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And The Rick Cried Out…
I currently listen to 5 Babylon 5 podcasts, and have been posting ratings and reviews.
Given that many of the podcasts rate each episode of B5 on a variety of scales, I thought it might be fun to use the iTunes rating system to rate my enjoyment of each podcast on my list This allows a floating scale week to week, sort of a competition between pods to determine which crew of hosts entertains me best.
This week, BABYLON 5 FOR THE FIRST TIME earns a 5-STAR RATING (ooooohhhh YES!!) for the degree to which I was entertained while listening to your podcast. Keep it up!!!
- crAZRick
- Nov. 3, 2024
Love this show!
I’m really enjoying this show! I just started a rewatch and I’m following along with the guys and I’m loving their first go round perspective. I saw the show when it first aired a million years ago and then had a great time binging it with my children when they were little. Listening in while they watch with no clues about the future is a lot of fun. I’m constantly mentally nudging them along like a bowler trying to turn a gutter ball into a strike. I just finished the first season and I’m looking forward to the rest of the show. Gonna check out their other stuff when I’m done with Babylon 5
- dsasaphras
- Oct. 3, 2024
And The Rick Cried Out…
I currently listen to 5 Babylon 5 podcasts, and have been posting ratings and reviews. Given that many of the podcasts rate each episode of B5 on a variety of scales, I thought it might be fun to use the iTunes rating system to rate my enjoyment of each podcast on my list This allows a floating scale week to week, sort of a competition between pods to determine which crew of hosts entertains me best.
This week, BABYLON 5 FOR THE FIRST TIME earns a 4-STAR RATING for the degree to which I was entertained while listening to your podcast. Keep it up!!!
- crAZRick
- Sept. 23, 2024
I really enjoy the hosts guessing what's going to happen next time, both when its so spot on it's eerie and also when its off the mark because its proof they haven't seen it before. Also now in the middle of season 4, had to review to say thanks for the recap on Moments of Transition! Loved it!
- SpringSummerFallWinter
- Sept. 17, 2024
Excellent podcast!
Jeff and Brent each bring unique opinions and viewpoints to their first time experience. They’ve made me appreciate episodes I didn’t always before. Always excited to hear them on Monday morning.
- Dundradal
- Sept. 3, 2024
The Longer I Listen…
The worse it gets. Be prepared for a lot of “Well, Akshully’s…” Couple of typical “Berman/Braga Trek” fans; think their non-Roddenberry Trek is the only Trek. Every criticism they level at this show could be leveled at the Bermanverse x10. Can’t “handle” TOS; but Harry Potter? Ewww…
- Darth Kahless
- Aug. 26, 2024
Great Show!!
This is exactly what a veteran watcher loves to listen to; going on the virgin journey with a new watcher. There are other podcasts that have the same type of theme, but this show does it so much better. Well done!!
- Ju-san Kubo
- June 12, 2024
Great Show!!
This is exactly what a veteran watcher loves to listen to; going on the virgin journey with a new watcher. There are other podcasts that have the same type of theme, but this show does it so much better. Well done!!
- Ju-san Kubo
- June 12, 2024
And The Rick Cried Out…
I currently listen to 5 Babylon 5 podcasts, and have been posting ratings and reviews. Given that many of the podcasts rate each episode of B5 on a variety of scales, I thought it might be fun to use the iTunes rating system to rate my enjoyment of each podcast on my list This allows a floating scale week to week, sort of a competition between pods to determine which crew of hosts entertains me best.
This week, BABYLON 5 FOR THE FIRST TIME earns a 5-STAR RATING for the degree to which I was entertained while listening to your podcast. Keep it up!!!
- crAZRick
- June 3, 2024
And The Rick Cried Out…
I currently listen to 5 Babylon 5 podcasts, and have been posting ratings and reviews. Given that many of the podcasts rate each episode of B5 on a variety of scales, I thought it might be fun to use the iTunes rating system to rate my enjoyment of each podcast on my list This allows a floating scale week to week, sort of a competition between pods to determine which crew of hosts entertains me best.
This week, BABYLON 5 FOR THE FIRST TIME earns a 5-STAR RATING for the degree to which I was entertained while listening to your podcast. Keep it up!!!
- crAZRick
- June 3, 2024
Shadows and Vorlons scare me
I don’t know if I will finish this podcast or ever finish all of Babylon 5. I’ve just been listening to random episodes of this podcast to bring back memories from my high school days. But the shadows and vorlons always scared me and when that storyline ended, my interest waned. I did watch the call to arms movie and that was cool but that was it for Babylon 5 and me. Maybe one day I’ll watch the rest and listen to the rest of this podcast but I get scared thinking about the shadows in particular. It haunts me.
- JaredSch10
- May 28, 2024
Shadows and Vorlons scare me
I don’t know if I will finish this podcast or ever finish all of Babylon 5. I’ve just been listening to random episodes of this podcast to bring back memories from my high school days. But the shadows and vorlons always scared me and when that storyline ended, my interest waned. I did watch the call to arms movie and that was cool but that was it for Babylon 5 and me. Maybe one day I’ll watch the rest and listen to the rest of this podcast but I get scared thinking about the shadows in particular. It haunts me.
