From the monthly archives: May 2008

We jump right into this week’s incredibly BSG episode. Highlights: we compare Romo’s cat to Wilson, express our joy over Jake’s triumphant return, discuss Tigh’s eye-moting, note Mark Sheppard’s difficult and successful performance, see even more evidence that colonials are beginning to see cylons as people, comment on Lee’s Fabio shirt (and, um, presidency), and enjoy more calls from BSG cast members congratulating GWCers on the community’s longevity and fun.

 

audra-a1.gif10. A centurion tries to shoot the guy next to you
9. Dee blows you off for a buffer model
8. You’re alone in a bathroom with Baltar and a chick with a pipe
7. You’re standing next to Admiral Cain
6. Caprica Six slips you the tongue
5. Jamie Bamber’s wife is performing your critical surgery
4. You tell a smart centurion “don’t kill me,” but forget to say “please”
3. You set the table and serve Kara Thrace a nice dinner
2. You have an open wound on the poo barge
1. Hera creeps up to your bed and says “bye-bye”

 

In this first week off during season four, we take the opportunity to respond to a ton of listener calls. Highlights: we wish we had a doctor like Doc Cottle, learn that Chuck’s middle-school librarian was incredibly cool, wonder why there aren’t more colonial injuries considering the state of war in which they live, search for anyone who’s “dying” and “a leader” at the same time, hear Audra’s full frontal Stargate nudity rant, question whether Darth Vader is “hot,” tell lots of stupid stories, and play episode 100 congratulatory calls from two BSG cast members.

 

If you’re new to GWC, you might want to start with one of the older podcasts as this special ‘cast — recorded live with numerous calls from listeners and members of the GWC community — celebrates our momentous 100th podcast. Highlights: a quick congratulations call from everyone’s favorite final-fiver Michael Trucco, a clip reel of some funny moments in GWCdom (including our first introduction), David’s kick-ass song about the occasion (set to the tune of JoCo’s Still Alive), and lots of interaction with fellow GWCers. Enjoy!

 
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Do you remember what you were doing on September 20th, 2006? I do. I was fighting with a crappy old laptop trying to put out the first episode of Galactica Watercooler. Now almost a year and a half — and 144 hours 22 minutes and 25 seconds sitting in front of a mic — later, we’re preparing to complete our 100th podcast.

Then we’re going to celebrate by popping down to our favorite local pub, drowning some fish ‘n chips with a few pints, making drunken speeches, and generally having a good time.

You are, of course, welcome to join us.

The party starts at 7:30 p.m. CT Saturday, May 17th, 2008 (Tomorrow) at:

The Irish Rover Pub (Google Map)
8250 Gaylord Pkwy
Frisco, TX 75034
(214) 618-6222

Here’s the GWC Forum thread as well.

If you can’t be there, well, that sucks. If you’re in Germany, Australia, England, Hong Kong, or Thailand (yes, you know who you are), we understand. As soon as someone backs up to GWC with a dump-truck full of cash to buy ads to sell all of you DVDs or some other (acceptable to us) cool stuff, we’ll schedule a meetup at your place. Really.

Those of you in the great northeast should know that American Airlines has last-minute fares to DFW (their central hub) available — including airline/hotel packages for around $350. Start here, but you’ll have to dig to find ‘em. No, you can’t crash at our place. But if you come down for the event, I’ll personally buy your first drink. If you’re Solai or part of the Philly Crue, I’ll buy you two. And I fully expect to make it up your way sometime this year.

If you’re in the DFW area — or any other Texas metropolitan area — head out now. There are three hotels within a stone’s throw of the pub, and some cheaper ones just up the tollway. You don’t want to miss this. It’s gonna be great.

See you there.

 
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To commemorate our 100th GWC podcast, we’re going live — bringing GWC Podcast #100 to you in real time via TalkShoe.com at noon central time tomorrow, Saturday May 17th, 2008. Why? Because we feel like the GWC community is largely responsible for the podcast growing from a couple of people talking in a room to a weekly respite for thousands of people — including us, of course. And we’d like you to participate in the joyous occasion. Here’s how:

  • You can listen to the podcast in real-time via streaming by visiting this page at TalkShoe.com.
  • You can also listen remotely if you’re away from your computer — like, say, at work — by dial into the call at (724) 444-7444. Enter call ID 17428 when requested.
  • Better yet, you can even interact in real-time with the GWC crew just like calling a radio show! if you sign up for a TalkShoe.com account (free) you’ll receive a PIN. By entering the PIN when requested after you dial the number above, you’ll show up in our call panel by name (or handle, or whatever you select in the signup) — and we’ll be able to take your call later in the show.
  • GWCers outside the US can participate, too! If you have a USB microphone, you can configure TalkShoe.com’s ShoePhone and connect via VoIP. And, of course, you can listen to the live stream. Visit TalkShoe.com for details.

