Battlestar Galactica Revival

you think they named a character gaius and made sure it was a man w/ an english accent playing him as a nod to the connection between the roman empire and british empire

I like the ext. shots, with the crash zoom with a little bit of pan & tilt to focus on the action. For me, it helps with immersion & reality(if you will), like there's actually a dude operating a camera filming real ships blasting at each other.

rjg have you read Ulysses.

I know someone who has

You know someone.

that's right

By MICHAEL HINMAN
Source: SyFy Portal
Jul-15-2007

They aren't exactly Webisodes like fans got with "The Resistance" last year, but SciFi Channel is taking a similar route in an effort to promote the upcoming "Battlestar Galactica" telemovie "Razor."

The network plans to air an eight-week series of shorts lasting between two and three minutes that will give fans some background on the original Cylon-Colonial War, featuring scenes of a young William "Husker" Adama as a Viper pilot, according to a press release by the network.

The mini-episodes will premiere in October during the network's primetime schedule, and will star Nico Cortez as the young Adama, who discovers a weapon that will provide the backdrop for the upcoming telemovie featuring the Battlestar Pegasus.

SciFi Channel announced that "Razor," which will be made available on DVD a short time later, will air on the network Nov. 24. The shorts, written by Michael Taylor and directed by Wayne Rose and Felix Alcala, apparently were part of the original script that were cut because of time from the final movie, a source tells SyFy Portal. The scenes featured in the promotional cuts will be included in the uncut movie release on DVD as part of the overall movie.

Not only will the mini-episodes be aired on SciFi Channel, but they also will be part of the network's Web site as well, almost making them Webisodes, but just not quite.

According to the network, the telemovie will feature Apollo's (Jamie Bamber) first days in command of the Pegasus, which took place chronologically in the show's second season. It also stars Michelle Forbes, who reprises her role as Adm. Cain.

"Battlestar Galactica" is expected to premiere its fourth and final season in 2008.

The Young Bill Adama Chronicles

razor leaked

yep! stoked.

im in the middle of the 2nd season and this shit is SO GOOD and i cant actually read this thread for fear of spoilers but GODDAMN do i love it

o rly>??

next season delayed till april :(

I saw that they are playing Razor in a few theatres.

wow, that was not good.

worse than the last season?

i thought it was ok.

It basically felt like a standard second-rate sci-fi show. Predictable, unfascinating... Without anything that would have possibly made me "tell all my friends".

wait are you talking about Razor or the show in general?

Anyway...this definitely had a "side story" feel to it. It mostly just fleshed out stuff you already knew about the Pegasus back story. The only things of true interest were the Cylon bits, especially towards the end with *SPOILER*the hybrid creature's warning about Kara and the reappearance of the old Centurion models*END SPOILER*. It's definitely more or less fiLler until the next season starts (fucking APRIL ARRRGGHHH!).

I mean Razor.

SPOILERS
Yeah, ok there was an interesting but opaque tidbit with reference to next season, but overall it played out like JAG-in-space or something. Flashbacks are almost always a lame vehicle for extended action, and I felt like the script was reverse-engineered for a) the chance to show lesbian Cane (oh look! heartless butch lesbians! how uncliched!); b) the chance to show old centurion models.

The "hybrid" thing was to me vague, implausible, and boring. (<I>That's</i> the Cylon "god"!? Some lost, middle-of-nowhere half-man guarded by easily defeated antiques? Unless you add some tragedy to that, some commentary on it -- so lame.) The shooting of the civilians was horribly scripted and shot, so move-of-the-week. I liked the shooting of the XO but that had been telegraphed so far in advance. The suicide at the end was so low-stakes because we knew Kara couldn't die. In fact, the whole thing was so low-stakes because we knew exactly how everything turned out. One of Battlestar's greatest strengths (other than the nuances of its scripted stories) is the way it isn't afraid to pull the rug from under your expectations, and here everything just trotted out as it was exposited, essentially, a whole season ago. It didn't even widen the Galactica world: I don't feel I was exposed to a new section of society, or new kinds of voices. Just another steely, flawed officer, and some clueless red-shirt civilians.

super disappointed. can't see how this story was exciting enough for Ron Moore (or the network!) to want to invest all this time and energy. would have been a filler episode during an average season, and in no way justified the special care or attention.

