Solai, not in the least. It just means that you can now watch an imperial frakload of sweet Futurama episodes for the first time.
I, on the other hand, have to wait for the movies – whenever they finally hit – for new material.
You lucky bastard, you!
Solai,
Futurama is a frakkin riot ! Get thee to a rental store and enjoy!! You will not be disappointed, the writing is very, very funny. Word, Up.
Loved the suggestions for guests on the podcast – I say go after having all 3 of them on your podcast – that would totally ROCK !! I agree with Audra that Mary McDonnell would be interesting to interview.
Great minds, Topgun, etc., etc…
I have never seen an ep of Futurama either. I will netflix it.
Billy will probably return as an administrative cylon . . .
Solai and snacktime, to paraphrase what someone else said, I envy you because you will be able to watch them for the first time.
Chuck, I feel the same way about Jurassic Bark, whenever I rewatch Futurama, I have to skip over that episode because it’s just too heart wrenching to watch again. So why can I watch some movie that is trying to make you cry with no problem, but a cartoon dog kills me?
Heck, just tune in to Adult Swim every night (though I noticed they weren’t on last night. Did I miss something over the last week?). I only own the DVD set for the first season but have managed to see almost every episode in sindication.
And Chuck, I believe “Bender’s Big Score” comes out on DVD next month, around the same time as “Razor” airs. So you should be a happy ass camper that week.
Hey all
Chuck - Thanks for your help, but I just re-re-registered under another e-mail account. but asd you can see - I’m in.
And there was much rejoicing…yaaaaayy.
Dave
Welcome aboard David. As you can see, we’ve all been busy here.
Have no idea if this has been addressed, yet, but in the podcast someone wondered if Michael Taylor had written the minisodes in an arc; they are in fact sequences edited for time from the broadcast version of ‘Razor’. They’ll be re-cut into the extended DVD version, so they’ll be seen in the place/sequence they were planned to be in all along then.
Unless someone’s already said this, in whcih case, never mind.
I was so excited to hear Audra reference Malvolio and his yellow stockings! Malvolio is, indeed, from Twelfth Night. He is induced to wear said yellow stockings (tied with criss-crossed black garters!) by other members of the household who fool him into thinking it will help him woo Lady Olivia. I know this because I enjoy the play; I remember this because I once won a game of bar trivia with it.
So much Shakespeare fun in this podcast! I enjoyed your 6 Degrees of Battlestar/Shakespeare but I was sure I could find a way to make a direct link. I was surprised to find that neither EJO nor Mary McDonnel has done any Shakespeare. Michael Hogan, however, was in a 1994 production called “Romeo and Juliet of Sarajevo.”
Glad to oblige…in my own, vague, can’t-remember-the-names-of-characters-plays-or-situations way. :rolleyes:
I swear, all this stuff floats around in my head, but depending on what I’m teaching in a particular semester, and what I’m researching, it just slips out of reach. And as soon as we start recording, any residue of intelligence that might have remained dries up, and you’re left with, well, this. 
I was out of town for the weekend and therefore listened to this podcast before doing the rewatch of the episode. I was surprised to hear our lovely hosts’ take on the Billy-Dee-Lee triangle because I was unaware that after “Sacrifice” Dee could be viewed as anything other than fickle and cold-hearted. Then I watched the ep last night… and as it turns out, I still think I’m right.
Billy should have been less emotionally retarded about Dee and he should have been able to tell that she wasn’t ready for marriage. That said, when he hisses that she shouldn’t have “let” him propose I interpret it as meaning that Dee should not have let him say “I love you” and clearly think that their relationship was serious when she was not at that level of commitment.
Also, she goes directly (DIRECTLY!) from screaming for help for Billy after the situation broke down to her vigil at Lee’s bedside. Why was Roslyn the only one to sit with Billy’s body and pay respects? How about because Dee is weak and stupid. Also, I know that in “The Captain’s Hand” Lee says it’s been a month since the shooting, but they clearly have been sleeping together for a while- she more or less went directly (DIRECTLY!) from her erstwhile boyfriend’s tragic death to Lee’s bunk.
But to be fair, Billy was a fool to go for the gun. He probably had never shot so much as a cap gun before and there were so many trained soldiers there that he didn’t need to sacrifice himself to save Dee. I miss him.
The character of Dee, if memory serves, is supposed to be a 20-something reservist with limited experience in the world. Many of the characters in CIC are supposed to be played as limited experience (life, military, and otherwise) 20-somethings. Lee is likely a wee bit older than Dee. Perhaps what is seen as stupidity is just instead youthful ignorance?
(I had previously posted this under the wrong episode thread.)
This podcast got me thinking: Is there a difinitive timeline anywhere?
I always thought that from the genocide to New Caprica was about a year. The Occupation was like a year. So by the end of the 3rd season we’d be at about 2 years and 5 or 6 months. Hmm…
So what did Sean say that got bleeped?
BTW, how many scifi podcasts not only discusses Shakespeare, but also mentions David Sedaris and Prairie Home Companion. And I didn’t even know you could get NPR in Dallas.
Appreciated the mention of the Tron video game. There was one in the drugstore on the ground floor of my mom’s office when I was a kid. I remember blowing a few quarters on 15 second games…
Oh, and I think you were channeling:
You’re Delta Tau Chi name is Pinto.
Why Pinto?
WHY NOT!
Sean - don’t worry - the Bunnies don’t get offended easily.
Alpaca Herder, I think you’re right about Dee being a green, disingenuous kid. Dee is mercurial and in many ways a typical 20-something. Of course, I am also mercurial and in many ways a typical 20-something (well, typical plus a passion for BSG and SFF in general). Despite that, I like to think that I would not behave as Dee has. We’re all on a learning curve, but it seems like she lacks a critical component of compassion in her treatmentment of Billy. She’d have to really blow me away in Season 4 to win me back.
He was indeed worried, mainly because we’re big fans. Hope we didn’t come across otherwise!