Speaking Of Joss Wheadon

I now it’s a bit late for this post, but I just noticed the time constraints:

If you are at all into Joss Wheadon’s work (Buffy, Angel, Firefly) and especially if you dug Buffy’s Musical episode Once More, With Feeling (which you should catch if you haven’t seen it, I know lots of people who hated Buffy but still love this episode), you should definitely go and check out Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog!

A three act musical about wannabe Evil Overlord Dr. Horrible, his love-interest Penny and his arch-nemesis Captain Hammer (portrayed by Firefly’s Nathan Fillon) available for free on the web! The catch: It’s only available until midnight, July 20th (aka today). Latest act has been put online yesterday so that’s why I just thought about posting it here.

If you’ve never been in touch with Wheadon’s work before (or just didn’t like it, both of which is hardly imaginable), check it out nevertheless. It’s hilarious and the music is truly great.

On a different note: Final Miniseries Impressions should be up soon-ish.

Emmys, Final Cylon and Career Moves

Emmy nominations are out and Battlestar Galactica scored five of them, sadly not Best Actress In Drama, which is a real shame. Check the categories it out here.

Final Cylon news: Obviously the last of the bunch will be revealed sooner than later. My take: Next episode.

And now that shooting our beloved is finally over, where are the TV-careers of some of our friends headed? Let’s take a peek, shall we:

Grace Park (The Cleaner)

Is it any good?

I have no idea. First episode aired this week, but I didn’t watch it. Mainly because I could care less about Miss Park plus the title of the series gives me goosebumps.

Wise career move?

For someone of Grace Park’s class as an actress, I guess everything that gives you a minute of time on the air is a wise career move. Even commercials.

Where would I have seen her?

Commercials.

Tricia Helfer (Burn Notice)

Is it any good?

You bet! Great first season, lovely characters, neat spy-story, really funny. Check it out if you can! I kinda fell in love with it from the pilot episode on.

Wise career move?

Hell yeah! Key role in a rather well established show, best thing to happen! I see a good future for this one.

Where would I have seen her?

Pretty much something along these lines. Chuck maybe. Definitely something lighter, non-SciFi.

Callum Keith Rennie (Californication)

Is it any good?

Actually, yes. I was rather unsure after watching the pilot episode, but then again, it always kinda makes me uncomfortable seeing four sets of boobies in a half-hour episode of something I didn’t download from an obscure website. But after going through the whole season, I have to admit, I was wrong seeing it as just another series trying to push the boundaries after Sex And The City and The L-Word. Duchovny does a great job and most of the other characters are really colorful and played really, really well.

Wise career move?

Hell yeah! Recurring role in a comedic drama beats freak of the week in any given show on earth by far. Guess someone got himself a new agent? I hope it’s somewhat back to the Due South days here and that can only be good. It’s about time he shows his spectrum again by starring in something lighter, funnier without being ridiculous.

Where would I have seen him?

Victim of the week on Dexter, probably serial rapist.

Katee Sackhoff (Nip/Tuck)

Is it any good?

Meh. I did watch a couple of episodes once but it really never hooked me. Then again, I never could warm up for Grey’s Anatomy either and I could imagine they aim for the same demographic.

Wise career move?

Let’s just say, she adds another canceled series to her resume, which is never a good thing. Sackhoff expressed her reluctance for doing SciFi again, which I can understand and seeing that you don’t want to be type-casted so soon in your career, Nip/Tuck might have seemed like a wise move. Too bad.

Where would I have seen her?

Third season of Jericho, being canceled after the first episode.

Tahmoh Penikett (Dollhouse)

Is it any good?

Seeing it won’t start anytime soon, it’s hard to tell. But seeing that it’s Joss Wheadon… Of course it’s gonna be good!

Wise career move?

Definitely when you’re aiming for the geek demographic. Which isn’t a bad move in itself.

Where would I have seen him?

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. As a Terminator of course.

Did I miss anyone? Oh, right!

Battlestar Galactica 1×00 ‘Miniseries’ Impressions Pt. IV

Better late than never (and seeing that some wishes are my command), the fourth and second-to-last part of my Impressions concerning the Miniseries. Here’s where we left off:

The Colonies are pretty much toast, the lady’s in charge, former-black-hunk-now-Asian-whiny-chick-Boomer’s stuck with refugees, old junkers rule and Adama and Tigh brace for contact.

