Posts with tag cylons
Posted Aug 1st 2008 4:22PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Interviews, Reality-Free, Burn Notice, Comic-Con
I'll have a longer post about the Sci Fi / Entertainment Weekly party early next week, but I wanted to post a couple of short interviews I was able to grab at the party first. I actually wasn't intending to interview anyone at this party, but since Rich had his handy recorder with him, I made a few choice picks from the red carpet while I had the chance.
First up: Tricia Helfer. With
Battlestar Galactica finished filming, she's been busy in a guest-starring role on
Burn Notice. Hell, this woman's on
two shows I love and, come on, it's Tricia Helfer. I was the last person in line on the carpet, so I kept it short. She was extremely nice and open to talk to.
Continue reading Tricia Helfer: The TV Squad interview - Comic-Con Report
Posted Jul 23rd 2008 7:41PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Reality-Free, Comic-Con
I haven't even gone to get my badge yet, where
I hear from Cinematical that there's lots of goodies to have, and lookee here -- Sci Fi stuff! The fine folks over at Sci Fi Channel were nice enough to drop off a ginormous purple bag full of loot, like the Raider model above; t-shirts, breath mints, temporary tattoos ...
Check the gallery for more, and
check out what they're giving to registrants over at Cinematical.
Posted Jun 20th 2008 12:57PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: OpEd, Battlestar Galactica, TV Squad Polls, Watercooler Talk, Reality-Free
Get ready for many,
many Friday nights of having to find something better to do than sit in front of television to watch
Battlestar Galactica. You could always dig into your past-season DVDs to reminisce on what's happened before ("and will happen again?") or simply
watch BSG online. There's also the unimaginable: spending time with friends and loved ones, stepping out of the house or, gods forbid, getting some extra sleep.
While we all think of what to do with that extra hour we have every week, let's go over a few things going on since last week's
mid-season finale.
Continue reading It's Friday and there's no Galactica. What will we do?!
Posted Jun 16th 2008 9:21AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Interviews, Reality-Free
(Warning! If you haven't watched the latest episode of BSG yet, thar be spoilers ahead!)After
last Friday's episode, a lot of us had questions about what we saw. Was that Earth? Are humans and cylons really bonded together, after all this time? Who is the final cylon? I finally took the time to throw a slew of questions toward writer and co-executive producer
Jane Espenson about this episode, and she had a few things to say (though nothing quite as revealing as I had hoped).
Rather than get into what I had to say, I'll let her letter back to me speak on its own. As you'll quickly see, she's not a woman of few words when it comes to this show. I'm hoping she'll have just as much to spill when I ask her questions for our
Buffy Retro Squad week next week.
Continue reading Jane Espenson on Battlestar Galactica's mid-season finale
Posted Jun 13th 2008 11:30PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Video, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E09) Well now, how was that for a surprise ending? Well, that is, for those who didn't get to see the screening in L.A. Wednesday night. I was invited to go but, seeing as I live on the other side of the country, it wasn't really all that practical to be there.
While this was an amazing episode, I've got mixed feelings of sorts. I'm elated that this isn't the finale episode of the series, that we've got another slew of episodes to go through before "the end." However, this episode felt like it possibly could have ended the series -- will the
real final episode pay off as well as this one did?
Continue reading Battlestar Galactica: Revelations - VIDEO
Posted Jun 7th 2008 12:27AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Video, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E09) I've been reading a lot lately from people who've become disappointed with this show the past few episodes or so. I've felt the same way. I'm happy to say, though, that while this episode didn't exactly make up for the lack of luster, it was certainly enjoyable.
Even without seeing the previews for this week (which, I admit, I can't even help but watch), we knew this episode would start with a flashback to what happened when Roslin and the occupants of the stolen Base Star jumped away. Right away we saw that a Cylon ship jumping has a strange effect on humans, though it's not clear if anyone other than Roslin had those brief visions.
Continue reading Battlestar Galactica: The Hub - VIDEO
Posted Jun 3rd 2008 3:22PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Reality-Free
Well, replica, that is. But hey, it's life-size!
NBC / Universal Pictures is making available full-size replicas of the familiar Cylon Centurions, both the one from the original
Battlestar Galactica series and the series airing now on Sci Fi. These suckers stand at seven feet tall and weigh around 300 pounds, made of fiberglass and even sport red LED lights in the visor.
The company making these replicas,
Fred Barton Productions, produces a bunch of other familiar replica-robots. They have Robot B-9 from
Lost in Space, some
Silent Running drones,
Gort from
The Day the Earth Stood Still, Robby the Robot, C3PO & R2D2, and
Tobor the Great.
So, how much will this set you back? Try $7900 fraking clams. Sadly for many, there's no skinjob Cylon model replicas at the store. I imagine the Sixes and Eights would have been sold out by now. And I don't want to even imagine what would be done with them.
