Battlestar Tonight!

Here you're catch-up.

Moore on the Strike

Ron Moore, the showrunner for Battlestar Galatica on the strike.

BattleStar Tonight

Last Week's hot drop was one of the coolest things I have ever witnessed.



Prospect article on SciFi and politics found here. All my nerdy pursuits combined as one.

Clip Blogging

All the the Office clips you could want right here. I just put up the links that the Erins send me. Thanks kids.

While we are doing clips, Battlestar Galactica is running a series of Webisodes, online video shorts, in advance of the new season. Just a tast of things to come.

UberGeek

Season final of Battlestar Galactica was Friday. Really good. You can get shot of supergeeky political and sci-fi talk on the show from both the left and the right.

It seems Milosevic was messing with his own heart condition treatment in order to get out of the war crimes trial. It got him out, just a little more permanently than he intended.

Wesley Clark, who lead the NATO campaign against Milosevic, has a piece on him here.

Ode to Galactica

The upside to being down with a cold is that I can skip going out on a Friday night and just embrace the shear nerd joy that is Battlestar Galactica. I missed the first half of the second season with a cable system that didn't have SciFi channel and Netflix's won't help me out till the end of the month. Doesn't matter. This is the most riveting drama on television, full stop. I was right back in it. A second Battlestar has survived and the tactics that it has adopted are horrifying. There will be nothing left of humanity, physically or morally, if they take control of the fleet, but a direct fight will destroy everyone. Really need to know what is going happen next. Great great show.

Bonus cussing feature: Galactica uses "frack" as this universes equivalent of...you can guess. Its a rather fun way of getting all the cussing these characters need to do past the censors. Salon's video dog has highlights.

Entertainment Report Part 2

I actually had a better time watching the new Battlestar Galactica on Sci-Fi which I found on late last night after the movie (Insomnia - Good for entertainment reports). The new show is much better than the original. I wonder if we have any fan boys in the audience. The plot is the same. The evil robot Cylons have wiped out most of the human race and the survivors, protected by the Galactica must try and keep humanity from going into that good night. While the original series seemed like just a friendly trip through the stars the new, series has got real emotional punch. A wall of lost love-one’s pictures (like 9/11 and Tsunami posters) and a simple white board with a count of all the survivors really get you. These are desperate people and you feel it. They need food, sleep and water and don’t have enough of any. The Cylons can look like humans so there is lots of paranoia to go around. The special effects are very slick. The Viper fighter craft move like spaceships. They don’t bank like airplanes, they use thrusters to spin and move in three dimensions. It feels like space. The whole show strikes the right emotional note. The Chant approves.

UPDATE: SciFiDaily Blog likes the new BattleStar too and they do SciFi full time. I wonder if they are more or less fustrated than political bloggers?