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True Blood Has Started Filming: What's Happening? LOTS!

Found at and big thanks to True Blood Italy.

You probably know but in case you didn't Anna Paquin won the Golden Globe last month (12.08) for Best Actress in a television drama!

Also, it appears that she and Stephen Moyer are still "an item."

Season Two Update on True Blood:

 "I am a maenad, which is a supernatural wood-nymph creature. There are a lot of strange creatures in crazy old Bon Temps."- Michelle Forbes

Source: Kristin

Yay!

True Blood is filming already. They are scheduled to start Episode 3 tomorrow, January 28.

Based on this character description and for those of you that have read Book Two in the Sookie Stackhouse series, "Living Dead In Dallas", it's probably pretty obvious already that the director of HBO's True Blood, Alan Ball has already gotten our heroine in deep,deep trouble and she's only on the third episode. I have to figure a way to white out spoilers this far ahead of airing. I'm starting now with white type so you'll have to highlight to read:

 

The maenad played by Michelle Forbes injures Sookie in a horribly painful and especially vicious way. She means for Sookie to die(!) This is why "odd" doctor Ludwig is called in.

 

Casting News for True Blood - Episode 2.03 - Scratch My Back (Ouch! That title!)

Casting Call for :

[DR. LUDWIG]
A female LITTLE PERSON, she is a no-nonsense, take-charge medical healer who tends to a severely wounded Sookie (Anna Paquin). Clearly disdainful of Eric (Alexander Skarsgard), Dr. Ludwig is "no fan of the fang," but tolerates vampires as their blood is of great value to her profession.
Source: SpoilerTV
This episode begins filming on the 28th January.

Here are some cast photos from the shooting of Season 2:

 

Vampire Bill (Stephen Moyer) is gorgeous when he smiles.

 

But what is ailing Anna Paquin (Sookie)?

She looks terrible. Is she cold, tired, angry at SM?

She was so radiant when she won the Golden Globe for Best TV actress (in a drama?) just a couple of weeks ago.

Why so glum, now Anna?

And from Ausiello via SpoilerTV

Question: Thanks for telling us that True Blood started shooting its second season last week, but could you tell me when the episodes will start airing? -- Katie

Ausiello: This summer, which means Season 2 will air roughly eight months after the conclusion of season 1 -- a lightning fast turnaround by cable standards.

"Alan Ball is a very fast writer," explains an HBO source.

In other True Blood news, I caught up with Sam Trammell (Sam) at the Globes and he teased that his new love interest (played by The Bold and The Beautiful's Ashley Jones) is up to no good. "I don't know the whole storyline, but I've read the first three episodes, and it's going to be really twisted and dark and exciting. She's got some serious secrets and questionable intentions."

I am now one of those people that has read the entire Sookie Stackhouse series (waiting on the next one due May, 2009) so I can know when Alan Ball deviates from the books.

I think in some places he simply has to because there is a stark difference in the medium of film and that of the written word. (I know. Duh! right?)

Still, the essence of the characters is conveyed effectively in True Blood and author Charlaine Harris spins some really great imaginative, sexy,violent and most of all otherworldly (we thought) tales. To put it shortly: What if the things that go *bump* in the night really exist?

Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.5, Episode 15, Both US and UK Promo/Preview Videos: "The Oath" *SPOILERS*

My guess is that this*:

This is a the brilliant and beautiful Mary McDonnell who is finishing out her normally nuanced portrayal of "schoolteacher" turned President Laura Roslin. Here she is bellowing--to whom we do not know, "I'm coming for all of you!"

*...may come on the heels of this.

A true WTH??!! moment.

Things look pretty bad for Sam Anders, Starbuck's husband and member of the Final Five Cylons.

My guess is that she is attempting to quell the mutiny.

Battlestar Galactica - Series 4.5/Series 5/Season 4.5 - Sky1 Promo 2

Note: Battlestar Galactica is being advertised as both "The Final Series" and "Final Episodes," depending on if you are in the US or UK.

Thanks to indysid

Finally: Eye Candy

Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff and Tricia Helfer discuss their characters on Battlestar Galactica at the ArcLight in Hollywood, June 11, 2008
Courtesy: sprocket762

Battlestar Galactica: S4 E14,"A Disquiet Follows My Soul" - Roslin and Adama finally start frakking around - Recap video

Nice video choice, Jennifer Godwin of E!

"A Disquiet Follows My Soul" Sci Fi official recap:

Yesssssssssssssss!

Bill and Laura finally were shown basking in the afterglow--though her crazy-big fake bald head made me think of Capt. Kirk in one of his Star Trek encounters for a moment there. But I was happy that they have gotten real (again, is my guess--thinking New Caprica-time). This is a neat Bill and Laura video made by someone well-versed in the whole 4-season arc of their coupling. So yeah, squee.

Battlestar Galactica

Season 4  :  Ep. 14|43:46|

Adama believes that Cylon technology will lead to a habitable space, but his proposal for an alliance is met by fierce resistance.

Not sure I agree with this assessment but everyone is entitled to their opinion, right?

Battlestar Galactica season 4.5 has been crazytown so far, what with the suicide of a beloved character, the disappointing reveal of the fifth/final Cylon and the shocking/random truth about baby Nicky's parentage, but all the weird was wiped away tonight. Jennifer Godwin of E!

For one, the fifth cylon wasn't a big shock--but the reveal of the Final Four last season was a shot to the gut if you were invested in the characters--any one or all of them. I simply love "Chief," now stripped down to "Tyrol" but moved up to one of the Final Five (FF).

Chief acted like a total jerk in tonight's episode, " A Disquiet Follows My Soul," but I still think deep inside he's a good guy.

Cally betrayed him terribly. And he's recently found out that his pre-New Caprica, near-suicidal fears, when Brother Cavil (one of the seven previously-known Cylons--this guy got air-locked) first was featured on the show--were well-founded. Cavil dissuaded Chief that he was Cylon with the quip, "Besides, I haven't seen you at any of the Cylon parties."

Then they found New Caprica, Chief married Cally and the baby came and co-leading the Resistance happened and he seemed OK... I hope the series ends with Chief going out in a some kind of heroic fashion.

Too bad what's become of Gaeta. I know it gives Allesandro Juliani the extra scenes but I hate to see such a character sour so badly.

