Battlestar Galactica

By Tempo Caprica," which serves as a prequel to "Battlestar Galactica" and tells the story of the invention of the mechanized Cylons, "deals with our relationship to technology and the question of 'When is too much knowledge a bad thing?' Knowledge and technology can turn against you and can be d...

By brad Last week saw the DVD release of what may be the final Battlestar Galactica movie/episode, a flashback movie called “The Plan.” It was written by Jane Espenson and is the story of the attack and early chase from the point of view of the Cylons, most particularly Number One (Cavil.) (Review fi...

By Lewis Wallace The recycling continues in Battlestar Galactica: The Plan. Released Tuesday, the straight-to-DVD movie shows events from the perspective of the humanity-hating Cylons by welding footage from the dearly departed sci-fi series with new scenes shot by director Edward James Olmos.

By Michael Hickerson Actors: Edward James Olmos, Dean Stockwell, Tricia Helfer, Michael Hogan Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Language: English Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Number of discs: 1 MPAA Rating: NR Studio: Universal DVD Release Date: October 27, 2009 Run Time: 95 minutes

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) Following up on the post below, reviews are coming in for Battlestar Galactica: The Plan. Bill Hunt, editor of The Digital Bits gives the film a B+ and highly recommends the Blu-Ray release. Ron Henriques for The Latino Review notes:

By DS Arsenault Conclusion: The original Battlestar Galactica and Galactica 1980 had some really great core ideas. Battlestar Galactica chucked everything and got a reboot on TV. Galactica 1980 is keeping its history and rebooting at the point of first contact. So far it’s a great ride.

By KT Boomer’s ongoing struggle, I think, is to like herself.  She spends months on Galactica trying to convince herself that she isn’t a Cylon when deep down, followed by months back on Caprica trying to hang on to the human identity she was used to.  The resolution she makes with Caprica Six to ma...

By brad In fact, a few times audience members and panelists felt it necessary to encourage the crowd to stop just ranting about the ending and to talk about the good things. In spite of being so negative on the ending myself I found myself being one of those also trying to talk about the good stuff.

By noreply@blogger.com (Chris) As an added bonus, this release has a second disk. This disk is focused completely on the series finale, "Daybreak." Much like every other album of Bear McCreary's music, this is not to be missed. It may be the most focused of the Battlestar Galactica albums, aside from Caprica, as it is not a "B...

By Stephen Goldmeier To me, this is where Lost most clearly distinguishes itself from BSG. In his essay, Templeton says that BSG lost sight of its true goal of character development in its final episodes. Lost seems to be not only sticking to these character roots, but moving even further towards them in its fina...

By Charlie Jane Anders Here's what I always come back to when I think about the BSG finale, though — I feel as though Moore put us on notice with the final episode of season three. When we first encounter the mysterious Bob Dylan Cylon signal, and four totally random characters turn out to be Cylons, and Starbuck com...

By brad Ron Moore’s goals To understand the fall of BSG, one must examine it both in terms of more general goals for good SF, and the stated goals of the head writer and executive producer, Ronald D. Moore. The ending failed by both my standards (which you may or may not care about) but also his.

By spacepug Novel by Peter David.  Review by spacepug. I’m already missing Battlestar Galactica, so I thought I would try to fill the void by finally getting a hold of the novels, starting with Sagittarius is Bleeding by Peter David.  Below is a brief (but spoiler-free) summary of the book and my thought...

I love Battlestar Galactica.  I think it is better than any other TV show and even better than any movie (or trilogy of movies) that I have ever seen.  I even loved season 3 and most of season 4.  That being said, however, I was completely and totally underwhelmed by the finale and I'm just plain...

By Lewis Wallace None of this is new, especially to fans of the recently wrapped Galactica, but luckily producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick have imported to Caprica other hallmarks of their award-winning Sci Fi Channel series as well: the lean writing, the strong acting, the exceptional soundtrack...

Battlestar Galactica seemed so real that it brought up many emotions. It reflected many current issues. For instance, the 9/11 attack influenced the dark tone. Terrorism, rule of law, and racism were all important themes. There was recently a United Nations summit discussing what modern s...

By Michael Hickerson When her viper crashes, Starbuck is trapped on a planet with a wounded Cylon Raider.  Meanwhile, Adama and Lee risk the fleet to find Starbuck before the Cylons find them.   The homage to classic “Galactica” with Starbuck using the trick of waggling the Raider as she comes back to the fleet i...

