music from this episode:

• "Surf Punk Rock" By absentrealities is licensed under CC-BY 3.0
• "Please Define The Error" By Delta Centauri is licensed under CC-BY 3.0
• "The Haunted McMansion" By Megabit Melodies is licensed under CC-BY 3.0