Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
The third season premiere of Battlestar Galactica is tonight! Are you sufficiently prepared? You might want to start out wirh a 3-minute video recap. Don’t need that? Webisodes will fill in the gap between S2 and S3.
USA Today can interviews the actors and gives you some hints about the next season. Also be sure to check out this interview with showrunner Ron Moore. And finally, if you really can’t wait, Sci-Fi.com has the first 15 minutes of tonight’s episode.
The man we know best as Captain Mal starts filming on Hawaii next week, and will guest star in at least two episodes. In the link, some spoilerific details on his role.
This week’s featured filk takes us back to the excitement leading up to the release of Episode I. Jeff Suess’ Bare Naked Ladies parody takes us One Week before the release of the movie, and the hype and celebration lives on. You can find more of Jeff’s work here.
And continuing with news on Weird Al’s recently released album, the quick favorite outside of the first single “White and Nerdy” is apparently his Green Day parody called “Canadian Idiot.” Fans have already started on the homemade videos, like this remix of the Robot Chicken Voltron dance off.
Spoilerrific day-by-day timeline of the Legacy of the Force series (so far) from editor Sue Rostoni. I’m now envisioning that Lucas Licensing keeps one of those Without a Trace whiteboards on the walls of the Presidio.
Amazing! Adorable! But all sold out, damn it! At least one can still admire from afar. Snock and Medina are my favorites.
Sparta has no pants! Sparta needs no pants!
Also be sure to check out this comic-to-screen comparison from Solace in Cinema.
As the producers of the Stargate franchise are fond of reminding us, Stargate SG1 has not been cancelled, it has only been dropped by SciFi here in the US. This, of course, leads us to a slight problem of how US fans will get their Gate in the future.
SaveStargate.com is trying to do some market research on alternate methods of getting your Gate. Give them your feedback.
In other Gate news, a transformed official website has gone up for the syndicated series (which is just starting Season 9). Lots of nifty behind-the-scenes stuff. New layout. Pretty pictures. Go check it out!
I dare you to spend less than a half hour browsing Not Starring, a site that details the roles that the stars didn’t play. Was Jodie Foster really second choice to play Princess Leia? Sean Connery turned down Gandolf and Morpheus? Did Ewan MacGregor say no to Neo? I don’t know how verifiable any of this information is, (David Boreanaz turned down the lead in Batman Begins? Really?) but it’s still fascinating for the ‘what-if’ aspect.
Make a Fett helmet out of cardboard. Wow. Just wow.
Also impressive: Homemade landspeeder!