Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica returns with Cylons galore

Posted 18 Jan 2009 by Laura Scott

Warning: Spoilers!

If you've been like me, wondering where the hell Battlestar Galactica has been going, the return of the show this weekend has (will) probably answer(ed), and with some excitement and a few huge revelations.

Yes, I'm going to talk about them here. That's why the spoiler warning above.

Revelation 1:

The planet (presumably Earth, though we have seen no real objective proof -- no half-buried Statue of Liberty....

..."Earth" was nuked some 2,000 years ago.

Personally, I think the show would have been better served if they had left us on the cliffhanger last year just arriving at Earth. Then there would have been a lot of anticipation.

Battlestar Galactica Season 4 premieres in a few hours

Posted 3 Apr 2008 by Laura Scott

I can hardly wait. Hence this tweet-length post.

Laura's unofficial sci-fi geek Lords of Kobol lineage DVD collection

Posted 6 Dec 2007 by Laura Scott

Some items are must-haves for any science fiction fan (and aren't all geeks and geekettes to some extent sci-fi fans?). We already know that Battlestar Galactica is the best show on television. Now we can celebrate not just this fabulous show in high-definition video, but those shows and movies that led to its creation (according to me -- Ron Moore may have different ideas).

Let's start at the top:

  1. Battlestar Galactica - Season One [HD DVD]

    If you've stumbled across the show broadcast in HDTV on the UHD cable channel, you know that Galactica is really something else when you can see all the detail.

    Price: $69.95

Strike to bring down Battlestar Galactica?

Posted 5 Nov 2007 by Laura Scott

With the writers on strike, will this break up the 22-episode final season of Battlestar Galactica? Will it delay the season altogether?

Show creator and WGA member Ronald D. Moore certainly isn't going to be crossing any picket lines, even if he is in that gray area of writer/producer/show-runner:

Some tense times as we head into the strike tomorrow.

Just wanted to take a moment and express my thanks to those of you who've made clear your support of the writers and of our staff in particular. There will still be a Galactica to finish when this is all over, and I'll be back to talk to you more then.

Thanks again and I'll see you on the other side of the Jump.

My hope is that they will run with the 15 or show shows already written. April 2008 is long enough to wait anyway.

Say what you meme: My media consumption diet

Posted 3 Mar 2007 by Laura Scott

Battlestar Galactica back in space

Posted 22 Oct 2006 by Laura Scott

I'm a little astonished — and I suppose I should be embarrassed, but I'm not — by how I behaved watching Battlestar Galactica this past Friday night. Exodus: Part 2 was one of the most exhilirating and most moving episodes of the entire series so far.

It was one of those episodes that makes the exceptional pilot miniseries — which I just saw again last night showing it to a friend who was a Babylon 5 fan but she never had seen any Galactica — almost pale by comparison.

Chris at Monolithic Sketchbook writes:

Every time I see a viper land on the Galactica

Posted 22 Oct 2006 by Laura Scott

I think of Tek Jansen!

It happened to me last night, when I was showing the Battlestar Galactica pilot miniseries to a friend from out of town.

The viper flies into the Galactica landing bay, and descends to the landing pad———

"Deploying forward landing struts!"

Help!

Battlestar Galactica getting Lost?

Posted 7 Oct 2006 by Laura Scott

Warning: Spoilers

After last night's season 3 opener, I'm a little concerned about my favorite show on television, "Battlestar Galactica." The show is starting to resemble "Lost," which from my perspective is not at all an improvement.

I'm not just talkling about the tents and stress monkeys in the jungle. It's the whole arbitrariness that comes across in sequence after sequence of surprises with very little tension. The show used to be terrific at building tension. Whether it's seizing the ore on a hostile asteroid or finding water or holding red alert for several days while Cylons continue to find the fleet within 33 minutes of arriving anywhere or two strong military commanders poised to take their ships into full battle against each other, the show built great anticipation of what was going to happen next.

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