It is upon us.

It’s taken almost a year, but the Direct-To-DVD release of Caprica has finally given way to the airing of it as parts 1 and 2 on SyFy as a regular season of television! We’ve got to say that with the Blood, Boobies and Human Sacrifice that we’ve been privy to seeing so far, it looks like Ron Moore managed to skirt the TV-Gods and Censors quite elegantly by releasing in on DVD first, but what did YOU think of the televised version? There have been quite a few times in his podcasts that he mentioned how the TV version of a Battlestar Episode wasn’t quite his ideal cut (for either time or network restrictions) but with Caprica available for first viewing as an unspoiled DVD version, we’ve already seen what Ron wants us to see… so we’re excited to get the regular reason underway!

Battlestar is over, long live Caprica!

~Matt + Nat

We were fortunate enough to catch up with Mary McDonnell one week before her appearance at DragonCon, while she was in Toronto for Fan Expo! Nat had the chance to sit down with her, on set, and chat about her thoughts on Battlestar’s Finale, Laura’s fate, Roslin Tattoos and even Caprica!

And of course, we have a shiny new Season 4.5 DVD Box-Set signed by Mary to give away to our favourite comment on the Season 4.5 review… so make your comments quick! We’ll be posting our review this week, and that’s where we’ll announce the winner!

~Matt + Nat

Jane Espenson and Edward James Olmos were the people in charge on this one: Olmos was there for every episode that went into making The Plan happen in Season 2, and Jane was there for none of them and it shows. Amazing direction, performances, visuals compliment a story that fires on all cylinders for 30 minutes and then lumbers through the rest of the first two seasons with about as much grace as a Cylon Colony.

But goddam, Dean Stockwell was delicious as F-Cavil and C-Cavil on their respective journeys and those Colonies got it good!

Make sure to leave a comment and tell us what YOU thought of The Plan, and don’t forget to enter to win “Dinner with the Admiral” compliments of Edward James Olmos and UGO!

~Matt + Nat

It’s taken quite a while to pour over the hours and hours of featurettes, commentaries, videoBlogs, deleted scenes and of course, Extended Episodes on this, the final DVD Box-Set we’ll ever see for Battlestar Galactica. Not to mention getting it signed by President Laura Roslin herself. And at last, we announce the winner of the Mary McDonnell signed Season 4.5 set, along with our thoughts on the DVDs themselves.

Hot on the heels of this baby is our review of The Plan, along with details on how you can win dinner with Admiral Adama!

~Matt + Nat

The U.S. release date for the first half of Season 4 is now officially January 6, 2009. So I guess we’re back to buying the season piece-meal like we did for Season 2. If that doesn’t burn your bacon at least a little, Razor (both aired and longer DVD cuts) will be included. So congrats on buying a copy last November just like we did

We’ll be getting deleted scenes, Ron’s PodCasts, Eick’s videoBlogs, a series of featurettes with some ominous names like “Cylons: The Twelve” and “Season 4.5: The Untold Story – Untold” as well as a commentary on the extended edit of Razor.

Since there never was a full version of Season 2.0 and 2.5 like some of us speculated, it’s a pretty safe bet that this will be the definitive version of the front 10 episodes of Season 4, so it’s a must have for the collection. Just try and sell last year’s Razor DVD on eBay before everyone else figures it out!

~Matt + Nat