Here's what Allesandro has to say about Felix Gaeta's newly-minted relationship with veep Tom Zarek ( Richard Hatch).

This episode marks the beginning of an unusual partnership, that of Tom Zarek and Felix Gaeta. Actor Alessandro Juliani described the experience of working together: “I’d never had much to do with Richard over the seasons, but I remember thinking to myself how strange it was: that I had gone from playing with a likeness of Richard as a child (an action figure I still have by the way) to playing with the real live Richard! By the way, he’s a way better actor than his action figure.”

Bear went on to query Alessandro about Felix Gaeta, a previously upright, straight-shootin' member of the Fleet to "baddie" and Alessandro responded thusly:

...he quickly replied

“Baddie? Who said anything about being a baddie? I mean, if resisting an alliance with a race of malevolent, deceitful robot-people responsible for the genocide of humankind, enforced by a bunch of ‘leaders’ who time and time again had proven to be completely misguided and hypocritical in their policies is bad…who wants to be good? If what you meant to ask was when did I find out that Felix was to assume the mantle of being the moral center of the show, then I believe it was during the filming of the now infamous ‘Stump Serenade’ that a certain Emmy-nominated writer who shall remain nameless first hinted at his heroic destiny.”

Courtesy of the sublime Bear's Battlestar Blog

One of the more relevant "You Will Know The Truth clues played out in this, S4 E14,"A Disquiet Follows My Soul."

Clue 23. Video. Adama calls Roslin in her quarters on the Galactica but she ignores the persistent buzzing of the ancient corded telephone. She is dressed in her nightclothes, standing over an assortment of meds.--many colours and shapes of pills. She's deep in thought then begins to toss the lose ones in the trash, seems to heave a sigh of relief and finishes by throwing all the bottles of pills in the bin.

Another "You Will Know" SciFi Network pre-Season 4.5 promotion was a part of "A Disquiet Follows My Soul," too.

Tyrol really beat upon poor Hotdog. Geez, what a grump.

Clue 25. Video. Baltar is preaching to the masses who seem to be less-fringe-looking and more diverse. Baltar yells to the cheers of his followers, "It is God himself who should come down here and beg for our forgiveness!" there is a disease aboard this ship and ii is a disease of denial. the crows cheers. Galen Tyrol has been watching Baltar impassively but spots Hotdog across the room. Their eyes meet and Tyrol with obvious purpose, begins to make his way through the crowd to Hotdog. Hotdog begins towards Tyrol too but nowhere near as purposefully. The crowds continues it's roaring and cheering at Baltar's every utterance.

Hard to say if Dualla's (Kandyse McClure) suicide was that of a "beloved character."

She was lovely and certainly loved by her crewmates and Adama but if she had been truly beloved they would have given her more to do with her character. She btw, is the reason when I caught a glimpse of the show in it's first season that I went back and watched the whole season up to that point and continued right on. Kandyse McClure just has the most beautiful eyes ever. It's a bit of a comfort that she has a lot of eye-candy-walk-on scenes throughout much of the series when going back to watch it on DVD. RIP Dualla. :(

I'm not "disappointed" with the reveal of Ellen Tigh as the FF Cylon. She and Saul Tigh being a couple from as long as 2000 years prior is kind of neat and it works with the storyline as the character turned up mysteriously, well into the first season(?) with a cockamamie story about having been unaware of her surroundings (on another ship) for months! Someone took care of her was her story, though she appeared uninjured. So Ellen Tigh being the reveal works on that level. Why she frakked icky Cavil back on New Caprica to get Tigh released from Cylon prison and torture makes no sense to me. How could Cavil have power over one of the sacred Final Five? I need a good explanation but it's too early to call it disappointing.

(Generally, it's my opinion that the late-comers to the show tend to view it on a episode by episode basis instead of looking at it as a story told over four years.)

My hard drive got wiped and though I've recovered a lot of my stills from the show they are completely unsorted --so I shall go see what I can find. EDIT: found some that are good at the SciFi.com site.

SciFiWire spoke with Kandyse McClure the day after S4E13, "Sometimes A Great Notion" aired.

Here's snippet and a link to the source for more.

"It was hard that she wouldn't be there to say goodbye, and that I wouldn't be there to say goodbye." -Kandyse McClure

What was your reaction when you actually got the script and it said something along the lines of "Dualla puts gun to temple and pulls trigger"?

McClure: I was floored. I think I was just as floored reading it as I'm sure people [were] seeing it. It's such a personal and violent and shocking way to go, not only for her, but for the implications for the people around her. Suicide is a difficult topic at the best of times. People see it as being an ultimate act of selfishness on one end, but certainly from the research that I did and the people that I spoke to, there are so many different reasons that people get to that point. But I think for Dee it was just the ultimate act of surrender and the final act of control over her own life. She really wanted to find some kind of peace.

As far as you know, will we learn any more about why she took her own life? In other words, will someone read out loud a will or a suicide note she left behind?

McClure: So far as I know, no. So far as I know, that was it. She couldn't see any way of ever finding any happiness for herself. That's no good. Her husband [Jamie Bamber] is still in love with someone else. He's turned his back on one of the things that joined them together, being in the military and that sense of duty towards the military and his father [Adm. Adama, played by Edward James Olmos] in particular. But I think that was it. It's her final peace. It's a very human reaction to a situation like that. Of course, I imagine that Dualla was not the only one on the ship, and certainly not the first one during the course of the whole saga, to choose that way out. I considered it kind of a strange honor to hold that archetype, to say, "Yeah, this is a very human thing. This is what human beings may choose to do."

Finally, our Six here is very excited that she's about to be a mommy!

Episode titles for BSG Season 4.5

Episode 4.14 - 06 Feb 2009 - Blood on the Scales
Episode 4.15 - 13 Feb 2009 - No Exit
Episode 4.16 - 20 Feb 2009 - Deadlock
Episode 4.17 - 27 Feb 2009 - Someone to Watch Over Me
Episode 4.18 - 06 Mar 2009 - Islanded in a Stream of Stars
Episode 4.19 - 13 Mar 2009 - Daybreak (1)

"A Disquiet Follows My Soul" Sci-Fi Recap Video:

My Favourite Post Secret This Week

Original:

(On the back is "Make sure you call him Mr. President.")

My Favourite Post Secret is from the Ebony photo shoot.

