Battlestar Galactica – Rollingskull

Because Curtis is never going to watch the last 8 Battlestar Galacticas and I want to write about it!

Ok so in case you haven’t figured it out yet this post is going to be about Battlestar Galactica, and it’s been damn near a month since the show ended and from what I can tell Curtis still has them sitting on his DVR. So out of respect for our friendship I have withheld talking about BSG because I figured he would watch them by now.

I was soooo very wrong…

Curtis stop reading now… and if you continue to read it’s your own damn fault I don’t want to hear any whining.

Tennents of BSG… leave them wanting more… in the end I wanted no more… not because I had lost interest in the show, but because I had gotten everything out of the show that I had wanted.

Roslyn died… she should have died sooner (like a couple of episodes back but I can accept why they kept her around till the end)

Starbuck was kinda sorta reviled for what she is… I don’t know how to explain this one but I like they way the writers did this. No explanation nothing just there one second and gone the next. perfect

Earth is a lie… but new Earth is shiny and new… turns out New Earth is our Earth (Sol III for those of you tracking at home)

The last battle with the Cylons…. that was some of the best effects work across the board that I have seen. I think that helped to quench alot of the thirst I had for some good solid action sequences. Also the Galactica ramming into the side of the colony was neat!

I would write more but so much has already been covered on the Internet it seems a little beyond redundant at this point….

Why did I do this then?

Just so I could use the Battlestar Galactica tag one more time and say my TV series have a new standard to live up to.

The one with alot of words…

No I haven’t been watching friends… there is no gratitous nudity in that show. And I’m on a Led Zepplin kick so it’s kind of hard to use a line from one of their songs.

Why?

Because there are 3 other posts in the last 4 years with some sort of Led Zepplin refrence. Ok here’s a game for you, find two of the three titles with lines from Led Zepplin songs and you will win dinner on me… and when I say on me I will meet you at like a Chilli’s in a strip mall some placy buy you a beer and dinner. I’m not really going to let you eat dinner on me unless you 20 something cute and female in which case goto town.

Now your probally asking yourself why only 4 years for this game Tom? Well that’s easy that is about how long I’ve been on blogger you don’t honestly expect me to expect you to search all 8 years of this shit do you?

Wait 7 years? Oh good lord it has been 7 years… December 1, 2000. I started blogging in the 20th century! There has to be some sort of award for that. “And now to present Tom with the award for the most pristine and occasionally amusing pile of shit on the intertubes is Kate Beckensile” (and if Kate Beckensile isn’t around snag Cylon Model Eight aka Boomer aka Athena to present the award) This pile of crap is older then some of my friends kids and is defitnaly older then all of their marriages.

I wonder if it’s time to graduate from blogger to a honest to goodness domain name and some sort of open source web2.0 social networking esque website with a content managment system that would allow me to blog in real time as I thought of something, post pictures when ever I saw something that was amusing to me!

Or I can have another beer and go get some books packaged together for more friends having their first peanut.

I think I’m going to do that, personal jesus would be proud.

And now another word from a really good bottle of scotch.

So the writers strike, it starting to suck for me… I’m lacking my John Stewart fix. I mean I’m lacking my John Stewart fix to the point that I’m actually watching CNN. It’s kind of weird to watch the news and not have a montage of some sort pop up where people are saying things that are 180 degree’s from what they were just saying.

So this distinct lack of John Stewart pushed me over the edge, what the hell is this strike about?

The internet is a wonderful thing.

I landed on everyone’s favorite Star Trek wonder kid, voice of Aqua Lad and in my world “A” list blogger Wil Wheaton Oh hey he has a couple of links to something called “unitedhollywood.com” WAIT WAIT HE HAS A VIDEO! IT’S FROM THE COLBERT REPORT!!! Oh wait their is no Stephen Colbert, but it’s a writer from the Colbert Report. That is good enough for me.

