Battlestar Galactica: Scott Ian's Blog tag:blogs.scifi.com,2008-03-19:/battlestar/scottian//17 2008-06-12T04:19:27Z Scott Ian's Battlestar Galactica blog for SCIFI.COM. Movable Type Publishing Platform 4.01 Scott Ian's Battlestar Galactica Blog | SCIFI.COM tag:blogs.scifi.com,2008:/battlestar/scottian//17.7463 2008-06-12T04:15:15Z 2008-06-12T04:19:27Z I just got back from a screening of the mid-season finale at the Cinerama Dome here in Hollywood. Katee, Tricia, Mary and Ron were there. I can't say anything about the episode because I will be blown out an airlock... Scott Ian All I can say is HOLY FRAKKIN' CRAP IT WAS MIND BLOWING!!!!!!!!!!!
Revelations was possibly the best episode of the series and it sets up the final 10 episodes with such a mind-bending cliffhanger.......
I'm freaking out.
I will post after you've all seen it Friday.
Fight'em 'til you can't,
Scott

]]> Scott Ian's Battlestar Galactica Blog | SCIFI.COM tag:blogs.scifi.com,2008:/battlestar/scottian//17.7228 2008-05-22T14:29:08Z 2008-05-22T14:32:35Z If there is one thing I've learned over the last two episodes it's that Cylons are, to quote my man Rob Zombie; "more human than human." Their programming is filled with blind faith, pettiness, jealousy, backstabbing, and racism. All... Scott Ian If there is one thing I've learned over the last two episodes it's that Cylons are, to quote my man Rob Zombie; "more human than human." Their programming is filled with blind faith, pettiness, jealousy, backstabbing, and racism. All these wonderfully human traits amongst a species that is supposed to be superior to humans in every way. Maybe we'll find out in the Caprica prequel series that this was done on purpose. Ha ha Cylons, just wait! You may destroy humanity but pretty soon you're going to be your own worst enemies. You're going to be just like us! Maybe the fifth will be an obese chain-smoking fanny pack-wearing slob that knows the way to the Churros stand at Disney World. Bummer.

All Adama has to do is blow up the resurrection hub, grab the five and go to earth and let the Cylons kill each other. Ah, but as we all know, BSG never takes the easy route.
Compared to what's coming they're all just running around on a puppy farm. Dark days loom for these people we've come to know as friends.
Spoilers I have boys and girls, but I'm bound by a higher authority (NBC Universal) to keep my frakkin' mouth shut.
I did speak with Aaron "Chief" Douglas about the future of our Galactians on set up in Vancouver. Here's the skinny from Tyrol:

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"It's lunch and I am in my trailer reading the last two episodes of Battlestar Galactica... ever. Wow... big day."

Of course I asked him if it was great...

"Frakking awesome!!! Best stuff Ron has ever written!! It will blow your mind. I just finished reading them and I am fighting a fruitless and losing battle with my tears. It is amazing... I have to shoot now after lunch and I am teary."

I told Aaron it's killing me that he won't tell me more but at the same time, I don't want to know. I want to see it played out the way the producers, directors, writers mean for us to see it. An as far as the aforementioned spoilers, they don't add up to much and I found out by accident.

I can't believe Sharon shot Natalie. Natalie isn't even the Six that takes Hera in Sharon's dream. I though Natalie was the shining light (besides the fact that she's super hot) for the Cylons. Bummer for us.

Guess What's Coming To Dinner was a great episode for many reasons but for me mainly because it really moved the mythology forward. I really felt like the multiple arcs were starting to join. Maybe next week I'll throw an Un-boxing party for D'Anna. I hope she's back to being all surly after being boxed. I can only assume it's not pleasant.

Roslin must really be on some strong drugs if she thinks Gaeta has a good voice. Please Doc Coddle, put him out of our misery!! Is the singing a Cylon outing or just a misdirection? Gaeta the fifth? I don't buy it. All of a sudden soon to be peg-leg is going to have that much to do with everything? He did play an integral role on New Caprica but I still don't buy it.

Adama knows something is up with Tigh and judging by next weeks previews, neither of them are happy about it. Adama's presence was finally felt again in Guess Who's Coming and hopefully he'll be right in the thick of it from here on out.

I loved the ending and the realization that the Hybrid is really running shit.

What am I going to do when this show is over? I'm getting teary too Chief.

