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Music Review: Battlestar Galactica: The Plan/Razor Soundtrack, by Bear McCreary

 
Have you been missing Battlestar Galactica? It's been a while since any new material from the iconic science fiction drama, a re-imagined adaption (2003-2009) of a prior series with the same name was available but thanks to La-La Land Records' new release of series composer Bear McCreary's BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: THE PLAN/RAZOR you may now feast your ears.

It's true. Humanity does live on in composer McCreary's offering of the soundtracks to SyFy Channel's "Battlestar Galactica: The Plan" and "Razor" [feature-length] TV events which combined, were "literally years in the making," says McCreary.

Of the many accolades bestowed upon Bear McCreary this one I think says it best: (McCreary's music) "fits the action so perfectly, it's almost devastating: a sci-fi score like no other," (NPR).

I have felt this many times whilst listening to Bear's music scores either alone or when they are more prominent in the Battlestar series as well as other efforts of his that I continue to enjoy, currently "Caprica." Bear forges an emotional connection which is completely, uniquely his in style and substance.

The music within this well-crafted CD includes music that Bear wrote before and after the tracks on the Season 4 Battlestar Galactica Album. Bear, as he has over the course of the Battlestar Galactica series' run, makes strong use of past character and concept themes, expanding, refining and tweaking them so a number of familiar sonic elements do bubble up (which I love) as they in effect end up as sort of bookend-companion pieces. Bear McCreary's BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: THE PLAN/RAZOR is yet another another powerful offering from Bear McCreary .With almost 70 minutes of music spread over 19 tracks, this is more than a full-length sampling of music from both Razor and the Plan.

You'll find another instance of "bookending" done to great effect on the new CD with Apocalypse (Theme From The Plan) both beginning and finishing out the album.The final, live version which completely rocks out, barely edging out the intro Apocalypse as my favourite version (so far). I'm sure many Battlestar Galactica/Bear McCreary fans will find it completely satisfying as many folks simply could not deal with the logistics inherent in attending the Bear McCreary/Battlestar Galcatica Orchestra live gigs in Southern California held last year.

It's been noted that compared to some Battlestar Galactica CD's,The Plan/Razor has a more introspective feel overall. When I went to pick a few of my favourite tracks I realized that two of my three were from "Razor": "Attack on The Scorpion Shipyards" and the haunting "Starbuck's Destiny." Razor's music is maybe a bit more unified and seeing as though it is the story from the perspective of newbie Pegasus crewmember, Kendra Shaw, it makes sense to me that they would be slightly more interior-sounding.

The almost palpable energy and enthusiasm of the live version of "Apocolypse (Theme From The Plan)"  tips the scales for me as the best of a very solid effort. (I need to see this band live!)

Check my prior reviews of some Bear McCreary's work:

Caprica Soundtrack

Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Soundtrack

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan - 'Caprica is burning' Hybrid Video - Photos - Screen Caps

"Caprica is burning." --the Hybrid 

This is one of two or three scenes in the Battlestar Galactica telefilm, 'The Plan' (1st aired 01.10.10 ) that I really liked. The Hybrid remains strange and intriguing. Not human, not cylon but the heart and brain of each basestar.

A Hybrid summarizes the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and notes all but the colony of Sagittaron.

"Progress reports arriving. The farms of Aerilon are burning. The beaches of Canceron are burning. The plains of Leonis are burning. The jungles of Scorpia are burning. The pastures of Tauron are burning. The harbours of Picon are burning. The cities of Caprica are burning. The oceans of Aquaria are burning. The courthouses of Libran are burning. The forests of Virgon are burning. The temples of Gemenon are burning. The Colonies of Man lie trampled at our feet."

More from the Hybrid's lips: 

Seized by God they cry for succor in the dark of the light. Mists of dreams drip along the nascent echo and love no more. Jump.

Counting down. All functions nominal. All functions optimal. Counting down. The center holds. The falcon hears the falconer. Infrastructure, check. Wetware, check. Everyone hang on to the lap bar, please.

Apotheosis was the beginning before the beginning. Devices on alert. Observe the procedures of a general alert. The base and the pinnacle. The flower inside the fruit that is both its parent and its child. Decadent as ancestors. The portal in that which passes.

Nuclear devices activated, and the machine keeps pushing time through the cogs, like paste into strings into paste again, and only the machine keeps using time to make time to make time. And when the machine stops, time is an illusion we created. Free will, twelve battles, three stars, and yet we are countless as the bodies in which we dwell, are both parent and infinite children in perfect copies. No degradation.

The makers of the makers fall before the child. Accessing defense system: Handshake, handshake. Second level clear.

Accepting scan. Love outlasts death.

Their ships fail, skittering like skipped stones, and movement is meaningless in the absence of time. What never was is never again.

One has to wonder where she gets some of her material but she's cool just the same. Crazy cool.

Next favourite scene (that I made caps of-- there are a few more scenes that I didn't cap).

Tough-Six and Galactica-Cavil drunkenly lament on the failure of the Cylons to destroy the Fleet:

Six: You want a progress report? I'll give you a frakkin' progress report.

Cavil: Oh, no. Please don't. Please don't.

Six: Oh, come on, it is spectacular. Doral blew himself up, causing minor damage to a minor hallway. And Boomer jettisoned the water, and then, she personally found loads more water. (Laughing) And then she shot Adama, but not very accurately, since she loved him. And then, Leoben, he got obsessed with Kara Thrace, and then was captured and airlocked.

And my sister Six utterly failed to discredit Baltar and his dreamy hair and destroyed our frakkin' cover in the process.

And now Simon...Simon killed himself, really killed himself, out of resurrection range, without blowing up the ship that he lived on because he couldn't imagine life without his little human wife and his little human daughter because he loves them...

Cavil: Stop, stop, stop.

Six: Guess I'd better.

Cavil: Yes. They're all letting me down.

Six: Why are they letting you down, One? What's the x-factor? (She takes the bottle) You can't declare war on love. (She leaves)

Cavil: I think I already did. Hey, where'd the bottle go?

Source: Battlestar Wiki

MORE LATER

Previously: Battlestar Galactica - The Plan - New Trailer *SPOILERS*

Battlestar Galactica: We Already Knew the Cylons Had a Plan

Battlestar Galactica: We Knew Already that the Cylons Had a Plan *SPOILERS*

Not compelling (or important) enough for a real name but fun to look at: "Tough Six" (Tricia Helfer).

Hard now to believe I was this excited  7 months ago to see the long-off Battlestar Galactica mini, ''The Plan," a recounting of the Cylon perspectives leading up to and shortly after the destruction of the 12 Colonies. It was to be as well an opportunity to get answers to some pressing questions that had were not answered in the series, leaving quite a few fans peeved.

Unlike many comments I saw at the time, my quibble wasn't a WTF? about Angel!Kara, Angel!Six or Angel!Baltar (!?!) I had but one teeny-tiny query, one that probably no longer mattered other than as the answer to a BSG trivia question.

I wanted to know who met with Caprica Six outside the Marketplace on Caprica just before the bombs fell. It was kept secret from the viewer from the miniseries' inception in 2003 through the series finale in 2009. It was a simple question to be answered and those bastard writers near series' end in Season 4 hinted enough to give it away--but one couldn't be sure until viewing The Plan and then, there it was. Yet a another scene involving Cavil or "One," the evil Cylon mastermind responsible for the destruction of the colonies. He did so, as he freely admitted, to impress the Final Five---his makers--his parents--as we found in the later BSG Season 4 episodes. Cavil's mommy issues (she told him he was damaged goods from the get-go and boy, did they illustrate that until my brain hurt in "The Plan") is ostensibly why there was "A Plan" and frankly, that is almost LOL funny, if it were not so unimaginative. Meh.

Even Cylons have issues and there are issues are aplenty in The Plan. Having had Jane Espenson pen it, how else could it have gone down?

Previously:

Battlestar Galactica - The Plan - New Trailer *SPOILERS*

Battlestar Galactica: We Already Knew the Cylons Had a Plan

Some Stuff you'll see or learn in "The Plan" - We  see more of the Six named Shelly Godfrey and how she was coerced by (who else?) Cavil to frame Baltar.  She was airlocked--by Cavil for her efforts, solving the mystery of how she 'escaped.'

 

In 'The Plan' you learn that Cavil gave Boomer her instructions while she was in sleeper mode. We see the "device"--a pocket sized wooden carved elephant used to switch her back and forth.

"Boomer's Struggle"

You see Cavil macking on both Boomer--see just below--and Six--both really creepy stuff.. Just yuck. What was wrong with Leoben or Simon!?!

Scroll quickly if you cannot bear to watch Cavil's sexual coercion of the confused and suicidal Boomer:

 

 

 

Despite NOT being in sleeper mode, Boomer still has to be coerced by Cavil into shooting Adama.

Bleh! Looks like a grandpa kissing a teenager.

What was wrong with Battlestar Galactica's 'The Plan?"

Start with waaay too much of this guy --#1 --a/k/a (Brother)Cavil. This was one of his better scenes as it answered for once and all, in the BSG miniseries, who did Caprica Six meet with in the Marketplace shortly after bidding Gaius Baltar goodbye--shortly before the destruction of the Colonies?

More later.

 

 

Previous post on The Plan

Cast:

* Edward James Olmos as William Adama * Dean Stockwell as Number One * Michael Trucco as Samuel Anders * Grace Park as Number Eight * Michael Hogan as Saul Tigh * Aaron Douglas as Galen Tyrol * Callum Keith Rennie as Number Two * Kate Vernon as Ellen Tigh * Rick Worthy as Number Four * Lymari Nadal as Giana O'Neill * Matthew Bennett as Number Five * Rekha Sharma as Tory Foster * Tricia Helfer as Number Six * Alisen Down as Jean Barolay * Tiffany Lyndall-Knight as Hybrid

Stargate Universe - S01xE04 "Darkness" Promo Video, Promo Photos, Loglines and Very Large Breasts

NavarinTR STARGATE UNIVERSE S01xE04 "Darkness" Dr. Nicholas Rush (ROBERT CARLYLE) has been working throughout the night to try and determine why the ship’s power reserves are critically low. He reiterates his mounting concerns to Colonel Young (LOUIS FERREIRA), who advises the crew to limit their power consumption to essential services only. Suddenly the lights dim to emergency levels and everything but life support goes dead. Overwhelmed by fatigue and frustration, Rush declares that all on board will perish within days. But when Destiny’s flight path towards a solar system reveals the existence of three planets, they hope that one of them is habitable.

Meanwhile Eli (DAVID BLUE) records individual messages from the crew in case they don’t survive.

OK. Why is she...just why with the silicone implants and panties and isn't this Stargate Universe? Gah. I hate it when women go and make themselves blow up dolls.

And c'mon the lighting here. Wow. How did that tiny patch of light just happen to highlight the fact that her nipples are erect?/EDIT I was informed  today that her nipples are not erect--because you can see  she has a clearly-defined nipple about to put the cameraman's eye  out. I'm not being picky. There is no way NOT to miss this. It is gratuitous especially since she's one of many faceless or useless females populating Destiny. The females thus far have wandered aimlessly thorough corridor after corridor (Chloe, the now-dead senator's adult daughter),the paramedic  who was supposed to ship out (?) but didn't --we don't know exactly why, yet. She's been been thrust in to the role of primary health care provider for the lot of them. She is unhappy looking it seems, most of the time. People feel badly for her  and they restate sadly, what we already know--she was supposed to haves shipped out weeks ago --pre-accident. And the  much anticipated, Ming-Na.

Ming Na is being giving nothing to do. I don't care about the lesbian relationship--just give the girl some lines./end edit 10.19.09

I've noticed a number of similarities to Battlestar Galactica from the borrowing of Bear McCreary's style for the soundtrack to the "you are there" camera-style, which apparently gives people seizures, to the overall dark look stylistically of the show. But this woman is in no way "Six." For one thing Six's (Tricia Helfer) are REAL.

EDIT/After the jump. About 30 promo photos from the episode that followed this one 'Water."

Bear McCreary, Brendan McCreary, Raya Yarbrough Interviewed by Eddie Olmos - Battlestar Galactica

Woo-hoo! Eddie Olmos is a smooth interviewer (and operator)! He literally snagged the mic from the San Diego interviewer and conducted a kick butt spontaneous interview with Brendan and Bear McCreary and the lovely and honey-voiced Raya Yarbrough. Thanks to Bear's Battlestar Blog!

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: SEASON 4 Soundtrack: Bear McCreary Brings The Awesome

I imagine if you are reading this review of the BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: SEASON 4 soundtrack that you are a. A Bear McCreary fan, b. A soundtrack fan, c. A Battlestar Galactica fan, or d. All three. I'm in the "d" category and so am aware of my own and many fan sentiments about the music of the iconic space drama, "Battlestar Galactica."

Even if you didn't quite "get" Battlestar Galactica the music of Bear McCreary is nothing less than epically stellar.

My personal story of how I've come back to enjoying music after a rather protracted stint where modern music didn't grab me  while much of the music of my younger years <sigh> I played only when I was feeling nostalgic.

Bear McCreary is just like any other devoted Battlestar Galactica fan with one crucial difference--he is the"13th Cylon," as Jamie Bamber correctly states in

(left) Limited Ed. Poster - Battlestar Galactica Orchestra

this 2-CD set's 20-Page CD booklet (which contains exclusive liner notes from the show's cast and crew). Bamber's comments about McCreary's music made me tear up. The comments about the music of BSG.

Bear McCreary doesn't just make beautiful, wondrous, soundtrack music, his music is not confined by genre--it stands alone.

It blows my mind every time I hear "Roslin and Adama Reunited" or “The Heart of the Sun.” When the orchestra builds to that last thunderous piece, a statement of the Colonial Anthem, it is simply glorious, and incredibly touching.

It's been mentioned by many listeners of music from Season 4 Battlestar Galactica that a fan favourite highlight is the “Dreilide Thrace Sonata No. 1.″  It is sheer awesome (though awesome is the entire Battlestar Galactica Season 4 2-CD set). This music is Bear McCreary's statement, testament, a love song and a final goodbye by and from Bear, a showcase of the evolution of this still-youthful composer to the universe that was and is Battlestar Galactica.

There are many lovely, stirring, and jamming nuggets on the Season 4 CD including as McCreary discloses on his namesake blog, his personal favourite example of "beautiful dissonance" in BSG  called “Among the Ruins.”  Yes, it is beautiful but so much more than that--stirring, innovative, primal, brilliant.

One of the most compelling characters in Battlestar Galactica was played by the unforgettable James Callis who is one of those rare actors that can convey so much with just a facial gesture. Callis can articulate a lot of truth in one paragraph as well. Of McCreary and his music, Mr. Callis' liner notes statement says:

"It would seem to me that most music on TV you don't end up craving, discussing with all and sundry as to how it affected you. It is very unusual in a drama for the music to be so compelling--compulsive--so signature. And BSG was not just another drama--but a Space Drama to boot!"

So Say We All!

As SciFi Scoop notes, Bear McCreary’s epic score to the fourth season of Battlestar Galactica first printing sold out in pre-orders.

It was released on July 28 and "the album has since rocketed into the top 10 for music sales on Amazon, and already a number of glowing reviews are popping up online."

I agree too with SciFi Scoop that Battlestar Galactica's soundtrack was robbed of its due glory by the Emmy Award folks, however I expect from checking in with the way the set is selling out that the Emmy's have just given us another reason to look elsewhere for guidance in seeking quality material deserving of award(s).

(Read more good sentiments to back up the sales at : SciFiScoop, Soundtrack.net, Den of Geek,

Airlock Alpha, and from a selection of reviewers on Amazon.)

Product Description
La-La Land Records proudly presents its 100th soundtrack release, the 2-CD Set BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: SEASON 4. Acclaimed BATTLESTAR composer Bear McCreary pulls out all the musical stops with his sensational music score to the fourth and final season of the critically lauded Sci-Fi Channel television series starring Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, James Callis, Tricia Helfer and Katee Sackhoff.