My guess is that Barack and Michelle went above and beyond everyone's already high expectations.

Check it:

 

Detail: without coat

 

An Inauguration Celebratory Ball (one of ten)

Not surprisingly Michelle Obama has been dubbed "The (first) Jackie (Kennedy) O of First Ladies" (since the original).

Heya,
You may have noticed a slight change in the look of my blog which was called Cyn City (address will keep working), to reflect a shift in content to "stuff I like" which I wrote a lot about anyway.
It's still changing as as such in more the pop culture realm, a weekly feature, My Favourite Post Secret This Week, that I've been writing for another blog I manage-- The Love You Make, is popping over here for now.
Cheers!
Cyn

Battlestar Galactica: S514"A Disquiet Follows My Soul" Video Preview Promos US, Canada Video Promo

Sorry about the lateness again. Not that it is anything that I feel special about but we had a router issue that became a huge network issue. (We are a typical middle, middle class family with four computers, including this one, a 2002 model.) I lost so much of the photographic work I've done on Battlestar Galactica and with the show ending soon... Let's just leave it at I've had a rough couple of days as their was much more lostas well, and am looking forward to moving forward. Yes, I should have burned it all to disc or thumbdrived it. I was late on doing that and I've paid a heavy price. I won't know how steep until the recovery process is finished but as of this moment, I refuse to waste another second not being totally jazzed about posting about Battlestar Galactica.

So say,
Cyn

Battlestar Galactica: S4E13, Recap Video "Sometimes A Great Notion," You Will Know The Truth- Three Final CLUES *Spoilers*

The first episode of the second half of Battlestar Galcatica's last season, "Sometimes A Great Notion," as promised, picked right up where "Revelations" left many months ago--on scorched "Earth." The question for the unspoiled, Who is the Final Cylon (FC)? was answered: Ellen Tigh is the Final Cylon. Congrats to those who figured it out on their own. I really didn't know but had been spoiled so was unsurprised. *There was still a shocker however.

Lots of the pictorial spoilers were headed down the right path but some, like the one above could in no way prepared us for the depth of reaction that the Fleet would have to discovering Earth to be a complete nuclear wasteland.

Want the best first-hand account of this episode? Go to BSG composer Bear McCreary's Battlestar Blog for a vivid explanation of how he composed the score for an episode he describes as "an assault on the psyche."

McCreary goes into a great deal of detail offering up huge bits of conversations he had with the showrunners about what they wished to convey in this pivotal, mind boggling episode. There were many extraneous circumstances surrounding the making of this eppy and many adaptions had to be compensated for. You would never know this listening to the score, which in large part is unlike any score Bear has done for BSG.

Tyrol gets a clear picture of himself living here long ago.

Answers on the table: The whole planet was cylon.

A couple things of note happened on Earth.

Kara found herself.

This made her deeply unhappy and made Leoben really uneasy, especially when she brought up that "harbinger of death" quote from the cylon Hybrid earlier in S4.

If only she'd had that line to use on Leoben back on New Caprica--he would have given her some space.

Kara kept the truth of the discovery from everyone but Leoben (who was a witness to Kara discovering herself) and she ended up cremating her own remains. Eww.

Leoben and Kara on New Caprica in the "dollhouse." From their first meeting he has bugged the hell out of her.The Cylons regard him as their most spiritual. Leoben is very intense. Callum Keith Rennie did a great job with the role throughout the series.

They found the remains of 2000-yr ago nuked cylons--no humans on "Earth."

The Cylon-like metal head-thingie looked kind of hokey.

*This is Dee losing all hope, even though Helo is trying to comfort her.
Later, back on the Galactica, she ends up putting a gun to her head which I still find shocking. The first shot must be the actress practicing for the scene because there's no mess--blowing one's brains out entails splattering <ick>.

Director Michael Nankin told me, “Dualla takes the nuked Earth harder than anyone while on the planet. There is a moment in a raptor, on the way back, where she privately makes the decision about what she’s going to do: She’s going to give those around her every ounce of strength and optimism she has left, and then she’s going to pull the trigger.”

Bear McCreary's Battlestar Blog

Dee, moments before putting a bullet in her head. Poor Gaeta. He's the last one she talked to and she'd just been on a date with Lee so he's pretty devasted.

     

Dualla's "Death Mask" (her reflection in a pool of blood)

While Tyrol, Samuel T. and Tori remembered snippets of their lives 2000 years prior on the now-nuked earth, Tigh delayed the big revelation: Who is the FC (Final Cylon)?! until the last minutes of the show (which ran over about 3 minutes).

 Samuel T. remembers playing : "All Along TheWatchtower"

Tyrol in the marketplace moments before Earth was nuked.

Tigh finally remembered. When he dug Mrs. Tigh out of rubble from destruction of Earth. He could not save her but she assured him that "everything was in place" and they would be "reborn together", and would thus see one another again. That is when Tigh uttered the backwards line that had been a clue.

Ellen is in the rubble underneath him. It appears that the Final Five-type cylon has a life span and is reborn after each death--to live out another life.

Ellen (Kate Vernon) and Saul Tigh (Michael Hogan) on New Caprica before he killed her for colluding with the Cylons. Ironic now, since they are both cylons.

 

Death, Destruction, Decay, Despair

Full video: Battlestar Galactica:  S4E13 "Sometimes A Great Notion"

 

From The SciFi network's You Will Know The Truth.

27. Photo of Dualla as a child on a red bike. The photo is hung inside her locker door.

28. Still: Kara is sitting at an ancient-looking piano with a guy identified as Xeno Fenner,the foreman on the tylium refinery ship Hitei Kan, previously seen in S3E13.

29. Graphic: A countdown clock:

Official SciFi Video Recap: "Sometimes A Great Notion"

Battlestar Galactica: You Will Know the Truth- Seven New Clues! * SPOILERS*

From The SciFi network's You Will Know The Truth. 

Remember, there are spoilers here. IMO, the identity of the final cylon is going to seem sort of anti-climatic. When the four, Tori, Tigh, Sam T. Anders, and Tyrol, were revealed it was shocking. This time there has been so much speculation, not to mention spoilers that the focus of the entire rest of the series seems to have been shoved aside. I hope that the FC is revealed right away to the audience so we can get that out of the way and dig in the the last of this incarnation of Battlestar Galactica.

This is NOT Adama grieving over Roslin! But it is from a new episode.

