Mark Sheppard Talks!

He walks too, and he keeps a pretty straight face in this video interview talking mostly about BSG


It's Actor Mark Sheppard from Dick Dyszel on Vimeo

The Plan?

The 13th Colony, aka the ultimate BSG Canadian resource, just posted that the BC Film Commission has updated their current productions listing to include the working title for the 2009 Battlestar Galactica 2 hour prequel: The Plan.

Thanks 13C!



Also relevant, (don't click if you're a complete spoiler virgin fundamental extremist, but otherwise, it's really nothing you wouldn't have speculated anyway - plus, it's speculation) io9 has a piece on Aaron Douglas from Fan Expo, with some spoilerific speculation, and they caught this RGBfilter.com video (also very, very, like as in grandma style mild spoilers):

Tell me something I didn't know...

... because I already knew that for better or worse, Kara "Starbuck" Thrace is the fictional female character I can relate to the most. But taking the "Which Battlestar Galactica Character Are You?" quiz at Buddy TV is still fun. If you take it, you can work around using your email sign in.

Which Battlestar Galactica Character Are You?

Created by BuddyTV

New Final Cylon Poll!

It's up! And this time with almost every possible suspect and then some. Unlike the last poll, you can vote for multiple choices in this one. There are 11 whopping days to vote. Hopefully by then you Dualla shippers will have changed your toaster lovin' ways, and hopefully some crazy spoiler doesn't get leaked by then either. Frak.

Remembering BSG Con '07

Unfortunately I never got to go to BSG Con, and even more unfortunatley, BSG Con was canceled this year. Will we ever have a BSG Con again? That remains to be seen. Luckily, there is plenty of video of BSG Con '07, so maybe this is the next best thing?

Carried over from the previous post about Tricia, here she is at the '07 Con:



Katee:



Jamie:



Interesting to hear what they said a year ago, isn't it? It's probably obvious that we're on a video rampage here at FRAK lately. Stay tuned for more spotlights with cast and crew!

Spotlight on Tricia Helfer

While surfing around to find video of Tricia at NVIDIA 08 (still unsuccessful), I found lots of other older video interviews with her. Check it out!

Craig Furguson 1:



Craig Furguson 2 (5/08):



The Hour:



mahalo.com from Comic-Con:



Chelsea Lately:



TV Guide (Do any other females out there want to stomp this host's face into the corner of the stage too?):



From Fan Expo 07 part 1:



(Fan Expo 07 with Tricia part 2, part 3, and part 4)

PETA spot:



IGN from NYCC part 1:



IGN from NYCC part 2:



Yahoo Games discussing Command and Conquer:



Tricia hosting Canada's next Top Model (see this user youtube page for pretty much the whole series!):



Clip of Tricia on Vic's Catwalk (no sound):



Finally, this one from TalkingPicturesTV didn't allow embedding, but here's a link to the video.

See next post for one other Tricia video from BSG Con 07!

Galactica News o' the Week

Interesting little write-up from The Associated Press about how Battlestar Galactica remains strong while official ratings don't, and some comments on Caprica.

This is a semi-spoilerific (but only in the most extreme sense) recap of Eddy Olmos' and Aaron Douglas' appearance at Toronto's FanExpo 2008 by TVaddict.com's Melissa Grimonte.

Speaking of the above-mentioned (spoilerish!) FanExpo appearance, there are loads of recaps pouring in on the net. BSGcast.com has 3 part video coverage of the event. Love the Baltar tees guys! Below is part one, and stay tuned for parts 2 and 3 either from their above website, the BSG Cast youtube channel, or their Veoh.com page (like the vid quality on Veoh better):


Online Videos by Veoh.com

Eddy and Aaron weren't the only ones to make a recent public appearance lately. Tricia Helfer appeared at NVISION 08 and "talked about the challenges of acting with virtual characters and took the crowd through the steps of blocking and filming some of the scenes from the hit Sci-Fi Channel series." (Nvidia blog). Still searching for more coverage and video of Tricia from this event, but she wasn't the only trace of Battlestar there - FX consultant Kelly Meyers showed off some of the tech used for rendering CG on the show. (edn.com) I'd love to see a video of that too. Maybe soon?

If you haven't checked out the official site for Battlestar Galactica props and costumes, it's a must! Battlestarprops.com is preparing inventory for an auction in 2009. They're often adding new stuff, and have lots of tips for the collector in you!

If you're a BSG collector and a guitar player, then check out this Strat signed by most of the major cast members, which is now up for auction on ebay from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation for an inordinate amount. (Battlestar Blog)

Disney toy designer Steve Thompson shows off his BSG tattoo over at Wired magazine!

Den of Geek's funny little speculation for season 4.5.

Zap2Zit has some comments about recent episodes of The Middleman, and Mark Sheppard's character. I gotta watch that show!

io9 talked to Sam Witwer at Comic Con, and posted some video and comments from him just yesterday! Why you gotta hold out on us io9? *winks*

Dualla? Really?

Gaeta	2 (18%)
Dualla	5 (45%)
Zak Adama	3 (27%)
Leoben	0 (0%)
Caprica Six	0 (0%)
Muffit	1 (9%)

Seems as though the poll is telling us people think Dualla is the fifth? Surprised I am! At least Muffit got a vote. I demand a recount. New poll with different choices coming soon.