McCreary enriches and expands his glorious, one-of-a-kind mix of orchestra, vocals, rock, world-beats and synth. A sonic powerhouse that lives on beyond this beloved television show. Disc One collects Season Four's best musical moments up to DAYBREAK, the series finale, which is presented on Disc Two. A 20-Page CD booklet contains exclusive liner notes from the show's cast and crew.

Bear McCreary's ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Season 4 Soundtrack Sells Out -- BEFORE Its Released

The first print run of Bear McCreary’s Battlestar Galactica: Season 4 soundtrack have all sold out – two weeks prior to its release! La La Land Records have put a rush on printing more, attempting to catch up with demand. I'm sure all parties are pleasantly surprised at the need to do so.

This is very exciting though in truth, not unexpected news. Bear's fans include many long-time followers of Battlestar Galactica and they are known both for their great taste and devout loyalty to the man and the series, respectively.

It's my opinion that Bear who is himself a huge BSG fan, has channelled his deep appreciation for Battlestar Galactica into the unforgettable soundtrack music he's laboured to create and if you continue reading, you'll find that he continues to perform live with the Battlestar Galactica Orchestra to sell-out crowds who share the same appreciation for Bear's music which is such an integral piece of the endeavour that was Battlestar Galactica.

Battlestar Galactica: Season 4 has been the top selling TV soundtrack for over a month on Amazon and is has currently spent 8 days in the Top 100 Music CD’s on Amazon (and the charting arrow is pointed "up").

In other Bear news, if you are attending Comic Con in San Diego or are planning to be in the area, Bear McCreary will be there, too--for several days performing live with the Battlestar Galactica Orchestra--and on Thursday July 23 he’ll contribute to Richard Hatch’s panel with other members of the Battlestar Galactica cast and crew. On Friday, Saturday and possibly Sunday he will appear at multiple signings and presentations including one at Capcom’s booth for Dark Void.

Bear has already let slip that he's been scoring a new television project that will have it's premiere at Comic Con! It will be the first time his score is heard publicly for the project, which has been kept top secret.

“It’s been killing me keeping it secret,” McCreary said, “because I know when you guys hear this soundtrack… you’re gonna explode.  It’s like Battlestar / Sarah Connor / Dark Void on steroids!”

And about that live performance during Comic Con? Are you ready for this? You can enjoy a live performance of the music from the Battlestar Galactica: Season 4 soundtrack at the San Diego House of Blues on Thursday July 23rd, Friday July 24th, and Saturday, July 25th. The performances will be hosted by Battlestar actors Edward James Olmos (Thursday) and Grace Park (Saturday) with both Olmos and Park on the Friday. There are still tickets available though I wouldn't wait much longer to get them as the venue is not a huge one.  Visit the spanking new new BSG Orchestra website to learn more and while you are there stop by the forum and say hello.

Battlestar Galactica: Season 4 will officially be released July 28.

Source: Bear's Battlestar Galactica Blog

Update - 7.09 Battlestar Galactica - All Along The Watchtower - NEW Katee Sackhoff - Bear McCreary LIVE, Battlestar Galactica Orchestra version - BSG Season 4 Previews, S-3 Ending, Original 'Watchtower'

Battlestar Galactica Bear McCreary with Katee Sackhoff "All Along The Watchtower" Live 6-13-2009

What a treat to see Katee Sackhoff and Bear MCreary on the piano together with that haunting little tune--All Along the Watchtower--Bear's version! Then it turns into something huge. I mean awesomely bombastic at its pinnacle. I love it! It so powerful.

What do you think of Bear McCreary and the Battlestar Galactica Orchestra live (in the video)? 

Pretty great band, huh? 

The Battlestar Galactica Orchestra, featuring all kinds of awesome, will tour in the US--hopefully Canada (maybe?) and possibly internatonally (I know for a fact Bear and Co. have a huge, dedicated fanbase overseas). 

If you want to see Bear McCreary and the Battlestar Galactica band LIVE you have to make it happen by taking your support of Bear and BGO live. If you and some friends are the real deal as far Bear and Co., in other words a real BSG fan, it's very likely I think, that you would dig seeing Bear. His music made such an impact on the show. To state what is obvious: BSG would not be the BSG we love without Bear.

Did you hear the NPR piece on Bear and the band and their playing live? Here is the link. NPR Music on BSG's Bear McCreary and his live, sellout Shows

One thing that always shines through when you hear a McCreary piece. It's a certain "joyful noise" made with very diverse yet  instruments like bagpipes and. Learn more About the Band

I will be back later to talk more about Bear and the Orchestra and the LIVE gigs they have lined up in  in San Diego at the upcoming,geek event of the year ComicCon! (which is killing me because <sob> I cannot be there.) I need to find/Make a Mary McDonnell. pic for my avatar at the Battlestar Band blog. 

From Battlestar Blog -

"Bear McCreary’s score for “Battlestar Galactica” honors, absorbs and transforms the traditions of classical, popular and cultural music from around the world.  Within his score, massive Japanese taiko ensembles struggle to overpower arsenals of Scottish bagpipes.  The wistful strains of erhu and duduk are set against string orchestra and rock band.  A lush piano sonata lulls one moment, a bluesy and distorted dobro energizes the next.  Armenian text is sung gently over images of bloodshed, while Indian-inspired melodies intertwine with heavy metal."

o to the brand fraking new Battlestar Galactica Orchestra site and check it out, stopping by the forum to say hi and then go blog about it. Twitter about it. Just spread the word that you'd love if the BGO would come to your area to play live. 

My big Friday night television series surfathon at YouTube went very well. I caught up on the mini-preview for both the mini-series, "Razor," to air on November 24th on the American SciFi network, and saw some spoilerish series scenes from BSG Season Four! Whee!

Battlestar Galactica - All Along the Watchtower

Excellent End of the 3rd Season.

Get your first look at the fourth and final season of Battlestar Galactica. See how the fleet deals with the four of the Final Five among them ... and what lengths they will go to just to find Earth. www.syfyportal.com

This freaked me out_completely_ especially the end! OMG!

Poor Starbuck!

This one didn't scare me as much as the Season 4 Preview with Starbuck in a cell screaming "We're going the wrong way!" That made me kind of interested in seeing much more. Now, please. ;)   I just saw a little snippet of a video of a few of the key BSG players including the creative team at a big "Con"  (Comic Con?) doing a panel discussion Spoiler (Shhhh! Lucy Lawless gets unboxed!) during hiatus last summer and it was mentioned by "Starbuck" that the esteemed Canadian actor, Michael Hogan, "refuses to believe that Spoiler Tigh is a Cylon!" Heh. Poor guy. He's really into the role. But it is so odd--not only the XO, but Chief Tyrol, Sam Anders and Tori....  President Laura Roslin's  (Mary McDonnell) assistant.  All of a sudden we've got four secret Cylons at least of two of them main characters, thrust upon us. I think if you'll pardon the expression, they are going  "balls to the wall"  in making the end--the fourth and final season of Battlestar Galactica. I'd be cool with that --and some DVD's in the future.  :) I don't ask for much. ;) I just hope they did not blow the budget on the miniseries they made for my birthday, OK 5 days early, still-- I'll rerun it on my birthday. :)

7.09 - Battlestar Galactica - All Along The Watchtower - NEW Katee Sackhoff - Bear McCreary LIVE, Battlestar Galactica Orchestra In Concert /Corrected

Battlestar Galactica Bear McCreary with Katee Sackhoff "All Along The Watchtower" Live 6-13-2009 (here they are pictured in June in LA but you get the idea.)

Thanks to filmsinfocus!

What a treat to see Katee Sackhoff and Bear McCreary on the piano together with that haunting little tune The Final Four Theme--then to All Along the Watchtower--Bear's version! 

Beginning with Kara Remembers this moves to the Final Four Theme then to Heeding The Call, then to All Along The Watchtower. It turns into something huge. I mean awesomely bombastic at its pinnacle. I love it! So powerful.

About this :Note from Bear McCreary "Kara Thrace herself, Katee Sackhoff, joined me on stage at the grand piano to play Kara Remembers I played the left hand part, and she plucked out the Final Four Theme, just as she did in the climax of Someone to Watch Over Me. Once we had the Final Four Theme going on the piano, the band snuck in, building to Heeding the Call and finally All Along the Watchtower.

What do you think of Bear McCreary and the Battlestar Galactica Orchestra live (in the video)? 

Pretty great band, huh? 

The Battlestar Galactica Orchestra, featuring all kinds of awesome, will tour in the US--hopefully Canada (maybe?) and possibly internatonally (I know for a fact Bear and Co. have a huge, dedicated fanbase overseas). 

If you want to see Bear McCreary and the Battlestar Galactica band LIVE you have to make it happen by taking your support of Bear and BGO live. If you and some friends are the real deal as far Bear and Co., in other words a real BSG fan, it's very likely I think, that you would dig seeing Bear. His music made such an impact on the show. To state what is obvious: BSG would not be the BSG we love without Bear.

Did you hear the NPR piece on Bear and the band and their playing live? Here is the link. NPR Music on BSG's Bear McCreary and his live, sellout Shows

I will be back later to talk more about Bear and the Orchestra and the LIVE gigs they have lined up in  San Diego at the upcoming geek event of the year--ComicCon! (which is killing me because <sob> I cannot be there.)

From Battlestar Galactica Orchestra site -

"Bear McCreary’s score for “Battlestar Galactica” honors, absorbs and transforms the traditions of classical, popular and cultural music from around the world.  Within his score, massive Japanese taiko ensembles struggle to overpower arsenals of Scottish bagpipes.  The wistful strains of erhu and duduk are set against string orchestra and rock band.  A lush piano sonata lulls one moment, a bluesy and distorted dobro energizes the next.  Armenian text is sung gently over images of bloodshed, while Indian-inspired melodies intertwine with heavy metal."

So check out the brand fraking new Battlestar Galactica Orchestra site and make sure to stop by the forum to say hi-- and then go blog about it! Twitter about it. Just spread the word that you'd love if the Battlestar Galactica Orchestra would come to your area to play LIVE.

If you could bring back a canceled tv series, which would you choose?

Submitted by The Good Girl Gone Blog.

Screen shot at right: From SciFi (SyFy) Edward James Olmos (Cmr. Adama) Mary McDonnell (Pres.Laura Roslin)

Battlestar Galactica. I would have appreciated a 5-year run, instead of the 4 it got.

Watch for Tricia Helfer (Six), Michael Hogan (Saul Tigh) and Mary McDonnell (Laura Roslin) in whatever they do now. Also Mark Sheppard (Romo Lampkin) and James Callis (Gaius Baltar), if you can find him on this side of the pond. I had a big crush on Tahmoh Pennikett (Helo) who currently has a lead role on Joss Whedon's Dollhouse on Fox. He is still very cute. And cut. ;)

And you already know how great EJO (Eddie Olmos) is.

I'm going to review the 4 year-of-BSG soundtrack and I can't wait. The music with Bear McCreary at the helm, helped make the show and the show was outstanding--often.

Bear McCreary - Caprica Soundtrack Release - 'Battlestar Galactica' Beyond Background Music

Perhaps the best way to express how great a talent Bear McCreary is is to say that Battlestar Galactica, my favourite television show of all time, which concluded its four-year run this year, would not be Battlestar Galactica without Bear McCreary's creation of it's superb scores. His style is like no other, obviously classically trained yet at times tribal-sounding, Bear qualifies the music he composed on Battlestar Galcactica as "ethnic rock-pop-classical soundtrack music." 

I could fawn over Bear's signature sound but he has many. Some once you hear them, your ears will alert you to later when hearing an entirely different soundtrack. This happened during an early episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which Bear also scored."That's Bear!," I exclaimed when a hint of one of his amazing compositions seeped a tiny bit into Terminator--just long enough for me to recognize it.

Bear worked last year on scoring a miniseries, "Caprica" that is to air on the SciFi/SyFy network this fall. It has been released in DVD from and on CD it's called appropriately, "Caprica."

I've been listening to it this week and it's good. Yes absolutely, Bear pulled off his stated-upfront mission to "pay tribute to Battlestar Galactica without imitating it."

In an NPR interview with Bear, host Guy Raz said that at times Bear's work is "almost devastating." 

I don't think it can be phrased better.

It can touch you that deeply. I admit to tearing up along with some of Bear's best work as well as having had my heart rate seem to pick up as Bear's soundtrack draws me in and along with him.

Bear McCreary has an uncanny sense of matching the score to a scene, though as his sold-out concerts indicate, his music stands on it's own. Many a time I've noticed a theme or two of his running through my head the day after viewing one of his shows and hearing some new pieces of his work. Now the same thing is happening after having given the Caprica soundtrack a couple of listens. It's very beautiful and it tells a story that I'm very excitedly looking forward to.

Bear's music can elevate a scene to the sublime and though he's still a young guy, he has quite a notable body of work building. Bear says in his liner-notes for the Caprica soundtrack that he hopes it will be "a seed from which the the Caprica musical universe will grow."

I'll look forward to hearing more music from Caprica after it debuts and in the meantime "Caprica," the CD will continue to be a new, amazing piece to enjoy.

To my fellow Battlestar Galactica fans, yes there are moments on Caprica where you are transported into BSG territory--usually with a very light touch, though after viewing the miniseries you'll see and hear where some of Bear's trademark sounds are very appropriate and I cannot say it enough, enhance each scene.

Bear McCreary is currently scoring the music for Galactica's series prequel, Caprica, to be aired on the SciFi (SyFy by the time it debut) Channel.

Some links you may like-

Caprica series and music updates from Bear McCreary

NPR Music on BSG's Bear McCreary and his live, sellout Shows

The Shape of Things to Come (full track)

All Along The Watchtower(BSG) (full track)

More BSG on NPR -How 'Battlestar' Brought Me Home From Iraq

For some fun facts about Bear McCreary and his new Caprica soundtrack as well as the upcoming SyFy Channel miniseries and series, Caprica, click below.

Battlestar Galactica - The Plan - New Trailer *SPOILERS*

 

Thanks to the one and only Galactica Sitrep for tweeting this!

The original source was LA Times blog The Hero Complex.

The lady at the helm of Sitrep finds the same version of Six that I found intriguing-looking to be worthy of interest. My-oh-my I was so blasé about The Plan then; now I'm drooling!

Jump to see who is piquing my interest!

Battlestar Galactica - The Plan - Every 33 Minutes - New Sneak Peek Video *SPOILERS*

Battlestar Galactica fans were treated to 2 sneak peek videos from the Edward James Olmos produced TV movie, Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, which focuses on the invasion from the Cylon perspective. Take a look below at your first look at the upcoming flick, airing this Fall.

Frak! these have been out for days! Why did no one alert me?! Just because I deferred Twitter untiil this evening due to well life, does not mean that me missing this is OK. Because it's not!

Funny thing is I was just listening to the Caprica soundtrack (which I'm reviewing <squee!> ) and getting wistful during two tracks wherein you can hear a bit of Battlestar Galactica-like music and now these two clips come along and well, I guess it's time to break out the DVD's and get my BSG fix. I'll be back tho' to look around for better copies of these great sneak peaks.

After the jump. Director Edward James Olmos talks about the upcoming telefilm, "The Plan"

More about the plot of "The Plan."

Battlestar Galactica - Final Read Through Video: Many tears - Behind the Scenes Videos - BSG Links - Season Finale - Series Highest Ratings!

Eick Blog: Final Read Through Battlestar Galactica Behind the Scenes|04:03| The cast and Ron have an emotional read through of the series finale.

Again, to keep the BSG withdrawal away for a bit longer, have a look at this incredibly comprehensive list from one of the best Battlestar Galactica sites on the web. Huge thanks to GALACTICA SITREP!

