15 January 2014
Quote of the Day: Mary McDonnell
She played Laura Roslin on Battlestar Galactica. The quote can be seen with gifs here:
"I was in the airport in Chicago, and I was with my son -- who I think was ten years old -- and we were in a hurry and were trying to make our connection and you know, that airport is crazy. So we're moving very quickly, and I kind of notice up ahead this group of men, and I notice them notice me, and I'm like, 'Oh no. Here we go. What do I do? I don't have anyone with me, my husband's not here, so how do I say hello or not...' So I put my head down, and then, right before I got to them, I noticed that they all got in line and saluted. Because I did play the President of the Universe. So they saluted me, and then I -- without even thinking about it -- I just went [nods in acknowledgment], 'Gentlemen'."
"I was in the airport in Chicago, and I was with my son -- who I think was ten years old -- and we were in a hurry and were trying to make our connection and you know, that airport is crazy. So we're moving very quickly, and I kind of notice up ahead this group of men, and I notice them notice me, and I'm like, 'Oh no. Here we go. What do I do? I don't have anyone with me, my husband's not here, so how do I say hello or not...' So I put my head down, and then, right before I got to them, I noticed that they all got in line and saluted. Because I did play the President of the Universe. So they saluted me, and then I -- without even thinking about it -- I just went [nods in acknowledgment], 'Gentlemen'."
Labels: Battlestar Galactica
01 January 2014
Grace Park Answers BSG Questions
This is from several years ago, but I just found it:
"I'm mother-fraking Boomer, bitch!"
"I'm mother-fraking Boomer, bitch!"
Labels: Battlestar Galactica
19 December 2013
Quote of the Day: The Mary Sue
From their review of the Battlestar Galactica episode "Downloaded":
"Back in Boomer’s apartment Six tells Boomer about how she went back to Baltar’s apartment after the destruction of Caprica and took a few souvenirs. She kept them for a while but then burned them, because they were keeping her from embracing her new life. Nice story, Baltar says, too bad you’re lying through your teeth. Later on he cuts her down for being 'more human than Cylon.' I like this new Baltar. As a character, that is. He’s intriguing. In real life I’d want to punch him."
"Back in Boomer’s apartment Six tells Boomer about how she went back to Baltar’s apartment after the destruction of Caprica and took a few souvenirs. She kept them for a while but then burned them, because they were keeping her from embracing her new life. Nice story, Baltar says, too bad you’re lying through your teeth. Later on he cuts her down for being 'more human than Cylon.' I like this new Baltar. As a character, that is. He’s intriguing. In real life I’d want to punch him."
Labels: Battlestar Galactica
13 September 2013
Quote of the Day: The Mary Sue
From their recap of the Battlestar Galactica Episode "The Eye of Jupiter":
"[They find] the Temple of, [which] is supposed to be home to the Eye of Jupiter, a mysterious artifact that will point the way to Earth. Hallelujah! Except then the Cylons, who as of last episode have also been looking for the Eye of Jupiter, show up too. Instead of immediately blowing the Galactica up they ask permission to send a group of envoys on board. No biggie. They’re just going to shoot the breeze, catch up on gossip, talk about genocide. You know. Normal stuff."
"[They find] the Temple of, [which] is supposed to be home to the Eye of Jupiter, a mysterious artifact that will point the way to Earth. Hallelujah! Except then the Cylons, who as of last episode have also been looking for the Eye of Jupiter, show up too. Instead of immediately blowing the Galactica up they ask permission to send a group of envoys on board. No biggie. They’re just going to shoot the breeze, catch up on gossip, talk about genocide. You know. Normal stuff."
Labels: Battlestar Galactica
19 July 2013
Quote of the Day: Tumblr
Every night I watch ~20 minutes of TV before I go to sleep. Right now I'm watching Battlestar Galactica. I'm over halfway through the the fourth (and last) season. At 20 min/night, it's taken me a couple months to get through the first three and half seasons and the two mini-series. It's an excellent show, but it is dark and depressing and bleak. At this point, Gaeta's lost his leg, Dualla killed herself, Roslin is dying, it is just a big mess of despair. I keep reminding myself that regardless of all the bad stuff happening right now -- and that I know will happen in the last few episodes -- I know that Athena and Helo have a happy ending. And sometimes, that's all you can hold on to, you know?
Anyway, the reason I mention all this is that this quote is about Supernatural, but could easily apply to Battlestar Galactica, too:
"you can’t buy happiness
but you can watch Supernatural and that’ll make you forget happiness exists."