- JaredSch10
- May 28, 2024
And The Rick Cried Out…
I currently listen to 5 Babylon 5 podcasts, and have been posting ratings and reviews. Given that many of the podcasts rate each episode of B5 on a variety of scales, I thought it might be fun to use the iTunes rating system to rate my enjoyment of each podcast on my list
This allows a floating scale week to week, sort of a competition between pods to determine which crew of hosts entertains me best.
This week, you at BABYLON 5 FOR THE FIRST TIME earn a 4-STAR RATING for the degree to which I was entertained while listening to your podcast.
Keep it up!!!
- crAZRick
- May 4, 2024
And The Rick Cried Out…
I currently listen to 5 Babylon 5 podcasts, and have been posting ratings and reviews. Given that many of the podcasts rate each episode of B5 on a variety of scales, I thought it might be fun to use the iTunes rating system to rate my enjoyment of each podcast on my list
This allows a floating scale week to week, sort of a competition between pods to determine which crew of hosts entertains me best.
This week, you at BABYLON 5 FOR THE FIRST TIME earn a 4-STAR RATING for the degree to which I was entertained while listening to your podcast.
Keep it up!!!
- crAZRick
- May 4, 2024
I remember watching this show in the 90's and loving it. As a Star Trek fan and B5 fan listening to your show reminds me how I felt back in the day. You guys are awesome and since I only recently found this Podcast I had to do ALOT of binge listening to catch up. Keep up the good work!
- Chris Yoakley
- May 2, 2024
A great pod for Babylon Beginners
I found this podcast after watching The Gathering pilot movie and immediately enjoyed the chemistry between the co-hosts. You can tell they’re genuine friends and the experiences of their lives seeps through into the podcast as well. It’s nice to have some wise, seasoned people for such a complex, intuitive show like Babylon 5. What initially turned me on to the podcast was that they were watching it for the first time so I knew there wouldn’t be spoilers for future episodes and story arcs. They do a great job all around and the episodes of the podcast get better as the episodes of the show get better. This pod will always have a special place in my heart in the future when I know I’ll be listening to the other Babylon 5 podcasts out there after I finish the show as I know I’ll probably rewatch Babylon 5 again and again. (It’s just one of those shows.) Thanks Jeff and Brent! I hope you guys do more than just Babylon 5 later. I’ve never seen DS9 so I’d like an episode by episode podcast of that with the two of you if that’s ever something you’d be interested in doing.
- Pazuzu (Captain Howdy)
- April 18, 2024
A great pod for Babylon Beginners
I found this podcast after watching The Gathering pilot movie and immediately enjoyed the chemistry between the co-hosts. You can tell they’re genuine friends and the experiences of their lives seeps through into the podcast as well. It’s nice to have some wise, seasoned people for such a complex, intuitive show like Babylon 5. What initially turned me on to the podcast was that they were watching it for the first time so I knew there wouldn’t be spoilers for future episodes and story arcs. They do a great job all around and the episodes of the podcast get better as the episodes of the show get better. This pod will always have a special place in my heart in the future when I know I’ll be listening to the other Babylon 5 podcasts out there after I finish the show as I know I’ll probably rewatch Babylon 5 again and again. (It’s just one of those shows.) Thanks Jeff and Brent! I hope you guys do more than just Babylon 5 later. I’ve never seen DS9 so I’d like an episode by episode podcast of that with the two of you if that’s ever something you’d be interested in doing.
- Pazuzu (Captain Howdy)
- April 18, 2024
There's Nothing Like the First Time
I came across this incredible podcast on YouTube, and I'm so glad I did. As someone who watched Babylon 5 way back when it first aired, I'm seperated from my first watching experience by decades. Listening to Brent and Jeff go through the series for the first time, hearing their thoughts, comments, guesses, and predictions has been such wonderful nostalgia.
Brent & Jeff: "Is this the episode where a disease breaks out on the station?" Me: "No, we'll get there."
Brent & Jeff when we get there: "OH MY GOD!!!" Me: "Yup. Definitely *not* Star Trek."
Thanks for letting me com along for your First Time, guys.
P.S. Watch the YouTube version, if you can. It's even more fun than the audio version!
- TheCrazyPlayer
- Feb. 14, 2024
Rousing team of reviewers
I’m a watcher from the very beginning of the series and I have watched all of the sequels and read the novels. The insights that the guys express fascinate me and I look forward to each episode dropping. I hope that they will cover all of the material including Crusade!
- MycroftCA
- Jan. 24, 2024
Show that perfectly fuses B5 & Star Trek
I’ve been a longtime fan of both B5 and Trek. Brent and Jeff do a great job of introducing B5 to new viewers while helping longtime fans like me relive the excitement we felt watching the series more than 25 years ago. Their links to Trek show both franchises can coexist harmoniously. I’m doing a slow rewatch of B5 and it’s been great hearing their perspective of Season 3, which I consider to be the best season of sci-fi of any show. I heartily recommend the pod.