Battlestar Galactica Series Finale Video - Daybreak, Part 2 - Also: Schmoes Know: Katee Sackhoff Interview - Part 4

Daybreak, Part 2 Battlestar Galactica Season 4 : Ep. 22|1:36:04| In the final episode, conflicts reach a climax while Cylons and humans face a stark choice. I haven't watched this vid yet but the first three were pretty fun. This was taped the day before the finale so Katee couldn't really say what she thought about how the show ended. I'm really curious to know how she truly feels about how Starbuck finished up her run with the show. I really hope Katee finds a vehicle in which she can show off her acting chops. If you rewatch "Galactica" from the beginning it'll be obvious just how much she's grown as an actor in 5 years. Unbelievable (but true) that she was only 21 y.o when cast as Starbuck. More later today!

Battlestar Galactica - The Plan - Promo Teaser Video- Screen Caps - Daybreak, Part 1, FULL Episode Video

Update and new video for The Plan (6.18.09)

SyFy (Sci-Fi) TV movie for fall release.

A firm date would be nice. I vote for the first day of fall or thereabouts- Sept 21. I'll bet it's more like in sweeps month. November?

 

 

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan

Battlestar Galactica, the series...reached its "finale"  on March 20th. But the Sci-Fi series still has a two-hour show with a chunk of the series' cast onboard. It's an "extension" of Battlestar Galactica series and it's due to be broadcast "this fall." The Plan is equivalent to a television film in length. Full title is Battlestar Galactica: The Plan.” The plot will include Cylons living aboard their ships before and after the The Fall of the 12 Colonies after the Cylons nuked all of humanity except a rag-tag, ever-dwindling fleet with no home (Battlestar Galactica 2003-09).

Directed by Edward James Olmos, Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, is penned by BSG writer Jane Espenson.

EDIT/ I'm not her biggest fan as far as what she's done on Galactica. And I'm not big on EJO as director, either. I'll watch "The Plan" just to get a better look at this new Six-in-Chains. ;) (see screen cap) I'm sure there will be something good in it.

Although none of them have talked about the synopsis yet, Kate Vernon, who would in every probability play the final Cylon, Ellen Tigh, put some light on the framework of the plot. Vernon is also involved in scripting the plot. “You’ll definitely have a few ‘ah ha’ moments. But there’s a big chunk of what’s been happening on the show that this movie will show the moments right before. You’ll get a big piece of the puzzle from ‘The Plan. It’ll just slide right into focus. The movie will open up the show for fans in a big way because there’s a giant piece missing and this will show you the bigger picture”, Kate Vernon explained. Source

Daybreak, Part 1 Battlestar Galactica Season 4 : Ep. 21|43:46| A call for volunteers is made for a final mission, as Galactica is stripped for parts.

Battlestar Galactica - Farewell From A Fangirl *HUGE* Fraking Spoilers - Eick's Video Blog -Too Bad So Sad

Caprica Six pays a visit to Baltar's lakeside home on Caprica.

Watch more Battlestar Galactica videos on AOL Video

Watch more Battlestar Galactica videos on AOL Video

One of my earlier television memories is at age 4, being flopped on the floor with my Dad in front of our black and white television set watching Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone during both shows first run. Later (of course) was Star Trek and now--now I spend far more time at this keyboard than in front of the telly.

When I look back in the years to come, Battlestar Galactica will stand beside those shows as the most memorable and deserving of repeat viewing.

I wouldn't have devoted as much time to Battlestar Galactica as I did if I were not smitten with it. Or more precisely, them.
As Moore rightly pointed out the show was about the characters. I was quickly drawn to them after watching the mini-series. I think I got a girl crush on Six after about 5 minutes, Gaius Baltar the same, Roslin, Chief, Tigh, Helo and of course our heroine, Kara Thrace--all crush-worthy in short order.

Ron Moore and Co. brought the characters alive, not just through the words, not just through the use of skilled actors but through every aspect of the show from the set, the lighting--the music. It all came together and it drew in me like no other television programming that I've watched as a adult ever has.

So, to Ron Moore and everyone that helped him to bring Battlestar Galactica alive and make believable characters that I loved and loathed (often at the same time) THANK YOU!

I feel like everyone has stated their case about why something did or did not work for them in the season finale of BSG. My jaw literally hung open for most of the first hour--it boggled my mind so. And like many events in life, I chose to remember and cherish the best of the finale instead of nit-picking through what did not work for me (though I'll mention a couple things in brief).

As a series, taken on the whole, I loved BSG. Were there episodes that disappointed? Of course there were. Season Three--I need to rewatch it so I can best comment on it as a whole. Season Four had two episodes that did not at all work for me.

What worked the best for me in the second part of the Season 4 finale was:

• Caprica and Gaius surprisingly (and perhaps a bit hurriedly) ending up back together (my inner fangirl is very happy they did).

• I was ecstatic that Helo survived being shot, enabling him to rejoin his wife Athena and human-Cylon daughter, Hera. For many months in re: BSG's ending I've mentally bargained that if they just let Helo live I can deal with almost anything else. So I got my wish.

• I loved the peaceful and dignified way that Roslin succumbed, not in a hospital bed with an IV drip but flying above the verdant "Earth" with her love, Bill Adama at her side.

• I was very attached to the character of Chief and felt profoundly sorry for him at times and though I could see his logic in going off to the (Scottish) highlands to live alone, I still wished he'd found a way to stay among the rest. But there was no plausible way. Ever since he became a fully realized Cylon, the human Chief slipped further away. As he succinctly put it, "I'm just tired of people. Human. Cylon. Whatever." -- Galen Tyrol

• Tory felt Chief's wrath upon his discovery of her her murder of his wife, Cally. Nice bookending of neck-snapping going from the 2003 mini series to this final episode.

• I liked too that as Head Six has been proclaiming since the beginning, yes indeed, she was an angel though quite obviously not the traditional in white with wings. Though we saw much less of him I liked too that the Head Baltar was her companion, a parallel to the newly recoupled Gaius and Caprica Six. It's my blog. I'll squee if I want to.

• I'm glad that after all these years of searching, of not having a home, that what was left of the "rag-tag fleet" found a habitable planet on which to live. It was a good story, well told and I'm satisfied with that. Ron Moore, David Eick, their stellar writing staff, their phenomenal ensemble cast, and their skilled production team have reinforced my love for this genre.

A couple of others summed up their opinions on BSG as well as science fiction genre-storytelling as a whole. I found them salient and I've included them below.

Source:

The series began with the premise that the human race had been extinguished by a robot tribe, the Cylons, it had created to enslave. The Cylons, who devoutly follow a single god, have been understood, quite reasonably, as stand-ins for the robotic, prescriptive aspects of religious extremism; they are Islamic fundamentalists in one view, the politically aggressive factions of the Christian right in another. They are literally born and born again.

But toward the show’s finale, as the differences between the Cylons and the remaining humans began to dissolve, the opportunity for a more acutely contemporary symbolism emerged. It became easier to regard the series as an argument for the imperatives of shared interest in a post-racial world.

The series has been far more remarkable for the ways in which its characters’ principles and value systems have evolved. Most notable has been the change in Gaius Baltar, whose self-regarding penchant for expedience finally gives way to a moving and incalculably consequential display of rectitude in the final episode.

In the end, his self-serving rationalism comes to accommodate a genuine commitment to faith, one that seeks to resolve the show’s theological tensions, if not with the kind of pungency one might have hoped for. The humans have been worshiping multiple deities, but the longstanding battle between monotheism and polytheism is irrelevant, Baltar warns his adversary in philosophical summation.

“Whether we want to call that God or Gods or some sublime inspiration or a divine force that we can’t know or understand doesn’t matter,” he says. “God is a force of nature beyond good and evil.”

Roslin’s relationship with the fleet’s military leader, Adama...one built on respect and shared sorrows and a profound inclination to give care, has provided one of the sublime, bittersweet pleasures of the final season. There has been no better or quieter rendering of love in midlife on television. “Battlestar Galactica” ...has drawn the need for, and the sustenance of, emotional connection with a nuanced and deeply felt authenticity.

“Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.” -- Isaac Asimov

Full cast list after jump:

Battlestar Galactica Bests - Message from Ron D. Moore - *Videos* *Interviews* *SPOILERS*

Ron Moore's wife Terry, aka "MrsRon," posted this message from Ron today on the SciFi.com official BSG forum (HT BSG Contentquake):(Thanks to the sublime Galactica Sitrep ). Full message from Ron D. Moore after jump.

Toast Battlestar Galactica

Bear McCreary is the composer of the epic musical score for Battlestar Galactica. In his own blog he explained as only Bear can what went into the making of the Season 4.5 episode "Someone to Watch Over Me" and this clip gives you a feel for what he said. Be sure to click the link to Bear's Battlestar Blog and read much more about it.

Seriously funny, not-to-be-missed tongue-in-cheek farewell to Galactica

Battlestar Galactica Best Frakkin' Special Part 1

Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

Source: LATimes

On "Battlestar Galactica," Cylon couple Saul and Ellen Tigh manage their troubles, which range from garden-variety marital discord to discovering they’re really members of a robotic race, by hitting the bottle.

Often.

So with the acclaimed Sci Fi Channel drama coming to an end Friday, the Canadian actors who portray the Tighs, Michael Hogan and Kate Vernon, took coping cues from their small-screen alter egos.

Over cigarettes and pale ale Monday night at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, Hogan said the pair was –- to use the show’s favorite curse word –- pretty "frakked up" about it. "I don't know if I'll ever be able to growl 'gods damnit' ever again," he said.

Vernon sipped Chardonnay and recalled how surreal it was playing Ellen, who was "ripped" during her entire first episode. "It was drunkalogue after drunkalogue after drunkalogue," she said.

"There seems to be this hidden supply of booze and cigarettes aboard Battlestar Galactica. We're totally out of food, we're on the run, but still we have booze," joked Hogan. "When Ellen came back, it was like, thank God, we know we're going to have more booze."

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From TVGuide: Who at TVGuide.com attended the Battlestar Galactica press screening on Monday night? And what's the frakkin' word? — Danny
..."we sent TVGuide.com Nerd High Priestess Erin Fox. Once Doc Cottle revived her with smelling salts, she said this: "The first hour-and-a-half of the finale is so intense, you'll find it difficult to breathe. So many questions will be answered — including some you probably thought wouldn't be addressed due to time constraints. Also, if Mary McDonnell isn't recognized by the Emmys this year, it'll be a frakkin' shame. She had the crowd in tears more than once with her brilliant performance." Erin then hugged her Cylon toaster to her chest, placed a paper bag over her mouth and nose and breathed gently until it was safe to stand again."

Vernon was recently revealed to be the mother of all Cylons — "I'm the OctoCylon!" she said — and admitted difficulty letting go of the show. She's been hosting viewing parties for the final batch of episodes in her Sherman Oaks home for the show's Los Angeles-based cast and crew.

"Everybody on the show was a fan," she said."I love watching with the episodes with Michael. We hold hands and go, 'Awwww.'"

When the actress learned Sci Fi Channel would be changing its name to SyFy in hopes of appealing to a less geeky demographic, she scoffed. "It never even occurred to me that we were shooting a science-fiction show," she said. "Never. It's always been just good drama."

Message from Ron

Ron Moore's wife Terry, aka "MrsRon," posted this message from Ron today on the SciFi.com official BSG forum (HT BSG Contentquake):



I don’t want this day to happen.

I want it to be rescheduled, rethought, removed and recalled.

Tomorrow the story will be over, my tale having been told, and never again will there be the sweet anticipation of waiting for the next episode to be shown to fans and friends. The thought of it makes my heart ache even as swells with pride.

All I know is that today there is a show called Battlestar Galactica and tomorrow there was.

There will be joy in that too, I’m sure, touching the thread of memory and feeling it resonate all the way back to soundstages, locations, cutting rooms, writers’ rooms, and sound bays where I lived for all these years and being comforted by the knowledge that a part of me will never truly leave those places. There will be reunions and retrospectives, special editions and extended cuts, interviews and seminars. Solace can be found.

We’d called the last season Senior Year and here, today, as I prepare to present the final episode to an audience of friends, colleagues, and family, I find myself feeling the same way I did on Graduation day at Chowchilla Union High, all those years ago. The mosaic of faces I’d grown accustomed to seeing day after day would regroup for one last event, one last celebration of our lives together and what we’d done, and then it would be gone but for the transcendent threads of memory waiting to resonant down through the years. I didn’t want that day to happen either and fervently wished for it to be rescheduled, rethought, removed and recalled.

Somehow I get the feeling that today’s wish will not be granted either. So this day, like that one, will wax and wane and all I can do is ride the wave and let it carry me where it will.

Thank you, all of you for coming here through the years. The shippers and the haters, and everyone in between; you’ve watched and you’ve posted and you’ve been a touchstone for my experience with the audience ever since that night back in 2003 when we first declared that the Cylons were created by Man and things were going to be different. It’s been a genuine pleasure to surf your thoughts, rants, questions, snarks, complaints, praise, and humor as you watched our story play out and rest assured I will be here again tomorrow poring through the posts, laughing, cursing, sometimes just shrugging at what you take away from this crazy show.

It’s been an honor to be your storyteller.

Ronald D. Moore
About to be former Executive Producer of Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica- Best Surprise Moment - New Caprica Takeover - Best Cylon Kill - D'Anna, Scar, Cavil, Leoben *VIDEOS* Hulu

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 Galactica - The Finale Episodes Promo Videos - Screen Caps/ Canadian and British Video Promos *SPOILERS* - My BSG Wordle

 

That is Gaius and he is with the rest of the volunteer rescue group. Or not.

Seems like he's learned his way around a gun in the last few years in exile/war.

Battlestar Galactica Season 4.5 Season Final Part 2 Screen Caps

I made these screen caps from the promo/preview--credit is in the video above. I altered some because I'm trying to discern what is going on in each scene. In one for example, it took me a few moments to discern that there were three John Cavils on camera for that shot. I think. We'll find out. It's the scene with Doral springing into a defence gesture with a rifle and Cavil (or the Cavils, depending) looking like he's going to duck.
Did you watch The Last Frakking Battlestar Galactica Special tonight? It was pretty great. A nice send-off.
Katee can't think of anything about the show that she's glad about. Then she breaks into giggles.
Tricia is glad to have made friends firstly and gotten lots of work opportunities as well. She smiles a lot. They are both cute.

I'm going to watch it again as someone in my house chose to do laundry and the laundry area is really close to the teevee area. It's a small place.<grumble.>  Also, the dialogue and music on the show were not synced well. (Dialogue was swimming in the score making it hard to hear every single word.)

Add to that Jamie Bamber (Lee) especially who seemed to go out of his way to be incomprehensible--though James Callis (Baltar) got difficult for certain words as well. Notably absent from the interviews in the show: Aaron Douglas (Chief). It's America guys. When you speak about yourself/your show in interviews using  sound and no text* you simply must speak American for your Canadian or American audience. Mmk? Thx.

Oh yes. Unless they are frakking with us, that is Gaius (above) on the same turf as the people who volunteered on the attempted rescue mission. So I'm not supposing.

Also in the "BSG Last Frakking Special" tonight creator Ron Moore says quite plainly that Chip/Head!Six/Six in the Red Dress as well as other "Head!" characters, plus one assumes, Adama's house, were "angels," not chips (nor hallucinations).

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http://mywordle.net

British and Canadian BSG video promos after jump

Battlestar Galactica - Series Finale - Daybreak # 1 -Screen Caps, Video Recap, Finale Day Marathon Promo Video *Spoilers*

I don't want to comment too much yet about last night's Battlestar Galactica "Part 1" of "Daybreak" as it was meant to be shown as a two-hour episode and the writer's strike and network shirts contributed to the timing of it's airing being fraked up. Just the same there were some very strong moments (above) along with the frustrating, seemingly nonsensical ones (Lee and the pigeon).

