So lately I’ve been watching Babylon 5 after a few years I thought I would revisit this mid 90’s sci-fi show and see if I could glean some ideas about how a larger story evolves. Since the show is created and primarily written by one person J. Michael Straczynski it flows pretty well and has a coherence on a reasonably epic scale that I hope is something that Lucas will do when his Star Wars television show starts here soon.
Anywho, the actor that played the chief of Security Michael Garibaldi and one of the few actors that was with the show for all 5 seasons Jerry Doyle always struck me as having a certain kind of authenticity in the way he portrayed the cynical security chief. Other than on Babylon 5, I could not remember seeing him on the tube or in pictures and occasionaly would wonder whatever became of him?
So yesterday I’m flipping through the television box as I am want to do while consuming my high fiber cerel. What do I see but a radio show on television. That’s right good old C-Span was doing some program where they show the behind the scenes of talk radio. On this particular episode who do I see in jeans and a grey t-shirt with headphones on talking into a mic but Jerry Doyle. Apparently, Mr. Garibaldi has been putting that cynicism and disgust for corruption and lies to good use, doing the talk radio thing as a self described “independent” for quite some time. I watched Doyle talk to a few guests and set up his jokes and bumps and it was weird and cool . . . I guess now I know the answer to that question, for what it’s worth