I don't really disagree with your assessment of the ep (I just happened to enjoy it more than you perhaps), but:

*SPOILER*

The "hybrid" thing was to me vague, implausible, and boring. (<I>That's</i> the Cylon "god"!? Some lost, middle-of-nowhere half-man guarded by easily defeated antiques? Unless you add some tragedy to that, some commentary on it -- so lame.)

Was it really implied that it was THE Cylon God? I didn't get that impression. I might be wrong though. It was, as you said, rather vague and not too well thought out.

I liked that they depicted something of how the Cylons began to mimic humans, but it could've been done better. At least we know where those basestar hybrid pilots came from now lol.

*END SPOILERS*

I am watching Razor tomorrow so not reading above but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO \/:

Battlestar Galactica's executive producer Ronald D. Moore has accepted that the show may never resume filming following the current writers' strike in America.

In a posting on his blog after production on the acclaimed show's final season shut down, Moore stated: “I refuse to believe that we won’t finish, that we won’t be back to film our final stories, but I know and accept there is that possibility.”

Currently, only 13 episodes have been filmed with nine yet to be completed. Moore added: “I am ready to put the rest of the story on the table and take the risk that I’ll never be able to tell it, in support of this strike. Like Adama says, you make your choices and then you live with them.”

aww, i spect they'll get written and scifi will want to get em filmed. eventually

I'm beginning to think that BSG is my favourite TV show of all time, but nothing disguises that Razor is two rejected season two script ideas crammed together.

Still, season four cannot come quickly enough. As long as it concludes the story properly, that is.

And the last webisode virtually confirms that Lee Adama is a cylon.

i bet it's gonna end something like this: they all discover that the "humans" in the show are actually an organic synthetic race descended from a robotic race that Earthlings built (paralleling the Cylons' creation and evolution), then subsequently exiled, probably after a war with the OG humans. they settle on Kobol, then the rest you can prolly guess.

"all this has happened before..." etc.

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I thought it was pretty ripping.

have not yet watched
i want to but i don't want to

It's good. It's like a missing episode of Season 2, with some Season 4 foreshadowing.

why is Season 3 DVD not even in production

dvd strike

the real reason is they tend to release seasons a couple weeks before the new season preems to build hype.

PAPER SHORTAGE

working out how to make DVDs with cut off corners?

I have Season 3 on DVD - There was a collection of all three seasons (+ the miniseries) that I bought for 55 of my english pounds.

s3 DVD has been out in the UK since September.

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they should bring back that show Quark while theyre at it.
teh universal studios ride was unparalleled, cept by the
bionic man saskwatch tunnel. so it goes.

Does the stuff about "We can't just jump without coordinates! We might end up in a sun!" stuff bother anyone else? I mean, I know how little of space is actually occupied. Why don't these guys who live and work in space understand the odds?

it actually happened tho during one mission one of the raptors ended up inside a mountain!

well why the fuck is s3 available in the UK but not the US then

Not the same at all, they were trying to jump into a low orbit of an unmapped planet, not just "AWAY FROM HERE RIGHT NOW, ANYWHERE BUT HERE FUCK!"

Although it does raise the issue of why jumping into a space occupied by solid matter is dangerous while jumping into a space occupied by gaseous matter is not.

Does the stuff about "We can't just jump without coordinates! We might end up in a sun!" stuff bother anyone else? I mean, I know how little of space is actually occupied. Why don't these guys who live and work in space understand the odds?

-- Oilyrags, Tuesday, November 27, 2007 4:43 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

hahaha that always bugs me!!!

it's east to faff about with tho - esp as they have to plot a course. perhaps the gravity/space/time bendiness means that yr more likely to go off course. and stuff

yeah, attraction to heat, man

I'm tortally downloading razor atm :):):):O

Its because its all Spacey-Wacey

Thank god it's not all Timey-Wimey as well.

it might be

wight-be

Season four teaser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGz8SUvZJ7Q