The show opens with a gorgeous zoom in from a galaxy to an Earth-like planet all the way down to "Caprica City: Before The Fall."

My heart immediately leapt into my throat.

Scene of William Adama with some official who tells him that a "desk job" interview will take but an hour of his time as Adama reluctantly complies while he ticks off where his real talents lie.

Cut to Laura Roslin, tipsy on champagne having just celebrated her "baby sister's" baby shower along with her other younger sister.

Cut to Kara nervously prepping dinner in her apartment that we recognize from Seasons previous. It turns out her guest is not Zak but Lee Adama who rings her doorbell. She invites him in and then Zak makes his appearance. it appears that Kara and Zak are living together.

Cut to Gaius Baltar in a stretch limo with Caprica Six. Apparently this is the day they first met. He has forgotten her name but it matters not as they begin to get intimate. A phone rings. He argues with the person on the line, telling them to stay where they are angrily telling them that he'll be right there.

"Right there" turns out to be a stereotypical old person house, cluttered and dog-eared. His father sits belligerently in a chair and argues with Gaius. Six stands behind Gaius and his father calls her out as a hooker. None of this seems to bother her, not even when Gaius tells her he told her to stay in the car. Gaius is in tears now. He cannot find a nurse who can tolerate his father's dangerous antics.

Cut to yet another scene of Roslin, the next day. She's awakened by her doorbell. Two police officers ask to come in. They quickly state their reason for being there: Last night on their way home both her sisters and her father(?) were killed in a bizarre car crash. In a monotone voice, Laura tells them that they can leave now. She appears to be in deep shock as she makes her way still clad in her nightgown and robe, to a public fountain and climbs into it, walking to the center where she allows the fountain to pour over her and her tears.

A scene three months later has her on the phone refusing to get involved with Adar's presidential campaign because she "hates politics" but very reluctantly agrees to a blind date (with Adar, apparently).

Cut to a drunken Lee Adama staggering in to his apartment, muttering about something. A pigeon has found it's way into his apartment and he takes a broom, attempting to shoo it out. He swears as he continues to fumble unsuccessfully.

Gaius brings a female guest to his home on the water--the one we've seen so many times. He is shocked to find Caprica Six already inside his home. He tells his lady friend to go upstairs, that he will be right there and then orders Six from his home.She seems completely nonplussed by his threats.He picks up the phone and tells her he's calling the police when she quietly discloses to him that she's taken care of his father. She's found a beautiful, upper-class old folks home where Gaius's father a former farmer, can even keep his own garden. She says when she took his father on a tour of the place he seemed happy. Gaius can only respond with his jaw hanging.

Below: The Cylon Colony

 

 

Battlestar Galactica: The Final Episodes *SPOILERS* Promo Photos, Behind the Scenes:

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Guest stars

• Rekha Sharma as Tory Foster
• Kate Vernon as Ellen Tigh
• Dean Stockwell as Number One
• Rick Worthy as Number Four
• Matthew Bennett as Number Five
• Donnelly Rhodes as Dr. Sherman Cottle
• Bodie Olmos as Lieutenant Brenden "Hotdog" Costanza
• Kerry Norton as Layne Ishay
• Lara Gilchrist as Paulla Schaffer
• Leela Savasta as Tracy Anne
• Tobias Mehler as Zak Adama
• Leah Cairns as Lieutenant Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson
• Brad Dryborough as Lieutenant Louis Hoshi
• Colin Lawrence as Lieutenant Hamish "Skulls" McCall
• Colin Corrigan as Marine Allan Nowart
• Darcy Laurie as Dealino
• Finn R. Devitt as Nicholas Tyrol
• Iliana Gomez-Martinez as Hera Agathon
• Antony Holland as Julius Baltar

After the jump: End of the Series: Cast members answer the question: What are you taking home?"

Battlestar Galactica Series Finale, Videos, Links, Interviews w/ Cast, TV Guide Behind the Scenes Covershoot

Tricia Helfer, Katee Sackhoff, James Callis, Edward James Olmos, and Mary McDonnell of Battlestar Galactica at their TV Guide Magazine Cover shoot. (Issue March 11, 2008.)

Also from TVGuide:

With only two more episodes left of Battlestar Galactica, fans are feeling quite emotional about the show's end. In this video, BSG stars Mary McDonnell and Edward James Olmos take some time to praise the intelligent, well-spoken and respectful fans they've met throughout their journey on the show. Olmos also discusses how BSG became the subject of a book that analyzes how the show evolved in a surprising way. It'll blow your mind!

Big thanks to Galactica Sitrep for the heads up.

LavaLampBlob Starbuck fan video: "A tribute to everyone's favorite colonial warrior, possible cylon, possible being of light, etc etc etc Music is "More Than Human" by Paul Oakenfold, vocals by Jan Johnston.

Battlestar Galactica: Two-Hour Series Finale - Showrunner Ron Moore Talks Series Finale

Promo for the Series finale of Battlestar Galactica, Daybreak 2.

Also, Lee tries to murder a pidgeon.

I have a lot more to add so check back.

SevorTB: thanks for  the videos.

Article found at, and thanks to SpoilerTV

Ron Moore is on the verge of joining a rarefied group of showrunners who have successfully pulled off the most ambitious of TV formats: the heavily serialized drama. Part 1 of the series finale of his Peabody Award-winning reimagination of "Battlestar Galactica" on Sci Fi Channel airs tonight.

As with “The Sopranos” and “The Shield,” fans are eagerly anticipating the finale and fretting whether it can live up to their expectations.

Below, Moore talks about the last episode, networks shying away from serials, J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" remake and the one genre he'd like to tackle next.
THR: How do you think fans will react to the “Battlestar” finale?

Battlestar Galactica: Sneak Peek Video - Daybreak, Part 1, The Final Episode(s) - Battlestar Galactica The Last Frakking Special *Promo*

"Before the epic journey comes to an end. See how it came to be. Go behind the scenes with an exclusive look at Battlestar Galactica." The Last Frakking Special premieres Monday at 10pm and will be shown numerous times during the week leading to the show's final episode. 

Above: The sneak peek of Daybreak 1, Episode 9 of season 4.5 of Battlestar Galactica.

Battlestar Galactica: The Final Episodes *SPOILERS* Promo Photos, Behind the Scenes

First, a few things about Islanded In a Stream Of Stars -

I was so excited to see Caprica Six and Gaius Baltar together in a scene again. For the first 2 years of the show they had a central role in the story. I knew not to hope for a reunion and have it all be sweetness and light but in the writer's ham-fisted way of making sure we knew that Caprica Six has grown and changed (we've had huge quantities of screen-time previously to know that, guys) the scene which could have resonated landed with a thud with a trite line or two from Caprica and Gaius--again rejected and feeling sad. Feh. You guys could have done better for both these actors! Disappointment!

 

So Chief went directly from almost being sucked out into space  to...the brig? Gotta wait and buy the DVD's to know how it went down.

I've just now been catching up with Bear's Battlestar Blog. He is the composer for the unique and incredible music of Battlestar Galcatica.

In his comments about Islanded In A Stream of Stars, which I consider to be the most awesome title of any BSG episode, he says the following which was a sort of "wth?" moment for me.

One of the biggest challenges of Islanded was actually scoring two different versions of it.  In addition to the version you just watched, I also scored an extended version for the DVD release.  Not only are many of the dialogue scenes expanded, but there are several scenes that were cut entirely from the show that required substantial original music.  One of these scenes established that Tyrol is now in the brig for his role in Boomer’s escape and kidnapping of Hera.  I was disappointed that this story point was cut from the episode, since Chief’s arc last week was so emotionally powerful.

So now we have the answer to "Where's Chief?" Damn, that's an awful ending for such a great character.
And he was so out of character in the previous eppy, "Someone To Watch Over Me." I've justified the rest of the Final Five acting oddly but when Chief clonked that innocent Eight over the head with a wrench in order to "save" Boomer? I was really shocked to the point of disbelieving as in I don't believe that Chief would have done such a thing. It hit an off-key note for me.

Every  episode has it's gems, though.
Tahmoh Penniket, I agree with Bear, did his most outstanding work ever in a Galactica scene, this one with Edward James Olmos. Completely heart-rending. Completely believable. On Tahmoh's part.

This episode was directed by Edward James Olmos and boy, is he generous with his own screen time--to the detriment of the story. Do we have to hear him trot out the canned responses he uses depending on to whom he's asserting his worldly wisdom? Gawds! I so wanted to punch him in the mouth after he told Helo that "they" have both lost a child!

Eddie: In this story you lost an adult child--nothing like losing your child of age three, your adult child eff'd up and killed himself, Hera was kidnapped. Your adult son died when? Six years ago now? More? It is not even worth mentioning again that you lost Zack unless this line was squeezed in to somehow serve the planned for 2010 spin-off of BSG, "Caprica." (I know spin-off is not the exact term, OK?)

Over the course of this series, I've gone from sort of being in awe of Olmos's acting chops to seeing that he's barely a one-note guy. He can play extreme emotion well. And he uses his gravelly voice to great effect when barking orders or doing one of his "So Say We All" speeches. But the ego on this man, especially when they let him direct. He is among their weakest directors, hands down (and I will double check on this--it's been four years, after all).

Moving on.

One of the most consequential series of scenes continued to revolve around Hera, Athena (Sharon Valeri) and Helo's daughter.

The show opened with her playing in CIC (!) with these models of ships that I'm sure you recognize. Hera ran the battlestar into the basestar and that, coupled with what Adama said about Galactica going out with a bang (paraphrase) is a really heavy-handed hint about how, ultimately the Galactica will meet her end. I really hope it doesn't happen that way.

 

Chief helped Boomer escape after finding out that she would probably be executed by the rebels for treason.

 

What Chief failed to discern was that Boomer used him. All she wanted was Hera. Smart Chief got a case of the dumbs. Here, Hera and Boomer are projecting into Boomer's Barbie Dream House.

 

This is where Boomer ended their journey--where Cavil has hidden the Cylon "Colony."

It appeared that Boomer bonded with Hera whilst kidnapping her. Gotta take this with a grain of salt as Boomer/the Eights is/are as we keep getting reminded, unpredictable/unstable.

Above: the memorial service for the dead who did not get sucked out in space. It's always amusing to watch reactions to Gaius's egotistical rantings.

This time, after testing the blood on dead Kara's dog tags (at her request) he announced to the entire group assembled for the memorial the results: Kara is an angel. What a jerk!

Here are some assorted promo photos from the conclusion of the Battlestar Galactica series. Included are candid, behind the scenes photos so if the characters um, seem out of character--they are. ;)

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Battlestar Galactica - Islanded In A Stream of Stars - Video Recap, Meet the New Cylon Six- "Sonja" Many Other Sixes Preceded Her *Photos*

BattlestarWiki

S4E20 "Islanded In A Stream Of Stars"

Summary

"The new Quorum motions to abandon and strip Galactica of her parts when it becomes clear the ship is damaged beyond repair, and the Final Five argue with Adama about sending out a rescue mission for Hera. Meanwhile, Kara turns to Baltar to determine the truth about her resurrection, Boomer returns to Cavil with Hera, the Cylons experiment with Anders by turning him into a Hybrid, and a devastated Helo begs Adama’s permission to find Hera on his own. "The new Quorum motions to abandon and strip Galactica of her parts when it becomes clear the ship is damaged beyond repair, and the Final Five argue with Adama about sending out a rescue mission for Hera. Meanwhile, Kara turns to Baltar to determine the truth about her resurrection, Boomer returns to Cavil with Hera, the Cylons experiment with Anders by turning him into a Hybrid, and a devastated Helo begs Adama’s permission to find Hera on his own."

There are now a good handful of great Battlestar Galactica sites. Still, my top choice has been and remains, BattlestarWiki. They've got the goods along with some insights that I often miss until later viewings(if not completely).

Now I can put this promo photo in it's proper perspective. It's not from "Someone to Watch Over Me" (last episode). It's from "Islanded In A Stream Of Stars"--and it's Boomer with the kidnapped Hera. Both of them are projecting into Boomer's dream home whilst in a Raptor on their way to rendezvous with Cavil at the Cylon home world, known as "the Colony."

Here's a good thumbnail on the newest in-charge Six (Tricia Helfer),

Sonja

Sonja, shown Season 4.5 with a random Eight.

Summary((BattlestarWiki): Sonja is one of the platinum blonde Sixes, similar in appearance to Caprica/Virtual (Head!) Six. She is elected to represent the rebel Cylons in the Fleet's new Quorum. Her first duty is to request the Cylons be given custody of Sharon Valerii in order to put her on trial for treason. Given her new posistion, the Colonials have accepted at least part of the deal the Cylons made through Tyrol and now have the representation they wanted in the Colonial Government. ("Someone to Watch Over Me")

Very neat-o piece found by

Galactica Sitrep

Video by Tretboot.

Gauis and Six Talk About Sex: (BattlestarWiki)

• Baltar and Six discuss jealousy and women, prompted by Playa Palacios's behavior:

Gaius Baltar: She's only human. (notes Six's reaction) You're not jealous?

Number Six: Love isn't about sex, Gaius.

Gaius Baltar: Now there's an enlightened point of view.

Number Six: I've been thinking... and as far as I'm concerned, you can have any woman you want. But always remember, I have your heart.

Gaius Baltar: Yes, of course you do.

Number Six: (deadly serious) I can always rip it out of your chest if I need to.

Gaius Baltar: (coughs, as if in reaction to a pain in his chest)

Different faces of Six after jump - :)

Battlestar Galactica Videos: Daybreak - Part One, Also Lee and Kara, Islanded - Episode 9, Season 4.5

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"For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in its stream of stars— pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across eternal seas of space and time." Henry Beston - The Outermost House.

In this clip for next week we've got Adama barking at what looks like the entire populace of the Galactica, who have assembled on that huge,lower deck area, that he was taking volunteers to go on what is "likely to be, a one-way trip." Also there's the ever-helpful Head!Six explaining to Gaius that "the End Times are approaching." Pfft! Look around Six, they are already here! ;)

Lee and Kara at the Wall of the Dead

Battlestar Galactica NEW Video Preview - Islanded in a Stream of Stars

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I'm in pieces. Poor Helo!

But Tahmoh rocks! He's awesome in this scene.

Adama. Well just a look from him is enough.

CAST (all of 'em)

• Edward James Olmos - Admiral William "Husker" Adama
• Mary McDonnell - President Laura Roslin
• Katee Sackhoff - Capt. Kara "Starbuck" Thrace Anders 
• Jamie Bamber - Major Lee "Apollo" Adama
• Tricia Helfer - Cylon #6
• James Callis - Dr. Gaius Baltar
• Grace Park - Lt. Sharon "Boomer" Valerii / Lt. Sharon "Athena" Agathon / Cylon #8
• Michael Hogan - Col. Saul Tigh
• Kandyse McClure - Lt. Anastasia "Dee" Dualla Adama
• Aaron Douglas - Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol
• Tahmoh Penikett - Capt. Karl C. "Helo" Agathon
• Alessandro Juliani - Lt. Felix Gaeta
• Paul Campbell - Billy Keikeya
• Nicki Clyne - Petty Officer Cally Henderson Tyrol  
• Leah Cairns - Lt. Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson
• Bodie Olmos - Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza
• Donnelly Rhodes - Doc. Cottle
• Michael Trucco - Samuel Anders
• Rekha Sharma - Tory Foster
• more follow jump. Thanks to Galactica.TV
•                   
• Richard Hatch - Vice-President Tom Zarek
• Luciana Carro - Capt. Louanne "Kat" Katraine ("Sasha")
• Sam Witwer - Crashdown
• Kate Vernon - Ellen Tigh
• Alonso Oyarzun - Crewman Specialist Socinus
• Lorena Gale - Priest Elosha
• Christina Schild - Playa Palacios
• Matthew Bennett - Aaron Doral / Cylon #5
• Lucy Lawless - D'Anna Biers / Cylon #3
• Dean Stockwell - Brother Cavil / Cylon #1
• Callum Keith Rennie - Leoben Conoy / Cylon #2
• Jennifer Halley - Diana "Hardball" Seelix
• ect.

