Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 2, Episdoe 5: The Farm - Roslyn tries to rally support among the fleet while back on Caprica, Starbuck is wounded and being tended to in a facility that she doesn't feel safe in.
Jul 07, 2025•1 hr 29 min•Season 9Ep. 20
Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 2, Episdoe 4: Resistance - Starbuck and Helo find they're not the only survivors on Caprica, while the allies of President Roslyn try to figure out a way to get her off of Galactica.
Jun 30, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Season 9Ep. 19
Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 2, Episdoe 3: Fragged - The show gives us a collage of characters cracking under pressure, and as a bonus Vera has a minor breakdown while Jessie tries to philosophize about it.
Jun 23, 2025•1 hr 35 min•Season 9Ep. 18
Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 2, Episdoe 2: Valley of Darkness - Starbuck and Helo try to their way around Caprica, while the survivors of the downed Raptor try to hold it together on Kobol, and Galactica is attacked from within.
Jun 16, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Season 9Ep. 17
Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 2, Episdoe 1: Scattered - Adama's life is on the line as Galactica is separated from the fleet and the survivors on both Caprica and Kobol have their own sets of troubles, and yet somehow we can't stop focusing on Adama's flashback mustache.
Jun 09, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 9Ep. 16
Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 1, Episdoe 12: Kobol's Last Gleaming Part 2 - The first season wraps up trying to tie together at least part of the pile of loose ends left all over the place by the previous episode and set things up for the future.
Jun 02, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Season 9Ep. 15
Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 1, Episdoe 12: Kobol's Last Gleaming Part 1 - Practically every plot and character arc in the show takes a massive leap forward at the same time in a way that leaves you feeling like you missed and episode, and can somebody pump the dang breaks?!?
May 26, 2025•56 min•Season 9Ep. 15
Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 1, Episdoe 11: Colonial Day - Representatives of the 12 colonies come together for politics as usual, except with Tom Zarek there things will never be "as usual."
May 19, 2025•1 hr 28 min•Season 9Ep. 13
Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 1, Episdoe 10: The Hand of God - As the fleet starts to run low on fuel, they find a massive deposit of the resource they need, except it's being heavily guarded by the Cylons. It's time to punch back, or go down swinging.
May 12, 2025•1 hr 31 min•Season 9Ep. 12
Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 1, Episdoe 9: Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down - Oh boy, an episode with a pun title! That's always a good sign. Welcome to Battlestar Galactica does low-key farce, as Col. Tigh's wife shows up and shenanigans ensue!
May 05, 2025•1 hr 26 min•Season 9Ep. 11
Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 1, Episdoe 8: Flesh and Bone - A known Cylon is found mixed in with the fleet, and Starbuck is assigned the job of attempting to interrograte him.
Apr 28, 2025•1 hr 36 min•Season 9Ep. 10
Episode Description Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 1, Episdoe 7: Six Degrees of Separation - Baltar is confronted by a familiar face who brings some very accusations it'll be hard for him to wriggle out of.
Apr 21, 2025•1 hr 35 min•Season 9Ep. 9
Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 1, Episdoe 6: Litmus - After a Cylon is able to sneak onto the ship and let off a bomb, it's no longer possible to hide the fact that Cylons can look like humans. Hard questions are asked of the ground crew, by a character who desperately needs more nuance than she's given.
Apr 14, 2025•1 hr 39 min•Season 9Ep. 8
Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 1, Episdoe 5: You Can't Go Home Again - Adama and Apollo lead the charge to recover Starbuck from the surface of the moon she crashed on, costs be damned. Meanwhile Boomer and Helo continue to hunker down on Cylon-occupied Caprica.
Apr 07, 2025•1 hr 19 min•Season 9Ep. 7
Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 1, Episdoe 4: Act of Contrition - Following a hanger bay accident, Starbuck is tasked with training up a batch of new pilots, all while the whole episode for some reason thought it'd really help the story telling to cut in a whole bunch of flashbacks and flashforwards.
Mar 31, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Season 9Ep. 6
Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 1, Episdoe 3: Bastille Day - The time has come to get the water the fleet needs, and it's going to be backbreaking work. Apollo strikes on the idea of offering reduced sentences (and possibly freedom) to prisoners, but when the offer is made a prisoner named Zarek complicates things with his very presence.