Fight'em til you can't,
Scott

]]> Scott Ian's Battlestar Galactica Blog | SCIFI.COM tag:blogs.scifi.com,2008:/battlestar/scottian//17.7177 2008-05-16T17:06:02Z 2008-05-16T17:07:28Z Hello my friends, radio silence has been broken. I've been in a 20x20 room for a week that looks and smells like what I imagine the Demetrius must writing the heaviest of metal. I've finally come up for air and... Scott Ian
Fight'em 'til you can't,
Scott ]]> Scott Ian's Battlestar Galactica Blog | SCIFI.COM tag:blogs.scifi.com,2008:/battlestar/scottian//17.7103 2008-05-08T18:44:30Z 2008-05-08T20:04:40Z It's taken me all week to get my head around The Road Less Traveled. I've watched and re-watched. I've discussed it with my inner circle of BSG nerds and no matter how I look at it; I'm bummed on this... Scott Ian
Maybe because the previous episodes have been so strong it made this episode feel that much weaker.

Look, I understand storytelling. I understand exposition, setting up the arcs for the big payoffs etc etc. This episode just felt like it was treading water.

Baltar has once again set himself up in direct conflict with Roslin. Great. But I've seen that coming for three episodes and this episode really didn't move the story along. Same with Starbuck. Who didn't see a mutiny coming as soon as they were on the Demetrius? Why play it out so long?

And where the hell is Adama? Enough of him being Roslin's nursemaid. Seriously, who wants to see him reading every week? In the grand scope of the BSG mythology Adama has been there for all the major events in some way and to have him on the backburner right now in this crucial time is out of character.

There are a finite number of episodes left of BSG and I was actually bored and pissed off by this episode because I felt like it wasted valuable time. These characters deserve more.
And just to end on a positive (because even an off episode of BSG is better than anything else on TV) the Leoben — Anders dialogue was great and opens an intriguing door. Human — Cylon alliance? Holy crap.

Next week's previews look killer.
Cheers,
Scott

]]> Scott Ian's Battlestar Galactica Blog | SCIFI.COM tag:blogs.scifi.com,2008:/battlestar/scottian//17.7021 2008-04-29T18:21:09Z 2008-04-29T22:51:32Z And I don't mean hope in the context of religion or faith or any of Baltar's story arc. I mean hope in the context of Tigh made out with Six. TIGH MADE OUT WITH SIX. Michael Hogan must be stoked.... Scott Ian
Poor Chief. He loses his lady and then loses his shit with the old man. His description of Cally, "a shriek with dull-vacant eyes, the boiled cabbage stench of her" was oddly accurate. Is Chief's Cylon programming disavowing his relationship with a human knowing that it could have been with Boomer or is it just a case of the grass being greener? I asked my main-man Aaron Douglas and he was his usual forthcoming self (although I can't print everything he told me, no spoilers here).


]]> "Dude. That ep was a really tough one for me.
Long days of really emotional stuff.
Really very tiring and hard because the rest of the cast has little to do so they get restless after 5 hours of doing the same thing and I am still trying to stay in the place of emotion of a funeral.

The scene with Eddie and I in the bar is one of my favorites.
I have not seen the ep yet so I don't know how it turned out.
We did my coverage 3 times.
The first time, which by all accounts was the best, was not recorded. The camera guys did not turn them on.
That was frustrating.
So what people saw on Friday was my 2nd best performance.
I will watch it tonight and see if I remember anything else.
That was a year ago that we shot it."

Oh yeah....now Tigh gets to kiss Six and once again the Chief just goes and gets loaded... tell me how that is fair? Fuckers!


And he also added this:


"And tell the fans to watch for the Chief in the next weeks ep. He goes a little nuts…"


I can't wait!!!

I want a Chief/Tory showdown. Tory's gotta go.

I have to agree with Roslin regarding the Baltar family. Not because of the safety of the fleet from a religious war, because I'm over the Baltar/Messiah thing. I guess it makes sense for his character that he would self-appoint himself this position but I just don't care. His speech was eloquent enough but he's my favorite character and I feel like he's being underused. Put him in the brig and blow all his followers out the airlock and get him back in the mix with the Cylons. Adama would do that. Unless he's once again completely full of crap and it's all part of some other plan he's go going. I'm hoping to be as usual, pleasantly surprised by his arc.

I do like the set-up for the power struggle between Roslin and Apollo. Apollo seems to have more backbone now then he ever did as a pilot. He ain't taking no shit off of nobody!

No Starbuck this week. I'm sure next week she'll be back in all her sweatiness.


Until then fight'em 'til you can't.

