Battlestar Galactica

"Finding out what the plan was and how it was structured and how close they were to completing it" - Torsten Eckert via Bookmarklet

From io9: "Remember the Cylons' much-vaunted plan on Battlestar Galactica? Turns out it was "sheer elegance in its simplicity," as the Middleman would say. A new trailer for the last-chance-to-retcon-everything TV movie "The Plan" finally spells out just what that plan was." - Mark Trapp via Bookmarklet

thanks, that link worked - Richard Lawler

From /Film: "There’s been some talk of late that a reboot of the Daredevil franchise could be on the cards. The latest, and potentially greatest, piece of evidence could come from the blog of LA Comic Shop Golden Apple. Here’s an excerpt from one of their most recent posts, about the day Katee Sackhoff came to visit: So we got a little visit in our comic shop last week by Katee Sackhoff, also known as Starbuck for her role on BSG. She proceeded to grab all the Typhoid Mary comics we had and has hopes to get a part for a Marvel movie…. Typhoid Mary being one of the key characters in the Daredevil series, it would seem quite likely that the film in question is this rumoured reboot. Of course, she also appeared in some key Deadpool storylines… so… perhaps… maybe…" - Mark Trapp via Bookmarklet

...ooooh, not that would be intriguing... - JA Castillo (جاسون)

I just fell asleep - Fleagle

From Darth Mojo: "SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t watched the second half of the Battlestar Galactica’s 4th (and final) season, you may want to stop reading now. After discovering the depressing wasteland that turned out to be Earth, the crew of the Galactica did some digging as part of their search for answers about the burnt-out planet’s past. One key find was an excavated, centuries-old Cylon head (as seen below in a scene from the episode). This “ancient Cylon” was only on screen for a few seconds so viewers never really a very good a look at it… until now!" - Mark Trapp via Bookmarklet

From io9: "This past weekend, robotics experts joined Battlestar Galactica's President Roslin and Colonel Tigh, for the World Science Festival panel, "Cyborgs on the Horizon." They explained all about the inevitable robot uprising, and screened new Plan clips. When Colonel Tigh [Michael Hogan] joined President Roslin [Mary McDonnell] on stage, the crowd went wild, naturally. It had been too long since we'd seen them both. Hogan filled in the non-BSG fans with his version of the series "It's about an Executive Officer who faces the end of the human race and how he deals with it." But meanwhile, it was so good to hear Mary make airlock jokes again — and it turns out she's being credited with making airlock a verb, and rightly so." - Mark Trapp via Bookmarklet

From io9: "We may have made fun of it at the time, but KFC's sponsorship of the final episodes of Battlestar Galactica was successful enough to convince a lot of you that Colonel Sanders wasn't as bad as you thought. Frakking mind-control. Studies show that the KFC/BSG teaming was much more successful than normal advertising, both for the chicken shack and the show: Brand recall for the "hybrid branding" spots was at 103% of the norm, with KFC scoring 82% likability as a result, while Galactica's audience proved 29% more loyal as a result. It gets weirder; of the BSG fans who participated in the KFC-sponsored online activities like the "Hear The Fans" feedback forum or "Cheer The Fans"' embeddable video clips found themselves 23% more likely to eat at KFC as a result of the sponsorship." - Mark Trapp via Bookmarklet

"There are some days when I think I have a dream job. Then there are other days when I know it. On June 4, I had the honor of moderating a panel devoted to the late, great "Battlestar Galactica," and it ended up as such a sparkling affair that I'm still feeling the glow from it a week later. One big reason was that the event aspired to be more than a promotional event for a television show or its Emmy fortunes (although the "Battlestar" cast and creators do dearly hope for major Emmy acknowledgment of their show, which is long overdue). This panel, at Hollywood & Highland, was a follow-up to the "Battlestar" event at the United Nations in New York and, like that March gathering, the goal was to delve into the human rights themes and subplots that were so essential to the show's run, which began with a 2003 mini-series and culminated with the compelling series finale that aired March 10. There were six guests on the panel: two visitors from the U.N., the two key creators behind the... more... - RAPatton via Bookmarklet