 

NEW Video - Battlestar Galactica: Islanded In a Stream Of Stars - Hera is the Hope of the Races

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Oh, this is a nice little scene. Ellen and Saul disagreeing about his fundamental nature and their overall purpose in their life plan. As much as I like these two, I'm curious what has become of Caprica Six. She has been such a strongly identified player in the Battlestar Galactica universe that I'd hate to have her character left on that last note--which was her miscarriage of her and Saul Tigh's 4-month in-utero child.

In this scene Ellen goes on about Hera being the hope of the human-Cylon race but I can't help but wonder if she's being insensitive or just mean ol' Ellen considering Saul's recent loss of what would have been the  first pure Cylon child in a long time.

Battlestar Galactica - Starbuck Plays "Watchtower" - FULL Episode - Someone To Watch Over Me - Bear McCreary - All Along The Watchtower, Kara's Last Moments (Videos/Music)

   

Kara/Starbuck plays All Along the Watchtower with her dad

The Music (All Across the Watchtower)

Battlestar Galactica - OST: Bear McCreary Kara's Last Moments

Battlestar Galactica: Islanded In A Stream Of Stars- Screen Caps, Video Promo/Video from "Someone" - Kara plays All Along the Watchtower *SPOILERS*

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Someone To Watch Over Me: Kara and her Father Play Piano (Cylon "All Along the Watchtower")

Battlestar Galactica: Recap Someone To Watch Over Me (Video) ZOMG! Boomer Kidnapped Hera And Chief Helped Her! Preview Video NEXT BSG: Islanded In A Stream Of Stars *SPOILERS*

I believe this must be Boomer and Hera but it's not a scene from the show--though it is a Boomer- projected setting used to manipulate Tyrol.

Aaron Douglas Fans.com...

is a pretty fun look into the head of one of the number of excellent actors ending the Battlestar Galactica chapter of their lives and moving forward.

Synopsis:Starbuck discovers a hidden musical ability that bears a mysterious significance to the final five Cylons, and her tune is found to have a connection with three-year-old human-Cylon hybrid Hera. The president authorizes Boomer's release from the Brig so she can stand trial for treason on the Cylon Base Ship.(Thanks to Battlestar Wiki!)

Wasn't Chief a/k/a Galen Tyrol, a/k/a a Final Fifth, a/k/a (IRL) Aaron Douglas great in tonight's episode of BSG, "Someone To Watch Over Me?"

There were a couple of big, scary ZOMG-moments. Physical reactions (yelling and the like--on my part) repeatedly, each lasting for about 2 seconds!

 

Boomer's projected life with Tyrol.

I thought Athena was dead and then my spouse is like "She's alive! She's just tied up!
OMG! I think Grace Park has done some great things with some of her incarnations in Battlestar Galactica but I would have felt really bad for Helo if Boomer had killed Athena.

But no!

That Bitch took the baby!
Now both Athena and Helo are thrown into this awful role of parents with a missing Cylon human hybrid child.
All I can say to the BSG writers is: If you harm the child I will not think you are good people.

Hera has to live.

Aaron Douglas's website

I was looking for the upcoming Battlestar Galactica episode called "Islanded in a Stream of Stars,*"
but found this first. If this video is what I think it is, it's really cool. I love the exteriors of the earlier model Cylon basestars, now commonly referred to as "baseships."

The video is of the destruction of the Cylon race's central "hub" of resurrection; it's basestars failed to protect it form Kara Thrace- "Starbuck" and Lee Adama-"Apollo."
The score by Bear McCreary paired up with the scene is tear-inducing--so vital to the story.

Synopsis: Battlestar Galactica- Battlestar Best Explosion: The Resurrection Ship A merciless Viper attack proves that Cylons in big glass ships shouldn't grow clones.

*I wanted to know if "Islanded in a Stream of Stars," meant anything in particular."Imran Ali" blogs: Islanded In A Stream of Stars is from Night on the Great Beach, "in Henry Beston's The Outermost House...

"For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in its stream of stars— pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across eternal seas of space and time."

I hope the episode is stellar as I think this is my favourite BSG episode title evar.

Based on what I been able to cap so far using both the American and the Canadian promos and now this, I'm going to take a guess that Chief, Galen Tyrol is the one at the bottom of this post in the super-blurry screen caps and he is attempting to bust Boomer out of the brig. There is no way the guy that Chief has become--probably always was bubbling under the surface--is going to allow the Cylon Rebels to in his words, "kill (Boomer)."
At first I was a tiny bit puzzled about why it was the Rebels going after Boomer but it was she of course that sided with Cavil--going against the rest of the Eight's as well as the Rebels. They are seeking vengeance while it seems that Adama is willing to set her free.

American Caps and Canadian together NEW 02.26.09 Battlestar Galactica: Synopsis and Screen Caps: Someone To Watch Over Me : Canada's not giving much away this week--mostly dialogue.

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Dialogue from the new caps:

Six to Adama and Roslin: "We don't want her set free. We want to try (sp) Boomer for treason."

Hotdog: "Don't do it! Kara, don't do it!"

Tyrol: "How many of us ended up with the people we really wanted to be with?" (voiceover)

The Canadian Space network promo has dialogue that the American SciFi network promo does not.
Make sure to watch both videos. My first post on this eppy is here. Each has differing strong points.

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The caps above are from a SciFi preview of the next episode. I'm not getting much in terms of things startling. I don't' think Hotdog dies, despite all his grimacing.

Kara is iffy and her quest to discover her "roots" so to speak has been a long one.

I've noticed the writers sneaking in references to the show (pilot) "Caprica" which they have pitched to the SciFi/NBC network so Kara and her possibly being the relative of someone not-human that will be be on that show is possible. It remains to be seen if it's plausible.

And Chief or Tyrol, no one seems to call him Galen much, and Boomer/Sharon Valeri. I say, why not? They sort of rushed it with the killing of Cally and deep-sixing of little Nicky. I'm pretty convinced that the plan was for Boomer and Chief to have a second encounter even if it is not as fun as the first go-round (was until the end).
That's all the American preview is dolling out for next episode.

I've read differing opinions on the "Ellen Entertains the Fleet" (Deadlock, the last) episode and really, Ellen Tigh was never likable. And I did wonder how much of the Final Five's original personalities come back. Already, Tori has acted drastically differently than the Tori of the right-hand-of-Laura Roslin days. Who says their personalities were wiped completely? Good old Bro. Cavil quite possibly couldn't have been that talented.
Tyrol and Tigh have been very different since finding out they are Cylon so why would it be so hard to buy that Ellen is Ellen but she switches gears when she's around certain people?

I agree. WTH!?! with all the lingering shots on Adama mourning his baby,the Galactica? It's been shown again and again that Adama is highly pragmatic when it comes right down to it. This is out of character for him to flip out so much--unless Laura's imminent death is taking it's toll. Maybe so. He's only human.(Sorry.) I give EJO a pass but they could have cut two of those scenes (not the one with a lingering shot of a 6's cute, perky bum though, leave that in).

In many ways "Deadlocked" was about loss and most of us don't like to be reminded of that harsh fact of life when we are trying to be entertained. Maybe the writers sort of rushed through it ,too.

I think I got this studio shot from
io9.com, but read about it at SpoilerTV.com. Both sites talked about Ron Moore's "Cylon Bible" to which he refers about a number of specifics in re:the Cylon world-view and "world" itself.

I'm hoping Someone To Watch Over Me is good.

Boomer is being reintroduced is sort of cool. Plus I'm a big fan of Aaron Douglas as Tyrol.
Starbuck dealing with something not Sam is a good choice for next week.
And whatever is happening to the Galactica--it can make easy sense depending on a number of situations, including the most obvious one.

Synopsis: Someone To Watch Over Me

Friday, February 27th,2009 @ 9:00 my time and 10:00pm yours - Sci-Fi Channel


Starbuck discovers a hidden musical ability that bears a mysterious significance to the final five Cylons, and her tune is found to have a connection with three-year-old human-Cylon hybrid Hera. The president authorises Boomer's release from the Brig so she can stand trial for treason on the Cylon Base Ship.

From the couple dozen clues doled out just prior to Season 4.5's start.

Back then my info about this photo was: "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."

Videos from Multipleverses

Interview: Tricia Helfer Talks BSG On Jimmy Kimmel

Interview with Kate Vernon about being the last cylon after a funny recap of the first part of this last half of the final season

Battlestar Galactica Recap (s.4 : ep.18)|01:40| Recap of BSG episode 418, "Deadlock".

The Canadian previews for Battlestar Galactica always give away good stuff. They are hugely spoilery and this one is no exception. Enjoy!

Thanks to SevorTB!

Boy-oh-boy when Caprica Six told Saul Tigh during the mutiny in which they were being hunted that she could "take care of herself," she was not kidding!

But then again we've always known that Caprica has all the right stuff.

Well. I was wondering was was going to become of the pregnant-with-Final-Fiver Saul Tigh's "child" Caprica Six, now that Mrs. Tigh has returned from the dead. It would be pretty awkward for her to remain living with her lover--who is in essence her father, especially now that "mom" Ellen has returned. With no spoilers I'm guessing that Caprica just takes leave without telling Tigh that she's going.

BSG: Promo Video #1 "Deadlock"

Oh my gods. It's Ellen Tigh.

 

 

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Tahmoh Penikett talks about the end of Battlestar Galactica

 

Battlestar Galactica:

Interview with Kate Vernon, The Final of the Final Five Cylons after the jump.

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Thanks to Battlestar Wiki. They are responsible for many original interpretations and all the links.

In sickbay, Dr. Cottle prepares to drill holes in Samuel Anders' head to relieve pressure caused a hematoma which is result of a bullet that struck him in the head (Blood on the Scales).

Anders, his head shaved and in a brace, recalls various scenes of himself in the past, saying outloud, "Among bright stars, I'm lost. There's a new tide. All the forgotten faces, all the forgotten children, we seek the forgotten language..."

When Kara Thrace demands Cottle take out the bullet, Cottle tells her that relieving the pressure is required before he can call up another surgeon from the ship Inchon Velle, to remove the bullet.

Anders continues to experience visions and talk of them as he recalls the Temple of Five, the nuked shoreline of Earth, and how Ellen Tigh loved the water.

Later, back in sickbay, Anders awakens, asking Kara to gather up the other "Finals." He remembers "everything" about his past as a Cylon and its significance.

Present day, back in Galactica's sickbay, Anders tells Tyrol, Tory Foster, and Saul Tigh of their past lives on Earth, that Foster and Tyrol were lovers. When Saul recalls trying to get Ellen out of debris as the nukes hit Earth, Anders confirms that all five of them were downloaded to a research ship high above the planet, inferring that the Five were warned that an end was coming.

When Tigh questions if the Five invented resurrection and Tory questions why such technology was needed when the Earth-bound Cylons could have children, Anders corrects them, saying that they re-invented it: organic memory transfer, originally a technology of the Thirteenth Tribe on Kobol.

Sam's wife, Kara Thrace is also at his bedside insisting that Anders rest but he refuses, needing to tell everything he recalls.

Sam T. remembers that resurrection fell into disuse when the Cylons of his type learned to reproduce biologically. The Five, in their past lives, worked tirelessly to "reinvent" that ability.

It was Ellen who made an "intuitive leap," Anders recalls, before Cottle arrives and orders everyone out.

Anders tells Tigh and the group that the reason the Five left nuked Earth with a goal of getting back to the 12 Tribes was to warn them that they must take good care of the Cylons they built or suffer the same fate as Earth. But it was too late: the First Cylon War between the Colonies had already started on their arrival.

(Tory Foster questions why the Five arrived two thousand years later. Anders notes that jump drives weren't invented yet. The Five's ship traveled at near-light speed, experiencing the effects of relativistic space travel where time slowed for them on their journey back, allowing them to stay alive.)

After Samuel T. recovers from a painful-looking spasm, he goes on talking.

The Five met with the Cylons, telling them that if they would stop the war against the Twelve Colonies of Kobol, the Five would aid them in further development of organic Cylons. The Centurions were already experimenting with the beings known as the Hybrids  as shown in the telefilm, Razor, but they'd not progressed to an autonomous model.

Sam tells the group that, in exchange for peace, the Five helped develop the eight humanoid Cylon models and gave them resurrection as well.

Kara exclaims,"eight"." At the same moment all gathered realize that the "Significant Seven" was originally eight models. One model went missing.

Before Anders can clarify, he experiences a seizure....

Anders's speech continues to break up (aphasia) he frets aloud that his *new* memories might be lost to further surgery. Anders tries to talk more but his speech breaks up more in to strings of unintelligible words--aphasia, affected by the injury.

Anders continues to try to put off the surgery to tell everything he recalls, but his wife overrules him and he is prepped for the surgery.

As he is prepped Anders continues his story. He tells of the first humanoid created, Cavil, who in turn helped build the remaining humanoid Cylons. He tells them that Ellen believed that the original Centurion's belief in God would stop the cycle of violence between the humans and Cylons... but Cavil was spiteful and did not believe in God or mercy. He turned on the Five and killed them by trapping them in a compartment and venting the oxygen. When the Five downloaded, he boxed them. Later, Cavil unboxed the Five but implanted them with new memories.... He unboxed Saul Tigh first, then Ellen and the rest later.

Anders tells of Number Seven, one model they called Daniel.

Anders emphatically orders Saul Tigh to stay with the Fleet, that a "miracle" was about to happen. (My guess: Caprica Six's impending giving birth.)

Anders is wheeled off to surgery.

Big Problem plot-logic wise- Thanks to Battlestar Wiki for their superior skills at analyzing this stuff.

Illogically, despite having re-invented Resurrection technology, the Final Five and their civilization had not developed FTL Jump technology(!), although they did have lightspeed capable drives that allowed "subluminal" travel but had the side effect of time dilation. By the time the Five reached the Twelve Colonies, their brother twelve tribes and their own Cylon opponents had the use of FTL which the Twelve Colonies developed independently. Inversely the Twelve Colonies had no access to Resurrection technology. The Final Five presumably integrated FTL into all their future Cylon technology.

(Saul Tigh's military history in the First Cylon War is revealed to be false. Read much more detail at Battlestar Wiki.)

The biggest questions I was left going "huh?" about are asked by Battlestar Wiki:

-How is it possible that the Thirteenth Tribe's bio-engineering technology was far advanced of the other Twelve Colonies, but they did not have Jump-technology?

-If the Final Five did not have Jump-technology, and the Colonial Cylons' Jump-technology was on par with that of the humans, how did the Cylons develop Jump-Drives that were far more advanced than the Humans?

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Confused at all about the sequence of events?

Go to the authority: Battlestar Wiki.

I've included a snippet below of Battlestar Wiki's analysis of the opening sequence of "No Exit."

For much more detail please click over to read more at the Battlestar Wiki site.

• A unique sequence begins this episode, which summarizes in greater detail the origin of the Cylons. The episode begins with the phrase "This has happened before and will happen again" as a vista of the decimated Earth appears, now known not only as the home of the Thirteenth Tribe but as an all-Cylon colony.
• The opening sequence shows original Cylon Centurions in a Cylon War-era Raider, and a clip of what appears to be Centurions boarding a Galactica type battlestar.
• As the Cylon War-era scenes are replaced by present-day scenes of the return of the Cylons, the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and the struggles of the Fleet, the screen text shows: "The Cylons were created by man. They rebelled. Then they vanished. Forty years later, they came back, they evolved. Fifty thousand, two-hundred ninety-eight human survivors, hunted by the Cylons. Eleven models were known--one was sacrificed."

