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    Last Best Hope for Conversation - A Babylon 5 podcast

    A series of podcasts covering myriad topics. From genre TV, to old & new technology, product reviews & recommendations, and many other things. Brought to you by Jesse Jackson (Next Stop Everywhere, Storming the Castle), Karen Lindsay (Witness Prophecies, Chester's Mill Gazette), & Lou Sytsma (Fringe Benefits Incorporated, The Stephen King Podcast).
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    Episodes (132)

    JKL Media and Set Lusting Bruce Cross Over - We Are the World - Greatest Night in Pop

    JKL Media and Set Lusting Bruce Cross Over - We Are the World - Greatest Night in Pop

    Lou @LouWSytsma, Karen @aleveria and I talk Babylon 5 every week and we also talk various nerdy subjects.  Today, we are getting together to talk about the new Netflix Documentary about 
    the making of We are the World. We talk how it is a time capsule of musical 
    superstars, discuss Do they Know it's Christmas and the Canadian fund-raising song, 
    Tears are not Enough.

    HBO's Watchmen Part 1 - It's summer and we are seeing Martial Feats of Comanche Ice

    HBO's Watchmen Part 1 - It's summer and we are seeing Martial Feats of Comanche Ice

    The gang is getting off the B5 Whitestar and jumping onto the HBO Watchmen Owlship. In this first episode of our discussion, Lou, Karen and Jesse talk about It's Summer and We're Running out of Ice and Martial Feats of Conanche Horsemanship.   We talk the comic series, the movie, the greatness of Lou Gossett Junior, how much we were impressed by Don Johnson's singing voice and how the first two episodes left more questions than answers for Lou & Karen who have not seen the whole series, yet! 

    Falling Toward Apotheosis or the one with the untalking heads

    Falling Toward Apotheosis or the one with the untalking heads

    The team Karen @aleveria, Lou @LouWSytsma and Jesse @jessejacksonDFW are back to talk about the 4th episode of the 4th Season of Babylon 5.  In Falling Toward Apotheosis. Our characters are feeling "This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around."  John gives Delenn a present, Londo is offered snacks, when meeting the shadow council, and G'Kar continues to pay the price for irritating the Emperor.

    The Summoning AKA Mr. Garibaldi gets short changed again!

    The Summoning AKA Mr. Garibaldi gets short changed again!

    Karen @aleveria, Lou @LouWSytsma and Jesse @jessejacksonDFW are back talking the 3rd episode of Season Four of Babylon 5.  They discuss almost 40 lashes, the Mad Emperor is Mad that he can't get a little scream, Marcus is a unicorn,  Karen rightly calls out that she knew that Vorlons were "Ricks with a D" from the start and SURPISE, Sheridan breaks the rule and comes back from Dead Man's Curve, we mean Z'Ha'Dum.  All that and viewer mail bag!   Please go to itunes and give us some 5 star love!  

    What ever happened to Mr. Garibaldi aka worst named episode of the series!

    What ever happened to Mr.  Garibaldi aka worst named episode of the series!

    Karen @aleveria, Lou @LouWSytsma and Jesse @jessejacksonDFW are back talking about the 2nd episode of the 4th season of #babylon5.  In this episode Jesse shares the background to Lou & Karen about the thought at the time that the 4th season would be the final season of the show.   Lou and Karen both continue to wonder why Michael is getting no love and we read more feedback from our wonderful listeners.  While you are preparing the Thanksgiving Stuffing or as we say down south the dressing, please enjoy our discussion.  

    Z'ha'dum

    Z'ha'dum

    Karen @aleveria, Lou @LouWSytsma and Jesse @jessejacksonDFW had a detailed discussion about the storyline of a recent episode, focusing on the character Anna Sheridan. They appreciated the acting of Bruce Boxleitner and Melissa Gilbert, and noted the emotional manipulation of Anna. The group also discussed the symbolic use of a broken globe and the progress in the storyline where information was no longer withheld from John. They concluded that the episode was powerful and provided great content for the actors to explore

    Shadow Dancing

    Shadow Dancing

    In today's episode Karen @aleveria, Lou @LouWSytsma and Jesse @jessejacksonDFW discuss Shadow Dancing, not the # 1 hit from Andy Gibb but the penanutive episode of season three of Babylon 5.  We discuss Franklin meeting himself, sleeping on Mimbari ships and spending the night together (with a surprise appearance in the middle night).  We would love to hear from you so please send us feedback here jklb5podcast@gmail.com