Michael Hogan, who played (sucks that that’s past tense) Colonel Tigh in Battlestar Galactica, will be at the Motor City Comic Con this May.  I’ve gone the past few years but decided a while back I won’t be going this year because I have no budget for it.

But when I got the flier in the mail with his picture on it I was torn.  BSG is by far my favorite show and Tigh was a big part of it.  Then I realized I’d have no idea what to say to Micahel Hogan, and would feel silly doing my usual routine of autograph and picture.

I realize it’s because Colonel Tigh is so REAL.  In fact, I think meeting the actor who played him would diminish everything for me.  That’s a sign of a great actor, because you really get so lost in the character the real person ceases to exist.

It’s tragic… those that are best at their art become completely invisible.

Pretty much the coolest thing I’ve heard in a while.

Bear McCreary (composer of Battlestar Galactica and all around favorite) just announced he’s scoring a new video game from Capcom.  He has some music samples on his blog, one of which is an 8-bit version as a throwback to games like Mega Man.

I can hear his style in this… I can’t identify it, because I’m not musically inclined, but if you try really hard it almost sounds like you might be getting ready to play Battlestar Galactica on the original Nintendo.

I think if that were to happen I might spontaneously combust.

Bear McCreary posted his musical recap blog of BSG’s last episode, and it’s great.

Not that anybody read the entirety of my BSG review but I need to make a correction:  the song that plays at the end is not a revamped version of “Passacaglia,” but rather a more heavy version of “Shape of Things to Come,” a theme played in Season One (and which you can listen to above.)

BUT, according to his blog, the bass-line of “Passacaglia” was used so I’m only half-wrong.

…as pointed out on Peter David’s blog.

…the bird in Lee’s apartment.

I actually took the bird to be symbolic of the voyage he was about to undergo, particularly in terms of how it was juxtaposed with Starbuck. Consider Noah’s ark, in which birds were his avatars to determine if the disaster was over. Galactica was, in many ways, a retelling of Noah’s ark, a handful of humans surviving disaster, and Starbuck was the equivalent of the dove who flew out from the ark and returned with an olive branch.

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Obviously if you haven’t seen the last episode of Battlestar Galactica, this entry isn’t for you.

I’ve watched it three times now, and it hasn’t gotten old yet.  While I could have done without the flashbacks (some of them were awkward and forced—like the scene where Boomer “owed” the old man), I appreciated what they were trying to do and some of them, like Adama’s puke and Roslin kicking out the younger man, shed more light on who these people really are and what kind of decisions they made to get them where they ended up.

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Except that Mitochondrial Eve is real, and it’s very fitting that the man responsible for getting her where she was was named Adama.

And the series finale of Lost just had the bar raised.  I’m not sure any show could out-do this.

Nothing but the rain…

I’m experiencing anxiety over watching Battlestar Galactica from last Friday.  I’ve seriously considered not watching the final episode.  I do not want this to end.  I’m content with the last image of this show being Saul and Adama in the Admiral’s quarters as the camera pulls away from them as they contemplate loosing the Galactica and merging their society with the Cylons.  I can make up any ending I want in my head.

On Lost, Desmond wants “Our Mututal Friend” by Charles Dickens to be the last thing he reads before he dies.  I want Battlestar Galactica to be the last thing I watch before I die.

Of course, when you live in a hatch, you don’t have to be afraid of spoilers.  So for that reason alone I’m sure I’ll watch it in a tear-soaked t-shirt for 3 hours this Friday.  I have to be alone, because if I’m not I’ll be embarrassed.

As for Terminator, it seems to be turning around after the abysmal 3-episode arc of Sara’s tormented psyche.  That was brutal.  I still don’t think it’s as good as it was in the first part of the season, but it seems to be heading in that direction.  I was 50/50 for Riley’s character, I could go either way—so her death really didn’t effect me.  Now, Jesse is getting on my nerves.

And Cameron is being weird and creepy.  I suppose she always has been, but something about her has been even more off lately.  I think that’s exactly as it should be — you should be scared whenever you see her — but I don’t have to like it!

The ratings were up last Friday, so it’s still unclear what Fox will do with it.  I wish they take the route of Lost and say “two more years no matter what,” so the producers can give us two more seasons with a clear direction.  But something tells me we’ll soon be reading headlines that people think are clever like “Terminator:  Terminated!”

Battlestar Galactica and Feminism
Best BSG article I’ve ever read.