• A flashback scene shows Ellen Tigh taking a tainted cup of alcohol from her husband, Saul Tigh, who was obliged to end her life for her conspiring with the Cylons (Exodus, Part II).

• As scenes of Ellen flash, an elaborate visualization of a Cylon datastream (in a rather Matrix-like sequence) appears, concluding with Ellen's resurrection in a resurrection tank.

No Exit Video Intro: Thanks to SevorTB/ ddt73.

Recap: No Exit (humourous) Thanks to SevorTB/ ddt73.

Battlestar Galactica stars:

 Edward James Olmos as William Adama * Mary McDonnell as Laura Roslin * Katee Sackhoff as Kara "Starbuck" Thrace * Jamie Bamber as Lee "Apollo" Adama * James Callis as Gaius Baltar * Tricia Helfer as Number Six * Grace Park as Number Eight as well as co-stars: * Kate Vernon as Ellen Tigh, Michael Hogan as Saul Tigh * Aaron Douglas as Galen Tyrol * Tahmoh Penikett as Karl "Helo" Agathon Also: * Donnelly Rhodes as Doctor Cottle * Bodie Olmos as Lieutenant Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza * Kerry Norton as Layne Ishay *John Hodgman as Dr. Gerard

I watched Battlestar Galactica twice tonight and I'm finishing reading Ender's Game for the 1st time. 

Fun times.

My big night: Bailey's and ice coffee and watching BSG the second time alone--which was heaven in that I could go back and rewatch whenever I wanted to. It was such an information-packed episode, not that I'm complaining. I took mental notes the second time around though I know but I won't get it all until I cap it.

Summary Below: Thanks to Battlestar Wiki whom I'm depending upon to help understand every nuance of "No Exit."

Summary
After resurrecting from her death on New Caprica Ellen is held captive by Cavil aboard a base ship, and on Galactica Anders undergoes emergency surgery and begins to recall the truth about the Cylon race. Meanwhile, Tyrol informs Adama about the extent of Galactica’s damage, and Roslin and Lee decide how to begin rebuilding the civilian government.

Happy V-Day!

* Donnelly Rhodes as Doctor Cottle * Bodie Olmos as Lieutenant Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza * Kerry Norton as Layne Ishay * Brad Dryborough as Lieutenant Louis Hoshi * Christina Schild as Playa Palacios * Biski Gugushe as Sekou Hamilton * Keegan Connor Tracy as Jeanne * Lara Gilchrist as Paulla Schaffer * Finn R. Devitt as Nicholas Tyrol * Andrew McIlroy as Jacob Cantrell * Marilyn Norry as Reza Chronides * Judith Maxie as Picon Delegate

BSG stars:

• Edward James Olmos as William Adama
• Mary McDonnell as Laura Roslin
• Katee Sackhoff as Kara "Starbuck" Thrace
• Jamie Bamber as Lee "Apollo" Adama
• James Callis as Gaius Baltar
• Tricia Helfer as Number Six
• Grace Park as Number Eight

as well as co-stars:

• Michael Hogan as Saul Tigh
• Aaron Douglas as Galen Tyrol
• Tahmoh Penikett as Karl "Helo" Agathon

Blood on the Scales, Episode 4, Season 4.5 of Battlestar Galactica recap video.

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Romo Lampkin : Redemption

I was really happy with the use of Romo Lampkin in "Blood on the Scales." Very nice work by actor Mark Sheppard. (This is Part 2. Part One, episode 15, "The Oath," is here.)

I couldn't see this chunk of the story from any other angle but redemption. Romo is a thief, a liar, and overall pretty self-serving. That he should reconsider his choice to help someone who is quite literally dying very much gave Romo Lampkin a bit more humanness, certainly his likability factor improved a great deal. And he mentioned  as being taken captive,  that they need to feed Jake, the dog Lee Adama gave him after discovering that Romo's only surviving family member, his wife's cat, Lance had died. His was only one of a number of characters being turned upside-down in "The Oath". My favourite one after Romo was Captain Aaron Kelly, who Tigh, when he recognized him as one of his captors, the former third-in-command of Galactica, called him a "brig rat." Prior to Baltar's trial in Season 3, Kelly had insisted that the only way to keep him from killing Cylons was to put him in the brig.

From his bio on Battlestar Wiki

When the trial of Gaius Baltar draws near, Kelly tries to disrupt the proceedings with a series of bombings. One of the attacks kills Baltar's lawyer. An attack on his next lawyer, Romo Lampkin, is thwarted only by chance. A third attack injures Lampkin. When questioned, Kelly says that he couldn't handle sending off pilots to their deaths anymore, and would continue to try if he is not locked up (The Son Also Rises). Because of this, it is unlikely that he is currently on active duty in his role as LSO.

After the discovery of a devastated Earth (and likely after being freed from the brig by the mutineers), he joins Felix Gaeta's mutiny and leads a squad of marines in pursuit of Admiral Adama and Colonel Tigh. (The Oath)

He later defends an arms locker and runs into Tyrol and after a discussion with him, lets him go. He splits off from Adama's firing squad and later tells Lee and his group where Adama is and joins them in their rescue of him. Kelly takes part in Adama's recapturing of Galactica as well. (Blood on the Scales)

But this is what he should be doing: Captain Aaron Kelly is possibly third-in-command aboard Galactica, ranking behind Admiral William Adama and Colonel Saul Tigh; his standing in relation to Major Lee Adama in the chain of command is unclear. As the LSO (Landing Signal Officer), he is responsible for flight operations - launching and landing spacecraft - on the ship.

I had a friendly disagreement about him. I knew Kelly had attained a high-level in the military and remembered seeing quite a lot of him in the show, but not lately. I'd forgotten about the bomb intended for Baltar's lawyers back during the aftermath of New Caprica. And I did not-- unlike quite a few of the hardcore bad guys I saw-- think he came from Pegasus.

I must note again that the storyline and characters are as good as the group collaboration that brings them together. The actor who plays Kelly, Ty Olsson did a great job in this episode from depicting a man who was acting out of hate and fear to  his realizing how hatred and fear doesn't solve a problem. Finally, the biggest leap for Kelly--that Galen Tyrol, who had been close enough to Kelly once to call him a nickname, despite being a cylon was still Tyrol, still his friend --and so he let him go during the mutiny. That was the tipping point but the massacre of the Quorum, the way in which Adama in particular was captured--as series of wrong and or/violent acts against the Fleet got through Kelly's ("dumbass") skull and the character went through a huge shift in perception. Fun to watch, well-played, well written, (Michael Angeli).

 

Captain Aaron Kelly (Ty Olsson) breaks down in the sanctuary of the memorial to the dead.

Thanks to Battlestar Wiki: Summary-

Zarek and Gaeta’s mutiny continues when Adama and Tigh are arrested, while Laura tries to convince Tory to keep the base ship within the fleet and assist in stabilizing the Colonial government. Meanwhile, Galactica crew and civilians continue to battle throughout the ship, Zarek has the Quorum delegates murdered aboard Colonial One, and Gaeta insists on a court martial of Adama before his execution.

Below: Lee needed some weaponry so Kara shoved a (bad) guy's head into the wall while he was relieving himself standing up. ;)

 

I capped these. It took forever. Labour of love. Rights are SciFi Network/NBC. Plus there are two studio publicity shots mixed in there. You can tell. They are bigger than the others. These are just one-offs for when the video expires. No high res stuff. Sorry.

Note: Battlestar Wiki (source)

In re: Michael Trucco who plays Samuel T. Anders who was shot in the neck in this episode:

In December of 2007, Trucco was involved in a motor vehicle accident. He broke his neck, but managed a full recovery from an injury that most likely should have resulted in paralysis or death. As his injury occurred during the WGA strike, he was fortunate to be able to recover before production resumed. "I didn't want BSG to have to rewrite Anders as a sniveling, whining ball of despair who's hiding out in the corner."

Trucco now has a distinctive scar on the back of his neck. "I've been told they want to incorporate [it] into BSG--but that's all I'm allowed to say."

Please welcome "Lida" a Six model introduced in this episode.

Finally, the recently-aired 10 webisode Internet short series The Face of the Enemy.

For Felix Gaeta his overt hostility towards the Cylon mirrors his coming back to the Galactica and the meeting referenced by Tigh in the webisodes. Beginning with the episode prior to this one (Part 1), "The Oath," is the first Felix is back from his little space adventure with a killer robot. In hindsight Dualla ("Dee") wasn't the only one who needed some serious emotional help.

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Thanks again to the Ultimate Battlestar Galactica reference source: Battlestar Wiki. All the character links below direct you to BSG Wiki.
Battlestar Galactica stars

• Edward James Olmos as William Adama
• Mary McDonnell as Laura Roslin
• Katee Sackhoff as Kara "Starbuck" Thrace
• Jamie Bamber as Lee "Apollo" Adama
• James Callis as Gaius Baltar
• Tricia Helfer as Number Six
• Grace Park as Number Eight

as well as co-stars:

• Michael Hogan as Saul Tigh
• Aaron Douglas as Galen Tyrol
• Tahmoh Penikett as Karl "Helo" Agathon
• Kandyse McClure as Anastasia Dualla
• Paul Campbell as Billy Keikeya (2003-2006)
• Alessandro Juliani as Felix Gaeta

Oh, man they totally give away a cliffhanger from last night!
Glad I don't want to be a spoiler-virgin. I'm sure it's darn hard. Not safe even to watch the promos on tv.

This video is mislabeled (wishful thinking?) but it is for next week's episode.

Thank you, indysid!

American Promo for Battlestar Galactica

NEXT WEEK, "No Exit" S4 Episode 17

SPOILER AHEAD

Kara, I remember everything why we're here, Earth, everything.
Samuel T. Anders
lives!

James Callis as Gaius Baltar, Tricia Helfer as Six (NBC Promo photo)

Thanks to Spoiler TV

What's this? A completely new Six!?!
She looks a great deal like Tricia Helfer, the actress who plays all the Six incarnations--plus many hair extensions. What do you figure is going on here? Is she the 2009 version of Head!Six? Someone entirely new? (How did we miss her before?)

Snippets: From TV Guide via SpoilerTV

Here are thumbs of SciFi Magazines interview with all the major characters on Battlestar Galactica (link and zip after scans)

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Are there plans for any other Battlestar Galactica alums to return before the finale? — David
MICKEY: Well, Kate Vernon, who plays Ellen Tigh, tells us that she'll return to the show soon "to reunite with my husband in the good old-fashioned way." Another familiar face will reappear, but my BSG mole has sworn me to secrecy. Ah, gods be damned, I'll tell you this: One of the character's initials is A, and if I gave you the other it would give it away. (And no, it's not Anastasia Dualla — she's definitely dead.)

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This just getting so very dark and scary. Felix Gaeta is an avatar of deep, dark, evil symbolizing the entire hopeless mess.

Battlestar Galactica has a stellar ensemble cast consisting of - Edward James Olmos, Tricia Helfer, James Callis, Tahmoh Penikett, Katee Sackhoff, Mary McDonnell, Grace Park, Jamie Bamber, Michael Hogan and Aaron Douglas.

courtesy Justin Stephens/SCI FI Channel

And now for a bit of levity:  In these neat, short videos, Mary McDonnell and Edward James Olmos, one of the small screen's best couples ever, discuss with a TVGuide interviewer, their characters President Laura Roslin and Admiral William Adama, who they play on the Peabody Award-winning Sci-Fi channel/NBC drama, Battlestar Galactica, which is currently finishing up it's fourth and final season.

Mary and Eddie - TVGuide interview - Part 1

Mary and Eddie - TVGuide interview - Part 2

Mary and Eddie - TVGuide interview - Part 3

Credit: 30 January 2009 9:07 AM, PST | From TVGuide.com - Features

Opposition to the Cylon alliance turns violent, and those in support of the union find themselves under a deadly attack.

I just finished watching this for the second time and it still was a total mind-frak.

"The Oath" may be the best episode since the first--the miniseries.

Someone online said that it was like a punch in the gut (and then they went on to diss it, which I find unfathomable) and that's exactly what I said after the first viewing.

Felix Gaeta, who with Tom Zarek has cultivated the seeds of a full-out mutiny on the Galactica says to Zarek, "It's as if the whole world is upside down," by way of justifying the horrendous actions he's about to instigate. But that's exactly how it felt as a viewer. Nothing seemed real--it was surreal. People who have been on the show since the beginning, secondary characters we've seen over the four year-run of the show and so feel like we 'know"--they acted like complete strangers.

In particular, the behaviour of Racetrack and Seelix was truly appalling. Both women seemed to have lost their minds in almost as shocking a fashion as when Dee put a bullet in her brain. It's obvious that many of the crew have stopped feeling as human beings and have lapsed, ironically, into a robot-like state, a very violent one. I just did three hours of screen-capping the best scenes and there were a ton of them but they are so very disconcerting. More than that--they ripped the fabric of who I thought the Galactica crew was into teeny, tiny shreds.

One exception was the presence of every surviving Pegasus member as part of Felix's gang of mutineers. It seems that the logic in choosing them specifically would be that they were used to a vicious way of life aboard their ship and most of them still have a large streak of viciousness running through them--so they'd be good candidates for inflicting pain.

To put this in perspective, during the airing of the series over the past four seasons there have only been a small handful of truly shocking, "I almost can't bear to watch," scenes. I will name them. One. The miniseries when Caprica Six snapped the neck of the newborn just prior to the holocaust. Two. The Pegasus rape scene with Athena. Three. The scene on the Pegasus where the Six "Gina," was introduced as a near comatose, tortured/raped prisoner of war--and Gaius's and Head!Six's reaction to her. And here, now, in Season Four is the fourth time I've been shocked senseless by an episode of BSG.

Was this episode perfect in every way?  No. One thing that annoyed was the upgrade in the coiffures of the women--new haircuts and dye jobs. Just how does one manage that when they are down to subsisting on algae mash for their three squares every day?  And how did so many crewmen that we thought we knew change so violently? Sure, four years homeless in space would change people but the the degree of enabling mass murder? So many of them? I would have liked to have seen a few more scenes in previous episodes showing that things were going horribly sour for many. Instead we got way-too-many scenes of Baltar's flock. Yes, we saw Gaeta's descent since his leg amputation and, if you saw the webisodes, "The Face Of The Enemy," the horrendous experiences there. And true, Dee just killed herself, but the cylon Eight has been an accepted crew member for some time so the idea of acceptance of the Cylons should not be so very repulsive. We have many real-world examples where we've had to befriend those that were once our mortal enemies for the betterment of both.

The episode is only available for 30 days on this post so watch it here or wherever you wish but do watch it. Screencaps follow next week's preview. EDIT to add/I loved how Adama and Tigh acted in tandem, non-verbally to overcome both their well-armed Marine captors.

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 For now, a preview of next week's episode 4.16, "Blood On The Scales"

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With a smile on her face, Seelix (Jennifer Halley) sets Sam up for a brutal beating and imprisonment. (I want her dead now.)  She talks to Sam about the good old days back on New Caprica before the invasion and he agrees.

She is however a woman scorned. She tells Sam she use to wonder why he just wasn't into her. Was it your programming? she snarks. Sam seems puzzled but before he can say much, he is taken down and beaten severely.

Seelix looks bemused as she watches Sam's beating.

His attackers look at her and see no sign of distress. They seemed puzzled by how serene she seems./end scene

Felix has released Tom Zarek from the brig and Zarek returns to goad Lee into returning to Galactica so he can be ambushed. Racetrack flies Lee right into an assassination attempt. Bitch.

Kara interrupts after Connor finishes speechifying.

 

Bet he did not see that coming.

Kara invites them to join the dead marine. Skulls runs his mouth and the next instant he finds himself sprawled on the floor with a shoulder wound.

No more takers so Lee and Kara make their exit.