Here are all seven new clues from January 15,2009. Less than a day to go!

20. Video. Kara climbs out of her Viper in the landing bay and strides purposely over to a Raptor joining Adama, Roslin and Lee. An Eight in a cylon flight suit exits the Raptor. Kara has a very dark look on her face and her hand on her still-sheathed weapon. Lee's body language--crossing his arms--seems to signal his dislike. We do not see who exits the Raptor after the Eight. Video goes to black and Roslin clearly enunciates, "Oh. my. gods."

21. Video. Inside Galactica corridors: Lee and Adama follow Roslin and Lee tells Roslin that they need to tell the Quorum "something" and that it should come from "their president."  Roslin simply stares at him as if not hearing and continues on her way. (This scene seems to be right after video clip #22--couldn't they put 'em in order for us?) Bill tells Lee, "Carry the ball," and walks off in the opposite direction of Laura. Saul Tigh is there and he approaches Adama, saying, "Bill, we need to talk." Adama walks right around him as if he weren't there. In Bill's wake, Tigh utters softly, "Lotta things I gotta explain."

22. Video. Hangar Bay. A large, hushed crowd gathers around a Raptor from which Roslin, Adama and Lee emerge dressed as we last saw them on nuked-Earth. The three pause as Laura surveys the crowd. She opens her mouth as if to say something several times--but says nothing. She bites her lip, shakes her head slightly, indicating, "no." The crowd looks to her expectantly, as if waiting for good news. She turns to Adama and whispers,"Get me out of here." As Roslin and Adama hurry through the crowd a chorus of "Madam President?" erupts. The crowd pushes toward her, Adama puts himself between Roslin and the crowd as they head toward and exit as a Marine flanks them.

 

 

23. Video. Adama calls Roslin in her quarters on the Galactica but she ignores the persistent buzzing of the ancient corded telephone. She is dressed in her nightclothes, standing over an assortment of meds.--many colours and shapes of pills. She's deep in thought then begins to toss the lose ones in the trash, seems to heave a sigh of relief and finishes by throwing all the bottles of pills in the bin.

24. Video. Roslin and Baltar are in a storage bay alone conversing:

Roslin speaks first: "Who would have thought? You probably knew him (Gaeta) better than anyone back on New Caprica."  Baltar responds with, "Obviously, his loyalties were divided even back then. Seems we both made pretty bad choices when it came to our presidential aide d'camp, wouldn't you say?" Roslin nods slightly.

25. Video. Baltar is preaching to the masses who seem to be less-fringe-looking and more diverse. Baltar yells to the cheers of his followers, "It is God himself who should come down here and beg for our forgiveness!" there is a disease aboard this ship and ii is a disease of denial. the crows cheers. Galen Tyrol has been watching Baltar impassively but spots Hotdog across the room. Their eyes meet and Tyrol with obvious purpose, begins to make his way through the crowd to Hotdog. Hotdog begins towards Tyrol too but nowhere near as purposefully. The crowds continues it's roaring and cheering at Baltar's every utterance.

26. Video. Baltar on a Galactica phone - "What do I want? I want this to stop, right now, this is madness." (We've previously heard audio of this and in that audio it appeared he was speaking with Felix Gaeta).

Battlestar Galactica: You Will Know The Truth- Three NEW CLUES, Jaw-dropping *SPOILERS*

 

The above photo of Kara " Starbuck" Thrace and Leoben Conoy have nothing to do with the three clues from today. It is a head's up that there are some "for reals" spoilers below and if you don't want to know, wait until you've seen the show.

Now for the "Clues"

From The SciFi network's You Will Know The Truth. 

Skiffy hasn't quite adhered to their stated time frame about the release of the clues. If they are trying to work fans up into a frenzy, I think they can give it a rest and just unspool the remaining clues in a somewhat civilized and aboveboard fashion. However, according to Galactica Variants the remaining clues will be withheld until just prior to the American premiere of Season 4.5 on January 16. The remaining ten clues are set to spew forth on January 15 and 16.

Yay.

Clue #17 is a video clip

from From Season 4, E5, " The Road Less Traveled" and it features the Demetrius crew dissing Starbuck, questioning if she's human and/or crazy, then she walks in and shoots dagger eyes at them all.

 

 

 

Clue #18 is a photograph, something right outta left field MASSIVE *SPOILER*

Hotdog (Bodie Olmos) and Tyrol (Aaron Douglas), both apparently having been in a fight, stand over a bed in sick bay.

Something has happened to baby Nicholas.

Little Nick is revealed to not be the son of Tyrol rather Hotdog is his bio dad which means we can stop wondering about Nicky and the consequences of his half-Cylon parentage. He's a full-blooded human. Also, apparently the smell of cabbage does not bother Hotdog as it does Tyrol.

Clue #19 is another photograph, this one causing a lot of discussion on BSG forums: *SPOILERS*

Tigh, in street clothes, appears to be extricating himself from the rubble of a major explosion. This is said to be most likely a flashback tied to the earlier flashback of Tyrol at the market on Earth/Terra. They didn't die because Final Fivers cannot die.

EDIT/ We now know that the much-discussed possibility that Ellen was with him is true and that this scene took place about 2000 years prior to current events. Draw your own conclusions but it appears TVGuide was correct in trumpeting the revelation of the fifth Cylon in the first eppy of S4.5.

Battlestar Galactica Season 4.5 Screen Caps Huge *SPOILERS*, "The Face of the Enemy," Part 10

Webisodes cast and crew credits

This looks like a prelude to angry sex for star-crossed lovers, Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff) and Apollo (Jamie Bamber).

He's puckering up without a moment to spare.

I'm assuming that what ever led up to this was somewhat high-charged. I notice that Lee is in his lawyering/Veep clothes so it seems they are back on the Galactica going to points unknown. I'm betting at this point she is estranged from late-blooming cylon husband, Sam Anders.

Look here though:

 

Did Kara make good on her promise to "kill" ("put a bullet between your eyes") Sam if she were to find out he's Cylon?

Or, did someone else get to him first? These caps are very spoilery so you've been nicely warned:

 

The pregnant Six frets that "they are going to kill us."

 

The Eight, the one whose head we see the back of above, isn't so sure.

