Battlestar Galactica

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) Also, Mojo reviews the recent Stu Philips birthday tribute concert, that Bear contributed to. And check out Mojo revealing how to find the secret special BSG easter egg on the The Plan DVD and Blu-ray. Without revealing what the easter egg is, lets just say that if you watched the original BS...

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) It begins with his moving rendition of the ”Colonial Anthem” as heard in the second season episode “Final Cut,” (which gives me goosebumps every time I hear it), but then morphs into a swirling, mysterious and intense version of “Exploration” ( including the There Are Those Who Believe m...

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 ProgGrrl@gmail.com (ProgGrrl) There will be much more to say after the DVD and BluRay hit stores on October 27, but for now let me leave it at this: Anyone who ever felt intrigued by Cavil, Boomer, all the various *real* Sixes, and the other "minor" cylon models, will find plenty to enjoy in this film. Anders gets a surprisin...

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) Thats right, ladies and gentlemen – if you just happen to be in beautiful downtown San Pedro (less than an hour from Los Angeles) on Saturday, October 24th at 8pm, you’ll get to hear music from the original Battlestar Galactica performed with a full orchestra conducted by Stu Philips.

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) In the episode, while driving back from a wedding outside of Reno, Nevada, Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub) sees a UFO with his assistant Natalie Teeger (Traylor Howard) when her car breaks down in the desert foothills. UFO enthusiasts descend on the small desert town where Monk and his assist...

By samjmiller79@yahoo.com (Sam J. Miller) The BBC is reporting that Variety is reporting that Bryan Singer is confirmed to direct a theatrical version of Battlestar Galactica. The project is literally at ground zero right now. With Singer on board, now it's time to find a writer, figure out the course such a project might take. Might...

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) Battlestar Galactica: The Plan BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: THE PLAN - BONUS FEATURES Battlestar Galactica: The Plan on Blu-ray Hi-Def and DVD takes viewers deeper into the acclaimed space drama with exclusive bonus features, including:

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) Since Ron Moore was busy in Vancouver directing an episode of Caprica, so the award was accepted by Jane Espenson, with Michael Hogan, Tricia Helfer, Grace Park, Katee Sackhoff, and director Michael Rymer also present. Jane tweeted her thanks.

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) an Emmy-winning producer who was the "man behind the curtain" on the Syfy hit "Battlestar Galactica," died July 23 in Los Angeles after a brief hospitalization for respiratory problems. He was 68. Frand began on "Galactica" in 2003. For his work on the show, he earned a Peabody Award in 2005,...

By ProgGrrl@gmail.com (ProgGrrl) A few other items are missing from the box set as a whole, though they were never available on DVD, including additional Sci-Fi.com blogs and some of the exclusive writer's room and "frak party" podcast commentaries. Also not here are most of the "recap" TV specials (Battlestar Galactica:...

By samjmiller79@yahoo.com (Sam J. Miller) Michael Hogan saying that he initially "vehemently disagreed with the idea that Tigh would go down to live on New Caprica at the end of Season Two," but "look at the arc they wrote for me in Season Three as a result - I am so proud of the work that we did, and so honored."

By samjmiller79@yahoo.com (Sam J. Miller) The finale of Battlestar Galactica was very polarizing. Lots of fans loved it; lots of fans hated it. Were you satisfied with the finale? Are there other lessons from Battlestar Galactica, that the show has to offer us or that it offered to you?

By samjmiller79@yahoo.com (Sam J. Miller) Are you a fan of Battlestar Galactica?  Battlestar Galactica asks us to take a really hard look at this question of what it means to be human. How does your work ask or answer that question? Do you have a favorite character on Battlestar Galactica?

By samjmiller79@yahoo.com (Sam J. Miller) Here at the Sitrep, we're really excited about next week's phenomenal-sounding event Battlestar Galactica: Cyborgs on the Horizon, at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, co-presented with the World Science Festival. Not only is it an opportunity to hear Mary McDonnell and Michael Hoga...

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) Reviews of the pilot ep of Caprica, available now on DVD: Today's DVD release of "Caprica," the two-hour pilot episode for a "Galactica" prequel series, might be just as polarizing, even among the people who liked the end of "Galactica."

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) The Caprica pilot episode hits DVD on Tuesday, and it is one hell of a tease. It’s a tease in the best possible way; that sweet first kiss that you just know in your heart will lead to more. It’s familiar, but new. Most of all, it’s an hour and a half of great entertainment, and something to keep Batt...

