I Am A TV Junkie

Okay, All Right, I'll Write About the Doctor Who Finale (and show you the trailer for series five)

And because you've all seen it by now, beware for spoilers.

In fact, if you haven't seen it yet you should just stop reading this now (and go watch it and then come right back here, natch).

And, to help you do that, I'm putting the rest of this post after the jump.

Ood Sigma -- "I Think Your Song Must End Soon, Doctor"

I'm starting to get teary already!

Watch this clip and remember that all songs end sooner or later.

Video -- Battlestar Galactica's Tricia Helfer Needs You!

Tricia joins Katee Sackhoff's team The Frak-Ups for AIDS Walk/Los Angeles, but she's lagging a bit in fundraising so I'm pitching in for a moment and sending you to her donation page to do your part.

Click here to donate to Tricia's AIDS Walk effort.

Click here for Tricia's official site.

Click here for Tricia's blog post about walking this year with her bestie Katee.

After the jumperoo, watch the first of Tricia and Katee's YouTube clips in the Ask Katee and Tricia series, answering fan questions about that first physical encounter between Starbuck and Six.

And, don't forget ... we're only four months away from the premiere of Fox's Human Target, which features an amazing guest appearance from Tricia in the pilot episode. The series, starring Mark Valley, Chi McBride and Jackie Earle Haley premieres January 17th at9 eastern.

Besides that, Tricia stars in the Syfy movie Battlestar Galactica: The Plan this November.

Also, Katee stars in 24 this season. 

Your kick-ass women of science fiction TV are taking over, be a part of it.

Comic-Con Panel Video -- James Marsters is Stalking Me All The Way to Caprica

Okay James Marsters, do I need to go to Judge Judy and get a TV restraining order on you? First Buffy, then Angel, then Torchwood (yes, followed me all the way to Cardiff) and now you're following me surreptitiously to Caprica?

I told you, I don't like you like that!

Totally lying on that one. Call me!

At Entertainment Weekly, Ausiello reports that Marsters will recur in at least three eps, I believe as the leader of the terror group The Sons of the One (meaning: one true God):

Marsters will play a dangerous terrorist leader by the name of Barnabus Greeley in a minimum of three episodes. Driven by desires both moralistic and carnal, Barnabus is as lethal as he is unpredictable.

And no ones does lethal and unpredictable better than Marsters.

Well, almost no one, Michael. I think for what is ostensibly a kids' show, John Simm does it pretty well in Doctor Who.

(And why isn't John Simm an international star yet, anyway?)

Marsters joins Patton Oswalt, who it was reported two days ago will recur as a comedian who hosts the Graystones on his talk show as a recent hire.

I have a feeling, a strong feeling, that we'll see Marsters in more than three eps. He has a way of sticking around.

Caprica premieres on Syfy on January 22. You can buy the uncensored, uncut DVD version of the pilot somewhere near you or at Amazon by clicking the icon on the left or buy the digital download from Amazon at the icon to the right.

Watch the entire BSG/Caprica panel from Comic-Con 2009 (David Eick, Ron Moore, Jane Espenson, Edward James Olmos, Esai Morales) in a clip after the jump.

         

Video -- BSG: The Plan Premiere Will Be in Your Own Home on DVD (Before Syfy Airing November 1)

You know that means uncensored DVD release before airdate. That means more money for Syfy and it also means that the ratings of the Syfy version on cable at satellite on Nov. 1 (the beginning of sweeps) will be hampered.

So, you gotta wonder why. And I have an answer for you ... Caprica's DVD sales were apparently good enough to encourage the same process for this TV movie.

Here's a quote from the press release from friend of friend of the blog Jane Espenson about the additional footage:

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan's executive producer and writer Jane Espenson added, "Edward James Olmos was our director on the movie, and he did an amazing job. He also shot some great footage that we are not able to show on TV, so I'm thrilled that viewers can experience it uncut as our director envisioned it."

Now, since he knew with was a movie for the cable network from the get go, why did he shoot stuff that they aren't allowed to show on TV? Because they asked him to shoot stuff that they aren't allowed to show on TV. Okay, I don't have independent verification of that, but c'mon, we all know the score.

(Like the bare breasts and violence in Caprica's DVD release were ever meant for Syfy prime time? Please. And, btw, if you don't see them those bare breasts and the violence in the virtual nightclub scenes in Caprica you aren't missing anything more than a ramping up of your adrenaline response. If you need that, buy the DVD like I did. Of course, my purchase was because I just had to have it. I got it the day it went on sale. I've seen female breasts. I like a more muscular, somewhat hairy chest.)

Nice way to generate DVD sales, but it reeks of disingenuity.

Hell, I'm buying it anyway. It's part of my BSG collection. Gotta have it.

How 'bout you? If you click the icon below to pre-order at Amazon I can collect said funds kicked back from Amazon and try and buy back from the Universe the awkward moment after I told Tricia Helfer that I would go straight for the chance to be with her. True story. Not really such an awkward moment, though, I'm sure she gets that a lot.

         

Teaser trailer for this DVD/Blu-Ray/digital download in a clip after the jump. No iTunes link. Yet. If you buy it on iTunes you have to promise me you'll find a way to watch it on something bigger than your iPod.

Missing Battlestar Galactica This Week? Read This From Nat Geo, Then Watch Teaser for The Plan

(The lovely Marilyn Terrell sends this along from her place of work, thank you Marilyn.)

National Geographic was an unbilled special guest on the Battlestar finale, as you saw, with Ron Moore reading an issue about "Mitochondrial Eve" as Nick and Nora Charles Angelic Baltar and Angelic Six looked over his shoulder.

Here's a taste:

Battlestar Galactica fans at the magazine were pretty excited to see the magazine in the final moments of the series. Why did you put this pivotal information about Hera being mitochondrial Eve in National Geographic ?

Ronald Moore: We wanted the last voiceover to be in the form of a journalistic article. It was about an archaeological find.  It was in Africa, and we wanted it to have a beautiful map on it. It felt like National Geographic was the obvious choice. 

(snip)

In particular, did you read our March 2006 article about tracking human migrations via genetic mutations? This line in particular seems resonant: "Scientists now calculate that all living humans are related to a single woman who lived roughly 150,000 years ago in Africa, a 'mitochondrial Eve.' "

Moore: When I was doing research online culling through different references, I think I did get linked to that article at some point. I remember there being an article and I think it was an archived National Geographic article that I stumbled across while looking up information on the concept.  That line kind of sounds familiar. 

More at the link above, which includes a discussion of why Kara's storyline was left ambiguous.

Also, there is not one image online from the finale's final scene. Nowhere to be found. So, I'm going with your standard Ron Moore - David Eick pic with some compositing.

After the jump, a clip from the next BSG movie, The Plan. Tricia tells me she gets to wear lots of form-fitting leather and latex in this one.