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BSGcast: Season 4.5 DVD Box-Set Review

BSGcast — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:12:57 +0000

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

BSGcast LIVE 4.22 – “Daybreak Part 2″

BSGcast — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:22:49 +0000

This is it… let the sobs of joy and sadness begin. Our beloved show has come to an end in a two-hour TV event that none of us are soon to forget. And how did it end? With a bang or with a whimper? Let’s start discussing it!

We had a great time at the Sports Centre Cafe downtown Toronto, and shot an immediate LIVE BSGcast, post-episode, to get some fresh reactions from Melissa TheTelevixen, Rambling Russel Hale, Tamika, Tim and Steve ‘Snowball’ Saylor!

Make sure your Alienware-eligible comments are on this episode, because our FINAL regular season BSGcast will be shot on WEDNESDAY of this week, where we’ll be giving our final thoughts on the series finale, and announcing the winner of the Alienware Gaming Machine!!

~Matt + Nat

BSGcast 4.21 – “Daybreak Part 1″

BSGcast — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:49:58 +0000

We were in Austin for South by Southwest and got to watch Part 1 of Daybreak at the Alamo Drafthouse! We managed to shoot in the lobby of the Hilton across from SXSW and got some great theories from fans like us after this doozy of an episode! It was simultaneously esoteric and tense and after this one, Daybreak Part 2 is shaping up to be one hell of knock-down drag-out battle from front to back!

~Matt + Nat

Toronto, Canada – Facebook Event Page
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Cleveland, Ohio – Website
London, England – Facebook Event Page

BSGcast 4.20 – “Islanded in a Stream of Stars”

BSGcast — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:28:59 +0000

The very last of our non-two-part-cliff-hangers for the season. Can’t you tell? Ah, it seems like every episode of this season has been one cliff-hanger after the next, but with Hera in Cylon hands and Anders acting all kinds of Hybrid, there’s lots to talk about in this momentum-building tee-up of an episode!

~Matt + Nat

Check out Justin’s London England Frak-Party on Facebook!

BSGcast 4.19 – “Someone to Watch Over Me”

BSGcast — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:36:54 +0000

This episode gave us shivers in all the right places and all the wrong places… it’s been a while since Battlestar delivered SO solidly on both stories in an episode, but in this run up to the end, we can definitely expect more of it. Between the Helo/Boomer/Athena affair and Starbuck playing piano with her head-father, “Someone to Watch Over Me” Has definitely given us a serious tee-up for the next three episodes to come!

Since we were just in Orlando for MegaCon this weekend, we have a nice added gift for the “Fan of the Week” from this week’s comments, so have a look, make a comment, and hopefully you’ll win!

For our fellow Toronto Frakkers, we’ve got a March 20th Finale Frak-Party on tap for you taking place at The Sports Centre Cafe in UpTown Toronto, so hop on the Facebook Group for more information and to RSVP for the event. This is in our home town, and it’s looking like this will be the party we’ll be hitting up for the Finale, so come join us!

~Matt + Nat

BSGcast 4.18 – “Deadlock”

BSGcast — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:13:40 +0000

This week’s episode featured a stellar performance from Michael Hogan during the plot about Tigh and Six’s baby in the wake of Ellen’s return, and curious side-plots about Baltar’s Harem and Galactica’s paint drying… yet we couldn’t help but feel like this episode came up short on actual plot. Compared to “No Exit” last week, virtually any episode would feel like it’s standing still, but with only 4 episodes left and SO much more to be explained, by the end of “Deadlock” we were both pretty underwhelmed.

~Matt + Nat

E-mail Mario about his Cleveland, Ohio Frak-Party for Red Cross RIGHT HERE!

BSGcast 4.17 – “No Exit”

BSGcast — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:04:38 +0000

Word Salad. No other term quite sums up this exposition-heavy BEAST of an episode. With many long-standing questions answered and a few more posed, Ellen’s return and Anders’ brain-bullet managed to cause a virtual deluge of mythos from the origin and travels of the final five to the end of the first cylon war, the source of resurrection technology and skin jobs… the list goes on. Needless to say, if you’ve not seen the episode yet, GO WATCH IT!

We had an awesome time in San Francisco at a random BSG/Dollhouse viewing in Presidio with Autumn from the Pasadena Auction/Frak-Party and her AMAZING group of fellow BSG fans. We even got to make Battlestar Cookie Characters. Big win. Thanks SO MUCH for embracing these two Toronto Nomads into your Friday night festivities!

~Matt + Nat

The Colonial Defense Force Las Vegas Frak-Party Facebook Event

BSGcast 4.16 – “Blood on the Scales”

BSGcast — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:34:10 +0000

The amazing conslusion of the 2-part Mutiny storyline answered a few questions, but none that Part 1 hadn’t come up with in the first place… which makes us both ask the question: why? Why spend 2 episodes starting and ending a storyline with SO MANY important questions still hanging? We trust in Ron, and we loved this Mutiny storyline and Gaeta’s enormous arc, but we still have to ask why?

~Matt + Nat

BSGcast: 4.15 “The Oath”

BSGcast — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:33:10 +0000

Gaeta’s Mutiny is on, and we’ve got murder on the Galactica… it’s like the start of Season two, Cylons not included. And that’s where all the terrifying goodies are. It goes without saying that we loved the episode, and watching one of our most beloved characters get on the wrong side of Adama made use both very uncomfortable. Now THAT’s good TV.

~Matt + Nat

BSGcast LIVE: cPanel FlatPanel Winner Announced!

BSGcast — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:02:12 +0000

It’s been two weeks since BSGcast LIVE in Pasadena, California, and it’s time to announce the winner of the cPanel Flatpanel 32″ HDTV plucked from the comments on the five episodes that were recorded LIVE at the Battlestar Auction for the premiere of the back-10 of the season!

We’d like to extend our thanks to cPanel for being such a great supporter of Battlestar Galactica, and of the BSGcast… we couldn’t have had that amazing Frak-Party or gotten all these great interviews without them.

If you’ve got a website, run some websites, or have a webhost, click here to check out more about cPanel and show this kick-ass bunch of guys some love!

~Matt + Nat