By samjmiller79@yahoo.com (Sam J. Miller) Not In Our Stars: the Betrayals of the Battlestar Galactica Finale In Resurrection Ship, Part Two, when Adama asks Athena why the Cylons hate us so much, she refers him back to his own words. “You said, 'Man never asked itself why it should survive.' Maybe you don't.”

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) For the geeks out there, especially fans of “Star Trek” and “Battlestar Galactica,” Thursday’s “CSI” is required viewing—there are in-jokes large and small for followers of those franchises (“Battlestar” executive producer Ronald D. Moore even shows up for a brief cameo). I had to stop...

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) Tahmoh Penikett - who played Karl 'Helo' Agathon on BSG - has been cast in new TV SyFy Channel movie Riverworld. Also recently released is Battlestar Galactica: The Manga -- Echoes of New Caprica (v. 1). Battlestar Galactica makes the list of best series dramas of all time.

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) After Ellen did a live chat with Jane Espenson. Michelle Kung talked to Edward James Olmos for The Wall St. Journal. Slice of Sci-Fi offers their top ten episodes of BSG. Daily Record points to the Six Best Moments. The Washington Post has 10 Business Lessons from Battlestar Galactica.

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) Screen Rant and Access Hollywood wonder what's next for the cast of Battlestar Galactica. meshel73 notes that the SciFi Australia website has posted some video interviews with the cast. Also check out the Battlestar Starfury: Saturday talks with some cast members.

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) Other reviews and recaps from: Screen Junkies, Sam J. Miller, Galactica Variants, Galactica Science, Brad Ideas, Patriot Resource, Battlestar Blog, TV Squad, Entertaiment Weekly, Buddy TV, Mania.com, and Boston Sci-FI Examiner.

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) After the March 20 finale, we won't see Roslin and Adama any more. And we won't see Mary McDonnell and Edward James Olmos working together any more. I can't wrap my head around that. And Ellen Gray wonders how Battlestar Galactica is going to end.

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) MediaBlvd. talked to Alessandro Juliani. Donnelly Rhodes (Doc Cottle) was interviewed by The Vancouver Sun. And David Eick will be at the National Association of Broadcasters: Battlestar Galactica' Creator and Executive Producer David Eick to Present Keynote at NAB Show

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) When Starbuck is put center stage, it’s because Battlestar Galactica is dealing with her emotional struggles. Episodes like “Scar” highlighted the cracks in her tough exterior as she did battle with a Cylon Raider to defend the memories of all the Viper pilots who had died. In Friday’s epi...

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) Baltar finally goes to Adama and asks him for guns by playing on his weakness, saying that he and his religious harlots are the last chance for humanity unless Adama wants to integrate the fleet with the Cylons. It makes no sense, but Adama’s ship is dying, he’s replacing it with Cylon goop, a...

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) Glen Larson controls the movie rights to Battlestar Galactica, and he's tried to make a big screen version several times before. There was also an attempt at a BSG continuation series by Bryan Singer and Tom DeSanto that fell apart for various reasons, which finally led to Sci-Fi and Unive...

By ProgGrrl@gmail.com (ProgGrrl) 9:00 p.m. - DOLLHOUSE (Fox), featuring BSG expats Jane Espenson, Tahmoh Penikett, and Mark Sheppard (who apparently will appear as soon as the second episode), and BSG fanboy Joss Whedon (co-creator). Programmable ladies? We know our programmable ladies over here at Sitrep.

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) What about Tigh and Adama's bromantic moment after Lee and Saul saved Bill from the firing squad? Bill and Saul's exchange -- "They told me you were dead." "For a while, I was." -- is the sort of thing you might hear from reunited lovers at the end of some '50s melodrama, but Edward James Olmos an...

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) The first five minutes or so of “The Oath” were pretty good Battlestar Galactica, if a little on the on-the-nose side of things (as the show can be every so often). But then, oh, then, “The Oath” turned into the awesomest thing that ever walked the face of this Earth. It had its flaws, and I want t...

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) Yes, it's time for one of those episodes where the space battles (and effects budget) take a back seat to the human (and Cylon) drama; the disquiet before the storm, perhaps? Not that the episode passed without incident. Lee accidentally let the press know that the Final Cylon is a woman. Cap...

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) Ron also discussed Caprica: Sci-Fi Wire: What's happening with Caprica? Sci-Fi Wire talked to Kandyse McClure about her arrival at closure for her work on Battlestar Galactica. Bryan Lambert shares his thoughts on Dirk Benedict. See also, a slew of science fiction links.

By ProgGrrl@gmail.com (ProgGrrl) Another reason I am grateful almost everyone on Caprica died. PG: When are Katee Sackhoff or Tricia Helfer gonna guest on the show? I'm amazed Helfer hasn't been on yet…can you possibly make a case to your producers on behalf of BSG/TDS crossover fans everywhere?

