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Six Noms, Including Writing, For BSG, McDonnell Snubbed

The writing nomination came for Michael Angeli's script for Six of One, which isn't the ep I would have put up, so maybe I'm wrong? Me, wrong?

I still think Sine Qua Non or Faith are stronger, but my opinion means nothing.

I just don't get how they pass over Mary McDonnell. Especially in this the final season of the show, where she's done such beautifully disciplined work. Also, an actress of a certain age playing a cancer patient, even in a genre show, is brave.

So is not getting your face stretched out over your cheekbones till you look like a cat, like a lot of her contemporaries.

That's just very disappointing. I think a lot of it has to do with genre snobs snubbing what they think is just a scifi show that geeks watch. How wrong can an Emmy voter be?

Well, very wrong, actually.

Six nominations total for BSG.

Limited Edition (Only 500) Frakkin' Toaster Puts BSG Logo on Your Breakfast

And here it is.

If I just hadn't bought a new toaster. Seriously, just about a month ago. You can buy it at this link. I'd still accept one if someone just wanted to buy it for me. I could store it until ...

BSG -- Revealed! Earth in Shambles, But Couldn't You Just Guess That?

Okay, I know I haven't written extensively about Battlestar Galactica since I started watching the show a mere 10 weeks ago, but I have actually expreienced every episode so far in those 10 weeks, so I think I have a somewhat different perspective on the show than some, having digested it in short order and away and apart from the promotion for the show over the last four years.

Lots of talk on the 'net right now about the end of Revelations and how people felt about the big reveal that Earth has been destroyed in what looks and sounds (geiger counter) to be a nuclear blast.

The thing is, was there no history on Earth available to them? I have no recollection of anyone making reference to the history of Earth on the show.

Am I missing something here?

I'm happy to have someone chime in on this issue.

And Tahmoh, just sitting up there atop this post for me, but you can enjoy, too.

BSG's Sackhoff & Helfer, Bikes, the Open Road and LA Times Video Of It All

But of course, no embed codes for the clip, so I must send you there. Click here and a new window will open with the whole clip, and an article from the Times' Susan Carpenter, which gives you some background on Katee's move from the back to the front of the bike, and this:

Helfer bought a Harley-Davidson; Sackhoff, a Honda Shadow. They signed up for a safety course and vroom, were off. On "Battlestar," Number Six and Starbuck rarely appear in the same scenes, so they were rarely in Vancouver at the same time for filming. But a girl fight between the two characters helped form a fast friendship. The two actresses now ride their motorcycles together any weekend they're in L.A..

"I kind of feel like I need to take on a role of getting it out there in public knowledge that women can ride," said Helfer, a lanky Canuck whose everyday hair color isn't Mansfield blond but a tawny brown. "People assume," she said, before Sackhoff finished her sentence, "that we're on the back of the bike making sandwiches."

As I said, click the link for the article AND video.

Ten-Minute Battlestar Galactica Preview Right Now on SciFi.com

The only cost is that you have to download Windows Media Player 11 if you haven't already to see it, and you can't rewind or pause or replay or do anything else to the clip while it's running (which apparently is part of the functionality -- or lack thereof -- in WMP11).

And it only happens at the top of the hour.

And, of course, anything that you do in the downloading arena is at your own risk.

Go to this link for more.

I know, it's an awfully weird way to get a bunch of people to update Media Player.

And Then Veruca Salt Said, "But I Want A Cylon Centurion Now!"

Hat tip to James Hibberd at THR Feed.

So, who has room for a life-size Cylon Centurion at home? I do, I have plenty room. You don't think this post is worth a freebie, do you, NBC-Universal?

Hey, how about if I link to the page where you can buy it?

Or, if I also linked to the BSG homepage at SciFi.com and ordered my readers to click over.

What if I wash Jeff Zucker's Porsche?

Man, I really want one, I haven't looked at the price yet so that I could, in a sense, live blog my reaction.

Here I go ...

Sorry, I had to pick up my heart, which fell out of my chest, and put it back in.

$7,900.00. Wow.

Well, I guess I'll have to pass. I'm still waiting for my US retailer of choice to pick up the Doctor Who Fob Watch from The Family of Blood.

Only about $40.00

Video -- Men and Sex ... On the Plaza

That's right, right out there on the plaza. No, I'm not coming to you live from IML, I'm talking about the Today show interviewing my favorite men from SATC, Naperville's own David Eigenberg and Jason Lewis.

I know that I'm supposed to prefer the tall blond guy, but frankly I've always been a David Eigenberg fan, at least from the first moment that Miranda kicked him out of bed before the morning came (what a fool, Miranda, Steve is something to behold in the AM, all compact and tight and many of you know my weakness for Jewish-Americans from the five boroughs ... but I digress).