Cheers,
Scott]]> Scott Ian's Battlestar Galactica Blog | SCIFI.COM tag:blogs.scifi.com,2008:/battlestar/scottian//17.6962 2008-04-22T23:37:21Z 2008-04-23T15:18:06Z We're just dirty murdering slut robots. Well at least that's what Tory is. Or should I say it's what she's becoming. Now that she's one of the final five Cylon's she's become so much more interesting. Seriously, before she was... Scott Ian
Well at least that's what Tory is. Or should I say it's what she's becoming. Now that she's one of the final five Cylon's she's become so much more interesting. Seriously, before she was outed did any of you care? I don't think I even knew her name. She did have Billy's big shoes to fill he writes with complete seriousness. Now she's like a quieter Juliette Lewis in Natural Born Killers all screwing and killing. Her activation has taken her to the Dark Side young Luke and I'm afraid there's no coming back.

And what side is it? This isn't a side of Cylon behavior that we've really ever seen. Maybe Cavil would cold-bloodedly blow someone out the airlock just because he can or for a goof, but at this point the rest of the Cylon's have a higher purpose. Is Tory the evilest of Cylons? And what's gonna happen with the other three? Why is Tory manifesting differently while the other three seem like themselves so far? Is Chief going to find out that Cally knew he was a Cylon or will he just think it was an anti-depressant fueled attack/suicide? I'm hoping Tory just evil's up and tells him the truth. "I blew your lame-ass wife out the airlock because she knew our secret (and in general was pretty boring) and I would've frakked your cry-baby bitch kid too except he's half Cylon 'cause that's how I roll." I emailed Aaron Douglas (yeah, the Chief and I are buds) and asked him all these questions. Here's what he said:

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"It only gets worse my friend.
What we think Cally knew and didn't know is explored over the next few eps with the Chief making little discoveries along the way.
The final four Cylons are different from each other in the same way that humans are different from one another. We all have tendencies that manifest in various situations.
The next couple of episodes contain a large arc for Tyrol.
Callys death and some other things really come to a head.
Enjoy.
They were a really tough shoot."

The shit is going to hit the fan when Chief finds out Tory killed his wife. Cylon or not, the Chief is the Chief is the Chief.
The fact that they have no problems with killing off regulars and making other characters suffer intensely is one of the main reasons why I love this show. It's so heavy. When an episode like 4.3 ends it really bothers me. It stays with me for days. That shot of Cally's frozen bloated face was haunting. No heroic death for our little mechanic. Alone except for the uncaring stare of a Cylon holding HER baby and aware that she's got seconds before the vacuum takes her. Brutal. I've invested years in these characters and the show is so well written that it makes me feel for these people. I care less about some real-life people than I do these TV ones. TMI? Maybe. I don't give a frak.



Last week I knew that Boomer was sleeping with Cavil. This week proved me right. Ummm, gross. Boomer is really giving her line a bad rep.

Does Roslin have annoying cancer? I hope Zarek goes back to his old ways and puts her out of her misery. I'm glad Zarek is back. He's a great pot-stirrer and I love watching Richard Hatch.

Was it me or did that blood-cleaning Centurion give stink-eye? The Centurions are plotting. I don't think the "magic word" is going to cut it for too long.

How many cartons of smokes did Doc Coddle bring? I'm starting to think he's the fifth Cylon just for the fact that he's not dying of emphysema.

Everyone on the Demetrius needs to chillax. Starbuck has killed more Cylons than all of them combined and oh yeah, she came back from the dead. I don't care how bi-polar she gets, I'd follow her to hell. I didn't think Anders had the balls to frak Starbuck when she demanded to be frakked. I guess a Cylons gotta get some when he can. Too bad it's not on HBO.

The Cylon vs. Cylon war has really kicked off. I saw right through Cavil's kowtowing. He's Cavil. He's the Devil.

Who's side are you on?
I'm taking Husker.


Fight'em 'til you can't,
Scott]]> Scott Ian's Battlestar Galactica Blog | SCIFI.COM tag:blogs.scifi.com,2008:/battlestar/scottian//17.6897 2008-04-17T15:01:41Z 2008-04-23T15:28:29Z After watching Six of One I feel like a Centurion is standing on my chest. It was an intensely heavy and deeply moving episode. Lines are being drawn, sides are being taken and there will be blood. And judging... Scott Ian
These skin-jobs just can't get along. The schism that has erupted between the models according to Cavil, is going to destroy them. They're toying with their survival and the good brother is not having it. He refuses to believe that the final five could be among the humans and who could blame him? Why would these apparently older, wiser, more experienced (and to answer your question Sharon; not nearly as attractive), super-Cylons want to hang around with a rag-tag bunch of human survivors? It would be beneath them and in Cavil's Number One brain, it isn't logical Captain. Wait 'til he finds out that everyone's favorite one-eyed drunk is his superior. And wait 'til Tigh gets to have his revenge on Cavil for boning his wife.