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) We're very pleased to present an original essay for the Galactica Sitrep by Sam J. Miller, who brings us studious observations on BSG's use of a particular prop we've seen on the faces of Adama, Baltar, and notably on Laura Roslin: The Eyeglasses of Laura Roslin by Sam J. Miller

By ProgGrrl@gmail.com (ProgGrrl) Time Out and Live@7 interview Katee Sackhoff. IGN interviews James Callis and Katee Sackhoff. SyFy Radio interviews Jane Espenson. Fear.net interviews Bear McCreary. Slice of SciFi interviews Aaron Douglas. The Straight has some updates on CAPRICA casting in Vancouver.

By ProgGrrl(ProgGrrl@gmail.com) Time Out NY thinks BATTLESTAR GALACTICA was the best show on TV this year. (And that the characters on FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS are like unicorns. And that Gaeta's song was really, really good.) The Los Angeles Times thinks finding Earth on BSG was one of the best moments on TV this year.

By ProgGrrl(ProgGrrl@gmail.com) Sci Fi Channel has greenlit "Caprica," the much-anticipated prequel to hit series "Battlestar Galactica." Galactica" has had its fourth and final season in the can for several months, with the final 10 episodes culminating their run March 20. A two-hour movie adaptation, "Battlestar G...

By ProgGrrl@gmail.com (ProgGrrl) As previously announced, "Battlestar Galactica" will begin its swan song on Friday, January 16 at 10:00/9:00c. Also keep an eye out for "BSG: Essential Elements," a half-hour special on Sunday, January 11 at 11:00/10:00c. And if that wasn't enough "Galactica," it's understood the late...

By ProgGrrl@gmail.com (ProgGrrl) The first rule of Galactica Fight Club is… Adama and Tyrol work out some issues to find Roslin in SINE QUA NON LG: A number of your episodes have been directed by Edward James Olmos. What does working with him bring out in the process? Courtesy Battlestar blog]

By ProgGrrl@gmail.com (ProgGrrl) Speaking of comics…io9 has a preview of the spin-off miniseries Battlestar Galactica: Ghosts (out now), and Newsarama has an interview with the writers of Battlestar Galactica: Cylon War, a 4-issue miniseries which debuts in January 2009.

By ProgGrrl@gmail.com (ProgGrrl) A couple of decades ago, another local comedy troupe did much the same thing with Star Trek, in their case enacting scripts from TV episodes and movies. Before that, The Brady Bunch Live stage show became an unexpected hit in the U.S., inspiring the tongue-in-cheek film spoofs that followed.

By ProgGrrl@gmail.com (ProgGrrl) SciFi has announced the film, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: THE PLAN, will air sometime in 2009. Shooting on this film is wrapped, and post-production is happening now, so let’s hope they can air it next year as promised. CAPRICA’s future is unknown.

By ProgGrrl@gmail.com (ProgGrrl) The Look of Battlestar Galactica Guess What's Coming to Dinner" Commentary with Executive Producer Ronald D. Moore and Writer Michael Angeli Cylons: The Twelve The Music of Battlestar Galactica Sine Qua Non" Commentary with Executive Producer Ronald D. Moore and Writer Michael Taylor

By ProgGrrl@gmail.com (ProgGrrl) Galactica Sitrep/ProgGrrl: You are currently inventorying all the items for the auctions, correct? Have you been up in Vancouver on the set of the BSG movie, THE PLAN? I understand the film shoot just wrapped this week. Cally's Deckhand Helmet; the Galactica Munitions Key

By ProgGrrl@gmail.com (ProgGrrl) BATTLESTAR GALACTICA music composer Bear McCreary, who also scores T:SCC, is apparently going to be posting throughout the new season much like he did this spring during BSG season 4.0. For his blog post on T:SCC episode 201, he focuses mainly on his collaboration with T:SCC actor and musi...

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) Entertainment Weekly wonders which other shows should be reinvented much like Battlestar Galactica was. Entertainment Weekly also has another list: TV's 21 Sexiest Scenes which includes Kara, Leoben, and paint. While TV Guide lists Jamie Bamber and Katee Sackhoff as "Sci-Fi sex pots."

By ProgGrrl@gmail.com (ProgGrrl) Discover Magazine’s blog Bad Astronomy just posted the entire “Science of Science Fiction” Con panel video, which includes BATTLESTAR GALACTICA’s science advisor Kevin Grazier. NBC San Diego has video interviews from Con with Tricia Helfer, Jamie Bamber and Katee Sackhoff. [Hat tip t...