Thugs, including the rapist from the Pegasus, invade Helo and Athena's quarters. The Pegasus thug threatens to rape Athena as soon as he gets a chance. Predictably, Helo is angered and they bash his head in.

All three Agathons are thrown in the brig. Helo has a bad head wound. Six, who has also been beaten, worries that they will all be killed.

Sam helps Athena with Karl's wound but says he has no more ideas about what to do than anyone. Athena suggests that he might want to keep that on the down low.

Much more after the jump:

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.

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Finally: Eye Candy

Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff and Tricia Helfer discuss their characters on Battlestar Galactica at the ArcLight in Hollywood, June 11, 2008
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Battlestar Galactica - Battlestar Best Explosion: Resurrection Ship- The Hub *Video,* Does "Islanded In A Stream Of Stars" - S4E18 - Mean Something?

I was looking for the upcoming Battlestar Galactica episode called "Islanded in a Stream of Stars,*"
but found this first. If this video is what I think it is, it's really cool. I love the exteriors of the earlier model Cylon basestars, now commonly referred to as "baseships."

The video is of the destruction of the Cylon race's central "hub" of resurrection; it's basestars failed to protect it form Kara Thrace- "Starbuck" and Lee Adama-"Apollo."
The score by Bear McCreary paired up with the scene is tear-inducing--so vital to the story.

Synopsis: Battlestar Galactica- Battlestar Best Explosion: The Resurrection Ship A merciless Viper attack proves that Cylons in big glass ships shouldn't grow clones.

*I wanted to know if "Islanded in a Stream of Stars," meant anything in particular."Imran Ali" blogs: Islanded In A Stream of Stars is from Night on the Great Beach, "in Henry Beston's The Outermost House...

"For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in its stream of stars— pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across eternal seas of space and time."

I hope the episode is stellar as I think this is my favourite BSG episode title evar.

NEW 2.26.08 Battlestar Galactica SNEAK PEEK Video S4 E17, Promo Canada- SPACE - Someone To Watch Over Me

Based on what I been able to cap so far using both the American and the Canadian promos and now this, I'm going to take a guess that Chief, Galen Tyrol is the one at the bottom of this post in the super-blurry screen caps and he is attempting to bust Boomer out of the brig. There is no way the guy that Chief has become--probably always was bubbling under the surface--is going to allow the Cylon Rebels to in his words, "kill (Boomer)."
At first I was a tiny bit puzzled about why it was the Rebels going after Boomer but it was she of course that sided with Cavil--going against the rest of the Eight's as well as the Rebels. They are seeking vengeance while it seems that Adama is willing to set her free.

American Caps and Canadian together NEW 02.26.09 Battlestar Galactica: Synopsis and Screen Caps: Someone To Watch Over Me : Canada's not giving much away this week--mostly dialogue.

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Dialogue from the new caps:

Six to Adama and Roslin: "We don't want her set free. We want to try (sp) Boomer for treason."

Hotdog: "Don't do it! Kara, don't do it!"

Tyrol: "How many of us ended up with the people we really wanted to be with?" (voiceover)

The Canadian Space network promo has dialogue that the American SciFi network promo does not.
Make sure to watch both videos. My first post on this eppy is here. Each has differing strong points.

Battlestar Galactica: Synopsis/Screen Caps: Someone To Watch Over Me/Tricia Helfer on Jimmy Kimmel Video and on Six

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The caps above are from a SciFi preview of the next episode. I'm not getting much in terms of things startling. I don't' think Hotdog dies, despite all his grimacing.

Kara is iffy and her quest to discover her "roots" so to speak has been a long one.

I've noticed the writers sneaking in references to the show (pilot) "Caprica" which they have pitched to the SciFi/NBC network so Kara and her possibly being the relative of someone not-human that will be be on that show is possible. It remains to be seen if it's plausible.

And Chief or Tyrol, no one seems to call him Galen much, and Boomer/Sharon Valeri. I say, why not? They sort of rushed it with the killing of Cally and deep-sixing of little Nicky. I'm pretty convinced that the plan was for Boomer and Chief to have a second encounter even if it is not as fun as the first go-round (was until the end).
That's all the American preview is dolling out for next episode.

I've read differing opinions on the "Ellen Entertains the Fleet" (Deadlock, the last) episode and really, Ellen Tigh was never likable. And I did wonder how much of the Final Five's original personalities come back. Already, Tori has acted drastically differently than the Tori of the right-hand-of-Laura Roslin days. Who says their personalities were wiped completely? Good old Bro. Cavil quite possibly couldn't have been that talented.
Tyrol and Tigh have been very different since finding out they are Cylon so why would it be so hard to buy that Ellen is Ellen but she switches gears when she's around certain people?

I agree. WTH!?! with all the lingering shots on Adama mourning his baby,the Galactica? It's been shown again and again that Adama is highly pragmatic when it comes right down to it. This is out of character for him to flip out so much--unless Laura's imminent death is taking it's toll. Maybe so. He's only human.(Sorry.) I give EJO a pass but they could have cut two of those scenes (not the one with a lingering shot of a 6's cute, perky bum though, leave that in).

In many ways "Deadlocked" was about loss and most of us don't like to be reminded of that harsh fact of life when we are trying to be entertained. Maybe the writers sort of rushed through it ,too.

I think I got this studio shot from
io9.com, but read about it at SpoilerTV.com. Both sites talked about Ron Moore's "Cylon Bible" to which he refers about a number of specifics in re:the Cylon world-view and "world" itself.

I'm hoping Someone To Watch Over Me is good.

Boomer is being reintroduced is sort of cool. Plus I'm a big fan of Aaron Douglas as Tyrol.
Starbuck dealing with something not Sam is a good choice for next week.
And whatever is happening to the Galactica--it can make easy sense depending on a number of situations, including the most obvious one.

Synopsis: Someone To Watch Over Me

Friday, February 27th,2009 @ 9:00 my time and 10:00pm yours - Sci-Fi Channel


Starbuck discovers a hidden musical ability that bears a mysterious significance to the final five Cylons, and her tune is found to have a connection with three-year-old human-Cylon hybrid Hera. The president authorises Boomer's release from the Brig so she can stand trial for treason on the Cylon Base Ship.

From the couple dozen clues doled out just prior to Season 4.5's start.

Back then my info about this photo was: "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."

Videos from Multipleverses

Interview: Tricia Helfer Talks BSG On Jimmy Kimmel

Interview with Kate Vernon about being the last cylon after a funny recap of the first part of this last half of the final season

Battlestar Galactica: Top Sexy Moment/Baltar's Interrogation Hallucinations

Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock - Recap, BSG Promo - Someone to Watch Over Me - BSG *SPOILERS*

Battlestar Galactica Recap (s.4 : ep.18)|01:40| Recap of BSG episode 418, "Deadlock".

Battlestar Galactica: Canadian *SPOILERS* Video Preview for "Deadlock" -You Got Her Pregnant?

The Canadian previews for Battlestar Galactica always give away good stuff. They are hugely spoilery and this one is no exception. Enjoy!

Thanks to SevorTB!

Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.18 - Deadlock - Promo Video #1, #2, Caprica Kicks Butt! - Photos *SPOILERS*

Boy-oh-boy when Caprica Six told Saul Tigh during the mutiny in which they were being hunted that she could "take care of herself," she was not kidding!

But then again we've always known that Caprica has all the right stuff.

Well. I was wondering was was going to become of the pregnant-with-Final-Fiver Saul Tigh's "child" Caprica Six, now that Mrs. Tigh has returned from the dead. It would be pretty awkward for her to remain living with her lover--who is in essence her father, especially now that "mom" Ellen has returned. With no spoilers I'm guessing that Caprica just takes leave without telling Tigh that she's going.

BSG: Promo Video #1 "Deadlock"

Oh my gods. It's Ellen Tigh.

 

 

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Battlestar Galactica - NO EXIT Recap Video - Helo Video, Interview with "Ellen" Kate Vernon *SPOILERS*

First found at and thanks to Spoiler TV!
Tahmoh Penikett talks about the end of Battlestar Galactica

 

Battlestar Galactica:

Interview with Kate Vernon, The Final of the Final Five Cylons after the jump.

Battlestar Galactica Screen Caps S4 E17: No Exit: Sam's Bullet-Induced Cylon Memories

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In sickbay, Dr. Cottle prepares to drill holes in Samuel Anders' head to relieve pressure caused a hematoma which is result of a bullet that struck him in the head (Blood on the Scales).

Anders, his head shaved and in a brace, recalls various scenes of himself in the past, saying outloud, "Among bright stars, I'm lost. There's a new tide. All the forgotten faces, all the forgotten children, we seek the forgotten language..."

When Kara Thrace demands Cottle take out the bullet, Cottle tells her that relieving the pressure is required before he can call up another surgeon from the ship Inchon Velle, to remove the bullet.

Anders continues to experience visions and talk of them as he recalls the Temple of Five, the nuked shoreline of Earth, and how Ellen Tigh loved the water.

Later, back in sickbay, Anders awakens, asking Kara to gather up the other "Finals." He remembers "everything" about his past as a Cylon and its significance.

Present day, back in Galactica's sickbay, Anders tells Tyrol, Tory Foster, and Saul Tigh of their past lives on Earth, that Foster and Tyrol were lovers. When Saul recalls trying to get Ellen out of debris as the nukes hit Earth, Anders confirms that all five of them were downloaded to a research ship high above the planet, inferring that the Five were warned that an end was coming.

When Tigh questions if the Five invented resurrection and Tory questions why such technology was needed when the Earth-bound Cylons could have children, Anders corrects them, saying that they re-invented it: organic memory transfer, originally a technology of the Thirteenth Tribe on Kobol.

Sam's wife, Kara Thrace is also at his bedside insisting that Anders rest but he refuses, needing to tell everything he recalls.

Sam T. remembers that resurrection fell into disuse when the Cylons of his type learned to reproduce biologically. The Five, in their past lives, worked tirelessly to "reinvent" that ability.

It was Ellen who made an "intuitive leap," Anders recalls, before Cottle arrives and orders everyone out.

Anders tells Tigh and the group that the reason the Five left nuked Earth with a goal of getting back to the 12 Tribes was to warn them that they must take good care of the Cylons they built or suffer the same fate as Earth. But it was too late: the First Cylon War between the Colonies had already started on their arrival.

(Tory Foster questions why the Five arrived two thousand years later. Anders notes that jump drives weren't invented yet. The Five's ship traveled at near-light speed, experiencing the effects of relativistic space travel where time slowed for them on their journey back, allowing them to stay alive.)

After Samuel T. recovers from a painful-looking spasm, he goes on talking.

The Five met with the Cylons, telling them that if they would stop the war against the Twelve Colonies of Kobol, the Five would aid them in further development of organic Cylons. The Centurions were already experimenting with the beings known as the Hybrids  as shown in the telefilm, Razor, but they'd not progressed to an autonomous model.

Sam tells the group that, in exchange for peace, the Five helped develop the eight humanoid Cylon models and gave them resurrection as well.

Kara exclaims,"eight"." At the same moment all gathered realize that the "Significant Seven" was originally eight models. One model went missing.

Before Anders can clarify, he experiences a seizure....

Anders's speech continues to break up (aphasia) he frets aloud that his *new* memories might be lost to further surgery. Anders tries to talk more but his speech breaks up more in to strings of unintelligible words--aphasia, affected by the injury.

Anders continues to try to put off the surgery to tell everything he recalls, but his wife overrules him and he is prepped for the surgery.

As he is prepped Anders continues his story. He tells of the first humanoid created, Cavil, who in turn helped build the remaining humanoid Cylons. He tells them that Ellen believed that the original Centurion's belief in God would stop the cycle of violence between the humans and Cylons... but Cavil was spiteful and did not believe in God or mercy. He turned on the Five and killed them by trapping them in a compartment and venting the oxygen. When the Five downloaded, he boxed them. Later, Cavil unboxed the Five but implanted them with new memories.... He unboxed Saul Tigh first, then Ellen and the rest later.

Anders tells of Number Seven, one model they called Daniel.

Anders emphatically orders Saul Tigh to stay with the Fleet, that a "miracle" was about to happen. (My guess: Caprica Six's impending giving birth.)

Anders is wheeled off to surgery.

Big Problem plot-logic wise- Thanks to Battlestar Wiki for their superior skills at analyzing this stuff.

Illogically, despite having re-invented Resurrection technology, the Final Five and their civilization had not developed FTL Jump technology(!), although they did have lightspeed capable drives that allowed "subluminal" travel but had the side effect of time dilation. By the time the Five reached the Twelve Colonies, their brother twelve tribes and their own Cylon opponents had the use of FTL which the Twelve Colonies developed independently. Inversely the Twelve Colonies had no access to Resurrection technology. The Final Five presumably integrated FTL into all their future Cylon technology.

(Saul Tigh's military history in the First Cylon War is revealed to be false. Read much more detail at Battlestar Wiki.)

The biggest questions I was left going "huh?" about are asked by Battlestar Wiki:

-How is it possible that the Thirteenth Tribe's bio-engineering technology was far advanced of the other Twelve Colonies, but they did not have Jump-technology?

-If the Final Five did not have Jump-technology, and the Colonial Cylons' Jump-technology was on par with that of the humans, how did the Cylons develop Jump-Drives that were far more advanced than the Humans?

Battlestar Galactica: ReCap: No Exit Video Intro, NEW Opening Caps,"No Exit" Ellen's Resurrection Screen Caps

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Confused at all about the sequence of events?

Go to the authority: Battlestar Wiki.

I've included a snippet below of Battlestar Wiki's analysis of the opening sequence of "No Exit."

For much more detail please click over to read more at the Battlestar Wiki site.

• A unique sequence begins this episode, which summarizes in greater detail the origin of the Cylons. The episode begins with the phrase "This has happened before and will happen again" as a vista of the decimated Earth appears, now known not only as the home of the Thirteenth Tribe but as an all-Cylon colony.
• The opening sequence shows original Cylon Centurions in a Cylon War-era Raider, and a clip of what appears to be Centurions boarding a Galactica type battlestar.
• As the Cylon War-era scenes are replaced by present-day scenes of the return of the Cylons, the Fall of the Twelve Colonies and the struggles of the Fleet, the screen text shows: "The Cylons were created by man. They rebelled. Then they vanished. Forty years later, they came back, they evolved. Fifty thousand, two-hundred ninety-eight human survivors, hunted by the Cylons. Eleven models were known--one was sacrificed."

• A flashback scene shows Ellen Tigh taking a tainted cup of alcohol from her husband, Saul Tigh, who was obliged to end her life for her conspiring with the Cylons (Exodus, Part II).

• As scenes of Ellen flash, an elaborate visualization of a Cylon datastream (in a rather Matrix-like sequence) appears, concluding with Ellen's resurrection in a resurrection tank.

No Exit Video Intro: Thanks to SevorTB/ ddt73.

Recap: No Exit (humourous) Thanks to SevorTB/ ddt73.

Battlestar Galactica stars:

 Edward James Olmos as William Adama * Mary McDonnell as Laura Roslin * Katee Sackhoff as Kara "Starbuck" Thrace * Jamie Bamber as Lee "Apollo" Adama * James Callis as Gaius Baltar * Tricia Helfer as Number Six * Grace Park as Number Eight as well as co-stars: * Kate Vernon as Ellen Tigh, Michael Hogan as Saul Tigh * Aaron Douglas as Galen Tyrol * Tahmoh Penikett as Karl "Helo" Agathon Also: * Donnelly Rhodes as Doctor Cottle * Bodie Olmos as Lieutenant Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza * Kerry Norton as Layne Ishay *John Hodgman as Dr. Gerard

Battlestar Galactica - Preview BSG Video: "Deadlock" S4, E18 - *SPOILERS*

I watched Battlestar Galactica twice tonight and I'm finishing reading Ender's Game for the 1st time. 

