Reminder - New Battlestar season starts tonight!

[GrilledCheese28 (aka Aruth)]

[Zeli]

I just started this show!

I'm not caught up yet!!!!

[Kaarenyth]

/drool at #6.....


Yea - Already informed my wife to leave me alone between 2100 and 2300 - 2 hour special (and new time too)!

ohh... haven't got the last webisode yet have to do that before I watch... I'm so geeked out right now...

[Malsirian]

Awesome show! IMO, the best on non-premium tv.

And interestingly, speaking of George RR Martin, here's a bit of trivia he posted on his site. Bit of a stretch maybe but interesting none the less.

I am intrigued to note that the humans on the new GALACTICA call the Cylons "toasters" as a perjorative. As best I can recall, this was never used on the original show. My guess is that they picked up the usage from "Measure of a Man," one of the few good episodes of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, written by Melinda M. Snodgrass. This was the episode where Data is on trial to detemine if he is man or a machine; during the trial, he is referred to as a toaster. Ron Moore, who created the new GALACTICA, worked on the NEXT GEN with Melinda, and was certainly familiar with her "toaster" usage.

Melinda in turn borrowed that riff from Walter Jon Williams, who had Dr. Travnicek call Modular Man a "toaster" in his WILD CARDS stories way back in 1985-86... though Modular Man appeared in our SuperWorld games long before WILD CARDS, and it may be that "toaster" (as applied to a mechanical man rather than a device for burning bread) made its first world appearance some late night in one of our games.

It bemuses me to think that a witticism first tossed out in a RPG has now entered the common parlance of SF, via WILD CARDS, STAR TREK, and the new BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. Toasters of the galaxy, unite.

[Zeli]

okay, speaking of geroge rr martin & battlestar - I totally picture #6 as Cersei when I read the books.

[GrilledCheese28 (aka Aruth)]

Not Hillary Clinton??

[Zeli]

not so much...

[GrilledCheese28 (aka Aruth)]

but she wouldn't have to really do any acting to play the part of the evil queen bitch from hell...and maybe they could bring a body double in for the sex scenes!

Oh ok, I suppose #6 can do it.

[Winin]

I finally saw the webisodes and the season opener. I still need to rent the second half of season 2, but at least I can keep up to date.