It’s time for the very first liveblog for Battlestar Galactica. This Saturday, join your fellow BSG fans here as we all watch the Razor movie together. USE THE COMMENTS AS YOUR CANVAS. By which I mean I EXPECT A LOT OF GIFS. Let us liveblog away!
I WILL HAVE NOT SEEN A NEW EPISODE OF THIS GODDAMN SHOW IN THIRTEEN DAYS WHEN WE START THIS LIVEBLOG. Do you realize how painful this is to me? OH GOD.
The liveblog starts on Saturday, October 29th at 10:00am PDT. Please consult a world clock to determine what time this is for you.
At that moment, start your copy of Razor. Liveblogging is simply using the comments to e-vomit all of your thoughts and reactions as you progress through what we are watching, so have fun!
This is important: please do not spoil any future events in the comments, even during the liveblog. There will be people like me who have not seen this and I don’t want to be spoiled while watching.
The review of Razor will go up on Monday afternoon! SEE YOU THEN!
Just so we're all clear: it's the Extended DVD cut we're liveblogging right? It would be slightly awkward if we all started and then suddenly realised that some of us were watching a completely different scene or kept going after the aired cut ended. I'm rambling, I'll stop now.
Is that what is on Netflix/iTunes? That's the only thing I have available to watch.
I don't know about Netflix and it doesn't look like the UK iTunes store has it, so I can't check what runtime they have listed. The preview of the US store listing the BSGWiki links to doesn't say how long it is. So I have no idea which cut is available to you, sorry.
The aired version is 81 minutes and the extended 101 minutes if that's at all helpful.
Well, that's not helpful at all. I just looked on Netflix Streaming, and what they show for Razor is 87 minutes.
Yeah I'm starting to think those times may be wrong. I'm looking at the back of my DVD and it says it's 1hr 39 mins. I tried downloading the one on the tumblr post psycicflower has pointed people to in the past and it says it's 87 minutes.
If Netflix is saying 87 minutes then it's probably the aired cut.
THIS IS ENDLESSLY CONFUSING. Mayhaps I shall try to find the DVD today?
Sometimes I think the producers were trying to make things as confusing as possible with the multiple versions of episodes being available in different ways. I think we may have to go through this again for the second special as well.
Well, if you decide to try to find the DVD, check your local library. That's where I got the DVD I'm using tomorrow.
Mark, let us know which version you're watching tomorrow! I'll find the extended edition somehow if that's what you're watching.
I know we all might have different copies, but ultimately I think we'll be okay? I'll be using the 90+ minute Netflix version because I could not find a DVD copy on such short notice. :/
I'm a new follower, came over from Neil Gaiman's blog. There are a few episodes of BSG that are extended on the DVDs, and Netflix doesn't stream them the last time I checked. Don't know about iTunes. I really recommend getting the extended editions of Razor and Daybreak.
The extended Razor gives you a lot more character material, and adds a lot to Uryran Pnva. Not that her characterization is really weak in the short Razor, but she didn't click until I saw the scene where ure fvfgre vf nccneragyl xvqanccrq ol ergerngvat Plybaf. Gura V ernyvmrq gung Tvan qvqa'g whfg ercerfrag orgenlny be Pnva'f crefbany snvyher. Fur ercerfragrq gur raq cebqhpg bs gur Plyba uhzna rkcrevzragf, rkcrevzragf juvpu cebonoyl vapyhqrq Pnva'f fvfgre. Rirel gvzr Pnva ybbxf ng Tvan, fur frrf gur gbegher naq zheqre bs ure xvq fvfgre, naq fur unf ab ceboyrz qrnyvat onpx rirelguvat onpx gb gurz guebhtu Tvan.
The short version is still a fun, creepy adventure and it'll set you up for season four, but the long version treats a couple of characters better, is all.
Dear Michelle Forbes,
I love you. I'm a little afraid of your characters sometimes, but I love you.
Signed,
A fan eagerly awaiting her very second Mark Liveblogs!
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I have to confess – I've never seen Razor.
This is SUCH a weird fangirl-y thing to do but I honestly just can't bring myself to watch it because then I will have seen all the Battlestar Galactica there is and that makes me unendingly sad…
🙁
So, er…have fun everyone! I'll be sitting this one out.
I've never seen it, either. Or the other movie. And I didn't know there were webisodes until Mark started watching them. I may end up sitting it out, too, for the same reason.
I've never seen Razor either, or the other movie. I want to watch this one, but I'm confused as to what version the liveblog is for.
I know the the thing I'm looking forward to, and I look forward to it with fantastic eagerness.
13 days Mark?! We had to wait 377and days between the end of season 3for and beginning of 4! It was terrible! Can’t wait to read your reactions. It’s so fun to read or hear a new fan’s thoughts! So not prepared!
