I love love love this show (mostly)

I recently started a rewatch of Babylon 5, and discovered this podcast. The idea of two Star Trek Podcasters, watching, and reviewing Babylon 5 from beginning to end is equal parts enthralling and infuriating (in a good way!)

Listening to these guys watch the episodes and enjoy them, while referencing Star Trek along the way, is a ton of fun. Hearing their theories and hearing their interpretations of different clues and ideas is fantastic. And sometimes hilarious, and startling when they tease out major plot points, sometimes a full season ahead. It’s also infuriating when they focus in on the weirdest throwaway part of an episode, and demand it come back around in later episodes.

The most frustrating moments for me are when the hosts miss the point of an episode or complain that there was no moral to a serialized, story driven episode.

While I absolutely love listening to these guys watch the series, there are times I wish they could just sit and enjoy the show for what it is, without comparing or reviewing, even if it means we lose a great podcast as a consequence.

Still, this is a great listen. It takes a couple episodes to find the rhythm, and almost 20 hours for one of the hosts to reliably say a characters name correctly (which is totally fine at first, but becomes grating by episode 15, TKO). But eventually everything come together to be a show I’m hopelessly addicted to, even if I sometime angrily yell at the hosts while I’m listening…. Which, if I’m being honest, is part of the fun.