by millari
Daniel Graystone and Joe Adama have a heart to heart … with their fists.
Note: This is a review of the Caprica series episode Reins of a Waterfall. Do not continue reading if you do not want to be spoiled for this or any previous episodes. Read the rest of this entry »
The following is an episode review, and therefore contains spoilers. By spacepug
Are there any good guys to cheer for on a doomed world, or does everyone share some of the responsibility?
Where BSG started off with fast-paced action, for Caprica we get a close-up view of how grief shatters lives. Caprica’s first post-pilot episode was all about guilt, blindness and manipulation. As our main characters mourn the loss of those they loved, others pull their strings mercilessly. The pilot episode gave us a variety of moral points of view, equally valid. By the end of “Rebirth” we are now starting to see clear differences between right and wrong and have clear signals as to who we should side with. Yet all the characters are flawed. That makes for good television.
Lacy really needs a hug
Watched the latest sneak peak of Friday’s new Caprica episode, and all I could think of was….JAKE?
Check out the sneak preview scene here, and let me know what you think.
For those of you who don’t recognize the reference, Jake was the dog we met on New Caprica during Season Three of Battlestar Galactica, and it appears the Graystone family has a similar pet.
by spacepug
We know how the story ends. The population of Caprica and the other colonies will be wiped out in 58 years, by the race of technological beings they create. But we the viewers want to watch this society lay the seeds of its own destruction. At least that’s what the show runners are hoping will draw us in. So how amusing it is that they are using social media’s latest craze, Twitter, to engage us.
Serge Graystone
Serge, the robot butler from the Graystone’s house, now has his own account on Twitter. And he’s funny.
I control many functions in the Graystone house, including security, media interfaces and vacuuming.
I can cancel security clearances. I can cancel them efficiently and coolly. Oh, I can cancel them.
Guess what guys? When your vacuum cleaner has more followers than you, you’re doomed!
Also on Twitter, writer Jane Espenson, composer Bear McCreary, as well as actors Alessandra Torresani (plays Zoe, who also has her own Twitter account here) and Sasha Roiz (Sam Adama).
There will be two Battlestar Galactica themed panels at Spark FX 10, the visual effects conference and festival, held at the VanCity theatre in Vancouver at the end of January.
The 9am panel on January 30th will talk about the groundbreaking visual effects done for the 1978 version of the show, with the 10:45am panel focusing on the 2005 show. Panelists will include Gene Kozicki from the Visual Effects Society (VES), Glenn Campbell (Area 51 and former BSG original series crew member), Derek Ledbetter (VFX Compositor, Universal Studios) and Pierre Drolet (Lead CG Modeler on the new BSG).
The events are open to the public but sell out well in advance, so buy quickly if you wish to attend. Tickets and descriptions of the BSG panels, as well as other Spark FX 10 events, can be found here.
by spacepug
As of the new year, the 13th Colony will have a new leader at the helm. I’d like to introduce Keegan, the poor sucker brave soul who’s agreed to take over the leadership duties for Canada’s largest Battlestar Galactica fan club. He’s got some great ideas about where to take the club for the New Year, particularly with the launch of BSG’s prequel series, “Caprica” coming on January 22nd. I have great confidence in Keegan, and hope he enjoys leading 13th Colony as much as I have over the last three years.
I’m not disappearing entirely. I’ll still be posting to the blog, and I’ll still be part of the crowd at Vancouver’s BSG club events, but I won’t be front and centre as “Madam President” anymore. The last official duty I have to do before handing over the title to Keegan is to thank all of the BSG fans from all over the world who’ve made this experience so rewarding. I never expected that by creating this little club in an effort to find other people who enjoyed my favourite show, I would get to meet people, in person and online, from so many different places, and watch the growth of a new community of science fiction fans in my home city. I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished together, and I’m looking forward to watching where 13th Colony goes from here.
Good Hunting Keegan!
Frik and Frak have had a little trouble agreeing on how to do their Christmas cards this year. Frik thinks “By Your Command” isn’t a cheery enough greeting, and Frak can’t figure out how to sign his name with his cannons and not obliterate the whole card in the process. Now we know the real reason Battlestar Galactica never had a Christmas episode.
Happy Holidays to BSG fans around the globe.
If Cylons and Humans can live together, perhaps in 2010 we can move one step closer to Peace on Earth. ~ spacepug
by spacepug
Checked out another excellent article by Maureen Ryan over at the Chicago Tribune about the upcoming BSG prequel series, Caprica, and my jaw dropped open in shock.
If you thought going from SciFi to SyFy was a bad marketing move, get a load of the new poster for Caprica. Wow, not only have they produced a completely unoriginal image (echoes of Dollhouse, Terminator, how many others?), they’ve sexualized an underage girl and made a mockery of their own claim that the show will be serious drama. All with one poster. WTF were they thinking?
Honestly, now I’m worried. Not at all because they have cut the series order by one episode, but because the marketing department’s move is, in my opinion, a huge misstep. Caprica is going to be a tough sell, period. It’s a drama with just enough sci-fi to make mainstream viewers nervous, and probably not enough sci-fi to guarantee the dedicated geek following. Why shoot yourself in the foot so early? Perhaps they’ll come up with a better game plan before January 22nd.
Agree or disagree? Comment below.
One of the locations we’ve known about for some time but just haven’t got to yet is what we call the Cordova Ramp. In Season One’s “Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down,” Six and Doral and walking down an empty street in Caprica City, talking about love.
Located on Cordova Street, near Thurlow, the ramp is the main access to traffic coming and going from Canada Place. I’d already learned how dangerous it is to take photos without the benefit of a film crew closing off the street, so the angle of our matching shot is a little off…but spacepug lives to keep scouting another day! More pictures from our downtown location scouting trip here.
Don’t worry, the 13th Colony hasn’t given up on Battlestar Galactica location scouting. In fact, we’ve been very busy over the summer and will be bringing you our findings over the next several weeks. First up is the last one. Our most recent mission was to the very last location seen in the series, the downtown modern-day New York locale where the “angels” Six and Baltar watched Ron Moore read a National Geographic magazine article about Hera. As it turns out, it’ was shot in a plaza near the corner of Hastings and Hornby in downtown Vancouver.
Over delicious hot chocolate at Mink, a chocolate cafe, we discussed what we thought of the final scene. More pictures here.
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