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Battlestar Galactica Props Are For Sale
will_die writes "The SciFi Channel's Battlestar Galactica will be holding multiple auctions to sell off props and costumes. The first auction will be Jan. 16-18, with a print and online catalogs coming out in December; the second will be in April, catalogs at a future date. The auction site is the Pasadena Convention Center but they will be offering Internet bidding, with live Internet broadcasting, and will handle world-wide shipping at extra cost. These auction are for the key items on the show such as Adama's lighter, Arrow of Athena, and maybe even a Viper. During the final ten weeks of the show they will be holding Internet auctions on items of lesser importance (and price). Until the auction begins, they are highlighting items as they catalog them and posting them on the website where you can subscribe to receive notifications by RSS feed or email. So far the posts have been interesting, with pictures of the items, screenshots of the item in the show, a history of the item, and how it was made."
Or has the final seasons already been filmed?
Or has the final seasons already been filmed?
Well they have to pay for those upcoming episodes somehow.
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proud owner of Dirk Benedict's mustache I can assure you that these babies just keep on getting more valuable.
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They listed "signed poster of final cylon" and it's a picture of President Roslin!
Battlestar Galactica got multiple seasons because it got ratings.
I sure wouldn't credit to it's Star Trek: Voyager level writing, which is shrouds under a few layers of violence and darkness.
That is all.
I wonder if they're going to auction off any relics that they find on Earth that was.
This guy's the limit!
How much for the Number Six Tricia Helfer cylon model? :D
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Now how are they going to film Galactica 2010? You know, the one with Starbuck guiding the cute kids with super powers on Earth?
That is all.
Yeah, I'm the only one who has thought about Starbuck's undies (prefer re-imagined series, will consider all offers).
For Number Three/DiAnna! Hot, hot HOT!
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One of the best scifi series to be on tv in a long time. Gone before its time.
While I disagree with your assertion that Firefly wasn't good, I completely agree with your use of the word 'was'.
The details are trivial and useless; The reasons, as always, purely human ones.
Granted, Firefly was not exactly shy in the innuendo department (one of the main characters being a prostitute and all). However, if it were like BSG, every named female character would have been shown having sex by the end of the season. With, if I remember correctly, an exception for President Roslin. Having difficulty thinking of another female character who didn't.
This is to say nothing of what they did to Six, which was so exploitative as to make this Republican feel tinges of wistfulness for when we had a viable feminist movement for condemning that sort of thing. I think I know what the meeting sounded like:
Writer A: "Needs more sex."
Writer B: "Its a show about a bunch of fighter pilots, what are we going to do, have one of them jump an engineer in the closet?"
Writer A: "Did that first episode already."
Writer B: "So you just want me to write in an adolescent male sexual fantasy?"
Writer A: "Wait... I like the sound of that. Can you make it a character?"
Writer B: "You mean an actual sexual fantasy as a recurring character?"
Writer A: "Exactly. Except, make her real. Ambiguously real. Because ambiguity spells deep, except with more letters."
Writer B: "That's going to get pretty boring after a few years of it."
Writer A: "Threesome with Lucy Lawless."
Writer B: "... *sigh* This is going to be SO un-PC."
Writer A: "Nonsense! We'll have naked white chicks, naked black chicks, naked Asian chicks, it will be an entire United Nations of naked chicks."
Writer B: "I think I'm going to be ill."
Writer A: "I call that empowering!"
Writer B: "Is Bill Adama ever going to get 'empowered' onscreen?"
Writer A: "Are you crazy? Teenage boys don't tune in to watch middle aged men do it."
Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
in the pilot episode someone picked up a transmitter and boomer asked if he was qualified to use it. it was a green fluke ocsilliscope. anyone see any other useful items in the show?
BSG is filmed here in Vancouver, why Pasadena???
Have the auction here, in the city that proudly loves and supports the series (and so many other series beloved by slashdot readers...).
Think of the environmental footprint and cost of shipping everything to California first. Just to have to ship that Viper back when I put in the winning bid. :)
BSG got multiple seasons because it wasn't made under contract to a company that hated the show from the very first episode and did their damnedest to kill it.
Tell me, when was the premiere of Firefly shown?
What was the time slot for Firefly?
When were the last two episodes aired? The eps that cost a bucket of money and that pretty much everybody outside FOX and the time and since say are amazing?
All of the above are trick questions. And anybody who knows anything about Firefly understands that they did an astounding thing even lasting as long and telling as complex stories as they did.
Fox never wanted Firefly to be what Whedon wanted it to be. They were fighting from day one.
Oh, and by the way, did you catch the tribute shot to Firefly in the first part of the first ep of BSG? It was there because the BSG production crew was and is well aware that they could never have done BSG without a whole range of techniques and approaches that Firefly did before them.
Howsabout this, you go out, you create, find financing for, and get shot and aired a better show than Firefly. Then you come back and tell us how easy it all is. Until then, bugger off.
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I thought it was because the spec effects people for Firefly were the spec effects people for the first few episodes/series of BSG (thus the reason Galactica was snuck into the Serenity movie)?
Bears Beats Battlestar Galactica.
You are using English. Please learn the difference between loose and lose; they're, there, and their; your and you're.
There are people out there that cite the reuse of those 3D models as proof of an established continuity between the shows (usu. by extension to the so-called Tommy-verse of St. Elsewhere) instead of just an in-joke among the production staff. You might as well say two sitcoms share a continuity because a character in each wore Jordache jeans.
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To some extent they were the same team. But that wasn't all. Firefly was where that team, at the specific request of Whedon and others, learned how to do a lot of the techniques that are why BSG has had such a compelling, gritty, feel. As I discussed here, they were encouraged to simulate lens flare and other artifacts of actual photography, they were encouraged to allow actors to move as they pleased rather than just standing on a choreographed sequence of marks, and the enemies were nowhere near as clearcut as they would be in a typical show.
This goes way beyond just dropping in refs to a previous project. Firefly pioneered a much looser approach. One that was, actually, a consequence of the Firefly team having a far better understanding than others of the things that newer tech like lighter cameras, smaller lights, better non-linear editing systems, and so on and how much more freedom they allowed.
Firefly changed the way that shows are done. Frankly, afaic, it should now be thought of as Miami Vice is, a show that raised the bar for everybody and whose impact will be felt in coming years all through motion media. Twenty years from now, when you're sitting and watching any kind of video, even an orange juice commercial, part of what will contribute to its possible high quality will be the results of one little show that never made it past fourteen episodes.
It's all about the information. And what we do with it.