From io9: "Hello? Hello? It's me! Cavil. And I'm starring in a new clip from Battlestar Galactica's TV movie, "The Plan," airing this fall. Along with my mommy/victim Ellen Tigh, who luckily can't hear my soliloquy, five inches away from her ear." - Mark Trapp via Bookmarklet

"We already know that Battlestar Galactica: The Plan will retell the story of the cylon attacks on humanity from a distinctly nonhuman viewpoint, but according to director Edward James Olmos, it's monumental despite being what you'd expect. Talking to an audience during an appearance at last week's The Envelope event held by the LA Times, Olmos explained what to expect from the TV movie I gotta tell you, not to give anything away, it is exactly what you think it is. You see the complete opposite of the first 281 days of what we went through ... seen through the eyes of the Cylons, and it is breathtaking. It's fantastic. It's not fun, but I will say that you will sit there [gasping]... The Plan is exactly that. It was how they planned to do what they did and what happened. It was monumental. All I can tell you is it's an extraordinary look at the Cylons, how they masterminded what they did." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet

From Sci Fi Wire: "Edward James Olmos, who directed the upcoming DVD movie Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, told an audience of fans that the film will deliver exactly what they expect it to: The Plan shows the Cylons' perspective on their attempted genocide of humanity. "I gotta tell you, not to give anything away, it is exactly what you think it is," Olmos said in a panel discussion Thursday night in Hollywood as part of the Los Angeles Times series The Envelope. "You see the complete opposite of the first 281 days of what we went through, ... seen through the eyes of the Cylons, and it is breathtaking. It's fantastic. It's not fun, but I will say that you will sit there [gasping]." Perhaps The Plan will also drive sales of BSG complete-season DVDs. "Basically, you will go back to see the series again," Olmos said. "I couldn't have imagined this kind of a situation happening at the end of a show, where you would actually start at the beginning. That's a masterful piece of understanding, Ron [Moore]. Genius. Because after you see The Plan, you'll want to go back and view the whole series again."" - Mark Trapp via Bookmarklet

I love that Olmos' attitude toward BSG has changed so much since he shot the mini. - Roger Benningfield

From New Scientist: "Sci-fi TV show Battlestar Galactica has been much praised for its gritty realism – despite being the story of space-borne refugees fleeing genocidal robots. Its treatment of subjects like suicide bombing and torture have won it plaudits from all corners; its cast and creators were even invited to address the UN earlier this year. But does the series "do" science as convincingly as it does politics? We spoke to Kevin Fong, lecturer in space medicine at University College London and a keen advocate of manned space travel, about the series' depiction of space travel and the challenges facing astronauts on long space journeys." - Mark Trapp

"A reminder that this Thursday night I will be moderating a very special "Battlestar Galactica" panel with Mary McDonnell, Edward James Olmos, Ron Moore and David Eick along with some representatives of the United Nations. That may sound like an odd mix, but anyone familiar with the late, great television series knows that it delved into some harrowing human rights issues and was laced with heavy social and ethical themes. This will be the second panel of this kind -- there was a New York edition moderated by Whoopi Goldberg that set a starting point for this West Coast conversation. Here's a video that will give you a sense of that first event... We'll be doing the panel in a 500-seat venue at Mann Chinese 6 Theatres (6801 Hollywood Blvd.) and you can find out about the ticketing process and other details at the Envelope Screening Series website. I'd love to say hello (and thank you!) to you regular Hero Complex readers so if you do make it by, please be sure to stop me and introduce yourself..." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet

FREE, just go here: http://www.latimes.com/extras... - RAPatton

""Battlestar Galactica" may be gone, but it's not forgotten. On June 4, "Galactica" stars Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell will join key creators Ron Moore and David Eick on a panel that revisits the darker story lines of the show and address real-world human rights issues. I'm moderating the panel at Hollywood and Highland and hope to see a lot of you Hero Complex readers in the audience. The event is part of the Envelope Screening Series, which brings in Los Angeles Times writers to moderate panels featuring the elite talents behind top television shows. ("The Shield," "Californication" and "Rescue Me" are among the other panels this time around.) The "Battlestar" discussion will be different than the others, with an emphasis on taking the show's themes and re-framing them as a human rights commentary -- and a call to action. This panel will be a follow-up event to the April cast visit to the United Nations, which left many of the participants energized. I spoke a few weeks ago to McDonnell and she was intent on turning talk into action. I expect this panel will be the start of that." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet

"With Battlestar Galactica (and Bionic Woman) gone to the great television network in the sky, where should smitten fanboys and girls hope to see Katee Sackhoff next? If rumors are true, a Marvel movie. MTV Splash Page reports that Sackhoff was recently seen in LA comic shop Golden Apple, buying up appearances of Marvel villain Typhoid Mary as research; according to store workers, the actress "proclaimed that she's hoping to land a role in a Marvel movie." While we're happy to watch Sackhoff in almost anything, we're hoping that she's not going to be playing Mary in anything anytime soon. Not only because Typhoid Mary is primarily known as a Daredevil villain, and we're not exactly in favor of the planned reboot of the Daredevil franchise, but because Typhoid Mary, with her fractured past, self-loathing and psychosis feels just a little bit too similar to a superpowered evil Starbuck to us, and we're not sure we're up to that just yet. If Sackhoff really wants a role in a Marvel movie, we'd much rather see her as Ms. Marvel in the Avengers movie, anyway." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet

Wait, Daredevil "reboot"? Uhm... where? What? Ahhh I don't care. They've been pretty much recycling Miller's "Fall From Grace" storyline for years. No one seems to be able to top it. - Barry Wynn

From io9: "We're much closer than you think to the reality of a "mindclone" — a computer with the mental capacity of the human mind — says the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies' Martine Rothblatt. We're "close enough to feel the bits and bytes of cyberbreath on our cheeks." Ooh, spooky. Apart from the obvious question — what is cyberbreath, and don't they make a cyber-mouthwash for that? — I have to admit I'm a bit skeptical of Rothblatt's gung ho predictions. For one thing, she quotes Ray "Unlimited Rice Pudding" Kurzweil. For another, I'm not sure her understanding of Moore's law is quite rock solid." - Mark Trapp via Bookmarklet

ya ... right! - Stuart Forsyth

And yes, I want one. - Bill Sodeman via Bookmarklet

From Gizmodo: "725.35 meters. A whoppumental 2,379.75 feet. That's how big the new super-sized Enterprise is. Here you can see it compared against the Battlestar Galactica, the good old Enterprise, the Blockade Runner, and the ISS." - Mark Trapp via Bookmarklet

Hell, the new movie's Enterprise is as big (or bigger) than the Galaxy-class starships of TNG. - Chris Charabaruk '_'

You could tell by the Kelvin having a crew of 800, the shuttle bay going from a two car garage to a multi level bay and, as a Gizmodo reader mentions, the full size brewery aboard. - Robert Haas

"Some say the best things in life are free, but fans of “Battlestar Galactica” would beg to differ when a final live auction for the retired space opera gets underway this weekend at the Pasadena Convention Center. There's a sad symmetry to the event's scheduling: On Friday (May 8), the shiny, happy space-future of the USS Enterprise will be warping into movie theaters even as the dark, depressing space-past of "Battlestar Galactica" disappears a little more from the DRADIS screen of pop culture. Talk about rolling a hard six... The three-day "Battlestar" auction will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday through Monday. NBC-Universal will put over 900 items on the auction block for fans willing to drop serious dough. Highlights include the giant Blackbird stealth ship (estimated bid range is $20,000 to $30,000);  Lee Adama’s bomber jacket from the series-closing "Daybreak" episodes ($2,000); and one of the famous, slinky red dresses worn by Number Six or a flight suit belonging to Starbuck (each looking lik" - RAPatton via Bookmarklet