The good news: Galactica’s still there! The bad news:

Talking about an uncontrolled lateral counterclockwise spin! Good thing we have Saul taking personal command of the D.C. units.

Me?

Erm, yes? OK, this is not looking good. Neither the ship nor the X.O. OK, someone’s rolling the hard six. Sorry Tyrol:

Caprica, Lottery. Old lady realizing at the last possible moment that she’s actually holding a scrap of paper. Baltar saves the day, but hasn’t done anything! Yeah, right. Glowy-spine snappy-neck ring a bell? Helo giving up his seat. He’s such a hero. Really, I think I have to trow up. Like hell. And I’m sparing you a ton of screencaps and snappy comments on what supposedly once wrote ‘actress’ on her resume to pull a prank on someone and ended up being Boomer on Battlestar Galactica. And red-eye Gaius starting to lose it. Can’t blame him though. And a kid’s taking the co-pilot seat? This can’t be good. And Helo? He is THE HERO:

*Cue Enrique Iglesias*

Colonial Heavy 798, Going to Case Orange. Secretary Roslin, or as her friends call her: ‘D’ as in Dog, dash, 4, 5, 6  dash, 3, 4, 5,  dash, ‘A’ as in Apple. I mean, sorry, but, seriously: This one line has more Academy Award potential than most ‘acting’ efforts by certain other, um, people on this show so far, no? Not taking into account that MMD really has a pair of killer legs there:

Asshollo, well, is there. We need a priest. Secretary Laura Roslin shall henceforth be known as… Da Prez! \o/ Bad Suit Guy? Not amused:

Galactica, 26 walked out, 85 didn’t. Off to Ragnar Anchorage, them pilots need something to shoot with! Tyrol calling the X.O. a bunghole. 40 seconds. What now? If we’re off by our calculations by even a few degrees we could end up in the middle of a sun. It’s been what, 20, 22 years? Not since I first heard this line from Han Solo it wasn’t. Priority message, sir. That’s no moon! So much for the rest of the fleet, eh?

Who’s the senior officer? Who’s in command?

I am, biatch!

Colonial One (\o/), assembling their rag-tag fleet.

What is it?

Daddy’s in command.

We’ll see about that!

And could you stop calling me Asshollo?

But it has such a nice ring to it.

Adama, not getting the joke. We’re in the middle of a war and you’re taking orders from a schoolteacher? Geez, dad, that’s Junior High all over again! Cylons to the rescue!

What are those EMP generators used for in the first place? Resume jump prep.

Chief bitchin’ about his Viper, Starbuck could care less. Not about the presumed dead though. THere is a cigar-smoke stained heart beating there, eh?

Raptor. Boomer plus kid. Nuff said. That kid is Boxey?! No. You. Won’t. Baltar hallucinating.

Galactica, CIC, The board is green. Actually it’s kind of blue-ish, no? But coming from me who still considers apricot and peach fruit and salmon fish, that probably doesn’t mean too much (it’s frakking orange, people!). And what the hell is mauve anyway? Jumping! We did it! Yay! \o/

Colonial One. We did it! Yay! \o/ And it’s been a while that I last told you how awesome I think Mary McDonnell is, right? I still do. Thank you Captain Apollo for saving our collective asses. Heh.

Galactica, making turn three, aka Bow pitch positive one half. Stern pitch negative one quarter. Bow yaw negative three quarters. Don’t get me wrong, I like that… but it should make this thing going terribly slow once they only have a good forty minutes for a storyline, no?

Everyone mourns in their own way. Be ready for some chop.

And some chop it is:

Is it me or is it hot in here?

Colonial One. Plus a Raptor! Oh this is gonna be great, Asshollo AND WhinyBoomer. Baltar and Roslin on the other hand, I think I’m gonna like that. And now shoo, Boomer, shoo.

Ragnar. Bad Shirt Callum get’s the heads up from the Chief. I mean seriously:

Do they cast him just because they know he can wear about anything and still make the fangirls squeal (admit it, you did)? WITH AN UNTRACEABLE *pause* jump system. I love it when he does that.