I watch the video and finally decide I wonder where I go when I click on “Unitedhollywood.com“

Oh it’s the blog for the writers HEY LOOK MORE NOT JOHN STEWART BUT HIS WRITERS! I got my John Stewart fix finally and then way down at the bottom of the page is a link to a video that talks about what each generation of writers has gone through to get where they are today. It’s actually a start contrast to the John Stewart/Stephen Colbert combo.

I read, I watch, I ponder… I ask “What does Ronald D. Moore think?” I check the Scifi.com blog, nothing there since June, check Wikipedia and BAM! Their is a link to to rondmoore.com
and it’s my personal fiction writing hero of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Battlestar Galactica. The blog is new and done in iWeb but it’s Ronald D. Moore uncensored, the only thing better is Ronald D. Moore with a bottle of Scotch, the smoking lamp turned off, and a podcast recording under way.

Cody as a side note, remember the poker table with the midget from the show “Carnival” when we were in Vegas? This is the guy who wrote the first season, he left before the second season to do Battlestar Galactica!

So I’ve read and pondered for a while now, and I’ve come to the conclusion that we should all find a good book/game/hobby and snuggle/curl up/next/to our very bearded/pregnant/sleepy loved ones because this folks is going to a very long haul and we need to do everything to make sure the writers get everything they are asking for.

And for the record yes, I’m a Ronald D. Moore fan boy (didn’t know screen writers had fan boys did you?)

A letter…

Dear MR. Ronald D. Moore; Creator and Excecutive producer of the “New” Battlestar Galactica.

RE: Season 3 finale

From the desk of a fan:

Mr. Moore I just finshed watching the final episode of the third season of Battlestar Galactica. I have to say I was over all very immpressed.

Except for the last 45 seconds.

WHAT THE FUCK??!!

This blog entry is brought to you by a really good whiskey and the smoking lamp is off

This one is for the BSG nurds….

I’ve been watching Deep Space Nine on DVD starting with Season 1. Yes I know I’m a gluten for punishment. Anyway I’m a nurd… one of the things that I like to do is look up the actors from a series I’m watching and see what is written about them in the IMDB.

So I’m going through the Deep Space Nine entry from the IMDB and they have all of the executive producers listed. One of them is Ronald D. Moore, who we all know is the Executive Producer and Creator of the “New Battlestar Galactica“. But if you’ve watched DS9 before you already knew this (I did). What the hell I will go take a look at Ron Moore’s IMDB entry…

There is a trivia section and it had this comment…

“In the pilot episode of the fifth Star Trek series, “Enterprise”, a character was named after him. The farmer who shot the Klingon (Klaang) in the beginning of the episode was named Farmer “Moore”. This is not only homage to Ron’s reputation with klingons, but also his reputation for killing off characters.“

Well shit that explains a few things.

So of course this leads me to the Wikipedia entry for Ronald D. Moore where I learn that he was a producer on “Voyager” for a little bit in the Sixth season.

And a excerpt from the interview Moore did concerning Voyager after he left

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Moore’s re-imagining of Galactica is noted for taking a more serious tone than its predecessor, something that was foreshadowed in the January 2000 for Cinescape interview, where he discussed what he saw as the root problem with Voyager.

“The premise has a lot of possibilities. Before it aired, I was at a convention in Pasadena, and Sternbach and Okuda were on stage, and they were answering questions from the audience about the new ship. It was all very technical, and they were talking about the fact that in the premise this ship was going to have problems. It wasn’t going to have unlimited sources of energy. It wasn’t going to have all the doodads of the Enterprise. It was going to be rougher, fending for themselves more, having to trade to get supplies that they want. That didn’t happen. It doesn’t happen at all, and it’s a lie to the audience. I think the audience intuitively knows when something is true and something is not true. Voyager is not true. If it were true, the ship would not look spic-and-span every week, after all these battles it goes through. How many times has the bridge been destroyed? How many shuttlecrafts have vanished, and another one just comes out of the oven? That kind of bullshitting the audience I think takes its toll. At some point the audience stops taking it seriously, because they know that this is not really the way this would happen. These people wouldn’t act like this.” “

Two things… this is why Ronald D. Moore is the man! And one of my biggest problems with Voyager.

Good night and good luck.