Battlestar Aggregatica

Yay for insider sources. We got to catch the first 4 episodes of Season 3 before they aired on TV. w00t.

Whoa... I wonder how I fooled these guys into thinking I belong on this list?

Why Smart People Love 'Battlestar Galactica'
'It's The West Wing in space.'
TV's hottest unreality show is the real thing.

By Vanessa Richmond
Published: October 5, 2006

TheTyee.ca

Robots, low-tech battleships and hot space babes: sounds like a sci-fi B-movie. But somehow, this small, made-in-Vancouver cult TV hit series is seeping into the mainstream.

There are only 12 Cylon models Okay, kids, time ... -
There are only 12 Cylon models

Okay, kids, time to take on a new fandom. Today, I am here to pimp to you the new Battlestar Galactica, which will be starting its second season July 15, making now a good time to watch the mini-series and the 13 episodes of the first season. The Sci-Fi channel is enabling this by showing repeats and by running a Galactithon of the first season on July 6. In addition, I understand that some people have found the entire season on BitTorrent, but I can't account for such scoundrels. NBC is also running some of the repeats to try to entice you. See? Everybody wants you to watch.

Anyway, the show is a recreation of the great original series - which I was hopelessly addicted to as a wee fangirl - just really really better. The effects of course are better, but the stories have improved as well. Discerning viewers will love Mary McDonnell as President Laura Roslin, and Katee Sackhoff as Starbuck - yes Starbuck is a woman now, a cool, butch woman who kicks ass. The Cylons now also come in human-looking form, and thus can be hidden among the regular survivors and have disturbing amounts of sex with them. This adds a nice intrigue element (the hiding, that is), since you don't know who's a Cylon and who's really human, though as the show goes along, the reveal of so-and-so as a Cylon may be used as a plot crutch and not make sense with past continuity, but we'll give them the benefit of the doubt right now.

Some links for you: Sci-Fi's site includes a production blog, plus the usual pictures and trailers and some deleted scenes. The Season 2 promo pictures can be found here, and this hilarious recap of them echoes my feelings on their cheesiness. Here and here are two interviews with the producers on what you can expect this season (not too spoilery, in my opinion), and one with Jamie Bamber(Who I am adjusting slowly to seeing as Apollo and not Archie Kennedy from Hornblower. I hear that the Hornblower fangirls call him the Crumpet, and that now he is the SpaceCrumpet which I think is just cute as can be, even though I find his fake American accent to be kinda, well, fake.).

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Woo hoo... another blogger is converted! Thanks for the link to the Season 1 BitTorrent file Darren. :) I'm another one of those waiting to plop down my money for the DVDs and downloading the torrents in the meantime. An Object Lesson for Movie and Television Producers -

On the advice of a couple people, I recently rented the Battlestar Galactica mini-series. This is a remake of the 1978 exploit-the-Star-Wars-phenomenon series that only lasted one season, and a precursor to the new series that launched in January, 2005. I found the mini-series to be very watchable, with great special effects and at least average dialogue and performances. Not 2001, certainly, but pretty good television.

Ok, here's one last photo from my mission to Kobol yesterday!



Grace, yo leen en alguna parte el ayer por la noche que usted está aprendiendo español también. Nosotros si el meetup en Soma en Main Street uno de estas noches y de práctica junto.

I went on a walk today in Lynn Valley Canyon and just happened to stumbled upon the cast and crew of Battlestar Galactica. Imagine that! :) I had a chance to chat with Grace Park (Boomer) for a few and she's really nice. She was kind enough to let me snap a couple pictures of her too. Thx guys!

I also got a chance to snap a quick couple of Tahmoh Penikett (Helo).

There’s a Cylon in my Podcast -

Speaking of podcasting, here’s an interesting use of podcasting RSS: The lauded Battlestar Galactica is podcasting producer commentary (like the kind on most DVDs these days) for each episode.

Each podcast is designed to be played along with the corresponding episode. (Presumedly you would do this on your TiVO or VCR, rather than listen to it the first time you’re seeing the episode.)

Hmm, seems like the science project is working. More junk in the aggregator than I'd like, but I plan to hone and refine my searches a bit to clean it up.

"Big World Small

My recent post on why humans are better than Cylons was picked up by a kinda cool little Battlestar Galactica aggregator site called, and I know, Battlestar Aggregatica.

It’s so eclectic in its range that I can’t even call it nerdy, although nerdy’s definitely in the eclectic aesthetic.

There are links to some hot pictures of Grace Park (Boomer, if you need to be be told, a Cylon sleeper agent, ditto), comparisons of BSG to Babylon 5 (which I really should have been into but wasn’t), commercial review and info sites, personal sites and comments like mine, all having something to do some way or other with BSG.

It’s actually an informal ’science project’ by a couple of ‘geeks and fanboys’ of the show.

It’s fun to browse and read, and not, definitely not, to be taken too seriously.

A few minutes later, I am copying a fer-example link from the site: The Fictional Character Who-you-would-shag Meme. Mostly SF&F TV shows, but with variety. "

Hmmm... I think this guy is trying to make some sort of comparison to Nazi Germany. Is he off his rocker or what? I think he might be reading a little too deeply into the plot. He should check out our "Who's Hottest?" poll.

Source: Galactica shows its cards

During the early years of the Third Reich, movies were encouraged which portrayed the Jews in a negative light, and prepared the way for the acceptance of the Holocaust by the German people. Those movies are very much on my mind right tonight. I know I shouldn't be surprised at the constant preaching of relativism and socially Leftist values in the movies and on TV, but tonight's episode of the Sci-Fi channel's new version of Battlestar Galactica stuns me even so. And for the first time, I'm a little shook. Until tonight, I don't think I realized how far down that same road we've gone.

City of the Future

On the recommendation of friends I’ve started watching the new Battlestar Galactica. It’s pretty good! Of course, the original 1978 series did not set the bar very high. In fact, it’s hard to imagine a less more wretched predecessor than the show that in the second season took the innovative step of switching from “people in space fighting a terrifying foe� to “people from space come to Earth to coach a children’s baseball team�.

Like so many other TV shows on a budget, the new series was filmed primarily in Vancouver. Unlike a lot of those other shows, however, the producers of Battlestar Galactica don’t mind showing off the local landmarks. Seen here are two futuristic space-people walking toward a futuristic space-building… whoops, I mean the Public Library.


VPL in Battlestar Galactica

It’s interesting to think of how many popular TV shows and movies have been filmed in Vancouver; the aspects they choose to use say a lot about the image the city presents to outsiders. I’ve seen a lot of scenes in movies using English Bay as a backdrop; that would seem to be one of Vancouver’s more attractive sights. On the other hand, remember all those dreary grey buildings in the X-Files, used to establish overtones of a faceless, depersonalizing military-industrial complex? That would be Simon Fraser University, the most depressing campus on the planet. Thanks a lot, Arthur Erickson.