Six may have had reason to fret as it appears she had been in hiding in the Fleet as shown in the sequence below where she has her hood yanked off:

 

 

Things are seeming none-too-cordial between human and cylon.

It appears Athena's baby, Hera is being taken from her. That could be her in the cell with Six because we know that after finding this:

 

and

 

and

 

this, (possibly the wreckage of Starbuck's viper)

and

 

and

and this (click to enlarge),

it seems that everyone has fallen into rather nasty moods and that there is plenty of unkindness floating about.

Is this in any way related to this (below)?:

 

Wha? the heck is happening? That's Bill, he's blindfolded, handcuffed (presumably) and has a big note taped on him? Is he about to be airlocked? That's a Cylon ship, right? What a mind-frak!

This pic seems to capture the general sentiment towards Earth, now.

Not going so well.

 

Everyone is glum.

 

Or acting out. Who is the person being bagged here. Is it Gaius Baltar or Sam Anders? They are both shown in the grey hoodie. If it's Sam maybe Kara didn't beat him up?

 

The longer hair on the victim makes it seems more likely to be Baltar.

 

 

Hmm. My final guess is Anders.

Felix Gaeta is pissed royally that Tom Zarek (Richard Hatch) in the course of a mutually agreed rebellion is now having people killed which Felix did not sign on for. Smug bastard, Zarek. Kill him! Kill him!

Episode titles for BSG Season 4.5

Episode 4.14 - 06 Feb 2009 - Blood on the Scales
Episode 4.15 - 13 Feb 2009 - No Exit
Episode 4.16 - 20 Feb 2009 - Deadlock
Episode 4.17 - 27 Feb 2009 - Someone to Watch Over Me
Episode 4.18 - 06 Mar 2009 - Islanded in a Stream of Stars
Episode 4.19 - 13 Mar 2009 - Daybreak (1)

Golden Globes 2009 Winner Anna Paquin - True Blood

tvguide — January 12, 2009 — Hollywood 411's Madison Michele sits with Golden Globe winner Anna Paquin who talks about her win for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series/Drama for TRUE BLOOD! Anna also shares with Madison how winning a Golden Globe is different from winning an Oscar at age 11 for The Piano. She also talks to TV Guide about the casting process for TRUE BLOOD.

True Blood: The Dead Arise *Casting Spoiler*

I don't know about you but I am missing HBO's True Blood something fierce. I've kept myself partially occupied reading the entire Sookie Stackhouse series, except the last one which should be at my door step any day now.

Charlaine Harris has indeed created a memorable heroine in Sookie Stackhouse, who she puts in some truly other-worldly situations. Her heroine however remains firmly down to earth.

Since I'll be watching True Blood faithfully and blogging about it I thought it necessary to get my hands on the source material. That did help somewhat in the first season of True Blood as producer Alan Ball more or less stuck with the book(s) version(s). He changed up a few things plus he dipped into the second book in the series, "Living Dead In Dallas," so there would have been no way of knowing how much of the original Sookie Stackhouse stories he was using and how much of his own unique stamp he was putting on the series without reading the books.

With the exception of Book IV, which just did not gel for me, it would be great if Ball took as much of Charlaine Harris's original material and turned it into True Blood material. She just has the most fanciful imagination and her Stackhouse books are compulsively readable.

There has not been too much news about the production of Season Two of True Blood though this tidbit is very, very welcome news:

"True Blood is resurrecting Sookie's Gram (played by the sublime Lois Smith) in season 2! And by "resurrecting" I mean "returning in newly-created flashback scenes!"  (Thanks to the Best spoiler source evar!)

For trivia buffs, Lois Smith (Gran) made her film debut with James Dean in 1955's  "East Of Eden."

I am so, so glad that Lois Smith is going to be featured in True Blood again. Hers was such a welcome presence. She owned every scene she was in. Furthermore, Sookie often remembers things her grandmother said or did as she was a huge influence on Sookie so in my mind it would be completely natural to bring her back in flashback or other form as the series warrants.

Here are the the names of the first two episodes of True Blood: Season 2.

True Blood - Episode 2.01 - Nothing But The Blood

True Blood - Episode 2.02 - Keep This Party Going

I hope to have more True Blood news soon as production was to resume this month (January 2009). As soon as I know the official start date I'll post it as thus far we've only been told "summer 2009."

Dexter Marries His Sister Deb!

AP Photo/Matt Sayles

After watching three seasons of Dexter, one of cable's very best shows, I was wondering how in Season Four, which sadly is some time away, it could maintain it's killer level of entertainment.

I've been enthralled with Dexter since Season 1, E1, "Dexter"  having started watching Dexter beginning with the premiere based solely on Michael C. Hall's work as "David Fisher" in HBO's brilliant (but sometimes grating) Six Feet Under.

After all these years of watching him I would have thought I'd see him give away something when he looked at his real-life love while she was literally acting as his sister.

I totally never saw this coming on Michael C. Hall's side, but what I've mentioned a couple times over the recently finished Season 3 to my spouse and son with whom I have a standing weekly date to watch Dexter, is that Jennifer Carpenter keeps getting better--looking great and growing incredibly as an actress. Now I see that she's only age 29 so must have started "Dexter" around age 25-26. I noted that Jennifer had sort of taken on the role in a way in which it seemed she felt really comfortable in her skin. I'm guessing dating "the sexiest man alive" has helped her grow into the role--of big-sister, Deb. Eep. She's only 29 and he's 37. That it hasn't been glaring obvious is a huge credit to Michael C. Hall's seemingly eternal youthfulness.

I :heart: Jennifer Carpenter. I'm so happy for them both but honestly just a tiny bit weirded out. I'll get over it, obviously (or will I?) but the newlyweds really must share some weddings shots so we can really picture them as Mr. and Mrs. Hall. Please and thank you. (Big Sur! Yummy, though it is rainy season and the winds get pretty stiff there. Still, a beautiful backdrop for nuptials.)

Source: People

"...They may play brother and sister on Dexter, but in real life Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter were lawfully wed on New Year's Eve, according to Hall's rep... The outdoor ceremony was held in Big Sur, CA. Jennifer carried a bouquet of white roses with her grandfather's wedding band attached.

Dexter's cast and crew are currently on hiatus but will resume work on the upcoming fourth season early this year. Dexter has already been renewed by Showtime for two more 12-episode seasons.