Colonial One. Baltar still having abandonment issues or something. Seriously, they’re making Snappyneck a regular… whatever she is now? Not that I’d mind. Speaking of which, that’s serious mind-frakking she’s doing there. And he’s way too cute for that:

Ragnar. The Olmos and Callum, too good to be true:

What’s in there? - Stuff.

And guess what, Callum’s a bad guy! Now that’s a surprise there. Arms dealer, eh? Boom goes the warhead. Not that I wouldn’t expect Callum to die, but hey, that would be quick even by his standards. Well, we’ll know more after this final

BREAK! BREAK! BREAK!

Things you probably didn’t know about… Michael Hogan

So, what’s this about now? Perhaps it’s gonna be a regular (well, my version of regular at least) thing on this blog, maybe a one time only thing, but here it is.

I got the idea while more or less aimlessly browsing imdb.com (as I sometimes do) and certain things caught my attention. The questions I try to address here are: Are there any relations between the actors in BSG? What’s their general geek-cred level? Basically it’s a collection of some trivia I gather, mainly on imdb, and find noteworthy.

And today I stumbled upon some facts about Michael Hogan (Col. Saul Tigh), and I decided to share them with you:

• Michael Hogan was born in Ontario, Canada, making him one of many Canadian actors starring in Battlestar Galactica, which is, of course, also shot in Canada.
• Hogan’s real-life wife, Susan Hogan played Captain Doyle Franks on Battlestar Galactica, Captain of the Prometheus (Black Market) and one of the judges in Baltar’s trial in Crossroads Pt. I and II (and according to imdb will reappear in episode 4.20, but it’s imdb, so don’t hold your breath):

• Both Michael and Susan Hogan have recurring roles (as a married couple) in The L-Word, which also featured Callum Keith Rennie (Leoben Conoy) in a recurring role.
• Speaking of Callum Keith Rennie, both actors appeared together in an episode of Due South (Mountie Sings The Blues, featuring quite a mustache) and the Canadian TV-movie For Those Who Hunt The Wounded Down.
• Another cylon co-starring occurred in Palais Royale (with Dean Stockwell/Brother Cavil).
• Starred together with the original Adama, Lorne Greene, in Klondike Fever.
• Other geek-cred worthy appearances of Michael Hogan include: The Twilight Zone, Millenium, The Outer Limits, Earth: Final Conflict and Andromeda (some people say, Canadian actors are kind of whoring themselves out when it comes to TV-series. I think they are right).
• Speaking of which, his wife Susan starred, among others in The Outer Limits, Millenium, Seven Days and Dark Angel.
• It runs in the family: Two of their three children also work as actors, their daughter Jennie Rebecca Hogan and their older son, Gabriel Hogan.
• Jennie Rebecca Hogan only has three entries in the imdb, but all three are SciFi: Welcome to Paradox, Andromeda and Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers.
• Gabriel Hogan on the other hand doesn’t have too much to show on his geek-rep-sheet, apart from Mutant X perhaps. But one of his latest projects, Of Murder and Memory, features at least… you guessed it, Callum Keith Rennie (who also was on Mutant X one time, I know)!

Battlestar Galactica Wraps Up Its Final Season, Kinda

(MINOR SPOILER ALERT) My new YouTube hero MightyChin (seriously, is it Jamie Bamber or Tahmoh Penikett?) uploaded a video of the Battlestar Galactica Wrap Up Party. The sound is terrible, but you see MMD doing a (supposedly) amazing Caprica Six impersonation and you see some of the set of the final episode (I guess), so check this out (via Galactica Sitrep):

So does this mean, it’s done? Finished? Over? Not if you believe Tricia Helfer, who says they’re still filming. Should we get the three-hour final episode after all? (via io9)

And for those of you waiting for the continuation of my Miniseries Impressions, I’m sorry, but quite frankly I’m too lazy for that at the moment. Doesn’t mean it won’t happen, but I can’t really tell you when. But I have another thing I’d like to try, so check for a different kind of update soon!

Marvel Movie Updates

Alright, again, long time, no read and I can’t do more than apologize. Quiet frankly, lately I don’t feel like doing anytzhing as soon as I’m home and, well, I’m rather succesful at that. Anyways, Can’t miss a week’s update on the latest and greatest in Marvel movies, eh?

There’s still no reliable information around on the cast or even the director of Spider Man 4, but at least there’s a date: May 2011. I don’t know if that’s a good thing.

