Sci-Fi/Fantasy - Battlestar Galactica #4: "it dwarfs everything on TV" -Joss Whedon

Cati · 05-01-2006, 12:41 AM

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New to the show or missed an ep? How to catch up:

Americans: Reruns Fridays/5pm and 2am/Saturdays on SciFi Channel. Sundays at 8pm and 11pm on Universal HD.

Sci Fi will be airing marathons of season two Sept. 28 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Oct. 6, also from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.. These eight-episode marathons won't include every episode of season 2, but will cover most of them and will include every episode from the second half of the season. Source

Brits: Tuesdays/9pm on Sky One. Thursdays/9pm on Sky Three (starting June 22nd).

Canadians: Saturdays/8pm and Sundays/6pm on Space. Mondays/8pm on CityTV.

(1) Miniseries (equivalent of 4 eps)
Available on DVD. See (2). Don't buy this unless you want the 40min miniseries lowdown and deleted scenes.
Also available through iTunes. Can download and watch eps on an iPod or on your computer. Watch out for occasional reruns.

(2) Season 1
Available on DVD. The Region 1 DVD (North America) contains the Miniseries + thirteen Season 1 episodes (equivalent of 17 eps in total).
Also available through iTunes and reruns.

(3) Season 2.0 [ 2x01-2x10 ]
DVD, iTunes, and reruns.

(4) Season 2.5 [ 2x11-2x20 ]
iTunes and reruns. DVDs will be released in September.

Later this year, the show will become available on demand in all Comcast VOD markets.

(5) Season 3 begins October 6 (9pm) on SciFi Channel. SkyOne will hold off season 3 until January. Space is expected to start airing it sometime in October.

Reasons why we love Battlestar Galactica

1) Because it's a great human story with complex and flawed characters, an excellent cast (including two Oscar nominated actors), and a talented composer (see especially 1x13, 2x05, 1x10, 1x12 among many other eps).

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If you have trouble breaking through, let go of the story and focus on the characters. You'll understand them, their conflicts and their desires, because they're recognizable humans in all their glorious complexity. And that's what makes Galactica a great TV series. --USA Today

2) Because it has many strong female characters, including the best fighter pilot and the President.

3) Because it's epic, intense, emotional, and thought-provoking.

4) Because how much fun is trying to guess the secret Cylons

5) Hardly any technobabble. If you remember that Raiders are enemy fighters and Vipers are the defenders, then you should be able to follow along just fine.

6) Where else will you find a show with character names like Starbuck, Apollo, Boomer, Helo, Crashdown, Racetrack and Hot Dog?

7) Because this is one remake that critics love more than the original!

* Peabody Award recipient (2006)

* Nominated for American Film Institute's TV Program of the Year Award

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"The new and darker Galactica is an intensely suspenseful journey of survival. Well worth staying home on Fridays to watch." --Matt Roush, TV Guide

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"You don't have to love sci-fi to love Battlestar Galactica... a great TV series." --USA Today

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2004-2005 Tubey Awards (Television Without Pity)
Best New Show: Battlestar Galactica
Best Drama: Battlestar Galactica and Deadwood
-- TWoP staff's choices

2005-2006 Tubey Awards
TWoP Show with Highest Actual Quality: Battlestar Galactica
Best Drama: Battlestar Galactica
Best Returning Show: Battlestar Galactica
-- TWoP forum members

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Salon.com Reader Poll (2005-2006 season)
Outstanding Drama Series: Battlestar Galactica
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series: Mary McDonnell
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Katee Sackhoff link
"Buffy Award" for most underappreciated show: Battlestar Galactica link

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"Life is so messy. It gets messier by the month, more complicated, chaotic, morally ambiguous. Yet science fiction often hits TV in tidy form. Settings are sparkling, people never interrupt each other, epic conflicts neatly fit a flow chart. That may suit fantasy action but hardly genuine human drama, forever churning with fuming exchanges, mixed emotions and clashing values.

