Battlestar Galactica

Reviews have Al Pacino’s new movie 88 Minutes have been savagely negative, but there is one reason for Battlestar Galactica fans to go see it anyway: it features a “naked and limber” Leah Cairns. So if you liked that sports-bra strip poker scene with Racetrack and Anders in “Six of One,” then this may be the movie for you.

TV Addict got a serious scoop this week that includes serious Caprica spoilers, including some an excerpt from the words written for Joseph Adama in the current version of the script.

TVByTheNumbers.com has the ratings for the first three episodes of Season Four of Battlestar Galactica, which are looking pretty good all things considered.

Tricia Helfer (Number Six) and Callum Keith Rennie (Leoban) are both nominated for Leo Awards this year. Callum is nominated for the ensemble drama Normal, while Tricia is nominated for her well-reviewed dominatrix heist movie Walk All Over Me.

Callum will be answering forum questions about his movie Snow Cake in connection to the launch of the First Weekend Club, a DVD club for fans of movies made in Canada.

Brent Spiner, aka Data of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Nicki Clyne had a cute exchange at FedCon last weekend:

Brent Spiner (STTNG): “I just wanted to say how proud I am of the work we do on Battlestar Galactica.” (Note: he’s not in the series and apparently doesn’t even know it)

Nicki Clyne (BSG): “It is so much fun working with Brent Spiner, the show wouldn’t be the same without him.”

Len Neighbors has posted volume three of So Say We All: The Battlestar Galactica Blog Carnival. Most of the posts focus on last week’s episode, “The Ties That Bind” and include serious spoilers so do not click through if you have not seen the episode yet.

If you have seen the episode, be sure to check out the latest strip from webcomic Frakking Toasters, which accurately displays a lot of fans’ feelings about Cally Tyrol. Thanks to Jatg of Battlestar Blog for the head’s up.

If you have not seen the beach-bunny-in-leather-styled photos of Tricia Helfer, Katee Sackhoff, and Grace Park in this month’s Interview magazine yet, then FashionArtEdit is happy to help you out.

This is an interesting list of twenty moments where Battlestar Galactica characters have contemplated suicide.

On the lighter side, check out this bizarre 2006 clip of Nicki Clyne donning elf/alien ears as part of the web series Tiki Bar TV.

The cool Cylon photo above is courtesy of Mechazilla, the obsessive fan collector’s site. Speaking of courtesy, I sincerely appreciate everyone being patient with me this week while I have been posting sparsely and falling behind, we had a family medical emergency and I have been spending a lot of time with doctors who are (probably) not Cylons.

Casting has started for the Battlestar Galactica spin-off Caprica, and the series is sounding better and better with every detail.  The casting information contains serious spoilers, so if you want to avoid them do not click to read more below.  For fun, I have also included some suggestions about who might succeed at playing each role.

(more…)

Earlier tonight I was lucky enough to be a guest on the ShaunOMac radio show, and his loyal listener Rammy called in to say that there were new and credible rumors that Caprica will begin filming in March. 

The source of the rumor is The Doctor and Mrs. Who radio show, another Blog Talk Radio production, and one that claims to have a credible inside connection to the Caprica camp.  The Doctor claims that Caprica has been greenlit as a series by the SciFi Channel, and will begin filming in two weeks in Canada (I am assuming they mean in Vancouver, which is also the home of Battlestar Galactica and several other scifi series).

If you would like to hear the announcement for yourself click here, it comes fairly early in the broadcast at about the three to four minute mark.  My gut instinct is that at least part of the rumor may be true simply because of the source:  The Doctor and Mrs. Who radio show is connected with The Two Doctors radio show, which has had some amazing Battlestar Galactica scoops in the past.  If the Doctor says it is going to happen, then there is a better than average chance the it is going to happen.

For readers who are wondering what the fuss is about, Caprica is the long-rumored Battlestar Galactica prequel show that the SciFi Channel first considered over two years ago.  The idea is essentially a series that would take place during the time when the Cylons were first created and center around a whole new set of characters (including the Adamas of old, who were legal scholars rather than soldiers, and members of a frenemy family called the Graystones).  The concept has new interest for Battlestar Galactica fans after the fervent interest in the original five Cylons, a group whose mythology only deepened during the recent Razor telemovie.  A well-done series that included the genesis of these original entities would definitely be one to watch.

A lot of bad news has come with the writers’ strike, and even more rumors.  But this is one of the rumors we hope turns out to be true:  with fewer and fewer scripts available for development, Caprica may have an even better chance of coming to life.

Caprica is the prequel series to Battlestar Galactica, an idea designed to look at life on Caprica around the time that the original Cylons were being created.  Back then the Adamas were famous for being lawyers, not Admirals, and the humans had not yet realized the threat the Cylons would pose to their survival. 

It’s an interesting idea, and one that was met with strong enthusiasm from many fans when it was first announced.  But after two plus years with no additional information, and the announcement that Battlestar Galactica would end after only four seasons, many fans have assumed that Caprica is DOA even as Ron Moore insisted the idea was still a possibility for the future.

Now TVSquad and Ain’t It Cool News are reporting that it is an even better possibility than fans had realized.  With the writers’ strike leaving studios and networks with a lack of new ideas, they are looking around for the best of the ideas that are languishing in the stable.  Caprica is an obvious choice, with its built in fan base and potentially grand pedigree.

No word of how the premise of Caprica would work with the increasingly complex Cylon mythology that is being revealed in Battlestar Galactica’s final chapters.  The reimagined version of the show does not simply contemplated robots that turned on their creators, but a complex spiritual mythology in which that version of events is much too simple.  Presumably Caprica would need to take this spiritual mythology into account.

Note from WatchingBionicWoman: 451 Press is still having trouble with its comments, so please be aware that if you leave a comment it will likely be marked as spam.  If you would like to make sure your comment reaches the blog, please e-mail us through the Contact form or by contacting watchingbionicwoman@gmail.com and we will be happy to post it for you. 

Loyal reader Pam has been e-mailing me about her hopes and dreams for future Battlestar Galactica projects. Like many fans, she wishes for a fifth Battlestar Galactica season although that may be dreaming the impossible dream.

Some of her dreams, though, are much more attainable … like hoping that someone does a novelization of Razor or a future miniseries set in the Battlestar Galactica universe. Given the cheap production cost of a novel that seems highly probable, and given the popularity of BSG it seems that a miniseries at some point is doable.

Pam also dreams of Caprica, the long discussed Battlestar Galactica spin off series that has been discussed for a number of years but never confirmed. The SciFi Channel recently confirmed that Caprica is still a possibility, and its potential is dependent on the success of Razor’s DVD sales effort.

(more…)

I was browsing Ron Moore’s entry on IMDB when I saw this.

Apparently Battlestar Galactica merits a spinoff series only three seasons in. It’s called “Caprica,” and it’s essentially a BSG prequel series. (more…)