March 08 2007
Giving "Battlestar Galactica" a Female Perspective.
New interview with Jane Espenson (who will be on the BSG staff full time for season 4) and Anne Cofell Saunders at SyFy Portal (big spoilers for season 3 episodes that have already aired in the States).
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*rubs eyes* What? HOLY FRAK! How hard does THAT rock? :-)
BTW, Nebula1400, this is a great link, but I wonder if it should have a spoiler tag for people in Canada, UK, waiting for DVD, etc.? ;-)
billz | March 08, 04:10 CET
I just got MASSIVELY SPOILED...
And it feels not that great... Really...
I was thinking "here's an analysis", and BAM! Halfway through it, there it is...
It is from last Sunday... The episode has not been broadcasted everywhere yet...
[ edited by pir2 on 2007-03-08 10:32 ]
pir2 | March 08, 04:32 CET
Simon | March 08, 04:59 CET
But Jane joining BSG full time - awesome!
crossoverman | March 08, 05:47 CET
palehorse | March 08, 06:38 CET
I loved the comment about "retroactive continuity". In the Buffyverse, we call it "foreshadowing":) Jane said "Imagine my delight when I recently came on full time and learned that there are, and have been, plans that extend far longer into the future than one season." I got so excited at that, I nearly keeled over.
Re. Starbuck related spoilers, I guess that issue has been settled, so it should be ok to add this. Did anyone click on "RDM: Katee Sackhoff Gave Bravura Performance", in the left side panel? I finished reading that one with a renewed conviction that she *will* be back. First it says "Sackhoff *possibly* ended a three year run with the *apparent* death of her character". Then "{Sackhoff said}*as far as she knows*, her character is dead and that she has *no immediate plans* to return to the show." (All emphases mine, sorry I still can't get the italics, etc. to work.)
Then Ron Moore danced around the question, mentioning how the season 2 death of a different character had effected him, then said "I can only say that nothing is as simple as it appears at first glance, in Galactia." Then changed the subject. Yeah baby, bring on Cylon Kara.
Shey | March 08, 06:53 CET
Nebula1400 | March 08, 07:13 CET
sasja | March 08, 09:19 CET
I was spoiled and it still shocked the hell out of me...
On a lighter note - Jane joining BSG full time - I am delighted! I first read about this over at TWoP - it's great to have it confirmed by the woman herself...
I have long maintained that JE is incapable of writing a bad episode of TV - she's just that good now!!!
Roll on Season 4...
werealljustfloating | March 08, 11:22 CET
I should've realized that this might get picked up here, and I wanted to personally apologize to any of our friends here at Whedonesque if you were spoiled. We have actually added a spoiler warning to the story itself as well, even though that's not typically our policy in this situation, because I don't want anyone to be upset that we ruined their BSG experience in any way. :)
And thanks for the nice comments. If you read it before 7 a.m ET, you probably saw a lot of typos. I wrote it at 2 a.m., and was real tired (falling asleep at the keyboard). Luckily for me, our programmer Nick Chase runs a different schedule and made some corrections of typos and such at around 7 or so, and then I just caught a few more, so the story should read much smoother now. :)
AlphaMichael | March 08, 11:40 CET
I'm not that nit-picky of a viewer, but I occasionally wonder about things like where the paper is coming from. And where did Chief and Callie get that knit cap for the baby? Where is the yarn coming from? ;-)
bloodflowers | March 08, 11:41 CET
I'm really torn as to whether I think Starbuck is really dead or not. Watching the episode, I think it is impossible that the writers would be so cruel as to discard a major character like that, for seemingly no reason at all. Kara Thrace's special destiny was to get crushed in the gravity well of a Gas Giant? Seriously? But when you look at the history of the show, RDM and the other writers do have a record of doing crazy stuff that seems good at the time, but never pans out (aka, Fat-Lee), so maybe this time they finally crossed the line. The podcast for this week also really makes it sound like she's gone for good, but that could be a fake.
Is she coming back? I hope so, but I really don't know.
Back on topic, great news about JE becoming full time next season.
Resolute | March 08, 12:17 CET
I haven't even read the article yet because, honestly, I'm an emotional mess whenever I think about this show since "Maelstrom" aired. I'm practicing avoidance! (And Resolute, you pretty much articulated my thoughts exactly)
However, Jane Espenson coming on board is the best news I've heard all season. I disliked the Kat episode, but it wasn't her fault as the podcast revealed that the episode was sliced and diced something awful in postproduction editing. "Dirty Hands" was easily the best of the standalones this season, and I saw her fingerprints all over my favorite parts. I love Jane.
Isn't she cocreating/producing/writing for Andy Barker, P.I.? I suppose that won't present a scheduling conflict? I hope she drinks her V8!
orphea | March 08, 13:18 CET
yourlibrarian | March 08, 13:56 CET
But has anyone thought that Katee Sackhoff could come back as Kara...but as a Cylon Kara? Find out that she's one of the...12 is it?...Cylon models. Cuz that would blows minds, I think;D
BlueEyedBrigadier | March 08, 14:52 CET
Resolute | March 08, 15:12 CET
Simon | March 08, 17:36 CET
I think "The Passage" was one of the very few weak episodes of what has been a strong season. However, Dirty Hands was classic Galactica, a great 4 star story overall.
I sometimes have trouble linking BG writers with praticular episodes, largely since from my own viewing experiences and listening to all those podcasts it feels an awful lot like RDM's show, and feels like it's built to a large extent in Post-Production.
rabid | March 08, 17:41 CET
Madhatter | March 08, 18:50 CET
BlueEyedBrigadier | March 08, 19:03 CET
(And as someone who has been painting that particular mandala herself, as well as others, throughout her entire life, I was more than a little creeped out. Luckily, no one has allowed me to pilot a plane thus far...)
Jane's "Passage" was right up there with my favourites - made me cry, and I didn't notice it was hers 'til after I watched. I couldn't be happier about La Espioriginal joining the great writing staff at BSG. I figured it had happened when lexi recently mentioned on here that she just got a new office over there...
I look forward to a more fortunate resolution to the "Maelstrom" issue than is fully apparent at the moment... godammit.
QuoterGal | March 08, 22:33 CET
I predict the next time we see you-know-who, that s/he will be waking up in a tub of you-know-what, and while both s/he and the audience will think that s/he is obviously a thing-a-ma-bob, we will eventually find out that s/he isn't, and that whole thing is a big mind-frak, because when we thought s/he you-knowed, what actually happpened is s/he pulled the doo-daa and got whats-it'd into you-know-where and was picked up by the hoo-hoo that we thought wasn't there, but really was.
You heard it here first.
AlanD | March 08, 22:51 CET
jcs | March 09, 01:40 CET
IrrationaliTV | March 09, 02:01 CET
billz | March 09, 02:53 CET
I think.
billz knowz what I mean...
QuoterGal | March 09, 03:59 CET
I feel so bad about anyone who got spoiled on this thread. I'm new enough here that I think (I hope) I was following the guidelines as I understand them, but I hate spoilers myself. So if I contributed to any spoilage for anyone, I sincerely apologize. Eventually I have to figure out why I can't get any of the comment box "tools" to work, then I can just use the spoilery hidey thingy, like AlanD did. But in English.
Shey | March 09, 05:53 CET
And actually, the SPACE channel broadcast isn't a simulcast with SCI-FI, and therefore, we're a few minutes ahead- because we have fewer commercials. So technically (beyond the teaser) we see them first. :P
And after the season two nightmare schedule.....it's surprising how good that feels. ;)
Trek_Girl42 | March 09, 13:25 CET