This passionate mix is what Battlestar Galactica continues to deliver in breathtaking fashion as its second season resumes... It's elegantly grimy and exquisitely thought-provoking in equal measure." -- New York Newsday

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"..arguably the most potent, dramatically vibrant series on television...A shining, distant star in the outer reaches of niche cable, Battlestar Galactica burns with a combustive mixture of political turmoil and human drama that is as achingly real and relevant as anything on television." -- The National Review

#1 on Ausiello's (TV Guide) list of the Top 10 shows of 2005

#1 on Time Magazine's list of the 10 best new shows of 2005

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MSNBC's list of the top 10 shows of 2005

Why does the new “Battlestar Galactica” (Fridays, returning in 2006, SciFi) work so extraordinarily well? Because it’s more than the sum of its parts: more Beckett than sci-fi, and far more than just a great reconsideration of the beloved (but cheesy) ‘70s original. Quite simply, there’s nothing like it on TV. That said, the revisions are brilliant. Fans balked when Starbuck was recast as a woman (Katee Sackhoff, with her sexy mix of swagger and lost-little-girl), but “Galactica” works far better with the women in charge — the good (Mary McDonnell’s President Roslin), the bad (Tricia Helfer’s Number Six) and the conflicted (Grace Park’s Boomer, a Cylon with a heart of gold). That the robotic Cylons look human and harbor far more piety than their flesh-and-blood counterparts allows the show to adopt a “Twilight Zone”-like philosophical edge.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's top 10 list

1. 'BATTLESTAR GALACTICA' (Sci Fi Channel)
Go ahead, deride it as kiddie science fiction, but do so at the risk of displaying ignorance and ingrained bias. Filled with political and religious allegory, great character drama and exciting storytelling, this thoroughly human story is as good as TV drama gets.

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This is a beautifully written show, driven by character rather than effects...but the effects are damn good. And there's not a better acting troupe at work on television. -- Stephen King

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One hour of this wildly satisfying, boldly written political allegory — which upped the dramatic stakes with a controversial season-finale time leap — satisfies both heart and mind in ways that few shows can.
-Entertainment Weekly

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Battlestar Galactica I think is the best-written show on television right now -- they do more in an hour on that show than most shows that get more acclaim do in three or four episodes.
- Greg Berlanti, creator of Everwood

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I'm just sneaking in to say I've been continuing to watch BSG, the wife and I are about halfway through season one and gushing isn't gonna cover this one. You guys have heard me gush, so it won't have any real meaning. You have to imagine Pauline Kael bursting into song, Lionel Barrymoore In "Wonderful Life" jumping up and jitterbugging with George Bailey, the Grinch's heart growing three sizes... you gotta start down there to explain what it feels like up here... I think it's so passionate, textured, complex, subversive and challenging that it dwarfs everything on TV.
-Joss Whedon

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Others inside the creative industry such as Carol Barbee, executive producer of CBS' new post-apocalyptic themed drama Jericho, explains Battlestar's far-reaching influence. "It's referenced so many times in our writers' room, and people are going home and studying Battlestar Galactica. Jon Turteltaub is the creator of our show, and he's never seen Battlestar Galactica. The first couple weeks in the writers' room he would hop in and out, and every time he was in there, BSG would get referenced. Coincidentally, he had to go to an awards dinner and he was seated with Joss Whedon [creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly]. He said to Whedon, "All right, I have to ask you something. I have heard Battlestar Galactica referenced in my writers' room like four times in 20 minutes, why is everybody talking about it?" Joss said, "Because it's just the best television show on."
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Soundtrack

Cast
We Are (Ana Johnsson)
Move Along (All American Rejects)
Mad World (Gary Jules)
This Is Your Life (Switchfoot)
World on Fire (Sarah McLachlan)

