Technically we’re discussing BSG 4.5 ’sode #7 in this bonus ‘cast, but since the ’sode is only about 40 seconds long we digress quite a bit. Highlights: we decide once and for all that BYBBQ8 is indeed a creepster, note that today’s “reveal” was about as exciting as Quizno’s, are regaled with Sean’s Fable 2 stories (including the “dog market” and sheepskin condoms), and generally enjoy our last podcast of 2008.
yaaay! i love backyard eight, even if she is crazy.
I’ll listen to the cast tomorrow so forgive me if its already mentioned, but in the previous 'sode Gaeta handed BYBBQ8 a clean scalpel with they used to cut into her hand, interface with the computer, and jump. Right afterwards he notices that the pilots are not really ‘sleeping’. Do we have multiple scalpels lying around? You’d need something pretty scarp to get such a good jump on the pilots even if they were sleeping…
I’m too lazy to check, but didn’t they have helmets on when they fell asleep? Maybe I’m thinking of the other raptor.
Does anyone else feel that the 'sodes are creeping into “why bother” territory?
Keep watching. /Spoiled
No I think that they stretched the out over to many sodes, maybe if it had been only six sodes long it might not have felt such like filler.
Hunh… I am officially disavowing my earlier theory that BYBBQ 8 is not a psychopath and similar theories that I never voiced publicly. Because the only other choice is that Felix is a psychopath and I’m still holding out hope that he is the 5th cylon (which would bring me to the respectable 3 of 5 guesses correct). Not that the two are mutually exclusive, of course. I just figured it would take a particularly frakked up culture to program psychosis.
Gaeta probably wouldn’t make my list if I were making it today, but 6 years ago, when season 3 was coming to an end…
Merry New Year!
I just gotta correct you guys, it wasnt Racetrack who found the algae planet, it was Athena.
Dunno if anyone said it already, havent read the whole thread.
I just get back from probably the best New Year’s Eve evah, and there’s a new podcast waiting for me. With all the stuff I’m sure they have to do on today of all days, the Big Three still talk it up for us just because there’s a webisode.
Chuck, Sean, and Audra rock.
Happy New Year, Ya’ll!
Also, in the second episode ever, “Water”, it was Boomer and Crashdown who found the water. So I would say besides Racetrack, the Eights have an talent for finding stuff as well.
She might have injected them with some of Gaeta’s morpha since she already stole some to kill the other dude.
Great to hear the Fable 2 talk. I love this game and agree with Sean, if you have a X-Box 360 and a few bucks go pick it up. I am also with Sean on the fact that it is great to be able to play female characters. Who wants to stare at a dudes butt for 50+ hours? 
Best Buy has it on sale for $44.99 right now on their website. You should be able to purchase online and pickup at a local store.
I’ve never played Fable before (yeah, not much of a gamer here at all ever since I started working), but now I’m kind of tempted, if only to see if a dog based economy would work.
Anyway, just want to pop in and say that it’s not cheating to see leaked webisodes. Well, at least I don’t think it is.I consider it cheating only when you read a spoiler and/or see a partial bit of the whole episode, because that really could spoil the enjoyment of watching the entire actual episode when it airs. But if I’m watching a copy of the full episode, only earlier than its airdate, then I won’t spoil anything - I’d just be rewatching when the real thing airs, which doesn’t spoil anything at all. I mean, let’s face it, should someone leak the entire actual premiere ep. of BSG 4.5 now, I’d totally watch it. And watch it again. And watch it again. And then watch it again when it airs for realsies. (which, given I don’t live in the States, is the exact same watching experience anyway - on the computer. :D)
Though, to be fair, I totally did cheat on watching 10, which would no doubt spoil 9 for me. (though, if these were actual episodes and not webisodes, there’s no way in hell I’d watch them out of order. I guess webisodes are so short, they are slightly more enjoyable to watch them in bulk instead anyway; plus, the content is so short anyway, it’s kind of like I took a bathroom break between 8 and 10. UNLESS, 9 is like 20 minutes long. :D)
Anyhoo.
yes indeed. and athena was the one that really found the algae planet.
crap i just saw that that was already posted
Well, it’s going to get a lot bloodier before it’s over, because that shot of Felix with blood on his hands was not the same shot that we saw in the flashes at the beginning of the first webisode. It was from a different angle, and his hands were evenly covered with blood in the flash in the beginning. That doesn’t bode well for BYBBQ8’s survival, I’d say.
I was just wondering how much is “real” and how much is the lack of air. The lack of air can cause aggression and hallucinations. How much of what we have seen can be a dream not reality.
The game sounds odd. I am glad your dog in the game is a good pup.
maybe that’s just from them enjoying making pasta sauce together.