Hall, 37, and Carpenter, 29, plan to appear together at this year's Golden Globes Awards on Sunday. The couple has been secretly dating for about a year and a half and will make their first public appearance together on the red carpet at the Beverly Hilton. The series is up for multiple awards, including Best Actor in a Drama for Hall.

PEOPLE...spoke with Jennifer the Emmys last September, where she answered the question, "Who's the sexiest man alive?" with, "Michael C Hall!. "He's the sexiest man alive. He's one of the best we've got. He's an incredible talent..."

Battlestar Galactica: Let's Talk About the 16 Clues (Season 4.5)

From The SciFi network's You Will Know The Truth. 

Clue #1

"You have heard my voice countless times, yet you do not know my name" (photo credit NBC Universal/SciFi Network)

I suppose it could be one of the "Head!" characters. Out of these choices, most prominently is Caprica Six (red dress) who drove Baltar nearly over the edge many a time.

The problem is a Head! Baltar visited Six when she was being held in the brig. Also, there was a Head! Leoben interacting with Kara, a Head!Alosha with Laura Roslin and a Head!house scene for Adama.

My vote is probably no on any Head! entity being the (FC) Final Cylon.

Clue #2

"And the fifth still in shadow, will claw toward the light, hungering for redemption that will only come in the howl of terrible suffering. I can see them all. The seven, now six, self-described machines who believe themselves without sin, but in time, it is sin that will consume them. They will know enmity, bitterness, the wrenching agony of the one splintering into the many , and then they will join the promised-land, gathered on the wings of an angel. Not an end, but a beginning."

Still in shadow = unlike Tyrol, Tigh, Tori and Anders has awareness of "it's" cylon status and is in hiding. Or not on the awareness thing. <That's why this show is good!>

"Seven now Six, self-described machines." (above) I believe the last surviving D'Anna will be killed, leaving six cylon models that are not Tigh, Tyrol Tori, or Anders.

Self-described machines could simply be a neutral way of saying the Cylons know they are not-human and they are OK with that.

I'm going with the "very, very dark" ending that's been promised and interpreting "the wings of an angel" to be that of a dark angel. They may be going somewhere but they'll either not survive or not be able to stay. Someone will have a new beginning but not them. Not now. They are, for lack of a better word, broken.

Clue #3

Kara and Leoben walking on what seems to be the dead Earth.

"Kara what is it? What does it mean?"

I don't think she rightly knows what it means and she darn well can't/won't explain to Leoben. Colour me a bit confused. I'm pretty sure that is part of being invested in the story. :)

This is a preview that was aired over the US Thanksgiving holiday which includes a snippet of Clue #3:

Clue #4 Video

Clue #4 Video clip of Lee Adama and Tom Zarek at a press conference.

Lee: "We believe the Fifth Cylon is (dead?)"

<walks out>
Lee: "My gods I can't believe I said that"
Bill: "What was that about?"

Clue# 5 The infant/fetus with the glowing spine.

I do not think it's a question of past or present events. I think it's a statement of was and is.

Clue #5: Cylon Fetus

Obviously, the kid has some Cylon in him or her.

Clue #6 (from a previously aired eppy)

Six: "You or the old gods--which will it be?"
Baltar:"Why can't I just be a man? Why do I need to take on the gods single-handed?

Six:"Oh but imagine the kind of man you'll be when you do. Surely such a man must be magnificent. Larger than life. God-like, himself.

Baltar: "What are you talking about?"

Clue #7 The Last Supper photo released December, 2009.

The photo up top has been altered or maybe the bottom one. Wouldn't be at all surprsied if they are all photoshopped in.

Back to meaning. Laura Roslin and her lit candle are both gone in the second version. Don't believe Ron Moore when he says the Final Cylon is not at the table. He prevaricates!

"The Last Supper" first photo from early 2008 (above)

Clue #8
Baltar talking to Chief.

Baltar: "I know it's hard to make sense of things sometime. In my own life. In my own life I joined the fleet as a scientist. As a skeptic, as a person, as a man of reason. I only need to have fate turn that all on its head. I understand now...

Cylon Galen Tyrol listens to and glares at Gaius Baltar yet again trying to justify...just about everything he's done.
 

Clue #9: "Sit down, cylon."

Commander Adama, drunk, demands a sidearm from an off camera crewmember, "Frakkin" now!" "Leave it loaded." He then barges in on ...we've seen the scene elsewhere--it's Tigh to whom Adama barks, "Sit down, Cylon."

Clue #10
Felix and Baltar.

Felix:"I suppose a long time ago it was architecture. I tell you one thing though, I had some pretty frakking amazing ideas. Restaurants shaped like food.Top heavy buildings and stairways. Everything had to have a stairway. I just hope. I hope that people realize, eventually who I am."

 

Hmm.
So why are Baltar and Gaeta seeming to be having a wee tête-à-tête? I really don't know. Perhaps we'll find out when we have some context to the scene.

Photo collage credit

Clue #11 is a very dense clue, a static-y audio clip from You Will Know The Truth that could be listened to and dissected forever (it's Christmas--not happening if you have a life!)

It's that weaselly Tom Zarek talking about a rebellion: "Every revolution begins when one small act occurs. But I hope you understand how serious this is..." and then it fades out. Other voices include someone saying "Our little secret," Baltar,(speaking to Gaeta?), "You know exactly what I'm talking about." Sharon saying, "Or anyone else," and Gaeta saying, "So I guess a pity frak is out of the question then?" (I'm thinking this could fit in well following Felix's return from his webisode adventure). 

It ends with the chimes of church bells--12 rings.

Clue #12

Starbuck sits, reading a book. Commotion ensues. Over the speakers it is announced that everyone must evacuate.

(Fan speculation is that it is a phony fire that is part of a mutiny led by Tom Zarek that has been overtly alluded to in the promo clips.) My fondest wish is that Zarek dies SOON!

It is sort of strange as Starbuck rushes out and notes that the crewman in charge of the evac is a former pilot from the Pegasus, not the Galactica. He spits out at Starbuck that she's to follow orders and for good measure, "Gawds, nobody even knows what you are anymore!

He leaves. She utters "Son-of-a-bitch!" and goes running toward the (alleged) fire.