Anyway, the reason I mention all this is that this quote is about Supernatural, but could easily apply to Battlestar Galactica, too:
"you can’t buy happiness
but you can watch Supernatural and that’ll make you forget happiness exists."
Labels: Battlestar Galactica, Supernatural
08 July 2013
Quote of the Day: "Mark Watches"
Exerpts from his review of the Battlestar Galactica episode "Guess What's Coming For Dinner?" (4.07):
You have to stop this, Battlestar Galactica. You have to stop doing this to me. You are playing with my emotions. You are making me feel things about a television show that I barely feel for some members of my own family. You are taking all of these characters that I love and you are doing awful things to them. You are hurting my heart. You are hurting my brain.
What are you doing, Battlestar? Why are you making Lee confront Laura Roslin? I still remember in season two when they were like best friends, and now it’s almost as if they are enemies. Do you simply not want me to experience joy? You don’t want me to be happy, do you?
Oh, god, BSG – can I call you that? – why did you just make the basestar jump by itself into the fleet? You are taking even basic operations and making them terribly fucked up. Do you want me to have a functional brain at the end of the day? Do you? Oh, you’re going to have Colonel Tigh order a weapons hold at the last moment, which might be explained away later, but looks terribly suspicious in the moment? No, what are you doing? What are you doing to me?
[...]
BSG, you have taken all hope from me before. I am weary to believe you, but... but I just love you so much. Oh, I love you, BSG, but you are doing such terrible things to my heart. I do not want Kara to be the harbinger of an apocalypse, so please make this happen.
Oh, god, Adama is thanking Tigh. He has no idea. HE IS GOING TO BE HEARTBROKEN UNTIL TIME CEASES TO BE. How am I supposed to have a normal day after watching this, BSG?
Oh. It’s Gaeta. I can’t deal with this, BSG. I thought you were my friend. I thought you cared about me. Oh, Gaeta, I just want to reach through the screen and hug you. Why can’t I do this? This is what you have turned me into, Battlestar. This is what you’ve created. Gaeta doesn’t deserve this. And now I hate you. I hate you, BSG. You are destroying everything I love. YOU’RE THE HARBINGER OF DEATH NOW. How does it feel? HOW DOES IT FEEL, BSG?
Oh god, I’m sorry for getting mad at you. Because now you’re having Tigh argue for destroying the Resurrection Hub. The ironic terror of this is not lost on me, and yet again, I am faced with the desire to hug fictional characters through a screen. You know, sometimes I want to appear to be an adult, BSG. I really do. Sometimes, I am okay with simply acting as if a fictional world is totally real. I honestly do. You, however, do not give me that choice. You are controlling my emotions, BSG, and I don’t think that’s fair.
Oh no, please stop it. Now the Quorum is upset at the announcement of the Cylon alliance. Oh god, Lee, please. Please stop antagonizing Roslin, you used to be friends, why can’t you just hug and give her a puppy and then everything will be perfect. Right. This is you I’m talking about, BSG. There hasn’t been a single puppy on this show in three and a half seasons. Not one. What kind of life do you expect these people to have without puppies? There aren’t even Cylon dogs. I can’t talk to you right now, BSG. I can’t.
[...]
No. No. BSG. You... you can’t do this to me. You can’t. Felix Gaeta is singing to cope with his amputated leg. And his voice is one of the most gorgeous and haunting things I have ever heard.
You can’t do this to me. You can’t expect me to watch this and then function at all for at least 24 hours afterwards. My heart is not going to heal from this moment. Why? Why does this entertain you so much? Can you only subsist on broken dreams and shattered hearts?
Oh, Roslin and the lead Six meet with the Quorum and they are shocked into silence. I’m laying on the floor right now, just so you know. I can no longer handle the very idea of sitting upright. My very motor functions are abstract equations to my mind. How am I even typing anymore.
Why did Hera just tell Athena “Bye-bye”? You can’t. BSG, stop it. Stop it. I am begging you. Please.
OH. WAIT. IS THIS A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL? Are you seriously going to have Starbuck help Roslin find out what the Opera House visions mean? BSG, eventually, you have to provide us with an answer, so….could this be it? Could this be the moment? Oh my god, I love when Starbuck and Roslin work together. You’re not going to ruin this, are you? Oh god, you are going to ruin it because you are a life ruiner, Battlestar Galactica. You’ve just added Gaius Baltar to this trip to the basestar? Is he going to ruin Roslin’s moment? EVERYTHING HURTS.