Blame BBQ8 All you want but does anyone else find suspicious that the vehicle is called a RAPTOR?
Personally I think the Ship was bought out by a Cyclon Raider.
You know, ironically, Harlan Ellison’s original script for The City at the Edge of Forever apparently had a crewmember selling drugs . . .
As far as Fable 2 goes, for one, no need to apologize, Fable 2 is endlessly interesting to talk about! (or in other words, I’m about to babble for awhile, haha!)
Since my roommate (who played through the game first) decided to go through as a complete evil psycho, going all BBBQ8 on everyone, so I went through instead and even while I’m amassing a vast real estate empire I’m giving everyone incredibly low rates; actually, in the gypsy camp I bought everything and put the rent to zero. Free housing for everyone!
It should be noted that Fable 2 is in some sort of other-world the-old-empire-has-fallen future, so those condoms (especially the ones that your dog finds buried in the woods) may be relics of long-dead civilizations.
Okay, now I’m going to go into Fable 2 for waaaaaay too long. But I think the following tale is interesting, and hopefully someone else will agree.
For a long time my favourite Fable 2 moment was a cheating-on-your-spouse story 
My character was happily married in Bowerstone but really just because I wanted a kid, and it wasn’t happening. The hero was feeling unfulfilled and trapped in this loveless marriage, especially considering she was always going off and having these amazing adventures and saving the lives of countless innocents, but then whenever she’d come home her bland and cowardly husband would moan about how long she’d been gone, and why couldn’t she just stay home. She was also starting to realize that men weren’t the only ones that could make her heart flutter and her cheeks flush.
And then, as the market was closing one day, she finally met a citizen of Bowerstone that had personality, that spoke boisterously, that seemed to share the same adventurous spirit and good-spirited but uninhibited nature! Sue The Adventurer, I believe her name was. My character was absolutely smitten with this woman, and after flirting for quite some time the two of them retired to the nearby inn.
Come morning and, as the hero stretches her arms and blinks in the sunlight, who should rush in but her husband! “This is my WIFE you slept with!” he yells at Sue. She wasn’t having any of that though, she growled and yelled and threatened him; his meek nature overpowering his anger he wimpered, curled into himself and slunk away. He later divorced my character, but she had found her soulmate, and so she married Sue.
How would she ever have a child now, though, especially with this Willow-esque flip-flop of sexual orientation? And was Sue really her lone soulmate? Well, that’s where my favourite Fable 2 story comes in. By this point I had beaten the main storyline, but there is much to do even after that (and certainly the world remains open). One of the really nice little features of the game, technology wise, is the easy drop-in drop-out Co-op (be it local or online), and my friend was taking advantage of that to tag along with me and earn his own character some gold and experience under my wing. We were pretending I had hired him as a sidekick, and made much fun of the fact that I had set it so that he would get all the gold found and most of the experience. His character just wasn’t used to that. “There must be a catch,” he would mutter aloud, “no one in Albion is that unselfish.”
The sidekick’s feelings of trepidation increased significantly as it became clear that the mission we were on involved tracking down a long-dead sorceress’ scattered and buried body parts. When the parts were combined and she was brough back to life he all but fled! It was as if some unseen force was tethering him to within a certain distance from the hero. He asked again to be dismissed, but at the moment the hero was utterly enraptured with this resurrected lady, and she with the hero. The hero’s weakness for intelligent, powerful and independent women had her proffering a diamond wedding ring right on the spot.
The sidekick waited awkwardly in the entranceway of the manor, obligated to stay until dismissed but feeling almost physically uncomfortable. A little while later the hero came down the staircase.
“You can go in a minute, first I’d like to show you something,” the hero said. The sidekick had a bad feeling about this—it wasn’t that he objected to homosexual relationships, but he was a bit prudish in general and this whole resurrection thing was making his skin crawl like it was covered in fire ants—but he focused on the promise of being able to leave, and walked up the stairs.
His eyes bulged; his jaw dropped.
The hero stood beside her wife, both of the women smiling beautifully with a radiant inner light, and they gestured beside them.
“This,” the hero proclaimed joyously, “is my newborn child!”
The sidekick opened his mouth to scream, but no sound escaped. He fled.
Aaaaaaand that’s why I love the game, it allowed my friend and I to engage in creative on-the-spot storytelling, with us steering the narrative, and yet also surprised us (the real-world part of it was that my friend and I ended up falling out of our chairs in astonishment and laughter . . . I mean, WTF?!?!?! Most hilarious videogame bug ever, perhaps? Sure, my character hadn’t used protection, but hell, that’s because there aren’t exactly any dental dams in Fable 2 so when two women sleep together the game doesn’t even give you the option of protected sex, since . . . well, how could it matter?)