And a few details about how TalkShoe and the live podcast works:

  • All callers will initially enter the call muted.
  • If you’d like to talk to the GWC crew, select “Request to Talk” option, which will let us know that you have something to say.
  • When we take your “call,” your phone will say “you’ve been un-muted” and you’ll hear us introduce you. At that point, feel free to talk.
  • When you complete your “call,” the crew will re-mute you.

After we finish recording the episode, we’ll un-mute everyone for a fun free-for-all frak party. The last one was quite fun, so I’m guess this one will be, too.

If for some reason you can’t make the live podcast, it’ll release later via the same distribution method as a standard podcast — though you won’t be able to talk to the crew in real-time. So if you can make it, be sure to call in. We’ll see you tomorrow!

 
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It’s Friday night during Galactica season, which means new BSG and frak parties galore. Regardless of how you’re planning to watch, be sure to choose the correct frak party for your viewing time zone to avoid spoilers:

  • Here’s the party for those of you watching via SciFi’s “streaming preview.”
  • Here’s the party for everyone watching the show at 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. CT tonight. The thread’s open, so feel free to get in the mood there (sans spoilers, of course).
  • And here’s the party for those of you out on the West coast catching the PT broadcast.

And, of course, you’ve still got a little bit to slip in a last-minute call under the wire for tonight’s podcast by calling us at 214-296-9229. See you on the parties tonight!

 
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Just in time for tonight’s episode, here’s the latest crop of truly awesome BSG theories sent in by GWCers:

  • Hera and Chief’s kid will be “Adam & Eve” on Earth. They will be the only survivors of the trek to Earth — since Starbuck will bring death. [Daleed77]
  • The rag-tag fleet finally makes it to the Sol system. The Galactica cruises past Neptune and Uranus and then they detect a ship on the draidus flying near the large gas giant with the rings. Adama sends out a raptor to investigate. The raptor finds a large ship with strange writing across the hull. They receive a hail: “Unidentified ship, this is Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise. What is your business in the Sol system?” [Chris in Boston]
  • I’m gonna make the call now: I think Baltar is going to be the dying leader. His profile as a “leader” is growing exponentially. How fitting that a Christ figure like Baltar should die as Earth is reached, thereby elevating him to even further worship status. Let’s not forget he is being visited by an angel of God. [Gafra]
  • In the Razor DVD (Chapter 10 46:02-30) — also part of the last two ‘sodes –
    we see a young blonde child behind the doors with the “terrified man” who is trying to convince young Adama to let them out from behind the steel door.
    He claims they were civilians on the Gemonese transport ship Diana, in which the cylons caught fifty civilians. They appeared to be the last of the survivors from the cylon experiments. The girl is played by Vancouver actress
    Emily Hirst (credited as “girl in cage” on IMDB) and is not the the same actress as the young Starbuck in Maelstrom (played by Erika Shaye Gair). But the camera seems to give us three different shots of this young girl hiding behind the door, and as Adama starts to leave them you can hear the girl shoutign “don’t leave without us!” Could be any significance to this scene? Might we find out down the road that these people are a young Starbuck and her father? [Rjmdrum]
  • Head 6/Head Baltar are actually beings from the Ships of Light, and we simply haven’t seen the actual ship of light yet. [David Herron]
  • The four currently revealed final fivers all have a “T” in their name: Tory, Tigh, Tyrol, Sam “T” Anders.  I think the last cylon will also have a “T” in their name, which means it’s either Kara Thrace (not likely, since that’s more a \”th\” sound) or Tom Zarek. I think Tom’d be a cool final final-fiver! [Bobbi H]

Remember, you can send us your latest and greatest theories via our submit a theory form — and discuss ‘em at any time of the day or night on the GWC Forum.

 

Highlights: We question just whose death Kara is the harbinger of, kid about the large cylon-to-human ratio of people in the raptor visiting the basestar, wonder how the episode’s Six-on-Six action worked in filming, note the continuation of vocal GWCers names showing up in BSG — Pike, now Emily — discuss Athena’s assertion of her cylon nature — and great mini-speech to the eights — wonder what badness will go down when they unbox three and she tells them who the final five are, love Nana Visitor’s appearance, suffer through hearing Chuck sound like a drunk orangutan because he has a cold, and announce podcast #100: a live podcast at noon CT Saturday, May 17th, 2008. If you’re in (or can be in) the Dallas area, join us later that night for a Podcast #100 party at our favorite local bar. (We’re regulars.) Check the GWC forum for details.

 
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It’s Friday night during Galactica season, which means new BSG and frak parties galore. Regardless of how you’re planning to watch, be sure to choose the correct frak party for your viewing time zone to avoid spoilers:

  • Here’s the party for those of you watching via SciFi’s “streaming preview.”
  • Here’s the party for everyone watching the show at 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. CT tonight. The thread’s open, so feel free to get in the mood there (sans spoilers, of course).
  • And here’s the party for those of you out on the West coast catching the PT broadcast.

And, of course, you’ve still got a little bit to slip in a last-minute call under the wire for tonight’s podcast by calling us at 214-296-9229. See you on the parties tonight!