BSG. Oh, BSG. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with the final minutes of “Guess What’s Coming to Dinner?” I don’t know how I am supposed to go to work tomorrow and focus on things that have nothing to do with the Cylon’s internal conflict over trusting humans. I don’t know how I am going to think about anything other than Athena’s horrifying choice to MURDER THE LEAD SIX because she thinks she is the one who will take Hera away. I don’t know how I am going to think about anything other than the horrifying fact that once the Hybrid is turned on, SHE ORDERS THE SHIP TO JUMP AWAY IMMEDIATELY.
And I don’t know how to get the image of Felix Gaeta in his bed in the sickbay, sweating profusely, singing that sad ballad of his, out of my head. Forever.
Battlestar Galactica, what have you done to me?
You have to stop this, Battlestar Galactica. You have to stop doing this to me. You are playing with my emotions. You are making me feel things about a television show that I barely feel for some members of my own family. You are taking all of these characters that I love and you are doing awful things to them. You are hurting my heart. You are hurting my brain.
What are you doing, Battlestar? Why are you making Lee confront Laura Roslin? I still remember in season two when they were like best friends, and now it’s almost as if they are enemies. Do you simply not want me to experience joy? You don’t want me to be happy, do you?
Oh, god, BSG – can I call you that? – why did you just make the basestar jump by itself into the fleet? You are taking even basic operations and making them terribly fucked up. Do you want me to have a functional brain at the end of the day? Do you? Oh, you’re going to have Colonel Tigh order a weapons hold at the last moment, which might be explained away later, but looks terribly suspicious in the moment? No, what are you doing? What are you doing to me?
[...]
BSG, you have taken all hope from me before. I am weary to believe you, but... but I just love you so much. Oh, I love you, BSG, but you are doing such terrible things to my heart. I do not want Kara to be the harbinger of an apocalypse, so please make this happen.
Oh, god, Adama is thanking Tigh. He has no idea. HE IS GOING TO BE HEARTBROKEN UNTIL TIME CEASES TO BE. How am I supposed to have a normal day after watching this, BSG?
Oh. It’s Gaeta. I can’t deal with this, BSG. I thought you were my friend. I thought you cared about me. Oh, Gaeta, I just want to reach through the screen and hug you. Why can’t I do this? This is what you have turned me into, Battlestar. This is what you’ve created. Gaeta doesn’t deserve this. And now I hate you. I hate you, BSG. You are destroying everything I love. YOU’RE THE HARBINGER OF DEATH NOW. How does it feel? HOW DOES IT FEEL, BSG?
Oh god, I’m sorry for getting mad at you. Because now you’re having Tigh argue for destroying the Resurrection Hub. The ironic terror of this is not lost on me, and yet again, I am faced with the desire to hug fictional characters through a screen. You know, sometimes I want to appear to be an adult, BSG. I really do. Sometimes, I am okay with simply acting as if a fictional world is totally real. I honestly do. You, however, do not give me that choice. You are controlling my emotions, BSG, and I don’t think that’s fair.
Oh no, please stop it. Now the Quorum is upset at the announcement of the Cylon alliance. Oh god, Lee, please. Please stop antagonizing Roslin, you used to be friends, why can’t you just hug and give her a puppy and then everything will be perfect. Right. This is you I’m talking about, BSG. There hasn’t been a single puppy on this show in three and a half seasons. Not one. What kind of life do you expect these people to have without puppies? There aren’t even Cylon dogs. I can’t talk to you right now, BSG. I can’t.
[...]
No. No. BSG. You... you can’t do this to me. You can’t. Felix Gaeta is singing to cope with his amputated leg. And his voice is one of the most gorgeous and haunting things I have ever heard.
You can’t do this to me. You can’t expect me to watch this and then function at all for at least 24 hours afterwards. My heart is not going to heal from this moment. Why? Why does this entertain you so much? Can you only subsist on broken dreams and shattered hearts?
Oh, Roslin and the lead Six meet with the Quorum and they are shocked into silence. I’m laying on the floor right now, just so you know. I can no longer handle the very idea of sitting upright. My very motor functions are abstract equations to my mind. How am I even typing anymore.
Why did Hera just tell Athena “Bye-bye”? You can’t. BSG, stop it. Stop it. I am begging you. Please.
OH. WAIT. IS THIS A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL? Are you seriously going to have Starbuck help Roslin find out what the Opera House visions mean? BSG, eventually, you have to provide us with an answer, so….could this be it? Could this be the moment? Oh my god, I love when Starbuck and Roslin work together. You’re not going to ruin this, are you? Oh god, you are going to ruin it because you are a life ruiner, Battlestar Galactica. You’ve just added Gaius Baltar to this trip to the basestar? Is he going to ruin Roslin’s moment? EVERYTHING HURTS.
