S5E10: The Day the World Went Away S5E11: Synechtecy YES WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT THE B5 NEWS. The Day the World Went Away: Nobody really dies while the Machine is there? Minigun shenanigans. More needle drop appreciation. The ultimate mundanity of death. Fusco gets a yellow box. Dark Harold. Root and Shaw flirting during a gunfight is pretty much the peak of their relationship. Every teacher has had THAT student. "If we're just noise in the system, we might as well be a symphony. Synecdoche: Rest in peace, cocoa puffs. Poor Shaw. The President--irrelevant? New Machine Team! Only fictional billion ..read more

CW: discussions of a viral flu pandemic. Skip from around 6 minutes to 23:15 if that's an issue. S5E8: Reassortment S5E9: Sotto Voce Reassortment: This is about a respiratory virus. Be warned. Shaw answers the question of "what are you going to do, stab me?" with... well...  Fusco throws away the camera from season 1. Is the show just lazily Anglocentric or does Samaritan only care about white people? We struggle a bit with Watsonianism and Doylism in this episode. Sotto Voce: Ugh this guy again. Fusco is upgraded to a yellow box! Root/Shaw is our favorite part of this, because the thing ..read more

But first some B5 news. Shotseeker: Yay Elias is not dead! John's love language is avenging your death. The only thing believable about this technology is that NYC would spend a staggering amount of money on it. This episode really doesn't work in the context of its airing time. A More Perfect Union: The Great Filter? Shaw's still in a simulation, John's a stripper pimp, there's a wedding, root goes horseback riding. Meanwhile Fusco has to go to a tunnel full of corpses. Michael Emerson's Irish accent is... not good. Jarold shipping intensifies. QSO: root dress-up episode! 4 Alarm Fire, the be ..read more

CW: 6,741 contains graphic depictions of non-consensual surgery and suicide, so if that's a problem you're safe to listen through around 19:30. S5E3: Truth Be Told S5E4: 6,741 Keith David Appreciation Club Truth Be Told: TGI Blackbeard's? John does The Worst version of the "on two dates" trope. We actually run into surprisingly few characters who are not related to people John and Kara killed.  The end of the boner music! 6,741: Hoo boy. We're happy to see Shaw but gosh. root u-hauls Sameen around 40 minutes after finding her (or at least that's what Shaw wants).  No kneecaps? That's ..read more

BSOD: Team Machine is on the run, and we've split the party! This is a high stakes, high tension episode. Fusco may have crossed the threshold where knowing about the Machine might finally be safer. Remember PS3 supercomputers? A diversion into linguistics. SNAFU: We get a Freaky Friday! Somehow it works! We continue to stan Amy Acker. We also get a long diversion into the complex dynamics of indoor shoe-wearing.  Connect with the show at @babylonpodject Help us keep the lights on via our Patreon! Justen can be found at @justenwrites Ana can be found at @The_Mianaai, and also made our sho ..read more

Asylum: Pneumatic tubes! Elias is classy during revenge, Martine dies a classless but perfect death. We doubt that Harold doesn't know what a pneumatic tube canister looks like. root's scene on the ledge is inteeeeense. If the bad guys don't have Fusco's kid he's functionally invincible. YHWH: Fetch quests! Fax machines! Harold seeing the results of his efforts, in many ways. Many antagonists get wiped off the board. Tell the god you created that you love her now and then.   Connect with the show at @babylonpodject Help us keep the lights on via our Patreon! Justen can be found at @justen ..read more

This is not a star trek podcast. Justen forgets our favorite Telepath. A coughing break was edited out for your convenience. Karma: 2010 Retro Finch, Digital Vigilante--the Harold version of a rampage. Therapist Listening Posture. We continue to hate the John-therapist plotline and spend a long time decomposing it. This episode does Fusco dirty. Skip: A really intense Harold/root episode. Discount Natalie Dormer? We wish it had been Shaw instead of Reese. We fantasize about episodes we don't get. Connect with the show at @babylonpodject Help us keep the lights on via our Patreon! Justen can be ..read more

Justen describes, at length, a single player board game. There's probably at least 10% Person of Interest content in this episode, but no guarantees. Q&A: Siri, MMA, and morgues. Claire returns. The stable of characters in PoI is huuuge. Any time Harold's computer gets stolen, we assume it's on purpose, like John getting into a garbage truck. Justen knows a surprising amount about MMA law. Jude brings in the OC, to Zathras' chagrin. Blunt: Can't believe they didn't save this for Episode 20. We apparently stan a devious girl-criminal. If anyone's eligible for MMJ it's Harold. John has big c ..read more

The gang reconvenes after an extended recording hiatus (it shows...), discusses the weather, and then... MIA: This is a d&d plotline. Just a reminder--torture does not work. Ana goes on a rant about New York. The Californians counter with a nuanced discussion of west coast cartography. Tweet the show with your opinions about geography, please, Zathras begs you. The slimmed-down team feels like season 1 again a bit. We like Dani and wonder if she was possibly a Shaw replacement. Some weird cyberpunk experiments that don't go anywhere. the Reese/root team-up is fascinatingly deadly. Guilty ..read more

Yet again, Star Trek talk. And then we get a 10 minute tour of Justen's bedroom furniture. IKEA, sponsor us--this podcast resembles one of Jude's bookcases, for sure. If/Then/Else: It's Remedial Chaos Theory! The show played with the format of broadcast tv to emotionally whiplash you, and it doesn't come across as well on streaming, but that doesn't make this any less of an amazing episode... Shaw's exit(?) was because of real-life things, not conflicts, and was a character choice. Only Fusco seems to be mispredicted by the Machine. Even the Machine knows root is the Queen. Ctrl+Alt+Del: The d ..read more