Thanks to Rome, Mr. Deity and company face an administrative crisis.
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For your Sunday morning viewing pleasure. Mr. Deity , Episodes 3 and 4.
Here, Mr. Deity’s phone message evokes that of a certain celebrity.
Some Jesse action here, but that shirt needs to go.
As part of the countdown to Bjork’s new album, here is part 4 of her podcast. You can catch the previous three episodes here.
Here’s the Bjork podcast (which you can also download into your iPod from iTunes). Here, in three installments, Bjork speaks of the making of Volta, how she came to work with Timbaland, and her choice of instruments.
For anyone who’s had any question of how the collaboration with Timbaland came into being, she gives the answer: she’s known him for 11 years and they have been meaning to work together on a project. Given that she has looked to him to add something to it, along with Mark Bell (who contributed to Homogenic), this should be very interesting.
One of the fascinating things about Bjork interviews is when she goes into creating the sounds. She looked into using horns and “dirty” sounding stringed instruments. She mentions Vespertine used clean sounding ones, such as harps. She also seeks a sound that’s more “pagan.” Gotta love her word choices.
Note: video’s safe to watch–no Bjork boobies to traumatize the viewer.
In the absence of a new Galactica episode to comment upon, here is the link for Ronald Moore’s finale podcast on the Season 3 finale. While the Frak Party podcast is very illuminating, this one comments on the episode. Retrieve the episode from that digital recording device for TV, iTunes video, or the VHS tape used to record it and listen to Moore’s commentary as you watch the episode.
Here, Moore gets more into the episode. He speaks of Lee finding a way to get Baltar declared innocent short of Lampkin’s manipulations, and he gets a little more into the Final Four and his obsession with “All Along The Watchtower.” He also makes some interesting commentary of how they hate Baltar and want to blame him for New Caprica, yet he was elected president. An interesting point he brings up is that people did vote for him, not seeing the the broader implications of him being in office. The public here is a partner in the guilt.
Moore explains more of how they handled Starbuck’s disappearance and reapearance on the show and some ideas to handle that.
I still can’t believe that it won’t be until 2008. Last week, “Occupation” was re-run on Sci-Fi Channel, and “Precipice” will be shown this coming Saturday. Here is Moore’s podcast for the two-part Season 3 premier. Download, watch with your recorded episode, and listen along (or watch it on Sci-Fi channel).
This week, the podcast is a reading of “Dear Papparazo,” which continues after “Under The Metropolitan Sun,” “My Bald Avenger,” and “Benny’s Narratives,” which are from Resplendence. Check it out, enjoy. Unwind on your Fridays with ShindoTV.
The podcast is available on shindocast and on my iTunes page (note: you need to have iTunes on your computer to view this. It’s not strictly a Mac thing, you know).
Check it out and subscribe! Keep in mind this podcast is weekly, so the next episode is coming next Friday, 12:00am EST (Thursday 9:00pm PST). I’ll be reading “From The Lipstick That’s Used,” which continues Benny’s story in Resplendence.
During this season, I typically got my Battlestar Galactica fix by simply catching the show “live.” I would then blog about it and obsessively check iTunes for the next few days for Ron Moore’s podcast, where I would learn how much of the storyline was really pulled out of his ass.
The podcast commentary for the Season 3 finale never came, but Ron Moore fielded a Q&A session for Frak Party. The name sounds like a lot of fun, just downright dirty, and “frak” is official “F” word for BSG. Ultimately, they celebrate watching BSG, and Ron Moore got together with some member to talk about the season finale.
Given that continuity on BSG is very strong, this aspect of Moore’s and company’s writing always surprises me. With Star Trek, there was a “Bible” and people paid to do continuity research, and Babylon 5 had a five year plan (with some deviations). Enterprise, the latest incarnation of Star Trek, had a touch of B5; however, the show really didn’t know what it wanted to be until Season 4. Even though a lot of BSG is the rabbit out of the hat regarding the details, Moore and company has had a strong sense of the show should be.
This podcast sheds a lot of light on the season finale, but there is still some mystery about what kind of Cylons the Final 4 are. Nothing is said (or revealed) about Starbuck being a Cylon, but Moore tells some funny stories of how Katie Sackoff helped pull off the hoax of Starbuck’s death. Moore’s longtime desire to use “All Along The Watchtower” is integrated into the finale and he discusses it in some detail. Check it out.