 
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Just in time for tonight’s episode, here’s the latest crop of truly awesome BSG theories sent in by GWCers:

  • Is Chief headed back to Boomer? First, they showed us that Boomer isn’t just inclined to seduce humans, she can go after other cylons as well. Now with Tyrol being a cylon and Cally now out of the way, could they be setting up some sort of reunion between Tyrol and Boomer? Maybe their relationship could be a key to a reconciliation between the original seven and the “Tighlons?” It would be really cool to tie something from the beginning of the series into the conclusion. [Mark Heil]
  • I think the way Six seemed to “carry” Baltar when he tried to enter his “home” is key to what Head Six really is to Baltar. I think this lends more to the fact that she is a angel sent from God. Also, I think Caprica Six knows that Tigh is a cylon. Some of the things she said seem to indicate that. And its throwing Tigh off because what she said was so close to what Ellen would have said. [mSeliga]
  • Earth — not Kobol — was the home of man. In order to settle Kobol, long-lived robots based on a human pattern (Cylons) were created to oversee the sub-light journey from Earth to Kobol. In all probability only human cells and the robots were sent on the trip. On Kobol the robots supervised the founding and raising of a new civilization. The robots became the “gods” to the humans. In time the gods’ power declined as the population and civilisation of Kobol grew. As chaos grew on Kobol, as it had previously on Earth, the (human) founders of the 12 colonies headed off to their new worlds whilst the Kobol neo-Earth was destroyed. Some of the robot overlords also migrated to the colonies, living “undercover” as humans.  Many forgot or programmed out their memory of the great journey that had happened before, and probably again. Some (or one) of these 12 model Cylons, perhaps the unknown member of the “Final Five”, may have (perhaps unknowingly) invented the mechanical Cylons who, used as a slave class. rebelled from their human overlords. Perhaps the robot overlords of Kobol in the past had a human slave revolt. Anyhow, about half of the original 12 Cylons allied themselves with their “mechanical” brothers while the other half chose to stay with their human “god children.” Finding Earth with reveal mankind and Cylonkind’s true origin. [Tim from Sydney]
  • After watching Escape Velocity, I wonder if anyone has ever speculated that maybe Ellen Tigh is an “aged” Six. The resemblance is uncanny, and I’m surprised I never noticed it before. [Daniel]
  • Starbuck is not the final cylon. She was brought back by the ship of lights — just like Apollo from the original show. They showed her Earth and things around it,  then put her back in place with the fleet. She doesn’t remember the ship in that manner — just the feelings about where to go. She will end up with Leoben in the end and they will be the first to find Earth together. As far as the “final four” cylons, they are actually the first for cylons, aside from the final cylon which is actually the “main” cylon. The other seven were based off of the first five (Six tells us this last week when she tells Tigh that their brains were based off of the first models) but don’t know or think about them because it could hinder their final “plan.” I believe that the Cavils actually do know more about the final five than they let us know. That’s why they removed Tigh’s eye on caprica, so the other cylons wouldn’t recognize him. [Darthoutlaw]
  • Each of the twelve human cylons seem to have a unique personality or belief structure — as do the twelve colonies. Caprica was the leading planet, Gemini was deeply fundamentalist, etc. It just seems to me that the survivors from each colony will split with one of the twelve human models to repopulate the species it most identifies with. The Humans offer the DNA pool, the cyclons offer the numbers, and off they go.  It’s all happened before and will happen again because the cylons are preprogrammed to recreate the future at a genetic level: 1000 years later and boom, it’s triggered, and someone develops robotics. 100 years later and boom, someone creates cylons.  Boom, it repeats to keep the species going. Humans are nothing more than preprogrammed biological machines anyway.  Earth is simply where the secret is held, a “What is the Meaning of Life” type epiphany for the human race. [James]
  • Starbuck is the original hylon: her Mom was actually one of the people captured by the cylon(z) that Husker saw on the ship. She earned her medal by escaping. Her dad is Saul and that is why they are so much alike. [Sandog Malone]
  • Since it’s impossible to tell a human from a cylon, perhaps the physical form is consistent between the two and the only difference is the consciousness. Perhaps the Tighlons are really human (and have been all along) but a consciousness was downloaded — or is it uploaded? — without their knowing. So final five are these kind of ghost like entities that can jump from host body to host body without the goo bath. [Var]

Remember, you can send us your latest and greatest theories via our submit a theory form — and discuss ‘em at any time of the day or night on the GWC Forum.

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Besides stumbling through this week’s episode The Road Less Travelled, we ramble as per usual. Highlights: we talk astromech droids and Lego Y-wings, gross out over Leoben and Starbuck’s paint-fest, question Baltar’s Michael Jackson-like marionette dance, enjoy Helo’s bad-ass beatdown, wonder why the Chief shaved his noggin, debate the origin of “skeeve,” listen to a boring work story from Chuck, question (again) Athena’s (and Boomer’s) loyalties, speculate on Cylon alliances, and see two images we can’t get out of our head: the yoga dude and slave Cavil.