BSG. Oh, BSG. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with the final minutes of “Guess What’s Coming to Dinner?” I don’t know how I am supposed to go to work tomorrow and focus on things that have nothing to do with the Cylon’s internal conflict over trusting humans. I don’t know how I am going to think about anything other than Athena’s horrifying choice to MURDER THE LEAD SIX because she thinks she is the one who will take Hera away. I don’t know how I am going to think about anything other than the horrifying fact that once the Hybrid is turned on, SHE ORDERS THE SHIP TO JUMP AWAY IMMEDIATELY.
And I don’t know how to get the image of Felix Gaeta in his bed in the sickbay, sweating profusely, singing that sad ballad of his, out of my head. Forever.
Battlestar Galactica, what have you done to me?
Labels: Battlestar Galactica
24 April 2013
Another Opening Credits Mash-Up
This might be the most ridiculous opening credits mash-up I've ever seen. Battlestar Galactica, in the style of Friends. Whaa???
[h/t the hairpin]
[h/t the hairpin]
Labels: Battlestar Galactica
11 April 2013
Quote of the Day: Battlestar Galactica
From "Valley of Darkness" (2.02):
Apollo: Remember, just head away from the sound of gunfire.
President Roslin: What about you?
Apollo: We're heading towards the gunfire.
Apollo: Remember, just head away from the sound of gunfire.
President Roslin: What about you?
Apollo: We're heading towards the gunfire.
Labels: Battlestar Galactica
01 March 2013
Quote of the Day: Battlestar Galactica
From the 2003 miniseries:
[Galactica was being turned into a museum when war broke out...]
Starbuck: You sure [these old fighters will] fly?
Tyrol: Well, the reactor's still hot, so all we have to do is pull the rad buffers from the engine, refuel it, load the ordnance, and you're ready to go. The biggest problem is getting them over to the port launch bay.
Starbuck: Why can't we use the starboard launch?
Tyrol: It's a gift shop now.
[Galactica was being turned into a museum when war broke out...]
Starbuck: You sure [these old fighters will] fly?
Tyrol: Well, the reactor's still hot, so all we have to do is pull the rad buffers from the engine, refuel it, load the ordnance, and you're ready to go. The biggest problem is getting them over to the port launch bay.
Starbuck: Why can't we use the starboard launch?
Tyrol: It's a gift shop now.
Labels: Battlestar Galactica
22 February 2013
Quote of the Day: Battlestar Galactica
From "Scar" (2.15):
Starbuck: You know, the President says that we're saving humanity for a bright, shiny future on Earth. That you and I are never gonna see. We're not. Because we go out over and over again until someday, some metal motherfrakker is gonna catch us on a bad day and just blow us away.
Apollo: Bright, shiny futures are overrated anyway.
Starbuck: You know, the President says that we're saving humanity for a bright, shiny future on Earth. That you and I are never gonna see. We're not. Because we go out over and over again until someday, some metal motherfrakker is gonna catch us on a bad day and just blow us away.
Apollo: Bright, shiny futures are overrated anyway.
Labels: Battlestar Galactica
17 January 2013
Crichton and ... Six???
I vaguely remember that Ben Browder (Crichton on Farscape) played Lee Majors in a TV movie about Charlie's Angels. I think I (vaguely) watched it. I just found out that Tricia Helfer (Six on Battlestar Galactica) played Farrah Fawcett! That's both random and awesome. It's randomly awesome!
Labels: Battlestar Galactica, Farscape
05 December 2012
Quote of the Day: The Mary Sue
The Mary Sue is a site for "girl geek culture", and they recently had a post about "10 Characters Who Don’t Deserve All the Stuff That Happens To Them". My favorite was about Battlestar Galactica character Helo:
"[Helo] steps in on multiple occasions for Colonel Tigh as XO, Lee Adama as CAG, and pretty much any job that any other character is feeling too overwhelmed, drunk, or godsdamned mystical to perform at a given moment of crisis."
"[Helo] steps in on multiple occasions for Colonel Tigh as XO, Lee Adama as CAG, and pretty much any job that any other character is feeling too overwhelmed, drunk, or godsdamned mystical to perform at a given moment of crisis."
Labels: Battlestar Galactica
01 December 2012
Auditioning for Starbuck
Katee Sackhoff talks about auditioning for the role of Starbuck .... and finding out that her character was male in the original show:
"Let's be honest: I needed a job and I wanted to shoot a gun."
"Let's be honest: I needed a job and I wanted to shoot a gun."