By Raked BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: 4.15 “No Exit” When the five finally found the 12 colonies, they were already at war with the Centurions. The final five promised to teach the centurions how to create skinjobs, if they would only stop their war against the Humans.

By Mr Random Be aware that this article contains spoilers for episode 14 (4.16) “Blood on the Scales” of the fourth season of Battlestar Galactica so do not read on if you have not seen the episode and do not want to be spoiled Episode Rating 8/10 - An action packed episode that also allows for decent cha...

By Tempo What's the significance of the big crack in the wall in the big room that houses Galactica's FTL drive? I think it failed because Gaeta had too much heart and Laura too much love for Adama to give up. How could "Battlestar Galactica" top "The Oath," which I found to be an incredibly taut, suspe...

By Myles It also, I think, gives Starbuck a more clear trajectory moving into the second half of the season; she slowed down the first half in a large number of places, and it seemed as if she was more angry and annoyed than she was really searching for meaning. Here, with a more volatile secret at stake...

By Charles Please be aware that this article contains spoilers for episode 11 (4.13) of the fourth season of Battlestar Galactica so do not read on if you have not seen the episode and do not want to be spoiled One Sentence Review On Earth, Tyrol, Tory and Anders are having flashes of their life on Eart...

By Michael Hickerson Tonight, the long awaited final chapter in the “Battlestar Galactica” saga debuts on SciFi. Fans have been waiting months and years to find out what will happen in the final hours of Ron Moore’s epic series. Jamie Bamber, who plays Lee “Apollo” Adama on the hit series spoke to our sister site...

By nobody@flickr.com (Geekstalt) This piece was inspired by a review done by a television critic who had recently discovered the series Battlestar Galactica. He'd never seen the show as he didn't normally watch “Sci-Fi”, but as the show is now coming to an end he was convinced to watch it by fellow staff members. That's when h...

By Sheldon A. Wiebe So it’s an act of time. But I think our most primary focus right now is Caprica because that really is the next at bat. RM: All of the above. RM: Yes. RM: Yes. RM: I think it’s pretty definitive. The other episodes are going to be the standard one-hour episodes? RM: Yes.

By Michael Hickerson Interview: This week, we talk to Aaron Douglas who plays Chief Tyrol on SciFi’s “Battlestar Galactica.”  Aaron will be in Phoenix in a few weeks for CactusCon.  He also talks about the history of his character and his approach to playing Chief Tyrol.

By BennyC BSG Speaking of ending on a high note, the last season of Battlestar Galactica is right around the corner and I'm very excited. Sci Fi has a little preview thingy here. The whole last Cylon thing is getting a little tired though, don't you think? Entertainment Weekly has a bracket where you ca...

By spacepug P.S. We’ve now played twice and we still haven’t hit the 2-3 hour mark. In my opinion, 2 hrs is wishful thinking. Oh, and it’s 1 and 1 for each side. The cylons came back to win the latest game. A review of the new Battlestar Galactica Board Game by Gem Recently, five 13th Colonists got togethe

By Alan Sepinwall(asepinwall@starledger.com)

By Tempo Two days after posting that roundup, I rang in the new year by watching the Jan. 16 episode of "Battlestar Galactica." If you see the words "Battlestar" or "Galactica" in print or on the Internet, avoid the story, if you think there's a chance it'll contain a spoiler or hints about what happen...

By Andrew The third season of Battlestar Galactica was a little rocky in the middle, but the last episodes set up a real bang. Starbuck was presumably killed, only to turn up during a major confrontation of the Human and Cylon fleets. Season 4 opens even bigger, with one of the best space battles that I’...

Lee "Apollo" Adama by Jamie Bamber Also See Bamber on Apollo: Public article, open to additions and changes. Jamie & The Fat Man Jamie Bamber shows his metamorphosis from Apollo to Fat Apollo. Kara Thrace Anastasia Dualla William Adama

David Eick From the beginning, Eick knew that if he were going to succeed in his goal of reinventing Battlestar Galactica, he would need a collaborator who knew the genre inside out. He found one in writer and executive producer Ronald D. Moore. As a boy, Moore watched the original Battlestar...

By Charlie Jane Anders Tonight's the last episode of Battlestar Galactica until the "first quarter of 2009" (which could mean March!), but don't go into withdrawal symptoms yet. There's an obscure 1990s show called Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which is currently in heavy rotation on Spike. It shares a lot of the s...