"The first “Battlestar” auction, back in January, drew more than 2,000 on-line bidders from around the world and the original Number Six red dress went for $13,000. “We intend to make the second and final auction even bigger and better, with more of the show’s stars, more fun activities at the auction preview day, and an even more impressive display of the items up for auction,” said... more... - RAPatton

From /Film. I posted the news a few days ago about this box set, but now there's box art to ogle at. - Mark Trapp via Bookmarklet

That's an awesome art box. - xero

"Reading about that remark, I'm now dying to see Aubuchon's original pitch for Caprica, before the Adama family and the other BSG continuity baggage got shoe-horned in. If you watch the pilot, it's pretty obvious the Adama clan doesn't fit - the storyline makes a lot more sense if you take them out. In the pilot, Zoe Graystone dies in a terrorist bombing, but it turns out she found a way to scan her brain and create a virtual avatar with all her memories. And then her grieving dad strives to load that avatar into a robot body, inadvertently helping to create a super-weapon. It has a certain elegance, no? Until you shoehorn in the idea that Joseph Adama's daughter could also be restored to life, based on her Facebook page and whatever other info Google can dig up. Adding the BSG elements basically transforms this story into a giant "WTF"." - Mark Trapp via Bookmarklet

indeed - Amber Spence

From Joystiq: "Battlestar Galactica and gaming culture seem to go together like carrots, celery and onion (what, mirepoix too fancy for ya?). And so it's with little shock that we bring you the screen you see above from the upcoming Battlestar Galactica spin-off series, Caprica, captured by a gracious Joystiq reader. Is that ... Cloud? Cloud Strife? It is! Well, sorta, kinda." - Mark Trapp

From Engadget HD: "Finally, Universal has confirmed the rumors that Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series will arrive on Blu-ray July 28, packing the previously noted $349 MSRP for the 20 disc set. There's plenty of exclusive Blu-ray features planned, with U-control, DTS-HD MA soundtrack, an interactive guide to the ships and characters from the series, a BD-Live powered "Ultimate Battle" game, look behind the scenes with composer Bear McCreary and more. Not mentioned? Whether or not all that cash can buy a slightly better case design this time around." - Mark Trapp via Bookmarklet

I definively want it! - Lucio Riccardi

Reshared from the Caprica Room and from /Film: "I honestly wasn’t expecting much from Caprica. All of the early information we’ve seen basically made it out to be a sci-fi-ish Dallas. And while that definition isn’t technically inaccurate, it’s also incredibly unfair. What’s most surprising about Caprica is how Ronald D. Moore, along with co-creator Remi Aubuchon, crafted a world that’s similar enough to BSG to appease fans, but is also something remarkably different. It gives me hope that any future projects in the BSG-verse could be similarly unique, and hopefully will help the franchise steer clear of any Star Trek-esque pitfalls. After viewing this pilot I can’t say that I’m in love with Caprica yet, but I am extremely interested to see where this story goes. " - Mark Trapp via Bookmarklet

Via edythe: http://beta.friendfeed.com/furry... - Mark Trapp via Bookmarklet

It might be great, but I really don't have any interest - RAPatton

From h+ Magazine: "NBC/Universal is auctioning an actual Raptor fighter ship used in Battlestar Galactica. (Also up for sale? A Mark VII Viper Full Size.) "It has a full, functional interior with light-up panels and monitors throughout..." reads eBay's enthusiastic description of the 30-foot ship.  After 43 bids, the price was $28,100.00 -- but this didn't meet the auction's reserve, which means it's still up for grabs at a "live" auction beginning May 8 in Pasadena." - Mark Trapp via Bookmarklet

Also posted on Boing Boing http://www.boingboing.net/2009... - Richard Akerman (nonwork)

How much is that Viper in the window? - Bill Sodeman