Battlestar Galactica Archives

December 17, 2014December 17, 2014

ASCENSION [Premiere Review]: What Goes Up… Comes Crashing Down.

Well, it’s that time of year again, when all the network shows are on break until January, and the only fresh programming being rolled out are holiday specials or mini-series. So, our early Christmas gift from the SyFy Network is a three-part space exploration mini-series, Ascension.Set aboard a spaceship that has been traveling 51 years into …

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December 8, 2014December 8, 2014

Battlestar Galactica / Shaft / Army of Darkness [Reviews]: Comics Get “The Treatment”

Welcome to this week's edition of The Stash, all you purveyors of comics' cache! Once again, the elite cadre of geekologists, geekolytes, geekofiles, geektranauts, and geekinators here at The Church of Cool have scoured the sluice of last week's comic book excavation and brought forth an assessment of your upcoming purchase agenda! It's ADAPTATION TIME! And …

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June 4, 2014June 4, 2014

ALIEN / TERMINATOR / BSG [Hero Complex Film Festival ’14]: Science Friction.

Hitting off the first of three nights of the Hero Complex Film Festival at the TCL Chinese 6 in sunny-lovely Los Angeles was a celebration of... BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (But please jump to our coverage of: Terminator/Terminator 2 or Alien/Aliens, if you insist...) This free-fan event featured the big screen appearance of the 2003 BSG miniseries that …

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April 15, 2013April 15, 2013

DEFIANCE: Only ‘Fate’ commands this Pilot.

When you start throwing out expectations for your show using names like "Battlestar Galactica" and "Firefly," you're already digging yourself into a deep ditch. It's the kind of hype that makes the Syfy-watching vets cringe. Or even worse, the kind of hype a new, intended viewership wouldn't even understand. That's one problem. Then, you go …

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March 30, 2013March 30, 2013

WonderCon 2013: Just another Sci-Fri-day, pt. 1

Despite the tremendous success of superhero movies in the past few years, there’s nothing buzzing the geek world more than that of Sci-Fi. -Defiance, the long-awaited “next big thing” from the SyFy network, arrives on television April 15. The video game, which will intersperse with the program, arrives April 2nd. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pQMflDA8bI -Star Wars VII, …

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