Jumpgate: The Babylon 5 Re-Watch Podcast show

Jumpgate: The Babylon 5 Re-Watch Podcast

Summary: A look back at J. Michael Straczinski's epic Sci-Fi TV show! Where it started, how it got there, where it went, and why we still adore it, even 20 years later!

Podcasts:

 JUMPGATE SERIES WRAP-UP! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3903

Thank you to all our fans and Patrons who helped keep our podcast going for five years! Join us for the last time, as we nail shut one of the best sci-fi series EVER! From all of us here... at Jumpgate Central... Nick, Jinny and Andy... We love you all! :-)

 Jumpgate Episode 123 - River of Souls | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 6756

A human, digging where he shouldn't, finds a crypt full of shining spheres, and steals one containing the essence of an entire civilization. Escaping attack, the archeologist flees to Babylon 5, with Soul Hunters hot on his heels! Meanwhile, Zach must deal with a holobrothel in Downbelow, defended by a snarky owner, and an even snarkier lawyer. In his quarters, the lost souls begin to exert control over the archeologist, and through him, the station's reactor! Lochley, Garibaldi, and Zach must work with a Soul Hunter, a species not seen since early Season One, to contain the mad souls before they blow up the station to set themselves free! We think EVERYone needs a Love Bat(tm), this week, on Jumpgate!

 Jumpgate Episode 122 - Sleeping In Light | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 5818

Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. There would never be another. It changed the future. And it changed *us*. It taught us that we have to create the future, or others will do it for us. It showed us that we have care for one another, because if we don't, who will? And that true strength sometimes comes from the most unlikely places. Mostly, though, I think it gave us hope, that there can always be new beginnings... even for people like us. Thank you for coming along on this amazing 5-year-long re-watch experience! We will say our final goodbyes in the completely optional Series Wrap-Up, and get drunk as hell for the completely offensive, incomprehensible, inconceivably bad DRUNKCAST!

 Jumpgate Episode 121 - Objects at Rest | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4157

G'kar has gone off to find adventure with Lyta, leaving T'Lon to ride herd on the irascible Narn True Believers. Garibaldi steps into leadership of Edgars Industries, and brings along some surprising wingmen. Franklin leaves a Generalist in charge of Medlab. Vir puts on Londo's shoes... and they aren't too tight. President Sheridan and Delenn leave for Minbar, and salute those who take up the mantles of leadership they leave behind. A terrible split-second betrayal by Lennier sends him into deep space to seek atonement, Emperor Londo Mollari gifts the Presidential couple a biological time bomb in a vase, and Sheridan sends his fatherly wisdom into the future... This week on Jumpgate!

 Jumpgate Episode 120 - Objects in Motion | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 6276

Machinations abound as the last assassin of the series makes one final attempt on a major character, this time it's Garibaldi. G'Kar confronts his biggest fanboy, Lyta remains bound in a cell (and she kinda likes it?), and Mars' newest representative - former rebel leader Number One - shows up, as does Lise Hampton-Edgars. Will the assassin, sent by the Edgars Industries Board of Directors, take out the newly-sober Garibaldi? Will G'Kar's followers be the death of him? Will he and Lyta find adventure among the stars? Are Martian Cigars really all that great? Find out this week on Jumpgate!

 Jumpgate Episode 119 - The Wheel of Fire | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 5196

G'Kar returns to Babylon 5 and a teeming mass of his fellow Narn await him - philosophy groupies wanting to sit at his feet... and then hoist him WAY up over their heads. They even have *action figures*! Meanwhile, Garibaldi's drinking finally collapses into it's inevitable outcome: professional censure. President Sheridan puts his wayward Head of ISA Intelligence on ice pending Garibaldi getting his shit together. Meanwhile Lyta's anti-PsiCorps efforts, funded by G'Kar's money, have been traced back to the station, and it'll take Sheridan's quick-draw skills (and a quick right hook by Lochley) to pin her down... but for how long? G'Kar finds a solution to his relentless fame, Garibaldi is spiritually bodyslammed by Lochley in a lift, Lyta wears a sexy straightjacket in a cell (for now), and the mechanisms of the final pieces of the great series arc begin to click into place... This week on Jumpgate!

 Jumpgate Episode 118 - The Fall of Centauri Prime | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4428

After years of plotting and manipulation, the Drakh finally have Centauri Prime in their grasp as their final play for power comes to a crushing conclusion. Delenn and Lennier are still adrift in hyperspace as Sheridan races to curtail the damage done, both to the Centauri and to the trust so carefully built in the Alliance. G'Kar and Londo say goodbye, Emperor Virini is de-bugged, and the giants left their telepathic weapons all over the playground, this week on Jumpgate!