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Was that line a peek into the dark depraved mind of a Number One where Sapphic Cylons have pillow fights? Will this be his downfall? Why is Boomer voting against her model? Is she sleeping with Cavil? Her topless interpretative dance of the Hybrid's jibber-jabber for him was weird/hot?

Cavil has really amped up the rhetoric. Mussolini-like in his my way or the highway plan to lobotomize the raiders his hubris will be the death of him. A naturally coiffed Six (Tricia Helfer is so much hotter with her real hair) stands up to Cavil's Nurse Ratchet plan, pulls the PETA card and ups the ante by taking the ankle bracelets off the Centurions, who like their fellow warrior brothers the Raiders, are tired of being kept down by the man. You can only screw with robots with machine gun hands for so long.

Cylon on Cylon crime is awesome and I can only hope we see a lot more machine gunning and slo-mo Doral death. I also think Cavil is going to get boxed. Or stared to death by 'ol One Eye.

Starbuck's histrionics were how can I put it mildly, really annoying. I guess she knew what she was doing though because she got the old man on her side. I knew that was coming last week. I knew it after she verbally skewered him and he takes her down. He believes her. He has to believe her. He never really believed any of the president's hooey. He did become, like Starbuck said, "the president's wet-nurse." The scene between Adama and Roslin where they debate Starbuck is where their relationship should be, in conflict. Enough of the chummy sexual tension. Adama finally got his balls back in this episode. He's going to need them. And now are we going to have to wait 18 episodes for Starbuck to find earth? 18 episodes of her cruising around on some sewage recycling ship only to find the Planet Of The Apes? I hope so. That or she meets Captain Mal Reynolds and they fly off into the sunset. I didn't think I was going to like the 'Lee becomes a lawyer' story arc but so far I'm digging it. Jamie Bamber has really given Apollo much more depth this season and for the first time I'm really caring about his character. His scene with Starbuck in the cell was great. Beautifully acted by both of them and Lee and Kara's kiss had a real sense of finality to it. Are they finally over each other? There was a palpable sense of loss and of unfulfilled destinies. Lee's send off was one of those 'I can't believe I'm getting choked up watching BSG' moments. You know you have them. You know you got a little verklempt when he hugged the old man. It's OK, cry it out bitch.

Speaking of crying, Foster's post-coital tears with Baltar; real or crocodile? Is she setting him up? Seems like that's the plan but you never know with Gaius. And what's better than one Gaius? Two Gaius's. I hope we see a lot more of snappy-suited inviso-Gaius. And the not-so-fantastic-four old/new Cylons? More of the same this week. Clandestine meetings with more questions than answers. I'm itching to see these Cylons in action. I want to see Chief kick some ass!!

Fight'em 'til you can't,
Scott]]> Scott Ian's Battlestar Galactica Blog | SCIFI.COM tag:blogs.scifi.com,2008:/battlestar/scottian//17.6824 2008-04-10T18:41:10Z 2008-04-23T15:35:42Z I am going to be in the middle of the jungle in Costa Rica tomorrow so unless the howler monkeys have Directv, no BSG 4.2 for me until Monday. Frakkin' hell. At least I won't see anything on the... Scott Ian fracclasica.jpg
I am going to be in the middle of the jungle in Costa Rica tomorrow so unless the howler monkeys have Directv, no BSG 4.2 for me until Monday. Frakkin' hell. At least I won't see anything on the internet to spoil it for me. I'll be posting all about the episode on Tuesday.

Fight' em 'til you can't,
Scott]]> Scott Ian's Battlestar Galactica Blog | SCIFI.COM tag:blogs.scifi.com,2008:/battlestar/scottian//17.6752 2008-04-05T06:53:34Z 2008-04-23T15:44:18Z Unless you live abroad or you're an idiot you've seen the premier of season four. And what a premier it was. Starting right from the end of season 3 where Starbuck came back from the dead (she wasn't looking to... Scott Ian
Of all the stories being weaved I think Starbuck's is the most compelling. She's already been accused of being the one to lead humanity to it's end and now she's been dead/gone for 2 months and she miraculously returns in a freshly detailed Viper. Cylon? I don't think so, too obvious unless that's what they want us to think. I think Starbuck did see Earth and is telling the truth about her experience. Wormholes people. It's a Hollywood fact that time and space mean nothing in the face of a wormhole. I believe her, and not because she could kick my ass, because I think she's the key to the whole thing. Screw the Gods, or Six's one God, Starbuck is Jesus and she will put a bullet between your eyes if you disagree. If I'm wrong, hire Apollo to sue me.