Labels: Battlestar Galactica
Quote of the Day: Battlestar Galactica
From "Scar" (2.15):
Starbuck: It is funny. You know the President says that we're saving humanity for a bright, shiny future on Earth. That you and I are never gonna see. We're not. Because we go out [into battle] over and over again until someday, some metal motherfrakker is gonna catch us on a bad day and just blow us away.
Apollo: Bright, shiny futures are overrated anyway.
Starbuck: It is funny. You know the President says that we're saving humanity for a bright, shiny future on Earth. That you and I are never gonna see. We're not. Because we go out [into battle] over and over again until someday, some metal motherfrakker is gonna catch us on a bad day and just blow us away.
Apollo: Bright, shiny futures are overrated anyway.
Labels: Battlestar Galactica
16 October 2012
Genre Fun
Apparently Katee "Starbuck on Battlestar Galactica" Sackhoff is filming a movie with Karen "Amy on Doctor Who" Gillan. I'm not sure I'd pay money to see that movie -- I haven't paid to see a movie in, oh, a decade? -- but I still think it's cool.
From the fantasy end of the spectrum, here's Jensen Ackles and Misha Collins from Supernatural at a convention, reading through a fifteen-year-old copy of Collins' resume that a fan brought:
(That video starts after the fan explains what she brought. To see the very beginning, go to ~3:45 of this video.)
From the fantasy end of the spectrum, here's Jensen Ackles and Misha Collins from Supernatural at a convention, reading through a fifteen-year-old copy of Collins' resume that a fan brought:
(That video starts after the fan explains what she brought. To see the very beginning, go to ~3:45 of this video.)
Labels: Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Supernatural
13 October 2012
Quote of the Day: Battlestar Galactica
From "Valley of Darkness" (2.02):
[Starbuck and Helo are walking the streets on Caprica, after the Cylon attack.]
Starbuck: It's not exactly what I expected. I thought I'd be stepping over decaying corpses in the streets.
Helo: Yeah, we saw a few bodies here and there. Not much though. Sharon said...[Starbuck glares at him] Cylon-Sharon said they had troops picking up the bodies and transporting them to mass incinerators.
Starbuck: Your girlfriend's from a lovely family. Good people, great values.
[Starbuck and Helo are walking the streets on Caprica, after the Cylon attack.]
Starbuck: It's not exactly what I expected. I thought I'd be stepping over decaying corpses in the streets.
Helo: Yeah, we saw a few bodies here and there. Not much though. Sharon said...[Starbuck glares at him] Cylon-Sharon said they had troops picking up the bodies and transporting them to mass incinerators.
Starbuck: Your girlfriend's from a lovely family. Good people, great values.
Labels: Battlestar Galactica
08 June 2012
Quote of the Day: Wil Wheaton
From his twitter:
"Walked into a store, heard a very quiet All Along the Watchtower. Nobody else noticed ... really worried that I may be a frakkin' toaster."
"Walked into a store, heard a very quiet All Along the Watchtower. Nobody else noticed ... really worried that I may be a frakkin' toaster."
Labels: Battlestar Galactica
04 January 2012
BSG RPG
Battlestar Galactica, as a 1990's computer game.
Spoilers! (And if you don't know anything about BSG, it won't be "spoilers" so much as, "huh?" and "what?")
[h/t io9]
Spoilers! (And if you don't know anything about BSG, it won't be "spoilers" so much as, "huh?" and "what?")
[h/t io9]
Labels: Battlestar Galactica
08 October 2011
Quote of the Day: Battlestar Galactica
From "Home, part 2" (2.07):
Baltar: So who or what are you, exactly?
Virtual Six: I am an angel of God sent here to protect you. To guide you; to love you.
Baltar: To what end?
Virtual Six: To the end of the human race.
Baltar: So who or what are you, exactly?
Virtual Six: I am an angel of God sent here to protect you. To guide you; to love you.
Baltar: To what end?
Virtual Six: To the end of the human race.
Labels: Battlestar Galactica
14 July 2011
Quote of the Day: Battlestar Galactica
From "Unfinished Business" (3.09):
Roslin: Didn't expect you to find you playing in the sand.
Adama: It's not sand; it's alluvial deposits. This used to be the river mouth.
Roslin: And you just had to take off your shoes and play in the alluvial deposits. How romantic.
Roslin: Didn't expect you to find you playing in the sand.
Adama: It's not sand; it's alluvial deposits. This used to be the river mouth.
Roslin: And you just had to take off your shoes and play in the alluvial deposits. How romantic.
Labels: Battlestar Galactica