By Myles it’s hard to screw up what the show does best, an intersection of human and Cylon combined with meaningful action sequences and a spiritual journey for humanity’s dying leader. There’s a certain diversity in the episode’s tone that could turn some off, with some strangely humorous or lai...

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) Other reviews and recaps of The Hub from FlickFilosopher, The House Next Door, TV Squad, The L.A. Times Show Tracker, Galactica Variants, SyFy Portal, Battlestar Galactica Review Blog, Zap2It, TV Fodder, TV with MeeVee, Hollyscoop, BuddyTV CinemaBlend, and a picspam, review and sceen...

By Alan Sepinwall And because the cast continues to knock it out of the park every week playing these wonderfully-etched characters, I can't look on these episodes as filler. "Galactica" is a show that asks lots of fundamental questions about society and even the nature of existence, but it asks them throu...

By sonia zjawinski See also: Battlestar Galactica 4.02 RecapGritty Galactica Paves Way for Caprica, RevolutionBattlestar Co-Creator to Pen Sci-Fi TrilogyInside Story of Galactica's Crazy Closers Remember when the word frak was a subtle expletive used in Battlestar Galactica? Well those times are ov...

By Myles The Demetrius' story is really simple: Kara has no idea what she's doing, has course corrected a ridiculous number of times, and her entire crew is becoming extremely restless. The big question here is how, precisely, Galactica is operating without so many of its pilots.  With Lee and Star...

By Logan Gawain April 4: Richard Hatch, Katee Sackhoff, Alessandro Julianni, Grace Park and Ron Moore. March 29: David Eick, Grace Park. March 22: Edward James Olmos. March 15: Tricia Helfer, Michael Rymer. March 8: James Callis. March 1: Jamie Bamber.

By ProgGrrl In the past few years, science fiction has taken a leading role. In this special podcast - based on a lecture I gave to the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society on 25 January 2008 - I look at the contributions of five science fiction series to this new golden age of television ... LOST, TERMINATO...

By Andrew BATTLESTAR GALACTICA AND PHILOSOPHYIn its Fourth and Final season, Book Poses New Questions From Show Battlestar Galactica is a great story. "I absolutely love the show," he continued. "It's the most expensive and most successful show the Sci-Fi Channel has ever produced."

By Jason the TVaholic G4 has 16 episodes of Cheaters early. Sci Fi has the four-part eight hour Stephen King’s The Stand miniseries. SOAPnet has the first seven episodes of October Road. TV One has 20 episodes of Good Times. VH1 has 10 episodes of Hogan Knows Best.

By Jason the TVaholic Free Subscriber Download: Printable Fall 2007 TV Schedule v1.07 (PDF) – Last Updated: 11.21.2007 – ABC has Notes From the Underbelly and October Road returning. This is the last update of the Fall 2007 Schedule, as work is underway on the Midseason 2007-08 Printable Schedule. Movie: Battles...

By Myles Battlestar Galactica airs on Space in Canada and SciFi in the U.S. tonight (November 24th) at 9pm EST, and releases on DVD on December 4th with an extended edition that might fix some of the small narrative issues I have with it. In the meantime, I need to get back to "researching my thesis", a te...

By Tempo On Monday evening, I went to one of three Chicago screenings of "Battlestar Galactica: Razor," the TV movie that airs on Sci Fi Nov. 24. It was the third time I’ve watched “Razor,” and it was the most satisfying. The film-quality direction, production values and special effects of “Battlest...

By Andrew So, I got a chance to take a look at Battlestar Galactica: Razor earlier this month, and I'm pleased to say that it's just as good as I had hoped, and that it is probably up there with some of the best Galactica episodes thus far. Razor is the long-awaited tele-event that the SciFi channel has be...

And it's a different world in television than it was in 1988 when writers struck for 22 weeks, causing many shows to bring down their tents midway through the season. Even "Star Trek: The Next Generation" tried to get around it all by digging up old scripts from "Star Trek: Phase II," but most...

By TV and Film Guy I can accept the poor-writing and ill-conceived plotlines we dealt with this season in Battlestar Galactica, but what could turn me off the show next season is 22 episodes of Starbuck playing the poor little mistreated viper jock. 

By Chris Beaumont Holy Frak! I just finished watching the season 3 finale for Battlestar Galactica, and it was quite a ride. This series is, hands down, one of the best shows currently in production. They continuously surprise me with what they are able to pull out. Sure, there is a sub-par episode every now and...