 Jumpgate Episode 117 - Movements of Fire and Shadow | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 5051

As the major Alliance fleets pressure Sheridan to attack Centauri Prime in retaliation for their now-proven unprovoked raids, Delenn is sent to Minbar to ask the Grey Council for help in curbing their enthusiasm. Meanwhile, Vir sends Lyta and Franklin back to the Drazi homeworld to recover Centauri bodies lost in the fighting, leading to a horrifying discovery. Londo raps with the Emperor, G'Kar pukes, and 500,000 credits is a small price to pay, this week on Jumpgate!

 Jumpgate Episode 116 - And All My dreams, Torn Asunder | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4151

It's all falling apart for our heroes. The Centauri are censured and blockaded after all the evidence collected by our heroes and the Rangers is presented to a stunned Interstellar Alliance council, which deliberately excludes Londo. In the wake of damning proof and Londo's dismissive rebuttal, the former non-aligned worlds begin actively hunting down any Centauri they can find... ships and people. Leaving Vir in charge of diplomacy on B5, Londo returns to Centauri Prime with G'Kar at his side, after the Narn Ambassador's touching send-off by Delenn. You wanted a war?! YOU HAVE A WAR! This week, on Jumpgate!

 Jumpgate Epsiode 115 - Darkness Ascending | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4039

Old themes and minor betrayals infuse this episode like a shot of whiskey in your coffee. Lennier's spycraft finally yields the intel the Alliance needs, after tracking a Centauri ship back to a hidden base. Lyta takes up a long-standing offer and secures a deal for telepath genetic material with G'kar. Delenn defuses Sheridan with the truth. And Garibaldi must finally decide what he wants: Oblivion, or life on Mars with Lise. We just recently discovered we don't *have* a pleasure threshold, this week on Jumpgate!

 Jumpgate Episode 114 - Meditations on the Abyss | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4398

Delenn meets Lennier in Downbelow to offer the Ranger trainee a covert mission: enter Centauri space and follow up on the evidence she and Sheridan have collected in order to attain solid proof that the Centauri are behind the attacks on Alliance shipping. He departs B5 bound for Whitestar 27, which has been retasked to serve as a platform for advanced Ranger training in deep space. Meanwhile, Londo adroitly trolls the Drazi through a bug in Vir's groceries and surprises his loyal aide with a pending promotion. And after months of waiting, G'Kar finally has his new orange prosthetic eye installed by Dr. Franklin... but must still deal with the myopia of his new followers. Can Lennier and his fellow Minbari Rangers survive the intensity of the Human Captain Montoya's unorthodox training? Can Vir master the real-life version of Fruit Ninja: Drazi Edition? Find out this week, on Jumpgate!

 Jumpgate Episode 113 - The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 5158

Ace Blip-hunter Al Bester is on the case of a runaway Mindshredder, who keeps a secret worth killing for! Joined by two talented proteges, Al tracks the murderous rogue telepath to the notorious Babylon 5 station, deep in Epsilon sector. With time running out, and one of his apprentices already slaughtered in cold blood by a deranged mundane in thrall to the killer, can Al Bester bring the Mindshredder home before more of Psi-Corps' children fall to his brutal living nightmares? Find out this week on PSI: MIAMI! Er... I mean.... JUMPGATE!

 Jumpgate Episode 112 - The Ragged Edge | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4453

G'Kar must deal with a growing religious movement surrounding the bootleg publication of his memoirs, forcing him into a role for which he's not quite ready. Meanwhile, Garibaldi falls into a bottle on Drazi homeworld, which leads to the death of a longtime friend, not to mention the pilot he was after, who had a lead on the mysterious ISA shipping attacks. Franklin takes a promotion, Sheridan declares war on Earth (with the help of a snarky Delenn) and Londo gets a view of his true inner self, thanks to an elevator mishap! Put your face in the book, this week on Jumpgate!

 2018-07-15 Jumpgate Episode 111 - Phoenix Rising | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3907

The Byron Situation plunges headlong into chaos as Bester, under Earthgov jurisdiction, directs his bloodhounds to run down the violent splinter group of telepaths, who respond by holding medlab hostage! Shocking revelations from Byron finally reveal his ugly backstory, and Garibaldi faces off with Bester, but is neurally blocked from pulling the trigger to end the life of his tormentor. Hostage situations are for losers, so join us for a delightful summer barbecue, this week on Jumpgate!

 Jumpgate Episode 110 - A Tragedy of Telepaths | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4157

Byron and his remaining telepaths turtle-up in Brown Sector, repelling any attempt by Lochley's people to cut through. As the remnants of the violent faction ramp up their misguided offensive with weapons theft and neatly-penned graffiti, Sheridan and Delenn ride herd on the ISA council, who are suffering from ever more destructive raids on their shipping by an unknown aggressor. Meanwhile, back on Centauri Prime, Londo and G'Kar have a discussion about Spoo, which leads to a forgotten cell in an unused wing of the palace, where G'Kar's former aide Na'Toth is held in solitary confinement. Lochley does her best John McClane impression, Londo subverts expectations, and Bester is STILL a psychopath! This week on Jumpgate!

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