And quite frankly, I’m really, really curious now, who’s going to play Steve Rogers in The First Avenger: Captain America. Really.

At least finally it seems set that Jon Favreau does direct Iron Man 2. With or without a Thor cameo.

Speaking of Iron Man, make sure to check out these marvelous (no pun intended) Marvel Kids animations! They are really great!

So, which Ant Man version will we get in the upcoming movie of the same name? Hank Pym? Scott Lang? Eric O’Grady? Personally I hope for Pym, but Meredith over at io9 doesn’t think so.

Further concerning the Avengers, Graeme at io9 has some ideas who should be in it. Personally, I’d go with Hawkeye anytime!

And finally: Magneto! Yup, it’s gonna be made, as expected. Where do we know that from? Well, the script has been leaked! Go check out the details!

For You PlayStation Geeks Out There

Alright, this may seem a bit out of line for the most of you, but long-time followers know that I’m a bit of a fanboy when it comes to Veronica Belmont (this is just as healthy and undisturbing as my man-crushes on James Callis and Callum Keith Rennie, trust me).

Anyway, this might be the first time I’ve ever heard Lady V sing, so you definitely should check this out:

And if you don’t have a clue what this is about, check out the full story here.

BSG Linkroll Pt. VI

So… I’m back on line (obviously) and left my faithful readership hanging there for quite some time. And I’m really sorry for that. This week’s been quite… interesting, and there really wasn’t much time or energy for posts left. Hopefully I can make up for that over the weekend, starting today with a little news and spoiler roundup concerning our beloved Battlestar Galactica. Spoilers are to be highlighted to be read, so be warned you people who always highlight any text they read on the web! Yes, that means you Make sure to check out the links for further information!

First and foremost: The Emmy’s! Finally some acknowledgment for our beloved! Mary McDonnell (Roslin, duh!) made it to the top 10 short list for best actress in drama! Way to go Mary! (enough exclamation marks for one post I guess, but I’m kinda excited about this!1eleven)

Mojo has some nice details on the VFX of the latest episode Revelations, including the one major revelation: Where are our heroes in that very last shot?

And as if that wasn’t spoilery enough, here’s some more concerning Season 4.5: Pictures of one of the set of the series finale have hit the net not too long ago. Take a look and go ahead and discuss the implications. SPOILER( The pictures are set on Caprica as it seems and show, apart from fancy baby carriages only Mary McDonnell from the regular cast. My guess (and not only mine) is, it’s a dream sequence/vision/flashback )

More Season 4.5 goodness from io9’s Morning Spoilers! These should be the titles of the upcoming episodes (if you believe in rumors): SPOILER(“Sometimes A Great Notion,” “The Disquiet That Follows My Soul,” “The Oath,” “Blood On The Scales,” “No Exit,” and “Someone To Watch Over Me.”) Quite some of those had already be known and as usual, What’s in a name?

And finally, about those TV-movies. Soon-to-be Oscar winner Grace Park (just kidding?) spilled that the first movie had been green-lit and would start filming as early as August! Rumor credit Jane Espenson (The Hub, among others) as writer and no one less than The Olmos as director (or not?). Actors approached so far are said to be Dean Stockwell, Michael Trucco, Grace Park, Michael Hogan, Katee Sackhoff and Aaron Douglas. Other (and presumably more reliable than Grace) sources report filming should start in September and the movie will be set during the first season.

(via Battlestar Blog, Galactica Sitrep, SyFy Portal, The Chief’s Deck, tv junior, Total Rip-Off, 13th Colony and io9. Honor where honor’s due.)

That’s it for now, check back over the weekend for some Marvel movie news and hopefully a continuation (or even conclusion?) of my Miniseries Impressions.

Interweb Troubles

Sorry for the renewed lack of updates, but for the first time it’s not my fault. My ISP decided (as of yesterday morning) to triple my bandwidth (at reduced cost!) . While this is in general a source for for much rejoicing, sadly my Last Mile equipment didn’t support the new standard resulting in a very, very melancholy geek due to lack of connectivity. At least I could catch up further on Jericho.

I got my new hardware here now (at work) and hopefully I will be able to install it later today. If so, there should at least be a continuation of the Adventures of Asshollo in stock for you.

