Okay — we’ve been discussing a Dallas-area meetup for a month now, but Audra, Sean, and I were too busy with the massive three-peat week of podcasting to organize it properly. Now that we’re back to one-a-week, I’m ready to do the job right.
So who’s up for a Dallas meetup and when? FYI: Sean is out of town this weekend and next, but will be back following. Audra and I are in town for the next month at least. Note: if some of you are willing to travel but can’t make it at the same time as the others, we’ll schedule more than one meet.
Anyway, let’s work it out in comments, and we’ll see you in Dallas.
Update: This is coming together nicely. August 4th is now a firm date!
Update #2: (Bump!) We’re now planning August 4th starting at 7:30 to 8:00 p.m., and we’ll have a location shortly. If you’re planning on traveling to the meetup, drop us a line (or let us know in comments) and we’ll help you find what you need in the area.
Update #3: We’re on for the Irish Rover in Frisco, TX. (It’s just North of Dallas not far off the Dallas North Tollway. MAP) It’s a pub/restaurant that has food, lots of places to sit, good beer on tap, etc. If you’re traveling, there are numerous hotels nearby.
It’s week eighteen of our planned off-season re-watch of the entire “re-imagined” BSG canon, and it’s time to move on to the season two episode “The Farm.” So why not join us here for the GWC online frak party? There’s room for everyone, though you’ll have to bring your own snacks…
Feel free to jump in at any point with your comments on this week’s episode as the re-watch is by definition spoiler free. We’ll be in and out, but we’ll definitely take a look at your comments before we start next week’s podcast.
See you here all week!
Here’s the new weekly presidental approval poll. Remember — even if you voted last week, you’ll want to vote again on this poll as this is a weekly feature and the results will vary from week to week. Let your opinion be heard (for free)!
Remember: This approval poll applies to the current GWC re-watch schedule, which means you should be voting for your feelings circa Episode 205: “The Farm.”
Do you approve or disapprove of the way Laura Roslin is handling her job as president?
- Approve: 61% (43 votes)
- Disapprove: 34% (24 votes)
- Unsure: 4% (3 votes)
Total Votes: 70
Like GWC’s “punchy” ‘casts? You’ll love this one. Highlights: a caller lets us know Chuck’s “awesome” except for the fact that he says “awesome” too much — awesome! — and we reveal our secret identities, clarify the sailing ships and starships concept (and discuss possible explanations), talk about which BSG characters we’d want with us on an off-Galactica mission, discuss The Fair Melissa’s bet-winning flying car find, ponder the origin of the Cylon(z), question the accuracy of Boomer’s under-torture revelations, try to decide what kind of tattoo Sean’ll get this year, get all fanboy (and girl) on pyramid, welcome Adama Sr. back to consciousness, and apologize for dropping the ball on last week’s frak party post. Our bad.
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This week we welcome Sean back from vacation and catch up on the re-watch. Highlights: we review the Pegasus’s CAG lineage, discuss basestar design and Cylon computer UI, wonder about the actual heritage of the fleet, speculate regarding how Cylon downloading works, clarify the concept of religious reality in the BSG universe a bit, discuss Baltar’s motives in fragging Crashdown, expound upon the concepts of leadership (and lack of it on all levels in the re-watch current BSG world), and mention the upcoming GWC meetups in Dallas and Philly.
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So while on vactaion the whole Pegasus CAG chain was driving me crazy. Luckily The Alpaca Herder lets us in on the chain of command – that we know about thus far – on the Pegasus as we were nothing short of totally guessing in the podcast last week with Chuck swearing Lee was CAG and me thinking he was just a pilot, we were both wrong btw.
As to who was CAG where, Apollo was never CAG for Pegasus. The order went, if memory serves based on all currently aired episodes: Stinger, Starbuck, back to Stinger some time around the events of Scar, Captain Marcia “Showboat†Case temporarily during the brief tenure of Commander Garner as Garner threw Stinger in the brig, back to Stinger presumably, and then who knows who was CAG from that point until Apollo crashed the Pegasus into a Basestar.
Many thanks to The Alpaca Herder for keeping us straight!
It’s week sixteen of our planned off-season re-watch of the entire “re-imagined” BSG canon, and it’s time to move on to the season two episode “Fragged.” So why not join us here for the GWC online frak party? There’s room for everyone, though you’ll have to bring your own snacks…
Feel free to jump in at any point with your comments on this week’s episode as the re-watch is by definition spoiler free. We’ll be in and out, but we’ll definitely take a look at your comments before we start next week’s podcast.
See you here all week!
Here’s the new weekly presidental approval poll. Remember — even if you voted last week, you’ll want to vote again on this poll as this is a weekly feature and the results will vary from week to week. Let your opinion be heard (for free)!
Remember: This approval poll applies to the current GWC re-watch schedule, which means you should be voting for your feelings circa Episode 203: “Fragged.”
Do you approve or disapprove of the way Laura Roslin is handling her job as president?
- Approve: 57% (39 votes)
- Disapprove: 34% (23 votes)
- Unsure: 9% (6 votes)
Total Votes: 68
According to a press release from Sci-Fi this morning, we’ll receive “an eight-week series of exclusive mini-sodes, between two and three minutes in length, beginning in October.” They go one to say that the mini-sodes will “take place during the original Cylon War and center on a young William Adama (played by Nico Cortez), who discovers a dangerous Cylon weapon that will come to haunt him and his crew 40-years later.”Â
If — like us — you’re wondering why they’re not calling ‘em “webisodes,” this bit from the release might help explain: “The mini-sodes will be available on SCIFI.com after they debut on the network.” We can’t help but wonder how they’ll release the mini-sodes. Will we see them in the middle of Eureka? Or other shows that need a boost?
We also noticed that the IMDB entry for Razor lists Nico Cortez — that’s a publicity photo of Nico above — as “young Adama.” So it looks like we’re going to see quite a bit of him in October and November.
(Thanks for the tip, Phoenix!)
SCI-FI Development Slate Unveiled [scifi.com]
Nico Cortez [IMDB.com]
Sean’s on vacation this week, but we caught him for a little bit before he fled out the door to spends some time on the beach. We hope this short update’ll tide you over until we can all wade into the rest of the great calls and concepts from this week.
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Audra and I will be in Austin, Texas this weekend, and we’ve got a little bit of time late Saturday night if any of you would like to get together for an impromptu meetup. It’s sort of last minute, but hey — we never pass up an opportunity to shoot the bull about BSG.
We’ll check back in comments later tonight and tomorrow.
Update: We’re thinking late Saturday at the bar in the Omni Hotel Downtown.
I just saw the Razor trailer — I think — about 39 minutes into tonight’s Eureka episode. Am I wrong, or was that an incredibly short trailer? But for as short as it was, it did tell us a few things about what’s to come in terms of Razor.
I have a more to say about it, and I suspect you do, too. So here’s your thread to cut loose. Look for the rest of my post in comments.
Update: The Alpaca Herder added a slick summary of what we saw in comments below.
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