So say... some of us!

Burn that frakkin' Cylon

This is sooo a week and a half ago, but this Cylon toaster test video at DVICE is worth the post. The soundtrack is what really makes it of course. I'm finding myself wanting one of these more and more, but certainly not for the prices. Maybe there will be another model (pun intended), I'm hoping with the Galactica crest!

BSG Con cancelled :(

The Battlestar Con scheduled for late November in Burbank, Ca has apparently been canceled. WTFrak? Not that I was going to go, but that's just kind of sad. I haven't heard any explaination as to why, but I'm guessing most of the cast will be so tied up with other projects, that maybe not a lot of them could commit? Maybe Gate Con will share again? Maybe there will be a future BSG reunion convention?

The Good News:

- Aaron Douglas is a last minute add-on to the Fan Expo in Toronto this weekend. Way to support the fans Aaron!

- Eddie Olmos will have his own panel at Dragon Con on Monday at 10am (September 1). Thanks to Battlestar Blog, and Cassie Gordon from DC PR for posting a Google spreadsheet to tide everyone over until a PDF of the DC schedule can get put up.

Frik and Frak

Poor attempt at an original headline, I know. Let's just cut right to it, shall we?

Emmy nominated BSG writer Michael Angeli talked to Variety about his research for the show. Surprisingly, it's not so much about science:

...his research usually involves classical literature, Westerns and history.

"Those have struggles of obsession, survival and possession, which we feel is what the show is really about," Angeli says.

"If we go to the Bible, a Western or the transcripts of the trial for Saddam Hussein -- which we did at the end of season three -- we can look for cultural differences, questions of race, gender, class, conspicuous consumption and sex," he adds. "We like to touch on the idea of what it means to be human."

Michael recieved some well deserved kudos from Variety for his work on BSG episode "Six of One" as well.

Speaking of award snubs, Television Without Pity tells it like it is with Emmy: TWOP List of the Most Egregious Snubs, of which Battlestar gets some respect.

Sticking with the above theme of lists, EW.com, famous for lists, has a top 25 of the scifi genre (TV and film) in the last 25 years, and of course BSG is in the mix. Not quite sure how Blade Runner snuck in there, since it's actually 26 years old, but I'm okay with that! Uh, no Star Wars except The first Clone Wars series? WUWT?

Bear McCreary's Eureka soundtrack came out yesterday, and top40-charts.com talks about the composer's accomplishments. Interestingly, I've caught some recent reruns of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and I'm now totally hearing Bear! When the series first aired, I didn't realize Bear worked on it (the music is waaay subtle on that show). Another duh moment was when I realized Bruce Davidson, who plays the not so ethical Dr. Robert in BSG's The Woman King, plays the also not so ethical nor sane Dr. Silverman in episode 7 of TSCC.

SyFy Portal relays the scoop on Mark Sheppard reuniting with Joss in at least (*hopes*) 3 episodes of Dollhouse. Thanks Dollverse, just for existing.

David Eick Talks Battlestar Galactica Past, Present, Future (and Caprica!) to Newsarama. No spoilers of course.

Anyone who knows what a Cylon is can confirm that this Peugeot concept car is one. :O

Shout out to Geek Sugar for using Battlestar Galactica as an example of how to use Scribd services.

I had no idea about the A-Team thing. If anyone knows the details, I would really appreciate being saved the trauma of researching the A-Team. I'm guessing it was a gag with Dirk Benedict (whom I actually don't mind researching so much).

Speaking of Starbuck (above... kind of), Den of Geek compares Shawn McCormick in Knight Rider 2K, to RDM's Starbuck gender change. Doesn't look like it helped the new Knight Rider, and I for one really hope to kidnap Paul Campbell and put him on a different show.

Edit - Thanks 'iguanamom' for pointing out the A-Team intro, and the Cylon appearance. Now, if anyone knows exactly which episode that was clipped from, that would be the rulingest!

3 fer

I had to make sure I came up with 3 things for this entry, since the first feature is the (in)famous number 3 - Lucy Lawless! If you're in the Bay Area around September 27, check out Lucy's live act at the Herbst Theater. I hear she's a great singer. Thanks to www.lucylawless.info where you can also find some pics from her recent appearance at a Dodgers game with the Children Uniting Nations group.











As usual, region 2 will be getting their season 4.0 DVD before region 1, and the cover art has shown up on Amazon.uk. Strike a Jesus pose Caprica! Interesting, but I'm hoping the region 1 version will have the blue theme like all the others. A season 1 - 4 box set is in there somewhere too, but I hope they don't really plan to release that (in the UK) on the date shown, which is the same as the season 4.0 release date. No 4.5?
















Last but not least if you like board games: The Battlestar Galactica board game isn't due out until October (says Battlestar Blog), but some folks snagged them up at Comic Con. Add that to the collection! I think I'll hold off for BSG Trivial Pursuit if such a thing is ever to be made. This looks close though.

SciFi Wire's Behind the Scenes on Virtuality Set

SciFi Wire snuck onto the set for Ron Moore's upcoming Fox show Virtuality, and caught some glimpses of the pilot in progress. Read if you want semi-spoilers!