Sharon/Helo
Before the Dawn (Evanescence)
Always You and I (98 Degrees)
Listen To Your Heart (DHT)
In the Light (Full Blown Rose)
We're In This Together (Nine Inch Nails)

Starbuck/Apollo
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (U2)
Far Away (Nickelback)
Into the Fire (13 Senses)
Lifetimes (Sheryl Crowe)
Trouble (Coldplay)

Baltar / CapricaSix / InnerBaltar / InnerSix / Gina(PegaSix)
Never Alone (Barlow Girl)
Unwell (Matchbox 20)
Club Foot (Kasabian)
Hysteria (Muse)
Haunting Me (Stabbing Westward)

Boomer/Tyrol
My Skin (Natalie Merchant)

Thread title ideas

Videos

Don't Mess With Me (Starbuck/Apollo music vid)
Funeral of Hearts (Seasons 1-2)
Boulevard (Season 2 music vid)
BSG music vids: LJ community

Season 3 promo #0 "Complete Control"
Season 3 promo #1 "Time to decide who you are"
Season 3 promo #1.5 (no vocals)
Season 3 promo #2 "We can't face our enemies until we face ourselves"

Cati · 05-01-2006, 01:55 AM

SCI FI announces Galactica spin-off!
WEDNESDAY - APRIL 26, 2006

by Darren Sumner

By the Lords of Kobol ... The SCI FI Channel has stunned fans today with the announcement of Caprica, a spin-off series from its top-rated Battlestar Galatica. SCI FI calls the potential new show "television's first science fiction family saga," centering on the history of the Adama family and the birth of the Cylons.

Set more than 50 years before the events of Battlestar Galactica, Caprica takes place on the capital world of the Twelve Colonies. There humankind thrives, living in a peaceful society with the benefits of high technology. But the development of an advanced, robotic, artificial life form is about to change everything.

The show is in development by Galactica executive producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick, 24 writer Remi Aubuchon, and NBC Universal Television Studio.

Here is the network's own description of the series:

The people of the Twelve Colonies are at peace and living in a society not unlike our own, but where high-technology has changed the lives of virtually everyone for the better. But a startling breakthrough in robotics is about to occur, one that will bring to life the age-old dream of marrying artificial intelligence with a mechanical body to create the first living robot -- a Cylon. Following the lives of two families, the Graystones and the Adamas (the family of William Adama, who will one day become the commander of the Battlestar Galactica) Caprica weaves corporate intrigue, techno-action and sexual politics into television's first science fiction family saga.

The announcement comes as part of SCI FI's development slate of original scripted series, mini-series, reality shows, and new late-night programming, with no word on when Caprica might go into production or premiere on the cable channel. The development slate is a long-look ahead at what the network has planned and likely not a formal pick-up of the show -- and some series, for one reason or another, never see the light of day.

The Kender · 05-01-2006, 02:01 AM

Wow Cati that is some awesome opening post

I so want to find out what happens in season 3...must stay strong and not look at spoilers.....

**Primordial** · 05-01-2006, 03:33 AM

*This is your mind compelling you to READ the spoilers, Kender. READ them...*

Cryostar · 05-01-2006, 08:34 PM

Cati, Great start to the thread....nice job.

The Kender · 05-03-2006, 01:24 AM

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Originally Posted by John Crichton

*This is your mind compelling you to READ the spoilers, Kender. READ them...*

Noooooo.....mustn't read the spoilersss.......

Cati · 05-04-2006, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by The Kender

Wow Cati that is some awesome opening post

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Originally Posted by Cryostar

Cati, Great start to the thread....nice job.

Thanks, guys! I'm so glad I had parts of an early form saved, I think I would have fainted it if I had to start over from scratch.

It looks like Caprica might get off the ground a bit sooner than expected..

http://ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=1487

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iF: When do you anticipate going into production on the new CAPRICA series?