Clue #13

A video clip from the first half of S4, "Guess What's Coming To Dinner." The clip includes Adama (the only one with dialogue), Roslin, Helo, and Tigh. Adama wants to "put a lid on" betraying the rebel Cylons by keeping the Final Five in Fleet custody until they reach Earth. He states that the "real plan" will stay in that room. Adama instructs Helo to have someone escort rebel Cylon leader Natalie back to her basestar to inform her people that they have a deal. If you recall this eppy, at the same time, the rebel Cylons were making contingency plans of their own to betray the humans.

Clue #14

Bill Adama walks into his quarters, grabs a swig of whiskey and goes to the sink to splash his face. He is agitated but grows positively panic-stricken when he first hears and then sees a huge crease forming in the Galactica's walls. The ship appears to be falling apart.

Clue # 15

Contains a lot of static. From the Scifi website forum and other chat areas I've found some translation. Thanks to all who spent probably too much time on this.

Partial Audio transcript: (Craploads of static)

Hoshi: They're communicating with Colonial One, sir.
Adama: Let's hear it
Gaeta: What do you want, Gaius?
Baltar:I want this to stop right now. This is madness, Felix. I know you’re a good man. You, you want to do the right thing...You know exactly what I'm talking about.

Tigh: You're the fifth

Baltar: Our little secret, but I forgive you for that day. If you are hungering for redemption this is not the way.
Gaeta: Goodbye, Gaius...
Baltar: Felix, please listen.

Clue #16 Audio

"Do you remember when we talked about how to get to ____?"
"I just think I've earned, the right to live a little before I die." (Laura Roslin?)
"What do you think?"
"I'm next."
"We believe the fifth cylon to be dead." (Lee?)
"fiffe for three" (Tigh) <Tigh is saying "you're the fifth" backwards.>
I agree it may be Kara whispering about Earth.

Found that and more at Source and

You Will Know The Truth. 

Battlestar Galactica: The Top Ten Things You Need To Know

I am extremely jazzed that the first half of Season Four, the final season of Battlestar Galactica has arrived at my doorstep in DVD form and will be much enjoyed this week as we await with great excitement, Season 4.5 of BSG on Sci-Fi (in the States) which premieres on Friday, January 16, 2009. We--me and the family--rewatched most of BSG over the summer. I don't yet own Season 3.0 but that Season as most of us can admit, was not the highlight of the 3.5 Seasons plus the BSG miniseries we've seen thus far though as I've said many times, the worst of BSG is the best of what you'll find on much of tv, most of the time. A preview of the catch-up show that is airing on SciFi this coming Sunday.

Thank you to Galactica Sitrep

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Battlestar Galactica Face of the Enemy Webisode # 9 and #10, Battlestar Galactica- 1.06.08 NEW SciFi Wire Video From S4.5 *SPOILERS*

Battlestar Galactica, The Face Of The Enemy webisode Chapter 9 was released to  the USA yesterday, Wednesday 01.07.08, as scheduled.

I've blogged all the episodes from The Face Of The Enemy webisode series except Chapter 10. I know it has been leaked. I'm trying to follow Skiffy's (Sci Fi Channel's) lead :shrug:.

Check out the webisodes at SciFi.com.  /edit All webisodes were leaked to the 'net except 'sode #9 before the New Year. Now nine has been released so the whole 1-10 are  available. The Sci Fi Channel still has an official release date for Webisode 10. Don't miss that as it's 5 minutes long and has quite a bit of information contained within. If you want to find all the BSG webisodes in the series as well as lots of tricky screen caps which show scene snippets that whip right by--stuff that you may have missed--read my blog from the past couple of weeks.

Episode Nine of Battlestar Galactica's 10-part webisode series has a rather major event in it giving the audience some good foreknowledge going into BSG's final half-season about where Mr. Gaeta's head is at in relation to the Cylons.
Also, a secret from Season 3, is quite literally revealed.

In Webisode #9, Eight model cylon, played by Grace Park, has been frakking with Felix's head going back to the New Caprica period. Now they are marooned on a Raptor that shall soon be out of air. The Eight has murdered the rest of the passengers including another Eight. She essentially tells him to wake up and smell the coffee that it isn't about "hope" or "love" but rather, survival and doing whatever it takes moral or not, to survive.

Yes, I think the writers are commenting on current events (the two wars we are in, etc.) as well as the overarching realization that we are all just blundering through.

The Eight with whom Gaeta has been trapped for three days is on a lost Raptor, adrift in space with a rather high dead body count. The Eight openly mocks Gaeta for his idealism; she even mocks her New Caprica self and the fawning way she interacted with Felix. Felix becomes increasingly distraught as the Eight enumerates all the wrongs (deaths of settlers) that they have helped facilitate.

Felix really loses his shite and gets a sinister look on his face and picks up the scalpel on the floor. When the Eight appears to have tweaked every weak spot she has discerned in Gaeta, including telling him that Gaius Baltar knew what Felix was up to he knifes her repeatedly.

In the scene shown in Webisode Nine and also in BSG Season 03E12, " Taking A Break From All Your Worries," Baltar hisses into Felix's ear that he'd keep Felix's secret about his "little Eight,"a promise the audience wasn't privy to until this webisode. 

It is one of my favourite scenes with of Baltar the Saviour or perhaps more accurately, the last Cylon god?(!)

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA -- "Taking a Break From All Your Worries" Episode 312 -- Pictured: (l-r) Alessandro Juliani as Lt. Gaeta, James Callis as Dr. Gaius Baltar -- SCI FI Channel Photo: Carole Segal

I figure that almost anything is possible now that they are free to sew up many plot lines, large and small. Webisode Nine helped a lot with the revelation of what Gaius said to Felix. These two will meet again as one of the official clues has shown us and though this is adjunct material (as well as canon?) it adds a subtext that you won't see if you do not watch at least some of the webisodes, easily found on this site, hulu, or you tube.

Battlestar Galactica- 1.06.08 NEW SciFi Wire Video From S4.5 *SPOILERS*

Battlestar Galactica: The Truth, Spoiler/Teaser Video/High Res Screen Shots plus Baltar, Lee - You Will Know The Truth

I was screen capping like a madwomen until 5 a.m. today --only to come across some much clearer versions thoughtfully provided by multipleverses.

I'm still going to use a number of my caps though maybe for brevity's sake in my next post, meanwhile enjoy the hi-res goodness. Remember to click to enlarge!

This is a very different looking Eight model (Grace Park). I haven't clue one "who" she is: Athena or some other Eight. 