The 4 newbie Cylons are as you would expect, confused and trying extra hard to be human. Michael Hogan really stands out by making Tigh even more intense with only one eye to emote with. Seriously, his one-eyed stare makes my balls nervous. When he puts his gun on the table was that to consummate a suicide pact between the 4 of them (before they would harm someone else) or was it just him getting rid of his gun so if he wakes up and wants to shoot the old man (nice trick with the assassination before the credits) he won't have the iron to do it.

Anders eye-dentification with the Raider was killer!!! Can't wait til he finally gets to let loose.

Chief is business as usual so far. Cylon Shmylon, he's got shit to do. I texted with Aaron Douglas after the show and asked him about the gun scene with Tigh and he told me that he had the same questions as I did and no one would explain the scene to him. Aaron was kind enough to share this with me and I will share with you... ]]>
“I had the best adlib ever in the scene where Chief walks onto the hangar deck yelling for the Nuggets. It didn't make it into the show. What did make it was something like “lets go nuggets! your momma's aren't going to save ya today” it is all adlib'd but one take I said, & this is pure gold, “drop your dicks and grab your sticks!” 5 seconds later Harvey (producer) says from video village, “ you can't say dicks on TV”. We had to do it again. Ha. Being a Cylon is great. Someone else does my laundry. Started back shooting last week. Its great to be back but its sad to see it go.”

Thanks Aaron,

Chief will save the day. Anders and Foster, expendable. Just my opinion.

Adama was in the background this episode. I think he believes Starbuck is who she says she is. Is he the 5th? I don't think so. Or is it so obvious that he actually is?

And finally my favorite Galactian; Baltar. Of all the sub-plots, this Manson family-esque cult leader deal is not my favorite. Yes, I love that he'll say anything to get laid, ridicule the situation and then even start to believe his own bullshit but where is this going? Unless his harem start killing in his name with his semi-approval, I'm not interested. And how do they have this Baltar orgy den complete with shrine on Galactica? Really? No one knows this is going on on a Battlestar? Hopefully inviso-Six will get jealous and put an end to this quick.

I think I can safely say Starbuck won't be shooting Roslin.

Fight'em til you can't,
Scott]]> Scott Ian's Battlestar Galactica Blog | SCIFI.COM tag:blogs.scifi.com,2008:/battlestar/scottian//17.6740 2008-04-04T16:55:41Z 2008-04-23T15:25:36Z I just watched the premier online. Thanks Sci-Fi for showing it early as I can't watch tonight. I will be watching it again in all it's HD glory when I get home from Chicago. I won't ruin anything for anyone.... Scott Ian The beginning of the end and so many questions to answer. Mainly, who the hell is everyone and why are they and what are they going to do? I'm not gonna get into it now. Watch and we'll talk later.
Baltar gets laid.
Fight'em til you can't,
Scott
]]> Scott Ian's Battlestar Galactica Blog | SCIFI.COM tag:blogs.scifi.com,2008:/battlestar/scottian//15.6651 2008-04-01T16:07:14Z 2008-04-23T15:26:31Z Hello my friends and welcome to my tiny little corner of the BSG universe. Somehow through sheer fan-boy tenacity (and a lot of help from the Lords Of Kobol over at Sci-Fi/NBC Universal) I have actually been asked to write... Scott Ian And who am I to have been given this weighty task?

I've been in a band called Anthrax for 27 years and I'm a total horror/sci-fi/comic dork. A million years ago we had a song called "I Am The Law" based on Judge Dredd (way before the abortion of a movie with Stallone which we refused to let our song be a part of; you HAVE TO leave the helmet ON) and that opened the door for me into the actual world of horror/sci-fi/comics that I'd been admiring from afar since I was a kid reading Ditko Spidey and anything Kirby touched (even Fin Fang Foom). When the internet became the place to espouse ones opinions to the world, from behind the safety of my Mac I jumped in head first and wooooosh (Lost forward flash sound effect) cut to me (trying) to write a Lobo series for DC, a food column (Food Coma) for SuicideGirls.com (nude tattoed chicks but you can read the articles for free) and a blog about Galactica's final season.

Obviously I will be writing about each episode this season and I also hope to have some special guests (cast members, other "celeb" BSG fans and Brent, Jason and Eric my buddies that are as insane as me about the show) be a part of this as well. Yes, I'm talking to you Chief.

Friday night looms.
Cheers,
Scott
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