YGCTO Episode 21 - Blitzcast Part I

Twelve Guests Enter the Blitzcast…

To handle the fifth season of Babylon 5, Dre and I decided to do something a little different and a little insane. I wanted to find a way to have most of our guests back on towards the end of the Babylon 5 run to see if they had watched any more Babylon 5. After all, it’s the question we ask all of them at the end of the show.

We wound up with ten former guests and two new guests on the show. To handle a large number of guests in one show, we staggered their appearances across the entire show. The idea is that we would pair two guests at a time, each guest overlapping with each other in 15 minute segments.

Each guest takes on the next episode of Babylon 5 as they arrive. We get caught up with them, then have them read off the next episode description. There’s a quick recap… or unrelated tangent. THen we get in a quick game of two truths and a lie on the plot before moving to the next guest and episode.

It was a wild podcasting experiment. I ended up breaking it up into three parts that we’ll be releasing over the next three weeks. Let me introduce the four guests that are on this week’s Part I.

The Fateful Four

Ait Fetterolf

Ait Fetterolf is actually a wrestler which made him perfect to kick off the Blitz. He was with us on the Season 4 episode “The Face of the Enemy”.

The face of an angel, the heart of a contender

I wrote intro music for each guest and Ait’s was the easiest. My usual formula of playing a pentatonic riff on bass, double on guitar and adding a drum machine works nicely here.

Megan Boshuyzen

Megan Boshuyzen is an email expert and member of the Coventry Board of Education. You can hear Megan on her podcast “Geek Out with Megan and Carin”. She was with us early on for the Season 2 episode “In The Shadow of Za’Ha’Dum”

I pictured Megan storming the podcast arena on a pegasus and used that to conjure this intro music:

Carin Slater

Carin Slater is still married to me, against all odds taken at our wedding. She is the goddess of email and my household. You can hear her on her podcast “Geek Out with Megan and Carin” or as the first guest of You Gotta Check This Out on the Season 1 episode “Signs and Portents”.

Carin Slater

Carin’s theme is based on a birthday pop punk song I wrote for her.

David Stampor

David Stampor is a monkey from Michigan.

David Stampor

David’s theme song is called “The Moron Chorus”:

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Welcome to Season 5. Appropriately starting out by delivering a corpse to the station.

DOA, just like Season 5 compared to what came before

Lochly, the third captain of the series. Comes across like a model trying to act… and is one.

A model captain

Byron is generally thought of as the scourge of season 5. He was supposed to come across as an ethereal charismatic leader. Unfortunately, the actor makes him seem like a stuck up rich kid who never interacted with other people. Also a model in real life who took on the role at the last moment.

His story should have lasted 4-5 episodes and instead dragged on for most of season five. You’ll hear a lot of complaining about this dude throughout the blitzcast, and then we shall never speak of Byron again.

A model telepath

Londo has a long dark night of the soul after drinking a bad bottle of Centauri moonshine.

Londo was always a sucker for poisoned drink

Lennier and Vir get one last drink together before Lennier goes off to be abandoned in space by the Rangers… as is their tradition.

These two having bar encounters were some of the best small moments of the show

There’s an entire episode where these two are the main characters. THen are never heard from again.

The Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of B5

What Did We Learn?

Do not taunt the Blitzcast

Next Episode

The Season 5 Blitzcast continues in Part II, coming to you Sunday, May 10th.

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