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Bryan Singer’s fucking Battlestar movie is really really  coming, and it’s giving me an anxiety attack that I can’t really corral. It isn’t so much that BSG is getting redone, it’s that frankly fuck Singer and this Orloff guy I don’t care if he wrote Band of Brothers. I don’t care that I just shit all over syntax.

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Bryan Singer sucks. I want him to stay away from ‘Battlestar Galactica’. Because he sucks. It seems he won’t be. But he should. Because he sucks.

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That’s all she wrote, ladies and gentlemen.The curtain closed on America’s greatest achievement yesterday with the final shuttle launch in U.S. history. I was about 11-10 miles away and it was hard not to get emotional as the Atlantis disappeared behind the cloud line; leaving behind an enormous trail of exhaust and history in its wake. And my god, the sound wave. It took about one minute for the sound wave to hit and once it did, it shook me something fierce. But what I wish I was hearing at the time of launch was Bear McCreary’s “Fanfare for STS-135.”

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Universal Studios Singapore has a Battlestar Galactica rollercoaster. Motherfrakkers. To Singapore. We march.

My nipples get hard just contemplating reading this. It’s Ronald D. Moore’s Battlestar Galactica bible. Online, and for anyone to read. Like, seriously. This is probably the closest thing to an actual bible that I’ll ever get to read. I’m that deep of a fanboy. Say what you will about the latter portion of the BSG series, or even RDM’s finale, aiight? I think even with that considered, his initial vision for the universe was goddamn gorgeous. The bible itself is expansive, and covers everything from The Red Line to how take on the very commands for the CIC.

“Clear Forward” means there is nothing in front of the Viper in the launch tube.

“Nav-con green” means the navigational system aboard the Viper is operating and is showing up green on the Launch Officer’s board.

“Interval check” means that he has checked the interval between this Viper and the one launched immediately before it.

“Clear Forward” means there is nothing in front of the Viper in the launch tube.  “Nav-con green” means the navigational system aboard the Viper is operating and is  showing up green on the Launch Officer’s board.

“Interval check” means that he  has checked the interval between this Viper and the one launched immediately  before it.

It’s intense, man. I don’t imagine I’ll get to plow through all fifty pages anytime soon, but I certainly will need to at some point. By candlelight. With  Vaseline.

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Go on, git! Enlarge that pig. It’s an official guide to Battlestar Galactica’s twelve colonies. BSG dork like me? Yeah, this swag is awesome. The map was “designed by writer Jane Espenson and science advisor Kevin Grazier.” I didn’t know BSG had a science advisor, but I wish I was smart off to pull off such a gig. Would be totally swank.

Want more information on how the map was constructed? Go here for an interview with Espenson and Grazier.

I’m currently in the “it could be fucking awesome!” portion of my oscillating opinion on the BSG prequel, Blood and Chrome. If it’s a high quality production tackling Billy Adama and the first Cylon War? Goodness gracious, it could be terrific.

Miss out on my earlier article about Blood and Chrome? Here you go:

Blood and Chrome takes place 20 years after Caprica and about 40 years before Battlestar Galactica.

Writer of the script Michael Taylor elaborates:

This is very much an action-adventure, war series. This is definitely dealing with people who are fighting the fight. … As you hope ‘Battlestar’ would do, it kind of comments on that process a little bit… but not in a preachy way, not in an issues-oriented way, not in a hitting-you-over-the-head way.

Hit the jump for some concept art from the upcoming series, which is slated to hit in late 2011 or early 2012.

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God damn do I love Space Epics and Lee Adama. The thought of getting Jamie Bamber (Lee Adama) in a new Space Epic is enough to cause head-dizzying fanboy arousal. Well, Drinkwater, you better get prepared, because your dreams are about to come true.

io9 via BBC America:

With Earth no longer habitable, a group of courageous pioneers have traveled to another planet to begin again. They’ve built the town of Forthaven on Carpathia and have the unique opportunity of creating a new and better future on another planet. Led by President Tate (Liam Cunningham via Clash Of The Titans) and his core team of Stella (Hermione Norris, MI-5), Cass (Daniel Mays, Atonement) and Fleur (Amy Manson, Being Human), they’re determined to run the civilization in a democratic way, but some tough decisions in the past may prove divisive.

As the series begins, it’s a moment of incredible anticipation. Forthaven has lost all contact with Earth but the arrival of the last known transporter, with Julius Berger (Eric Mabius of Ugly Betty) on board, signals fresh hopes and dreams. But why does President Tate seem anxious about the imminent arrival of Berger and will the transporter land safely with Stella’s husband and daughter, who she heartbreakingly left behind?

Meanwhile those appointed Expeditionaries, Mitchell (Jamie Bamber, Battlestar Galactica) and Jack (Ashley Walters, Hustle), have a mission to explore the new planet and bring back vital information to the settlement. Will they find other life out there, or do they truly have the planet to themselves?

The settlers are a diverse group of individuals who left their old lives behind in extraordinary circumstances. They’ve been promised a second chance but are far away from home, friends, family and their pasts. Passionate about their jobs, confident of their ideals and optimistic about the future, they work hard to preserve what they’ve built on the planet they now call home.

Carpathia offers the possibility of redemption as the new inhabitants try to avoid the mistakes made on Earth. Inevitably they cannot escape the human pitfalls of love, greed, lust, loss, corruption and a longing for those they’ve left behind. As they continue to work and live together, they come to realize this is no ordinary planet. Is there a bigger purpose at work? Is the peace of Forthaven more fragile than they think?

I wish I could tell you how excited I am about this show. Like, really excited. I’ve been yearning for Space-Core bullshit for a while since BSG ended, and I’m hoping this show can provide solace towards the gaping, bleeding hole that was left in my heart. Or, at the very least, Jamie Bamber looking all gruff and awesome and hopefully speaking in his British accent.

It’s Memorial Day weekend. Please don’t forget that even veterans of fictional, intergalactic wars need our support.

Perhaps more than ever.