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) Tricia Helfer talked to Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune about her work on Burn Notice, Battlestar Galactica, and other topics: MR: You’ve seen all the scripts for the final episodes -- how did they affect you? How do you see them fitting into the legacy of the show?

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) Last tuesday, I finally saw the mid season finale of Battlestar Galactica. It took me a long time to become a fan of this show but slowly and quite painlessly I got there, and this episode sealed the deal for me. Needless to say, I was impressed. Very impressed.

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 noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica have wildly different aesthetics and ideologies, and both aspire to very different goals. Fundamentally, it boils down to this: Star Trek is about who we want to be, and Battlestar Galactica is about who we are.

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) My problem is that, for an episode with a number of seismic plot developments -- Lee becomes interim president, Adama finally acknowledges his feelings for Roslin and gives up everything he cares about to find her, Tigh is placed in charge of Galactica shortly after finding out that he kn...

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) But I watched last Friday’s episode of “Battlestar Galactica” two times in a row. And then who kills the Six? Athena. A Cylon. Wow. INT. GALACTICA - CORRIDOR Athena, frantic, wild-horse eyes, bolts down another part of the corridor, no sign of... ATHENA HERA! HERA!

By noreply@blogger.com (ProgGrrl) A second clip of Penikett with co-star Eliza Dushku can be seen here at Seat 42. E!Online has plenty of updates on this show - including a scoop directly from Joss Whedon that the 7-episode order has apparently been upped to 13 episodes. Whedon also mentioned hoping he can hire Jane Espenson f...

By noreply@blogger.com (Logan Gawain) Logan Gawain: How did you come to write “Six Degrees of Separation” during the first season of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA? LG: Overall, what's been the best aspect of working on BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, what will you miss from working on the series? MA: Ron Moore and Ron Moore.

By Logan Gawain “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.” William Butler Yeats wrote that in 1919, and he could well have been describing the slow-motion collapse that seems to be happening on Battlestar Galactica. The crew on the Demetrius is mutinying against Starbuck’s seemingly deepening insan...

By Logan Gawain Callum Keith Rennie and Katee Sackhoff bring all the twisted chemistry you could hope for to their scenes together; I hope there are more. So, back on the Demetrius -- does Loeben know that Sam is a Cylon? I seriously have to wait a week until the next episode? Aaargh.

By Logan Gawain io9 recently ran an article on the hidden clues recently in BSG as did the Contentquake's Battlestar Galactica blog. So, will we actually see Ships of Light on Battlestar Galactica along the way to Earth? Maybe. Maybe not. But, all of this has happened before... some of it even happened in 1979.

By Logan Gawain Listen to our interview with Katee Sackhoff and Grace Park from Battlestar Galactica, and find out what the frak is up with cylons, season four, and two of the coolest actresses to hail from the 12 planets.Visit their Sci-Fi Channel store here.

By ProgGrrl Pretty much every woman on the show was giving me the creeps during this episode - even Roslin. Much of what gave Roslin her more sinister perspective was suggested by Zarek in this conversation with Lee as he prepares to join the Quorum.

By ProgGrrl Even as he continues to work as a nonwriting producer shepherding various projects -- including the long-in-the-works BSG prequel Caprica for Sci Fi Channel -- Eick has begun penning projects by himself and with partners. Here is a recent Pop Candy interview with David Eick. snip]

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 Logan Gawain New York magazine has a few more Battlestar Galactica pieces, one on How to Convince Your Girlfriend (or Boyfriend) that BSG isn't Star Trek. Among the reasons, "BSG is cheese-free." The second article is Your Battlestar Political Cheat Sheet which breaks down the political overtones in...

By ProgGrrl Zap2It talks with Moore and Sackhoff. Sci Fi Channel UK has posted video interviews with Nicki Clyne on their web site (UK users only); here’s a shorter excerpt on their YouTube channel for the rest of us. The March 8th edition of the Hypaspace podcast features an interview with James Callis.

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 Logan Gawain That sense of discovery reached new heights in Season 3, where music seemed to carry the show more than ever before, especially in some episode’s knowing void of dialogue. The interior of the Cylon ships became a haunting, lone piano. Dark bluegrass embodied a recall of war crimes. An Indian...

By ProgGrrl More bits of the Jamie Bamber interview call have popped up on SciFi Wire (no spoilers) and UGO (mild S4 spoilers). David Eick talked to World Screen this week about his work on both BATTLESTAR GALACTICA and BIONIC WOMAN. Edward James Olmos, Ridley Scott and Darryl Hannah sat down with CNN fo...