- TKH9
- Dec. 28, 2023
Great podcast
As a big fan of Star Trek, Stargate, BSG and Babylon 5 I really like hearing about your experiences and how you slowly realize how great the story of B5 is in the same way I experienced watching it two decades ago. This has been a fun journey and I hope you guys do Stargate at some point as well. Qapla’
- Martok84
- Nov. 27, 2023
- McFrenzy181
- Nov. 21, 2023
Great Look at a Great Series
I watched B5 when it was new and I really enjoyed it. I hadn’t watched the series in a while but this podcast got me back into and now I’m watching it with them. It feels like a book club for sci-fi TV and now my life is changed. I love this show and this podcast. Thank you and please keep it up. Live long and, oh wait, wrong show! D’oh!
- IVooDooDaddyI
- Nov. 17, 2023
It’s another 5 star review!!!
I found out about this podcast about 3 days after finishing my very own first watch of Babylon 5. I knew I would be coming back to this show, but didn’t realize I would be diving back in right away. I binged the podcast on YouTube (cough, 65, cough) until I got all caught up and the experience is even better being able to watch the episode, watch the Brent watches, and wait for Monday for the full conversation. I am so glad that my babylon 5 for the second time experience is along side Brent and Jeff. Ya’ll better be serious about Stargate because I was going to watch that for the first time next and I’m postponing waiting for the podcast lol.
- N4TALI
- Nov. 4, 2023
Their GRReight!!
I started late to the podcast. And just caught up with Jeff and Mutt -- Sorry Laurel and Costello -- Mr Akin and Mr Allen. Joking aside I like how the two of you don't just like at the show as written, but see what the deeper thought was. You even showed my a few thing in a way I did not see them in. And I'd like to tell you how --- well those are spoilers my good sir. Until them all I have for you is a "Old Egyptian Blessing - Capt. John Sheridan [JMS]".
- Dawcter_Strange
- Oct. 28, 2023
So much fun
I watched Babylon 5 as a kid when it aired, and it is still the most important work of art in my life. I need a shirt that has the old “everything I needed to know about life” trope, lol. I’m enjoying everything about listening to these guys discover my favorite show for the first time. They’re super insightful and respectful of the show even when pointing out it’s flaws. It’s a great podcast for your first view or fiftieth.
- S Sunflowers
- Oct. 24, 2023
The ‘Mission Log’ for Babylon 5 you’re looking for
This is an outstanding podcast that doesn’t jump the B5 timeline and spoil anything that is to come so it’s perfect if you, like the hosts are a new comer to the B5 universe or an old down-below-er looking to revisit B5 and mine it with deep dramaturgical, philosophical, social and in-universe analysis. Finding the messages, morals, Minbari and meanings in B5 from the background of doing the same for Star Trek, this is fun and worth your time. Enjoy!
- DrNASA_NC
- Oct. 21, 2023
The ‘Mission Log’ for Babylon 5 you’re looking for
This is an outstanding podcast that doesn’t jump the B5 timeline and spoil anything that is to come so it’s perfect if you, like the hosts are a new comer to the B5 universe or an old down-below-er looking to revisit B5 and mine it with deep dramaturgical, philosophical, social and in-universe analysis. Finding the messages, morals, Minbari and meanings in B5 from the background of doing the same for Star Trek, this is fun and worth your time. Enjoy!
- DrNASA_NC
- Oct. 21, 2023
And The Rick Cried Out…
As a First One (borrowing a term from Grey 17 pod) who watched Babylon 5 for the first time almost 30 years ago, it’s been a treat hearing unspoiled, inspired musings from two self-proclaimed veteran Star Trek podcasters, enjoying the show as I did, 1 ep at a time, 1 week at a time, watching, waiting, not knowing exactly what was coming but able to imagine the greatness that was.. BABYLON 5!
Listening to Jeff ‘Radio Voice’ Akin and Brent ‘StandUp Comic Voice’ Allen discuss and dissect every kernel of juicy goodness in each episode has been exciting and enlightening, with very little in the way of negative slant toward what others have deemed ‘weak’ or even ‘awful’ episodes.
Although this is NOT a Star Trek podcast, these guys GET IT! There’s a distinct Babylon 5 message, theme, growth, change in each episode! There’s STUFF there! To channel Richard Dreyfus over his pile of mashed potatoes THIS MEANS SOMETHING!!
I have decided: I should have listened to this podcast sooner… but, as I’m caught up, I’m anxiously awaiting the reviews of s4 and beyond!
Thanks chucklenuggets!!
- crAZRick
- Oct. 2, 2023
The Circle Is Now Complete
B5 was my gateway to Trek. Now many years later after watching every episode of Trek, I am revisiting Babylon 5 and having a blast experiencing through the Trekkie/B5 newbie eyes of this fantastic podcast.
- WmMurray1211
- Sept. 20, 2023