I have mixed feelings about this couple. She ( Trica Helfer) is the Six who accompanied Athena/Sharon with baby Hera from the basestar to the Galactica and has been held prisoner ever since. She's been getting "conjugal" visits from ol' Saul Tigh (Michael Hogan) and the bomb has been dropped that she is with child. It's hard to guess what will become of her. She's a more sympathetic Six in my opinion, more than either Head!Six or Caprica Six.

Just thought that Lee Adama (Jamie Bamber) should know that the tussled hair look is very becoming on him.

Sam Anders (Michael Trucco) looks pretty yummy mussed up, too!

"The Truth"- Teaser >

Battlestar Galactica: You Will Know The Truth- Clues #14 and #15 Photos, Transcript, BSG Webisode #8

The Sci Fi Channel has launched a viral campaign to reveal clues to the identity of the final Cylon- there are short pieces running during their programming that tell you to visit their website at You Will Know The Truth. 

/edit. The SciFi Channel in it's ever-stingy way has made the clues so that they cannot be copied easily. Brilliant. Now all of us out here in Battlestar Galactica fan world can talk about the clues without the visuals that might help drive traffic to the show you hold hostage. Frak you, Sci Fi Channel!

Clue #14

Bill Adama walks into his quarters, grabs a swig of whiskey and goes to the sink to splash his face. He is agitated but grows positively panic-stricken when he first hears and then sees a huge crease forming in the Galactica's walls. The ship appears to be falling apart.

Clue # 15 contains a lot of static. From the Scifi website forum and other chat areas I've found some translation. Thanks to all who spent probably too much time on this. I'm starting to get really annoyed as it is becoming clear that there is a tonne of repetition and it's feeling like this is amped-up hype for the show and not much more. Battlestar Galactica is not LOST. Hell, LOST isn't even LOST.

Partial Audio transcript: (Craploads of static)

Hoshi: They're communicating with Colonial One, sir.
Adama: Let's hear it
Gaeta: What do you want, Gaius?
Baltar:I want this to stop right now. This is madness, Felix. I know you’re a good man. You, you want to do the right thing...You know exactly what I'm talking about.

Tigh: You're the fifth

Baltar: Our little secret, but I forgive you for that day. If you are hungering for redemption this is not the way.
Gaeta: Goodbye, Gaius...
Baltar: Felix, please listen.

Battlestar Galactica Webisodes - Webisode #6 and #7 Videos "The Face Of The Enemy," NEW! "You Will Know The Truth" Video Teasers

I have blogged all the episodes from The Face Of The Enemy webisode series except Chapter 9 which is not due for release until Wednesday, January 7 (and Chapter 10--waiting for 9):  It may be leaked before then but I can wait.

Check out the webisodes at SciFi.com. The following chapter will be posted at 12 p.m. (Eastern) on the following days/edit All were leaked to the 'net except 'sode #9 before the New Year. If you want to find them without having to do a lot of clicking, read my blog from the past couple of weeks.

Wednesday, January 7: Chapter 9

Webisode #6, The Face of The Enemy

Felix wakes up in pain. His dreams had been much more pleasant:

He remembers his lover Hoshi on the Galactica.

Is he dreaming or tripping on Morpha?

 

He calls up memories of the the affair he had with the Eight on New Caprica.

 

 

Felix wakes to find that the Eight has freed herself while the humans slept.

She questions whether he is going to tie her up again.

When he answers that no, he was about to untie her, she warns him not to wake the pilots.

Felix helps Eight prepare for the jump.

He tells her that "she" is the way home.

She has difficultly hacking into her own hand and so asks for Felix's assistance.

He helps her ready herself for the jump.

The Eight complains that she is having difficulty concentrating, that the thin air is hindering her ability to make the jump.

 

Felix encourages the Eight To look at him whilst she's projecting.

He helps her concentrate though he reminds her that he is involved with someone on the Galactica.

Felix, you were right!

Mid-kiss the Eight finds the right coordinates.

/end Webisode #6

Webisode #7, The Face of The Enemy

 

Hoshi and Racetrack conducting the search for Gaeta and the crew.

Racetrack confides to Hoshi that she's glad that he and Gaeta finally got close as people had been making book on it "like forever."

Hoshi describes Felix as "having this moral core that you don't see a lot of (in people)."

With the Eight's help, Raptor 718 jumps closer to rescue.

 

The Eight recovers from the jump.

Nothing on dradis.

Unfortunately, the Fleet is nowhere to be found though they are in the the right solar system. 

If they are in the system, "they'll come running" says the Eight after she puts out a pulse.

Felix makes his way to the cockpit only to discover that...

The pilot and the ...

...copilot have had their throats slashed.

The Eight reacts to Felix's discovery of the two dead pilots.

Webisodes cast and crew credits

Forever A Fangirl: Battlestar Galactica - The Face ...

LOST Holiday Fan Video *Spoilers* (Scenes and quotes involving Season 5)

Penny and Desmond

When season five begins, Desmond and Penny are living happily ever after, but by the end of the first hour their fairy-tale bliss is interrupted by a message from...?

Charlotte and Daniel

Absent-minded professor Daniel Faraday has a crush on Charlotte (aka the girl Sawyer calls "Ginger" for her red hair), and she's definitely going to appreciate his affection in S5.

Sun and Jin

Sun believes that Jin is dead... In the premiere she forges a questionable new alliance designed to help her wreak vengeance.

Kate and Sawyer

As far as Sawyer knows, the freighter blew up with Kate on in it. Two quotes form him in the premiere: "I wanted to make sure she—I wanted to make sure they got back to the boat. Doesn't matter now, does it?" and "Everybody I care about just blew up on your damn boat. I know what I can't change."

Kate and Jack

If you've been watching this show from Season One you know that the only satisfying conclusion for many viewers is to end in S6 with Jack and Kate or "Jate" as a couple.

Juliet and Jack

I think "Jacket" has run it's course and Season Five will feature lots of sexual tension between Sawyer and Juliet.

Source

From the show runners: 1. The four-toed statue will be revisited in season five, and explored more extensively in season six.

2. They killed Alex because, says Carlton, they were "looking for a way to create a moment of sympathy for Ben."  (In other words she served as a plot device.)

And Ben is out for revenge. ('Ya think?)

Source