{"id":13332,"date":"2009-01-19T22:03:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T05:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2009\/01\/19\/bsg-wham.html"},"modified":"2009-01-19T22:03:37","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T05:03:37","slug":"bsg_wham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/19\/bsg_wham.html","title":{"rendered":"BSG Wham!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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No spoilers here … but no promises about the comments.<\/em> <\/p>\n

I managed to not record the mid-season premiere of Battlestar Galactica <\/em>on Friday — but, fortunately, SciFi has the episode on tap<\/a>. And … wow. BSG once again proves in “Sometimes a Great Notion” (ep 413) that the creators just have too much fun running its characters the wringer … the big spiked wringer … filled with acid. Radioactive <\/em>acid.<\/p>\n

All until the last 15 seconds, when things kind of go off the rails. But … we’ll see. Short of that, it’s big and powerful and complex and gritty deeply intimate and full of those feet of clay that make this BSG everything the original was not.<\/p>\n

Well, now I have to watch the next episode. And the rest of the season.<\/p>\n

(The annotated\/podcast version<\/a> is interesting … though it’s got some backstory spoilers that some folk might not want to hear until after it’s all over — though it leave off discussion of the last couple of minutes. One interesting aspect in the emotionality of the episode was that it was the last one shot before the Writers Strike — in fact, the strike began during filming, and there was some concern that it might be the last episode of the show depending on how the strike went, which added a bit of rawness and fear to everyone’s play.)<\/p>\n

Good stuff.<\/p>\n

(And, for those who have seen the episode, some inopportune commercial placement in Canada …<\/a>)<\/small> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No spoilers here … but no promises about the comments.  I managed to not record the mid-season premiere of Battlestar Galactica on Friday — but, fortunately, SciFi has the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25111,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/battlestar-galactica-as-an-old-school-computer-game.html","url_meta":{"origin":13332,"position":0},"title":"Battlestar Galactica as an Old School Computer Game","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 4-Jan-12 10:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Awesome.(Also, spoilers. In case, y'know, you haven't seen BSG and are, at this late date, still planning to.) #ddtb Embedded Link TV RPG:Battlestar Galactica RPG So save we all.","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13272,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/01\/bsg_the_oath.html","url_meta":{"origin":13332,"position":1},"title":"BSG: “The Oath”","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 1-Feb-09 9:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"(No explicit spoilers, but ...)\u00a0 This week's Battlestar Galactica shifts from the ennui and depression of last week into high gear, as the pent-up frustration over Earth, and the...","rel":"","context":"In "TV"","block_context":{"text":"TV","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-tv"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/galactica.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11129,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/03\/too_much_law_order.html","url_meta":{"origin":13332,"position":2},"title":"Too much Law & Order!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 3-Apr-07 7:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"The DVR had a brain fart whilst we were away (Thursday, in fact) and seems to have tried to record the same L&O episode over and over ahead, for random...","rel":"","context":"In "Hi-Tech"","block_context":{"text":"Hi-Tech","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/hi-tech"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14252,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/18\/waiting-for-godot-er-battlestar-galacticas-finale.html","url_meta":{"origin":13332,"position":3},"title":"Waiting for Godot, er, Battlestar Galactica‘s finale","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 18-Mar-09 2:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"1. 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