Battlestar Galactica 1×00 ‘Miniseries’ Impressions Pt. III

Where were we? Cylons nuking Caprica, the Adamas not exactly being the Brady Bunch, Starbuck in the brig, Asshollo and Roslin on their way to a huge surprise.

Tigh’s quarters. The old boozer burning out The Wife’s eye. On a photograph. Alarm.

Condition One being set throughout the ship. Chief roughing up the deck crew, tattered Tigh on CIC:

A retirement prank? - I don’t think so.

As of this moment, we are at war. Alrighty then. Chief, still roughing up, XO checking for ammunition. Mr. Kekeiyans object of desire? She’s Dee. And get Kara Thrace out of the brig? That would be Starbuck then, I guess.

Galactica Attack Squadron. Yup, the Asian chick IS Boomer. Whaddayaknow. And yup, she’s a rook. Good there’s Helo. Although he has trouble reading. Five Raiders against 20 Vipers? Good luck, Toasters!

CIC. Gaeta plotting a course, Dee having taken kara Thrace out of the brig. Sassy little bitch. They lost 30 Battlestars? OK, good luck Colonials then.

Museum Starboard Hangar Deck. Good old Mk.2s! Let’s pull them rad buffers from the engines and load the ordnances! Thanks Chief. And the starboard launch bay is a gift shop. Nice. How do they fit the Vipers through these small corridors? Never mind.

CIC, Dee and Gaeta having malfunctions. They are kinda cute together as well.

Galactica Attack Squadron. Down to two confirmed Cylons now. OK, that’s borderline superiority complex. Or should the malfunction babble have been some kind of foreshadowing? Hey, those Raiders are pretty:

Um. Yes. OK. So much for Let’s go get em, eh?

They must have done something to our computer system.

Good bye pilots, we hardly knew you.

Boomer, get us out of here. - Right.

She’s a bright one, eh?

Colonial Heavy 798. Madame Secretary getting the heads up:

What’s going on?

And Asshollo? Well, yeah, he’s just that. Old junker. Pff.

Raptor, Boomer and Helo in trouble (poor Helo). What’s so hard dropping the second swallow after the first one is destroyed? Just saying. I’m gonna like that Boomer. And such acting talent:

That’s my desperate-face!

We’re hit! - Oh really? Heh. Hey, she comes up with a decent plan! Well, one swallow doesn’t make a summer. Or two in this case. And the battle? Ouch:

CIC. Adama giving everybody the heads up. More heads down. Not looking good.

Colonial Heavy 798. Yup Secretary Roslin, that door opens outward. She’s so sweet. And how’s a Secretary of Education more badass than a Colonial pilot? Anyway, I like it. And, yes, being a teacher pays off when you’re dealing with crowd control. Bad suit guy is a  prick too! Who would have guessed. And Roslin is awesome!

I’m in charge, period. You go clean up your room! And no dessert for you today young man!

Heh, he even sulks. Mr. Keikeyan taking it well. They are a good team, him and the Secretary. And I could fill this whole page with screencaps of MMD. She’s marvelous. And getting the latest news from Caprica. Thanks Jack. The Cylons are pricks too. And they have found us! Asshollo saves the day! Krypter! Krypter! Krypter!

Caprica, mushroom clouds (Did I mention I just recently got hooked on Jericho? Just came to my mind. It’s really, really good!). Raptor in the Rye. Here come the refugees! Baltar! Yay! Boomer and Helo:

That’s my anticipation-face. - Yeah, mine too.

Colonial Heavy 798. Bad Suit brown-nosing Asshollo. Not that great a team. Roslin, Billy and the pilot strategy meeting. Enter Bad Suit. I have to restrain myself not to drown you in my adoration for MMD.

That’s all.

Lady’s in charge. Heh.

Caprica. Let’s take the children first. And three more. Lottery. Because, you know, that’s how I got my role in this series.

Galactica. Inbound DRADIS contacts. - Launch Vipers. Pretty:

Sorry Starbuck, no launch for you. Damn you valve!

CIC. Bow up half. Forward left one quarter. Stern right full.

Space battle goodness. Blinky eye doesn’t work, eh? Go old junkers!

Brace for contact my friend.

And that’s a goot point to take a little Break! Break! Break!