Mar 24, 2025•1 hr 47 min•Season 9Ep. 5
Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 1, Episdoe 2: Water - The water reserves on the Galactica are sabotaged and Boomer may be in the middle of it all, even though she can't remember doing anything. Meanwhile Baltar stalls while trying to run from his self imposed responsibility of developing a Cylon detector, and Lee grapples with his conscience.
Mar 17, 2025•1 hr 39 min•Season 9Ep. 4
Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 1, Episode 1, 33 - The first episode of the series proper has the Galactica being relentlessly pursued by the Cylons, who show up precisely 33 minutes after each FTL jump. And we welcome special guest Dr. Erin Macdonald to the show!
Mar 10, 2025•1 hr 45 min•Season 9Ep. 3
Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Miniseries Part 2 - The fleeing civilians reach the Galactica as the starship restocks its munitions to get back into the fight. Can President Roslin and Commander Adama agree on a course of action? Can the Galactica stand and fight against a Cylon fleet, and if not can it get away? And what the hell is going on with Baltar? Let's find out!
Mar 03, 2025•1 hr 54 min•Season 9Ep. 2
Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Miniseries Part 1 - Before it was a full show, the Battlestar Galactica reboot was a miniseries. And while rebroadcasts aired it as one complete piece, it originally aired as two. So let's take a look at the first half and get a sense for what we're in for as the human created Cylons launch a deadly attack on their makers.
Feb 24, 2025•2 hr 6 min•Season 9Ep. 1
Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. We've finished all there is to see and now it's time to give our thoughts on the show as a whole before we move onto a new one.
Feb 17, 2025•1 hr 20 min•Season 7Ep. 133
Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. We've arrived at the (currently) final piece of Babylon 5 visual media, an animated time-hopping adventure that can't seem to decide if it's meant to be accessible to newcomers or just a greatest hits mix tape for the fans.
Feb 10, 2025•1 hr 42 min•Season 7Ep. 132
Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. When given the opportunity to make a Babylon 5 film for DVD, creator J. Michael Strazinski opted instead for a collection of two shorter stories. Fans appear not to have taken to them. Are these some overlooked gems? Let’s find out.
Feb 03, 2025•1 hr 35 min•Season 7Ep. 131
Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Even with Crusade behind us, we have the pilot movie for another pitched spin-off. This one wasn’t picked up but we can still see what the set up was and get a sense of what the show might have been, for better or worse.
Jan 27, 2025•1 hr 53 min•Season 7Ep. 130
Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Crusade is over, and now it’s time to take a look at the plans that never came to be and arrive at an overall assessment of this short-lived spin-off.
Jan 20, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Season 7Ep. 129
Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Crusade: The Rules of the Game – Gideon tries to get Lochley’s help in getting permission to land on a planet with a potential cure lead, and the two flirt up a storm in the process. Meanwhile Max bumps into his ex and makes a bad situation worse, despite the failure of the episode to acknowledge that’s what he’s done.
Jan 13, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Season 7Ep. 128
Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Crusade: The Well of Forever – The Excalibur is diverted from its species saving mission, because it’s a day that ends in “y,” but this time it’s because of their resident technomage. What a change of pace.
Jan 06, 2025•1 hr 25 min•Season 7Ep. 127
Jessie and Vera are putting the journey through the universe of Babylon 5 on hold to talk about how the year has gone. Mostly in terms of entertainment, and a little about personal lives. Not so much about the state of the world… we don’t… we don’t need to go there.
Dec 30, 2024•2 hr
Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Crusade: Patterns of the Soul – The Excalibur is diverted again on a mission to recover possible infected humans from a would-be colony. Naturally there’s some shady stuff going on, and it’s not just the questionable acting choices.
Dec 23, 2024•1 hr 18 min
Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Crusade: Ruling from the Tomb – The Excalibur is diverted from its species-saving mission to… have the on-board doctor give a speech. Meanwhile Captain Gideon buts heads with Lochley from Babylon 5 because… just because.
Dec 16, 2024•1 hr 8 min