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Anyway, after a long five days of cataloging props, we’re taking some time off this weekend. (We’re still hitting up the office for three or four hours to get things organized a bit.) We’ve received some much needed shelving from the set dec people and are going through what stuff we’ll have for the first live auction. Some very cool props we’ve found, including various knives (Dualla’s, Cain’s, even Tom Zarek’s from the “Home” two parter), the infamous Searider Falcon book, young Adama’s Viper helmet from “Razor” (the reference photo is seen below), Baltar’s trial papers, the Blackbird manual… all in all, some very cool stuff.

I did take pictures of CIC, but they won’t make it to the internet until the last half of Season 4 is completely aired.

And having said Season 4, I will reveal that I’ve watched six episodes of the last half of Season 4. I won’t bother gushing how great it is, since… like the Matrix… you have to see it for yourself. Also, I believe you guys can make up your own frakking minds when you see it. And that’s all I’m saying about it, because I’ve signed an NDA.

Anyway, outside of BSG, Alec and I are going to see “Clone Wars” in the theater, which is about ten minutes walking time from the apartment where I’m at.

Yes, I’ve been in Vancouver since the 6th. I can tell you now that it’s very beautiful up here. As with any major city, it’s congested like hell and driving is a bitch. Plus there’s construction happening on basically every other road, it seems. On the upside, I can pretty much get anywhere simply by walking. In my travels, I have seen coffee shops (yes, there’s Starbucks; I can get to two of them if I head east), 7-11s, eateries, sub-shops, pubs. There’s even a pretty cool comic book store within 5 miles of where I’m staying.

Of course, the very nice apartment that Alec Peters and I am staying in is a good 20 minutes (by car) to Vancouver Film Studios, which is where Battlestar Galactica was filmed.  (They will be filming the movie up here, and are in pre-production for this.) I’ve met pretty much the main heads of both the art and props departments up here, in addition to the producers: Richard Hudolin, Doug MacLean, Harvey Frand, and others.

I’ve also walked a majority of the sets. Been to CIC, the pilots room, the Cylon baseship set—the hangar bay set was locked down, so we couldn’t get there. Saw the hero Viper Mark II cockpit, Colonial One all in pieces (yes, it comes apart, and they’re breaking it down now to store it, since other shows will start shooting at the stage it presently occupies)… lots of stuff.

Of course, I don’t have pictures of the sets yet. And, to be frank, I probably won’t release some of them until after the series airs, simply out of fear of being spoilery. That, and I signed a NDA, so I deeded over my first born to NBC Universal should I spill something. As I will have access to the final episodes, not to mention the fact that we’ll be having input in the new movie prop and set decoration (”set dec” for short), that was necessary.

And, as part of our job, we’re going to be documenting the breaking of the sets, so those pictures will end up on the Battlestar Props website.

In any event, here’s a picture of the view from the balcony of the apartment, since it’s the only picture I have of Vancouver so far. Yeah, I’m that busy. LOL

Associated Content has finally published my review of Dynamite Entertainments “Battlestar Galactica: Pegasus” one-shot comic.

That review is here. Please leave your thoughts, opinions and questions either at Associated Content, this blog, or at the Battlestar Forum.

The teaser for Razor, the television movie then direct-to-DVD coming out this fall.

Well, looks like David Eick didn’t confirm Edward James Olmos‘ statement… but he didn’t outright deny it either.

Hmm…

Still, I would rather have BSG end this season, rather than having two seasons with mediocre “filler” episodes. Makes for tighter story telling — just look at Babylon 5’s fourth season. Half the season ends the Shadow War, the other half deals (and ends) the Earth Civil War, and it still had character development to boot.

Moore… Eick… Give JMS a ring, will ya? Seriously.

So, yes, it’s been confirmed that Battlestar Galactica will have one final season, which will air in 2008.

I’m rather pleased with this news myself, seeing as most shows overstay their welcome with the audience. Most stories or shows just don’t know when to end, and just fizzle out. Like Sliders, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The X-Files (with the story that really went nowhere very, very slowly) and, most recently, Stargate SG-1.
In light of the announcement, I feel much better about the quality of the show’s fourth season, since I feel that the creative force behind the show will put their balls to the wall and produce some amazing hours of television.

I’m now psyched.  We now have 24 hours of Battlestar Galactica left before the end. w00t!

Matt and Nat of bsgcast.com have pretty much summed up my thoughts on the rather lackluster third season of Baltarstar Galactica, and it was hilarious to boot.

“When the commander of the Battlestar Galactica tells you to jump the shark, you jump the shark!” 

Oh, and Matt did an excellent Baltar impression as well — the Adama torture scene and prison cell skit were downright hilarious.

Again, frakkin’ hilarious, and (sadly) dead on. Hope RDM and company can pull something out of some super-creative ether and give us a great 4th (and possibly final) season.

Then again, it could be worse… It could be “Lost”. Pfft.

For those of you that haven’t seen this, you need to do so. Fucking hilarious. Paricularly if you’re a fan of “Battlestar Galactica” and like the type of humor in Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm”.

Fucking A!