GWC Podcast #83

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#21

Audra, was right on with the 3-2-1 Contact theme song. I was always a fan of the first 3-2-1 Contacters with Trini, Lisa and Marc. Kind of had a crush on Lisa. Wait a minute my wife’s name is Lisa! Hmmmm…

Speaking of PBS, Audra mentioned that Geordi was her hero. She must not be the only one, because I remember in the 90’s when the Republicans took over congress and descided to ‘reevaluate’ the funding for PBS and NPR. During the congressional hearings (broadcast live on NPR) LeVar Burton testified along with some experts on early childhood education about the benefits of having shows like Reading Rainbow on air. The funny part was when one of the experts repeatedly refered to fine work that ‘Geordi’ does on shows like Reading Rainbow. LeVar Burton was very gracious and finally said that she could just call him ‘LeVar’. It was pretty amusing.

#22

For you guys that like Wil Wheaton and haven’t seen him at a Con I plan on posting his reading on YouTube, it is under creative commons so it shouldn’t be pulled. And man is it hilarious. Especially the second part where he reads his TV Squad review of the episode were Wesley is to be executed for breaking some barriers.

#23

as to whether starbuck ‘gets around’ or not…

i think not hugely. that being said, there’s the baltar thing, the argument that she had with lee first season about sleeping with some random army dude, and the scene when anders asked lee if he thought that he was the first person she’d cheated with, so… i think it’d be fare to say that she does get around a some.

on a different note, i had a HUGE crush on wesley crusher as a kid. thank you leon!!!

#24

3 is a nice, even number for Adama AND Baltar. Maybe Baltar has really strong pheromones that make him irresistable.

I’m not saying this to bag on Starbuck, but during the season 3 exchange between Lee and Anders, Anders said something like, “I know what my wife does, thanks, slapnutz” – which gave me the sense that she cats around a little.

This episode really was the first one that presented Kat as a real, 3-D person.

Leon Kesington = the awesomest. Great score!

ps. Spacehunter was 3-D, right? Part of the 1982-3-4 vintage with Jaws 3-D and Friday the 13th III?

#25

You are correct with a host of others. Way back in 2005 I heard Lucas was planning on releasing Star Wars in 3-D. If so, you know another host of others would follow.

#26

I kept thinking about the conversation about whether Starbuck “sleeps around” and found myself, as Sean would say, “flip flopping like a fish on dry land.”

I initially thought that perhaps asking the question told us more about the questioner than the questionee, meaning perhaps asking the question paints us as a puritanical society compared to their gender-neutral based universe.

However, sex in the BSG universe is important. They are not a hedonistic society. People are jumping in and out of bed with everyone. Sex has meaning. There is as much meaning behind Starbuck or Ellen sleeping with many people as there is the fact that Laura and Adama have not slept together. If there was no weight or significance others in their world wouldn’t notice.

I would change the question from, “Does Starbuck sleep around” to “What is the significance of sex in the BSG universe” and continue the conversation from there.

ps: Boy did I feel like a heel for being amongst those who don’t like Kat in this 'cast. I was never a fan, but I did mourn her passing and was moved by the episode…so I am not all bad, right? :smiley:

#27

Ok Sean … lets see … You mentioned Automan … now the question is do you remember Street Hawk? A very short lived TV series with a super “motorcycle” …

Then of course there was Viper (1994 & 1996) … which from what I’m reading … KITT is now sounding like a version of the Viper but with KITT’s (original) brains …

who knows where this is going.

#28

Wow. Two more shows I haven’t thought of for a long time…I am such a child of the 80s. I loved those shows.

#29

I must admit to not remembering Street Hawk though I was a fan of Viper. It does sound like I would have been into it though. Bikes, bad attitudes, and a big cheese factor. Awwwwww-Yaaaaaaeh! :wink:

#30

I’ve been thinking about this. Here we have a society on the brink of destruction and desperate to survive. Procreation and protection are of utmost importance. Everyone should be messing around and often. Spread your seed, so to speak. I am no expert on the sexual frequency of nomadic tribes but I think most pregnancies would happen during a time of rest than migration, at least successful pregnancies. With the BSG universe we have a nomadic tribe searching for a settlement and desperate for one in order to survive.

What surprises me is that they are still thinking monogamous. Guys and girls should be hooking up all over the fleet and multiple times. They need to throw away their old world thinking which I’m sure given 12 colony worlds, that population control was a topic. It may still be one in the fleet with limited resources. All that being said without a safe harbor, humanity will die.

We really only see the day-to-day lives of the protectors. We don’t see what goes on in the rest of the fleet. From what I’ve seen the conditions are not ideal for raising a family. On Galactica, they need to be in top form, especially someone like Starbuck. She can’t be flying a viper prego, although she might and no one would stop her. Sex is just a tool to release tension of the incredible stress these defenders go through everyday.

I think once they get to Earth, they’ll need to put away their monogamous thinking and shun the whiny Lees of the world. Stop pouting and take as many wives as you can.

Sorry for the long post.

#31

Um, wasn’t it Frank Poncherello not Poncherelli? :smiley:

#32

Yes, Automan! Was so impressed by it when I saw it in the mid-80’s. Was hoping for a second season for a long while, since living in Sweden back then meant that the flow of information about cancellations of shows rarely came through.

A buddy saw an episode recently and said that one is better off keeping the memory of the show undisturbed.

#33

Yes it is. I don’t know why Chuck insisted it was Poncherelli. I knew I wasn’t going crazy. :wink:

#34

We, in the industry, call it “Bus Driver Butt” (school bus, that is!):smiley:

#35

hi guys, another great podcast.

while i love Patrick Stewart, i think his achilles’ heel is his cameo in “Robin Hood: Men in Tights”.

Now, I loved the movie, but the movie isn’t aimed to make anyone look “cool”. Therefore Mr. Stewart seems pretty silly, just as everyone else in the movie, which is what the movie intended.

#36

//youtu.be/g3rFNbSKpEE

#37

For those of you who missed Wil Wheaton’s performance in Phoenix – meaning all us sad sacks who, unlike Leon, weren’t there – Wil’s rounded up a recording of the full performance:

http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2008/01/audio-from-my-p.html

Good stuff. The books are similar to this, of course, as he’s largely performing bits from them.

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BTW – I’ve been thinking for some time about how to begin bringing guests back on GWC more often. The problem is that after listening to a lot of stars and other luminaries guesting on podcasts, I just really want to do something totally different. Rather than simply asking them about their latest project or how it feels to be them, I’d like to find a way to really include them in the discussion – to give our audience a chance to “hang out” with them the way you do with us each week.

Last night, Audra and I were watching an old episode of ST:TNG – one of Audra’s favorites, “Cause and Effect” – which opens with a classic Enterprise officers’ poker game… And I was inspired. I wonder if we put together a listing of all the poker games in Star Trek – there can’t be more than eight or ten – if Wil would do an analysis of the play for us. I’m not good with Poker odds, but it’d be a lot of fun to put together a TV-tournament-coverage style analysis of the games.

Come to think of it, I’m going to start a thread on it to start locating all the games:

http://forum.galacticwatercooler.com/showthread.php?t=966

Stop by and help us out if you can.

#38

frakintalos, THAT IS AWESOME

#39

Showing the love. Thanx Pixielass.

//youtu.be/Fg_cwI1Xj4M

#40

Oh Dear God—on the damn floor laughing