Grey Sector: A Babylon 5 Podcast

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This week, we review the season one episode "Eyes."

Sarah wonders why they bother writing down things in the Babylon 5 Charter, Joe explains how Babylon 5 is really similar to Deadwood, and Mike asks the meta question: Are there no laws on Babylon 5, or is security just really bad at its job?

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 one episode "Grail."

Mike tries to determine how many minutes are in a cycle, Sarah wonders whether the chefs on Babylon 5 are just failed molecular gastronomists from earth with extremely poor judgment around portion sizes, and Joe pops champagne to celebrate the end of the Compton Era.

Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:59:49
Spoiler Zone: 0:59:49 - 1:01:00
Next Episode and other Shenanigans: 1:01:00

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

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This week, we review one of the most consequential season one episodes, "Signs and Portents."

Joe thinks that Sinclair's office might be its own semi-autonomous region, Sarah appreciates a proper crime mullet, while Mike notes happily that the Raiders of the Plot Arc are done, never to return for a sequel.

Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:45:23
Spoiler Zone: 0:45:23 - 0:53:17
Next Episode and other Shenanigans: 0:53:17

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 a season one episode of Babylon 5 that's so good, they forgot to include it in the series. It's the movie Tron, with Bruce Boxleitner! 

Sarah wonders whether this movie might be better if you just watched it on mute, Joe asserts that nothing says Alpha Nerd better than a klaatu barada nikto poster, while Mike can't figure out why the master controller doesn't just hit Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V several billion times. 

Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:48:20
Spoiler Zone: 0:48:20 - 0:51:10
Next Episode and other Shenanigans: 051:10

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
• "Crotch Magic" By Bonecage is licensed under CC-BY 3.0

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This week, we review the season one episode "By Any Means Necessary."

Sarah analyses the station budget, Mike wonders if Londo is a Hufflepuff or a Slytherin, and Joe rejoices that Carn Molari was actually important to the plot all along... somehow...

Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:50:53
Spoiler Zone: 0:50:53 - 0:52:40
Next Episode and other Shenanigans: 0:52:40

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
• "If I had a Hammer" By Manhattan Rob Walsh is licensed under CC-BY 3.0
• "Harry Potter Theme" By Long Boi is licensed under CC-BY 3.0 
  
  

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This week, we review the season one episode "Survivors."

Mike explores the difference between an army captain and a navy captain, Joe delights in the fact that this episode has only one bad plot instead of two, and Sarah tries to determine which alien species is getting font-snubbed.

Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:54:29
Spoiler Zone: 0:54:29 - 0:56:40
Next Episode and other Shenanigans: 0:56:40

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 one episode "Believers."

Sarah recalls shelving Asimov shopping lists during her time working at a book store in college, Joe points out that Dr. Franklin's miracle snake oil is -in fact- not legitimate medicine, while Mike wonders if Dr. Franklin went to Harvard Upstairs Medical College.

Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:49:07
Spoiler Zone: 0:49:07 - 0:51:07
Next Episode and other Shenanigans: 0:51:07

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
• "I've Got a Hat" By The Learning Station

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This week, we review the season one episode "Deathwalker."

Joe loses count of the number of times Franklin wrongly claims that facts right in front of his face are impossible, Mike wonders if Larry D knows anything about the characters he's writing about, while Sarah points out that no, that's not what that word means...

Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:50:18
Spoiler Zone: 0:50:18 - 0:54:30
Next Episode and other Shenanigans: 0:54:30

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
• "I Got a Hat" By Learning Station is licensed under CC-BY 3.0

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This week, we review the season one episode "And a Sky Full of Stars."

Mike learns all about the Garibaldi Investigational Method, Sarah walks us through the difference between a cliffhanger and a game changer (credit to Lani Diane Rich), while Joe points out that our guest villains are, in fact, assembling the internet.

Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:52:03
Spoiler Zone: 0:52:03 - 0:59:40
Next Episode and other Shenanigans: 0:59:40

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 one episode "The War Prayer."

Sarah delineates the fine line between fashion train wreck and sweater criminal, Joe waxes rhapsodic about computer-based autocracy via means of benevolent AI, while Mike reminisces about his time spent with his mom on a Hawaiian coffee farm.

Spoiler-free discussion: 0:00:00 - 0:55:45
Spoiler Zone: 0:55:45 - 0:58:56
Next Episode and other Shenanigans: 0:58:56

Music from this episode:

• "Surf Punk Rock" By absentrealities is licensed under CC-BY 3.0