Colonial Dispatch 4.23.09

A little bit of catching up to do here...

Don't forget to sign the Battlestar Memorial Wall over at scifi.com!

"CSI: A Space Oddity", which features Ron Moore, Grace Park, and Kate Vernon in a faux sci-fi genre themed episode, is now available to view at CBS.com. Click here or watch below:



The network of Aaron Douglas fans (The Chief's Deck rules!) bring us this sweet clip of the upcoming show "The Bridge" which premieres July 9 at 10pm on CBS in the USA (I thought this was only in Canada! w00t!) and on CTV in Canada:



If you followed The Chief's Deck link above, you may have noticed the post about recent updates on Nicki Clyne's blog featuring pics of her and Aaron from the sets of BSG.

Another big video chunk below, which I failed to post here when it came out at the end of March (you can bet they'll have this on the 4.5 DVD) - The final read through with the cast and crew of BSG:



And if you're not tired of watching video clips yet (if you are, take a break!), and you haven't had the chance to see the UN Battlestar Retrospective, it's all up on SciFi.com in 6 parts. Here's the link to Part 1, and you can navigate the remainder from the menu at the right of the page.

James Callis will appear in the season finale of NBC's Numb3rs. Geeky math and science worlds unite! James seems to be a bit typecast as he's playing a sort of "charismatic sociopath" - SF Universe


Eddie Olmos has signed on to co-star in the movie "Hollywood Players" which begins filming this July - Moviehole

Here's a nice overview of the BSG panel/honors at Paley Fest which included a screener of the Caprica pilot, at TV Week.

If anyone was wondering what happened with the Caprica video blogs on Sci Fi Wire, they seem to have stopped posting them. Those who bought the Caprica DVD (in the USA at least) will find the same 2 video blogs Sci Fi Wire has posted so far, plus a third video blog in the extra features, and that's about it aside from the commentary, deleted scenes (which actually seemed pretty relevant), and a Ghost Hunters episode.

Edit - Did anyone catch 30 Rock tonight and see the cool "What the Frak?!" t-shirt Salma Hayek's character wore?

Video: Bear McCreary, Kate Vernon

The official Battlestar site on SciFi.com has a couple of new videos up (which unfortunately aren't posted to Hulu yet). First up is the newest David Eick Video Blog (ummm, I haven't seen or heard from David Eick in this series for quite awhile now) featuring Bear McCreary working with cast and crew for recent musically oriented episodes. Click here to watch "The Bear on Set" at SciFi.com. An interesting factoid from this video is that we find out what Piano Guy's name is - "Slick" was played by (Ewan McGregor look alike from certain angles!) Rourke Quichlow. I'm pretty sure that's just a pseudonym used for a character that's not yet fully explained, since he mystically vanished from the scene. They surely had to put some kind of name down in the script.

Also, a Q&A with Kate Vernon is now up, also at SciFi.com. If you're not familiar with the Q&A features, they take questions from fans at the Sci Fi forums, and pose them to the cast. If you can't watch this or don't feel like it, you might at least want to know what Kate says at the very end about the upcoming post-series finale movie "The Plan" - (not really a spoiler at all here) she says "Make sure to stick around and watch 'The Plan' because there is SO much more to be revealed. Hmmm. I don't know whether to take that as an excuse for not fully explaining certain things from the series during the finale.

Usually this stuff gets posted to Hulu,so maybe it will be available there soon. Something that is up at Hulu currently are the winners of the "Best of Battlestar" series they've been running at SciFi.com. I kind of avoided this feature because they never seemed to have the scenes I wanted to vote for as an option. Check them out below, and go here to vote in this weeks poll "Best Cylon Kill".

Battlestar Best Surprise Moment: New Caprica Take Over



Battlestar Best Kiss: Roslin & Adama



Battlestar Best Explosion: The Pegasus



Battlestar Best Execution: Admiral Cain



Battlestar Best Quote: So Say We All!



Best Fist Fight: Six vs. Starbuck

...But they only posted the vid for Helo & Tyrol vs. The Pegasus Crew, so we'll show that since it's bad-ass even if unfortunately the thematic opposite of Six and Kara fighting.



Best Space Battle: Death of the Pegasus

Wait... didn't that also win best explosion? They don't have the vid clip for that one anyway, so let's post my personal favorite (and it's not just because Lee says "razzle dazzle"), Starbuck Saves Apollo:



Best Sexy Moment: Starbuck and Apollo

Yep. No video for this either, so I'll just do the gratuitous fangirl thing and post the clip "Apollo and his Towel".

Kate Vernon Speaks

The "one little thing" mentioned in yesterday's post was an interview with Kate Vernon at IGN.com. It was a spoiler for last night's episode, "No Exit", because it basically started out by saying she would be back in that episode. It goes a little more in depth to the episode itself (thanks for not waiting one day to post this IGN!), and if you're an absolute purist as far as spoilers go, you may still not want to read the interview as it verifies story points that may otherwise thus so far be left to some of the more vivid imaginations. Here it is - IGN Talks to BSG's Ellen Tigh

I also held off on linking to another article which speaks to Kate Vernon, and I am actually not going to read this one, since the source, SciFi Wire, says it is a major spoiler. It doesn't say spoiler actually, but it says "massive secrets" which is good enough warning for me. If you just don't care, check out the article Exclusive! Battlestar Galactica's Kate Vernon reveals massive secrets!