EICK: We would need a green light first. But I would imagine, if that happens, then we would be shooting in August. Ron and I started talking about a prequel series right around the time we were breaking the second season. When I did HERCULES with the folks at Renaissance Pictures we had the spin-off XENA ready to accompany the second season of that show. I told Ron since we were getting ready to head into our second season, that so far he and I hadn’t had a conversation about a spin-off let alone one ready to go to a company with. We realized if we were going to do a spin-off it would have to come from some place organic, it couldn’t just be because we wanted to do one.

iF: What was the genesis for CAPRICA?

EICK: We got to talking about the events that took place before the attack and how you might be able to spin a story or a style of storytelling that would be different from GALACTICA. We wanted something much more romantic, and much more of a soap that dealt with a corporation and the man in charge of that corporation who in a very innocent and idealized way propagated the artificial intelligence technology that would later become [unbeknownst to him and those involved in the series] the Cylons. That was about as far as we got, and we continued along on our merry way doing season two. We finished that and started to work on season three. Along the same time we were introduced by the studio to a gentlemen named Remi Aubuchon, who had a pitch that struck them as having a lot of similarities to the Cylon mythos. Ron and I thought, "well we were never able to make time to pursue that idea we had a year ago…maybe this is an opportunity to meld what this guy has with what we had. He could write it and we could develop it with him," and so that’s what we did. We were right; his idea was very similar to what we had been talking about. We took some of what we had and some of what he had and he’s going to start writing next week.

iF : Is CAPRICA going to air on the SCI FI Channel?

EICK: We put our minds together, put the ideas together, and spruced up a pitch. Then we went into the SCI FI Channel and pitched it to them, they were very enthusiastic and it was very well received. They said, ‘we’ll buy it…go write it’ so that is what we are doing.

The rest of the interview talks about season 3 so don't read it if you're spoiler averse!

Cryostar · 05-04-2006, 08:18 PM

Shooting in august would turn it around on the current schedule for Dr. Who....wouldn't that be a team up. Stargates in the summer/fall, BSG and Something in the Fall/Winter and Caprica/Dr. Who in the Spring

jalapeno_wildchild · 05-07-2006, 02:18 PM

great new thread Cati

Cati · 05-18-2006, 09:53 PM

Thanks!

This thread is really slow.

I've been meaning to post more around here but simply haven't had any time.

Here are some pics to brighten up the thread

Grace and Tricia at NBC Universal's Summer Press Day

Katee on the set of White Noise 2

The following is about the unidentified Cylon models, just in case I'll use spoiler tags but it's not a huge spoiler

Spoiler:

Cryostar · 05-20-2006, 06:05 AM

I've read this....and it makes me scared.

They've also confirmed that

Spoiler:

Also, that first picture of grace park makes her look REALLY skinny....she needs to eat some more.

punkybrewster2828 · 05-23-2006, 12:33 PM

cool pics, thanks for sharing.

Cryostar · 05-24-2006, 08:45 PM

Morning Punky....how's it going?

***Raonaild*** · 05-27-2006, 10:15 PM

Finally got through to the end of S2 on Space tonight. Overall, I thought this season took a while to really get going, and didn't have quite the excitement of the first season. What a jaw dropping ending though ... I wondered through the last half of the episode if it would all turn out to be a Gaius dream sequence ... I guess not, which sets up a whole different dynamic for next season. We'll see how well it works out.

Liked the Dean Stockwell appearance too, brings a different dynamic to the Cylons. I hope we get to see him again next year.

I guess they must've already started filming for next season ... around town the film crews put up these little fluorescent arrow signs guiding the drivers to location shoots. The names on the arrows don't always mean much, but I saw one recently that said "BSG", so I guess they were filming down the road from where I work.

Cryostar · 05-29-2006, 03:46 PM

You from Vancouver Rachel? Didn't know.

I can't wait for S3 to start....there's a ton of action coming, and some great character moments. The torture of the main charactes absolutely will not stop.

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