Fun times.

My big night: Bailey's and ice coffee and watching BSG the second time alone--which was heaven in that I could go back and rewatch whenever I wanted to. It was such an information-packed episode, not that I'm complaining. I took mental notes the second time around though I know but I won't get it all until I cap it.

Summary Below: Thanks to Battlestar Wiki whom I'm depending upon to help understand every nuance of "No Exit."

Summary
After resurrecting from her death on New Caprica Ellen is held captive by Cavil aboard a base ship, and on Galactica Anders undergoes emergency surgery and begins to recall the truth about the Cylon race. Meanwhile, Tyrol informs Adama about the extent of Galactica’s damage, and Roslin and Lee decide how to begin rebuilding the civilian government.

Happy V-Day!

* Donnelly Rhodes as Doctor Cottle * Bodie Olmos as Lieutenant Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza * Kerry Norton as Layne Ishay * Brad Dryborough as Lieutenant Louis Hoshi * Christina Schild as Playa Palacios * Biski Gugushe as Sekou Hamilton * Keegan Connor Tracy as Jeanne * Lara Gilchrist as Paulla Schaffer * Finn R. Devitt as Nicholas Tyrol * Andrew McIlroy as Jacob Cantrell * Marilyn Norry as Reza Chronides * Judith Maxie as Picon Delegate

BSG stars:

• Edward James Olmos as William Adama
• Mary McDonnell as Laura Roslin
• Katee Sackhoff as Kara "Starbuck" Thrace
• Jamie Bamber as Lee "Apollo" Adama
• James Callis as Gaius Baltar
• Tricia Helfer as Number Six
• Grace Park as Number Eight

as well as co-stars:

• Michael Hogan as Saul Tigh
• Aaron Douglas as Galen Tyrol
• Tahmoh Penikett as Karl "Helo" Agathon

Battlestar Galactica - Recap Video - Blood on the Scales - S4E04 *SPOILERS*

Blood on the Scales, Episode 4, Season 4.5 of Battlestar Galactica recap video.

Battlestar Galactica - Season 4, Episode 16 "Blood on the Scales" Screen Caps - Romo Lampkin - Redemption

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Romo Lampkin : Redemption

I was really happy with the use of Romo Lampkin in "Blood on the Scales." Very nice work by actor Mark Sheppard. (This is Part 2. Part One, episode 15, "The Oath," is here.)

I couldn't see this chunk of the story from any other angle but redemption. Romo is a thief, a liar, and overall pretty self-serving. That he should reconsider his choice to help someone who is quite literally dying very much gave Romo Lampkin a bit more humanness, certainly his likability factor improved a great deal. And he mentioned  as being taken captive,  that they need to feed Jake, the dog Lee Adama gave him after discovering that Romo's only surviving family member, his wife's cat, Lance had died. His was only one of a number of characters being turned upside-down in "The Oath". My favourite one after Romo was Captain Aaron Kelly, who Tigh, when he recognized him as one of his captors, the former third-in-command of Galactica, called him a "brig rat." Prior to Baltar's trial in Season 3, Kelly had insisted that the only way to keep him from killing Cylons was to put him in the brig.

From his bio on Battlestar Wiki

When the trial of Gaius Baltar draws near, Kelly tries to disrupt the proceedings with a series of bombings. One of the attacks kills Baltar's lawyer. An attack on his next lawyer, Romo Lampkin, is thwarted only by chance. A third attack injures Lampkin. When questioned, Kelly says that he couldn't handle sending off pilots to their deaths anymore, and would continue to try if he is not locked up (The Son Also Rises). Because of this, it is unlikely that he is currently on active duty in his role as LSO.

After the discovery of a devastated Earth (and likely after being freed from the brig by the mutineers), he joins Felix Gaeta's mutiny and leads a squad of marines in pursuit of Admiral Adama and Colonel Tigh. (The Oath)

He later defends an arms locker and runs into Tyrol and after a discussion with him, lets him go. He splits off from Adama's firing squad and later tells Lee and his group where Adama is and joins them in their rescue of him. Kelly takes part in Adama's recapturing of Galactica as well. (Blood on the Scales)

But this is what he should be doing: Captain Aaron Kelly is possibly third-in-command aboard Galactica, ranking behind Admiral William Adama and Colonel Saul Tigh; his standing in relation to Major Lee Adama in the chain of command is unclear. As the LSO (Landing Signal Officer), he is responsible for flight operations - launching and landing spacecraft - on the ship.

I had a friendly disagreement about him. I knew Kelly had attained a high-level in the military and remembered seeing quite a lot of him in the show, but not lately. I'd forgotten about the bomb intended for Baltar's lawyers back during the aftermath of New Caprica. And I did not-- unlike quite a few of the hardcore bad guys I saw-- think he came from Pegasus.

I must note again that the storyline and characters are as good as the group collaboration that brings them together. The actor who plays Kelly, Ty Olsson did a great job in this episode from depicting a man who was acting out of hate and fear to  his realizing how hatred and fear doesn't solve a problem. Finally, the biggest leap for Kelly--that Galen Tyrol, who had been close enough to Kelly once to call him a nickname, despite being a cylon was still Tyrol, still his friend --and so he let him go during the mutiny. That was the tipping point but the massacre of the Quorum, the way in which Adama in particular was captured--as series of wrong and or/violent acts against the Fleet got through Kelly's ("dumbass") skull and the character went through a huge shift in perception. Fun to watch, well-played, well written, (Michael Angeli).

 

Captain Aaron Kelly (Ty Olsson) breaks down in the sanctuary of the memorial to the dead.

Thanks to Battlestar Wiki: Summary-

Zarek and Gaeta’s mutiny continues when Adama and Tigh are arrested, while Laura tries to convince Tory to keep the base ship within the fleet and assist in stabilizing the Colonial government. Meanwhile, Galactica crew and civilians continue to battle throughout the ship, Zarek has the Quorum delegates murdered aboard Colonial One, and Gaeta insists on a court martial of Adama before his execution.

Below: Lee needed some weaponry so Kara shoved a (bad) guy's head into the wall while he was relieving himself standing up. ;)

 

I capped these. It took forever. Labour of love. Rights are SciFi Network/NBC. Plus there are two studio publicity shots mixed in there. You can tell. They are bigger than the others. These are just one-offs for when the video expires. No high res stuff. Sorry.

Note: Battlestar Wiki (source)

In re: Michael Trucco who plays Samuel T. Anders who was shot in the neck in this episode:

In December of 2007, Trucco was involved in a motor vehicle accident. He broke his neck, but managed a full recovery from an injury that most likely should have resulted in paralysis or death. As his injury occurred during the WGA strike, he was fortunate to be able to recover before production resumed. "I didn't want BSG to have to rewrite Anders as a sniveling, whining ball of despair who's hiding out in the corner."

Trucco now has a distinctive scar on the back of his neck. "I've been told they want to incorporate [it] into BSG--but that's all I'm allowed to say."

Please welcome "Lida" a Six model introduced in this episode.

Finally, the recently-aired 10 webisode Internet short series The Face of the Enemy.

For Felix Gaeta his overt hostility towards the Cylon mirrors his coming back to the Galactica and the meeting referenced by Tigh in the webisodes. Beginning with the episode prior to this one (Part 1), "The Oath," is the first Felix is back from his little space adventure with a killer robot. In hindsight Dualla ("Dee") wasn't the only one who needed some serious emotional help.

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Thanks again to the Ultimate Battlestar Galactica reference source: Battlestar Wiki. All the character links below direct you to BSG Wiki.
Battlestar Galactica stars

• Edward James Olmos as William Adama
• Mary McDonnell as Laura Roslin
• Katee Sackhoff as Kara "Starbuck" Thrace
• Jamie Bamber as Lee "Apollo" Adama
• James Callis as Gaius Baltar
• Tricia Helfer as Number Six
• Grace Park as Number Eight

as well as co-stars:

• Michael Hogan as Saul Tigh
• Aaron Douglas as Galen Tyrol
• Tahmoh Penikett as Karl "Helo" Agathon
• Kandyse McClure as Anastasia Dualla
• Paul Campbell as Billy Keikeya (2003-2006)
• Alessandro Juliani as Felix Gaeta

Battlestar Galactica American PROMO/ Hugetastic BSG Canadian promo *SPOILER* BSG Next Week, "No Exit" S4 Episode 17

Oh, man they totally give away a cliffhanger from last night!
Glad I don't want to be a spoiler-virgin. I'm sure it's darn hard. Not safe even to watch the promos on tv.

This video is mislabeled (wishful thinking?) but it is for next week's episode.

Thank you, indysid!

American Promo for Battlestar Galactica

NEXT WEEK, "No Exit" S4 Episode 17

SPOILER AHEAD

Kara, I remember everything why we're here, Earth, everything.
Samuel T. Anders
lives!

Battlestar Galactica: S4E16, Blood on the Scales, Promo Slideshow/ A New Six?!/ SciFi Mag. Scan Photos

James Callis as Gaius Baltar, Tricia Helfer as Six (NBC Promo photo)

Thanks to Spoiler TV

What's this? A completely new Six!?!
She looks a great deal like Tricia Helfer, the actress who plays all the Six incarnations--plus many hair extensions. What do you figure is going on here? Is she the 2009 version of Head!Six? Someone entirely new? (How did we miss her before?)

Snippets: From TV Guide via SpoilerTV

Here are thumbs of SciFi Magazines interview with all the major characters on Battlestar Galactica (link and zip after scans)

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Are there plans for any other Battlestar Galactica alums to return before the finale? — David
MICKEY: Well, Kate Vernon, who plays Ellen Tigh, tells us that she'll return to the show soon "to reunite with my husband in the good old-fashioned way." Another familiar face will reappear, but my BSG mole has sworn me to secrecy. Ah, gods be damned, I'll tell you this: One of the character's initials is A, and if I gave you the other it would give it away. (And no, it's not Anastasia Dualla — she's definitely dead.)

Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.5, Episode 16 SPACE Promo- Blood on the Scales, Mary and Eddie TVGuide Video Interviews Pts. 1,2,3. Eddie Tells Adama's ending! Again! *SPOILERS*

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This just getting so very dark and scary. Felix Gaeta is an avatar of deep, dark, evil symbolizing the entire hopeless mess.

Battlestar Galactica has a stellar ensemble cast consisting of - Edward James Olmos, Tricia Helfer, James Callis, Tahmoh Penikett, Katee Sackhoff, Mary McDonnell, Grace Park, Jamie Bamber, Michael Hogan and Aaron Douglas.

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And now for a bit of levity:  In these neat, short videos, Mary McDonnell and Edward James Olmos, one of the small screen's best couples ever, discuss with a TVGuide interviewer, their characters President Laura Roslin and Admiral William Adama, who they play on the Peabody Award-winning Sci-Fi channel/NBC drama, Battlestar Galactica, which is currently finishing up it's fourth and final season.

Mary and Eddie - TVGuide interview - Part 1

Mary and Eddie - TVGuide interview - Part 2

Mary and Eddie - TVGuide interview - Part 3

Credit: 30 January 2009 9:07 AM, PST | From TVGuide.com - Features

Battlestar Galactica, Episode 4.15: The Oath: Screen Caps, Recap Video, Season 4.5 Episode 16: Promo Video, Blood on the Scales *SPOILERS*

Opposition to the Cylon alliance turns violent, and those in support of the union find themselves under a deadly attack.

I just finished watching this for the second time and it still was a total mind-frak.

"The Oath" may be the best episode since the first--the miniseries.

Someone online said that it was like a punch in the gut (and then they went on to diss it, which I find unfathomable) and that's exactly what I said after the first viewing.

Felix Gaeta, who with Tom Zarek has cultivated the seeds of a full-out mutiny on the Galactica says to Zarek, "It's as if the whole world is upside down," by way of justifying the horrendous actions he's about to instigate. But that's exactly how it felt as a viewer. Nothing seemed real--it was surreal. People who have been on the show since the beginning, secondary characters we've seen over the four year-run of the show and so feel like we 'know"--they acted like complete strangers.

In particular, the behaviour of Racetrack and Seelix was truly appalling. Both women seemed to have lost their minds in almost as shocking a fashion as when Dee put a bullet in her brain. It's obvious that many of the crew have stopped feeling as human beings and have lapsed, ironically, into a robot-like state, a very violent one. I just did three hours of screen-capping the best scenes and there were a ton of them but they are so very disconcerting. More than that--they ripped the fabric of who I thought the Galactica crew was into teeny, tiny shreds.

One exception was the presence of every surviving Pegasus member as part of Felix's gang of mutineers. It seems that the logic in choosing them specifically would be that they were used to a vicious way of life aboard their ship and most of them still have a large streak of viciousness running through them--so they'd be good candidates for inflicting pain.

To put this in perspective, during the airing of the series over the past four seasons there have only been a small handful of truly shocking, "I almost can't bear to watch," scenes. I will name them. One. The miniseries when Caprica Six snapped the neck of the newborn just prior to the holocaust. Two. The Pegasus rape scene with Athena. Three. The scene on the Pegasus where the Six "Gina," was introduced as a near comatose, tortured/raped prisoner of war--and Gaius's and Head!Six's reaction to her. And here, now, in Season Four is the fourth time I've been shocked senseless by an episode of BSG.

Was this episode perfect in every way?  No. One thing that annoyed was the upgrade in the coiffures of the women--new haircuts and dye jobs. Just how does one manage that when they are down to subsisting on algae mash for their three squares every day?  And how did so many crewmen that we thought we knew change so violently? Sure, four years homeless in space would change people but the the degree of enabling mass murder? So many of them? I would have liked to have seen a few more scenes in previous episodes showing that things were going horribly sour for many. Instead we got way-too-many scenes of Baltar's flock. Yes, we saw Gaeta's descent since his leg amputation and, if you saw the webisodes, "The Face Of The Enemy," the horrendous experiences there. And true, Dee just killed herself, but the cylon Eight has been an accepted crew member for some time so the idea of acceptance of the Cylons should not be so very repulsive. We have many real-world examples where we've had to befriend those that were once our mortal enemies for the betterment of both.

The episode is only available for 30 days on this post so watch it here or wherever you wish but do watch it. Screencaps follow next week's preview. EDIT to add/I loved how Adama and Tigh acted in tandem, non-verbally to overcome both their well-armed Marine captors.

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 For now, a preview of next week's episode 4.16, "Blood On The Scales"

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With a smile on her face, Seelix (Jennifer Halley) sets Sam up for a brutal beating and imprisonment. (I want her dead now.)  She talks to Sam about the good old days back on New Caprica before the invasion and he agrees.

She is however a woman scorned. She tells Sam she use to wonder why he just wasn't into her. Was it your programming? she snarks. Sam seems puzzled but before he can say much, he is taken down and beaten severely.

Seelix looks bemused as she watches Sam's beating.

His attackers look at her and see no sign of distress. They seemed puzzled by how serene she seems./end scene

Felix has released Tom Zarek from the brig and Zarek returns to goad Lee into returning to Galactica so he can be ambushed. Racetrack flies Lee right into an assassination attempt. Bitch.

Kara interrupts after Connor finishes speechifying.

 

Bet he did not see that coming.

Kara invites them to join the dead marine. Skulls runs his mouth and the next instant he finds himself sprawled on the floor with a shoulder wound.

No more takers so Lee and Kara make their exit.

Thugs, including the rapist from the Pegasus, invade Helo and Athena's quarters. The Pegasus thug threatens to rape Athena as soon as he gets a chance. Predictably, Helo is angered and they bash his head in.

All three Agathons are thrown in the brig. Helo has a bad head wound. Six, who has also been beaten, worries that they will all be killed.

Sam helps Athena with Karl's wound but says he has no more ideas about what to do than anyone. Athena suggests that he might want to keep that on the down low.

Much more after the jump:

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.

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Finally: Eye Candy

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