But you know, there's a lot to like about Jason Lewis, too. Like the spot he did for GLAAD.org with Jerry O'Connell and BSG's Jaime Bamber (which is after the jump, as well as both David's and Jason's interview with the Today show -- sorry, but if you're watching the Eigenberg interview, you'll have to suffer through that lady with the crazy eyes who married Frank Gifford).

The other guy I enjoyed on the show came and went (no pun intended, he didn't actually ... well, you know) really fast, it was John Slattery's golden shower loving politico, not because I share that with him but because I had never seen a character on TV that so offhandedly asked for that.

What's Joe Been Doing?

Sleeping, as much as possible and watching a lot, I mean a lot, of TV. No, that's not me with Kara Thrace, that's her mom. I was so thrilled when she finally shows up and it's Dorothy Lyman, who's birthday was last April 18 -- Have a happy honey! Love her. Haven't seen Dorothy since one day years ago at the French Market Place in WeHo. I used to know the guy who handled her horses.

Kara's mom was a ... See You Next Tuesday, if you know what I mean. No wonder Kara is so effed up.

Anyhow, I'm starting to feel much more chipper than when I woke up a couple days ago. Still I have some errands and shopping to catch up on so I'm spending some of the day out of the house, and then if you come back later or tomorrow morning, you can read all about the hours and hours of television I've been watching.

I'm almost finished with BSG season three and I have all the current season DVR'd and ready to watch in sequence. Right now I'm about 15 minutes into the second chapter of the episode Crossroads, Laura has just announced that her cancer has returned and everyone is mourning the loss of craziest chick in the universe Kara Thrace.

Just in time, as the fourth and final season of The 4400 has come out on DVD and I have to hear what Ira Behr is gonna say in the commentaries about the cancelation of the show and most of all the failure of NBC-Uni to promote the USA Network show (though produced by CBS Paramount) once they got their hands on Heroes, which was remarkably similar in concept at the outset (and kind of still is).

Okay, gotta get out and about, but I'll be back later,

Update: My Battlestar Galactica Progress

Okay, I'm in the middle of season three, episode 12, titled Rapture.

As you may have imagined, I have found BSG to be everything that Jericho was not for me, and what I thought Jericho would be, a contemplation on the war on terror and the neocon agenda.

And if you're asking why I hadn't jumped into BSG sooner, you have no knowledge of the fear of outer space that prevented me from embracing most science fiction. I watched all of 2001: A Space Odyssey at Century's Green Acres Theatre in Valley Stream, NY in through a button-hole on my winter coat when I was a kid in the Summer of 1968.

More on my space thing when I'm all caught up with Galactica.

I have one item to address, however. Kara Thrace is a sick little chaos junkie type of woman, isn't she? What a character, running so hot and so cold and I'm not even up what's happening currently. I would bet sex with Kara is great, but the afterwards could be lethal.

Still, she's one of the most complex female characters I've seen in an American TV show. Katee Sackhoff certainly hit the jackpot when she landed this one.

Ronald Moore Pilot Lands at Helfer-Full Fox, BSG's Grace Park and Tahmoh Penikett on Today Show

The clip from Friday's show with Meredith Viera talking to Boomer and Karl is after the jump, but first ...

You'll remember that Tricia Helfer has just signed a talent holding deal at Fox. It would be interesting if she ended up cast in the 2-hour backdoor pilot (we also call these movies of the week, or TV movies) Virtuality from Fox and BSG co-creator Ronald Moore.

Hollywood Reporter:

The sci-fi project, from Universal Media Studios and producers Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun, is set aboard the Phaeton, Earth's first starship, on a 10-year journey to explore a distant solar system. To help the 12 crew members endure the long trip and keep their minds occupied, NASA equipped the ship with advanced virtual reality modules, allowing them to assume adventurous identities and go to any place they want. The plan works until a mysterious "bug" is found in the system.

"It's very much about what's fantasy and what's reality; what we do to escape our lives and what actually institutes our lives, and are these things very different," UMS president Katherine Pope said.

"Virtuality" is a brainchild of Braun, who shaped the idea with Berman, his producing partner at BermanBraun.

And no, I don't know what this means for the status of the Caprica series that is purportedly on a tentative schedule at SciFi.

Yeah, yeah, all well and good that Lloyd Braun (the real Lloyd, not the Seinfeld character (pictured right), I guess for this post we should call him Lloyd Actual) came up with the idea, but Ron Moore is the calling card here, he's brilliant.

And, this gives Ron something to work on while David Eick is pounding away on a TV version of the Oscar nominated Children of Men.

Betcha he goes anywhere but NBC with it. After the Bionic debacle, all NBC's fault in my opinion, he's better look elsewhere.

See Grace and Tahmoh (Yum) after the jump.