Battlestar Best Surprise Moment: New Caprica Takeover Battlestar Galactica Web Exclusive (s.2 : ep.20)|06:36|
HULU Blurb: Just when you think it's safe to let your hair grow out, here come your robot overlords.
The takeover of New Caprica was pretty intense. This 6:30 min clip pretty well sums up what went down.
Kara "Starbuck" Thrace may have the best line of the entire series relative to summing up the attitude of the Colonials. They fought until they couldn't. I'm assuming the final 90 minutes of the show will echo that sentiment.
One of things that made Battlestar Galactica a truly fine show was it's art director(s). Some of the shots are truly epic. And they were amazing at setting the tone of the series which was a dark one, yes. Tiny bits of hope dashed time and again. I would love to see them end on a hopeful note as opposed to totally dismal. Not long to wait now.
They got the colour just right for the New Caprica takeover sequence. I am so anxious about the showing ending tonight but I'm so glad that DVD's are an option. I still have to get S3 and of course, S4.5.
I have a "big" birthday this year. I'll ask for those and skip dinner out (Pizza for works for me, especially Chicago deep-dish style. Yum.)
Battlestar Best Cylon Kill: Cavil Battlestar Galactica Web Exclusive (s.4 : ep.11)|00:40|
HULU Blurb: Nobody puts D'Anna in the box.
I loved D'anna Biers (Lucy Lawless) especially after she was unboxed by "Brother" Cavil (Dean Stockwell) and while still in the Cylon bath she grabbed his neck and twisted it, rendering him dead. She then sort of tossed his body away --with one hand!-- like garbage, which it turns out he truly is. Cylon garbage. Ick. Anyway, D'anna taking out Cavil is one of my favourite Cylon Death scenes.
I think the Best Cylon Kill scenes have to include when Cylon leader Natalie (Trica Helfer), a Six, removed the inhibitors from the Centurions (who are really coolly rendered during the rare times they are used). She essentially gave them free will and told them that Cavil was the only who wanted to keep them stupid. Then at Natalie's behest, the Centurions walked into a room of Cavils, Simons, and Dorals and shot them right up. This was post-Resurrection Hub being nuked so they were "permanent" deaths." For all of them. To her credit, Natalie tried a number of times to talk to Cavil and he was just a complete ass. Simon and Doral followed his lead, though one could make a convincing case that Doral is an ass without Cavil to lead him around by the nose and Simon seems pretty unlikeable, too.
It's from season 4.0 and I have not yet found it on Hulu but it gets played a lot because it was both shocking, fantastically executed, starred my favourite actress on the show, Trica Helfer in one of her most sympathetic incarnations of Six, and let's be honest, there was lots of CGI shooting and blood to spare. Fun times.
Oh, one more. The New Caprica long-haired Kara as a prisoner of crazy-yet-weirdly-appealing Cylon, Leoben Conoy (Callum Keith Rennie). She killed him repeatedly and he kept coming back, undeterred. I think she grew bored of what had become a sort of murder then resurrect game so in one scene she pretends to like him and he reacts by getting close enough for her to ram her steak knife into his neck. After he makes his last gurgle, Kara calmly wipes her Leoben blood-soaked hand on the carpet and uses the steak knife to cut her ...steak <gah>. Of course he comes back--but a little disappointed and even slightly annoyed. Even as a prisoner, Kara won that round and they both knew it.
Battlestar Best Cylon Kill: D'Anna Battlestar Galactica Web Exclusive (s.2 : ep.18)|00:33|
HULU Blurb: Caprica Six rocks D'Anna's world.
Battlestar Best Cylon Kill: Scar Battlestar Galactica Web Exclusive (s.2 : ep.15)|00:49|
HULU Blurb: Kara plays chicken, Kat, bird of prey.
Battlestar Best Cylon Kill: Leoben Battlestar Galactica
Web Exclusive (s.1 : ep.1)|01:57|
HULU Blurb: Adama shows Leoben what lights out really means.
This one sort of threw me. It's from the first episode of the series. Ever wonder why Adama was so quick to believe that the Cylon before him, the thing he would normally call a "toaster," was utterly humanoid when no one else had any notion that the Cylons now "look like us?" Later in the series a young Adama shows us how he knew.
Eddie, though his character nearly got killed, sort of underplayed the scene and I think I like it that way. Even the tail end--so bloody. It was calm--if a murder can be so--when inside as an audience member I'm totally blown away. Great show.
This short clip is from S1E1 so I didn't really know what to expect but this was/is powerful. Eddie Olmos was really good and tougher than nails and Callum Keith Rennie, who over the years figured pretty prominently among the seven Cylons, was very memorable. I was so happy when he became a much more recurring character than say, the Simon or even Dorals. Very fun to watch him.
Battlestar Best Explosion: Cloud Nine Battlestar Galactica Web Exclusive|01:23|
HULU Blurb: Gina (Tricia Helfer) breaks up with Gaius Baltar (James Callis) the only way she knows how - by blowing herself up.
The Gina Six is mostly from the Battlestar Galactica telefilm,"Razor," which starred Michelle Forbes as "Admiral Cain," who is herself "a razor."
Gina was an ex-Cylon spy, found and tortured repeatedly, including sexually, by order of Admiral Cain. Prior to being found out, Gina was also Forbes' character's lover.
Her storyline ended quite abruptly after Gaius Baltar saved her and (later) stupidly gave her a nuke (she had been suicidal previously) which she uses on herself and the entire Cloud Nine. I believe hundreds of "souls" were lost here. More blood on Gaius Balter's hands.
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