Friday, July 20, 2007
Battlestar Galactica notes
I am home tonight rather than checking out the Harry Potter extravaganza at the local big box book store because Mrs. TH and I are empty-nesters for a few more days, so there is nobody to escort me. That has deterred me from going, because the paranoids would regard a lone 45 year-old male at a Harry Potter launch event as creepy at the least, and probably worthy of arrest. That does not mean, though, that I cannot blog pop culture news of great moment.
From the current edition of TV Guide, which I do not ordinarily buy but did this week because it is given over to science fiction:
BSG's fourth and final season won't air until next year, but in November die-hard fans will be treated to Battlestar Galactica: Razor. The two-hour stand-alone episode -- think "300" in deep space -- focuses on the killing-machine marines (known as "razors") who man Galactica's sister ship Pegasus under the command of bitch-goddess Helena Cain (Michelle Forbes). It's a flashback story -- Cain met her demise in Season 2, Pegasus in Season 3 -- but it will "deliver information fans will want before watching Season 4," says executive producer Ron Moore. Before the series wraps, D'Anna, the exterminated Cylon played by Lucy Lawless, will return. And, warns Moore, "we'll be losing cast members in some nasty ways as we push along in the search for Earth." But will our human heroes really find it? Notes Moore cagily: "They're going to find something we're calling Earth."
If you ask me, it is hard to think of a better promotional line than "think '300' in deep space."
4 Comments:
By 
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Fri Jul 20, 10:39:00 PM:
The fact that you like Harry Potter is heartening, the fact that you like Battlestar Galactica, not so much. I stand firm in my belief that Harry is the last horcrux.
By , at
Sat Jul 21, 01:02:00 AM:
And BALTAR is a traitor and the CYLONS are all liberals
By 
TigerHawk, at
Sat Jul 21, 08:35:00 AM:
By Georg Felis, at
Tue Jul 24, 10:21:00 AM:
As a lone 44 year old male who went to the HP book release at our local mall out here in flyover country, I can say that you would have been with your peers. The kids were mostly around for the talent/costume part, by midnight Moms took them home and Dads stood in the line. The long, long, long line, but filled with the kind of people you like to talk with (provided you stayed away from Topics That Might Be In The Book).