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Posted May 31st 2008 12:32AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Video, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E08) After two weeks of waiting, and through several other shows having their season finales, we're back for more frakking
BSG, baby. And speaking of season finales, after watching
Lost last night with all of its flashbacks and flash-forwards, it almost seemed as though we may be seeing a bit of flashbackery next week to explain what happened to Roslin and the others aboard the hijacked Base Star.
In case you're wondering what the title means, it's a
latin legal term, of course.
Continue reading Battlestar Galactica: Sine Qua Non - VIDEO
Posted May 16th 2008 11:55PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Video, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E07) I'm going to go out on a limb (no pun ... oh hell, pun intended) and assume it's not a huge spoiler to mention the fate of Gaeta's leg here, before the jump. Most people in last week's poll thought it was "as good as gone," and they were right. The songs Gaeta sang in the infirmary, along with the haunting music of
Bear McCreary, were very well done. While we have some minor (and sometimes major) characters dying episode-to-episode, not so much feeling has been put into them as has been with Gaeta's amputation. Sad, yet beautiful.
OK, that was a bit creepy, but you get where I'm coming from.
Continue reading Battlestar Galactica: Guess What's Coming To Dinner - VIDEO
Posted May 9th 2008 11:41PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Video, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E06) More than a few people thought
last week's episode was filler. Things picked up again this week, with a lot of reveals along with a few more questions. Throw in another "red shirt" death and some other surprises (that I won't mention here in case there are spoiler-phobes about), and you've got the makings of a good episode.
This week I didn't bother with the ten minute preview online. In an
interview with Mark Verheiden regarding last week's episode, he indicated that this episode was originally going to start off at a different point. So, in essence, if you were watching the preview today, you were seeing what was meant to be in last week's episode, originally.
Continue reading Battlestar Galactica: Faith - VIDEO
Posted Apr 25th 2008 11:53PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Video, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E04) I went on earlier today about how a lot of us were
cut short in the early viewing of tonight's episode, which made me think perhaps something "big" happens later that they didn't want revealed early. With the exception of one "maybe big" moment, I can scratch that theory.
I wouldn't exactly call this a throw-away episode, though with what we saw in the past three episodes it did drag is places.
Continue reading Battlestar Galactica: Escape Velocity - VIDEO
Posted Apr 18th 2008 11:01PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Video, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E03) At the conclusion of
last week's episode, I made mention of how quickly things were moving along, specifically with the Cylon Centurions' evolution. I thought for sure things would settle down this week, but they gave me a surprise. Hell, I think they gave everyone a surprise. Sorta.
Continue reading Battlestar Galactica: The Ties That Bind - VIDEO
Posted Apr 15th 2008 2:03PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: OpEd, Battlestar Galactica, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free
I finally caved. After all the hype and all the buzz, I gave in. I'm sick of avoiding headlines on blogs and it's frustrating to hear everyone chatting away about "Cylons this..." and "Caprica that..." while I stand by mute and clueless. I've finally started to watch Battlestar Galactica.
I should mention that I'm not completely in the dark. I've tried before. On a couple of occasions actually. I've had a burned copy of the three hour mini-series that started it all for some time now. I could never get through it. This time, I went all out though. I even shelled out the $55 for the season one DVD set. Now, I'm through the mini-series and I'm nine episodes into the season. Four to go before the finale and all of a sudden, I've stopped. I started thinking. What if I had watched the show, right from the get-go when it premiered back in 2005 along with everyone else? Let's pretend. Let's say it is 2005 all over again and episode nine just aired last night -- the one where Tigh's estranged wife shows up. Let's pretend that seasons 2, 3 and 4 don't exist yet. Cool premise? OK...
I don't see what the big deal is.
Continue reading Battlestar Galactica should be called Battlestar Ga-suck-tica
Posted Apr 11th 2008 11:06PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Video, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E02) Let me start out by saying that
Sci Fi airing these episodes online at noon is both a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing that we all get to see our favorite show well ahead of time. It's a curse because it's smack in the middle of a workday for some (though at lunchtime) and at the start of a workday for others. There's no pausing or rewinding, so if you get a bad connection or miss something, you still need to tune in that night to keep up. Not that that's such a bad thing, really, but man it's frustrating.
Continue reading Battlestar Galactica: Six of One - VIDEO
Posted Apr 8th 2008 1:40PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Watercooler Talk, Interviews, Reality-Free
ComicMix has weekly
interviews with Battlestar Galactica co-executive producer Mark Verheiden. In the latest interview, ComicMix asked an interesting question about something I didn't notice from the
season premiere (
warning: SPOILERS!):
CMix: In Tigh's hallucination, he shoots Adama in the same eye that Tigh lost. Intentional?
MV: Per one of the writers of that episode, Mr. David Weddle:
"I was waiting for someone to pick up on that telling detail. Congratulations. But I am disappointed you have not figured out its significance within the larger mythology of the show. It's all laid out for you. All you have to do is run the episode over again in slow motion, and the deeper truth will be revealed."
Hmmm... Makes me want to run it slow motion!Continue reading Significance of a Cylon's right eye
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