Hi Mark, I discovered your site about a week ago, but I think it's awesome and am totally jumping onboard! I watched BSG as it aired, but I'm currently undergoing my first rewatch since the series finale. I'd just finished Crossroads and was searching for fan reactions to it when I discovered this place, and so decided I might as well watch at your pace! I love hearing new fans' reactions to this epic-and-amazing show. Also EVERYTHING ELSE you read and watch is either among my favorites or is on my list of stuff to read or watch! So yeah! You are so not prepared for Season 4!
I AM WATCHING THE ITUNES VERSION. IT IS ONE HOUR, FORTY-THREE MINUTES LONG.
OMG AN HOUR LEFT
OMG
I'm going to miss the liveblog to frolic in the snow 🙁 but have fun! You are not prepared 🙂
20 minutes! I'm currently thanking the gods of technology that my internet connection has been restored in time (it's been off all day for some unknown reason).
I'm going to be watching the Netflix version. 🙁 Sadtimes.
me too.
FIVE MINUTES!
*pulls self away from election coverage*
omg omg
GOOOOOOOO!!
Clock says 6 so, starting! Universal logo! WOO!
I loooooooove the opening monologue!
UNIVERSAL LOGO!
omg this is already so cool COULD YOU IMAGINE THIS IN A THEATER
That would be so frakking amazing.
It was. I saw it in a movie theater in Seattle before it aired on TV. Some actors and crew members were there. Bamber is a wee handsome man!
So envious…
Hi Stephanie Jacobsen and your lovely accent!
Back when they first discovered the Pegasus. Sigh, simpler times.
I'm always amazed at how young they all look.
I know! Sharon's locked up, Baltar's vice president, Roslin's between cancer…so much has changed.
OMG it's KNIFEPLAY!
omg i have so many feelings
Did they just kill off the Pegasus crew as quick as they could?
It's a bit slower than usual and we didn't get the actual words but this is a very effective Previously On.
Yay credits! *may be singing along as badly as humanly possible*
I know it's only been two weeks for me, but I MISS THESE CREDITS SO MUCH.
STARBUCK!
Aawww Lee and Kara being siblings. The good old days.
I miss Lee and Kara's relationship.
omg who is this beautiful woman
She is Kendra Shaw and she is my favorite forever. Sorry, Helo and Starbuck, you only get to tie for second.
Well, that looks painful.
ARGH NEEDLEINTHENECKNEEDLEINTHENECKNEEDLEINTHENECK
That's not an awkward place to inject yourself.
WTF IS SHE DOING
Awww intact Caprica. So pretty.
'Persistent insubordinate behaviour' Is she the Pegasus Starbuck?
oh shit caprica OMG
drugs FLASHBACK! standing and insubordination I LIKE THIS PERSON SOMEHOW DON'T JUDGE ME
LOVE THIS FLASHBACK
Awww, I love their explanation for how we've never before met this character, even though she's been there the whole time.
I'm a sucker for the pre-apocalypse in this show, aren't we all?
So say we all.
THAT SHIP IS HUGE
omg cain. OMG HOW I MISSED YOU.
HNG Steve Bacic, hiiiii
Cain actually seeming like a human being, thinking of visiting friends, it's amazing.
Mmmm, Pegasus XO is quite nice to look at.
HELENA!!!!!!!!
I wanna go Scorpio Paragliding! (Well, not really – I'm a bit terrified by heights. But I'd probably do it anyway.)
WHAT THE FUCK
Hey, another Australian to join Lucy Flawless in the cast!
HI GINA!!!!!!!!!!
I love this shot of the Raptor approacing, seeing the ship through the windshield (I'm sure there's a more space-y name for it).
Pegasus hangar deck looks in now way like the Galactica one with a few bits of decoration moved around *cough*
GINA! 🙁
I'm ten minutes behind everyone because I tried to download the iTunes version but it was like "lol 9 hours remaining" so I was like "fuck you I'm watching on netflix"
I mean like
you're ITUNES
have you ever heard of STREAMING
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Oh Gina 🙁 Nice tablet computer thingy. Super subtle last name btw girl.
Oh, Kendra – you figured out what her name means, and you still have no idea what it really means.
OMG SIX. I CAN'T EVEN DEAL
So how was your coffee?
These are my favorite lines everrrrrrr… in razor
sweet fucking christ.
I"m feeling a hell of a lot more sorry for myself.
Yup, Kendra is in fact the Alt-Starbuck.
HOSHI!
admiral cain you are destroying me
Hoshi! How I've missed you.
SHIT GOES DOWN @NOW
Hoshi! I love seeing the background characters some more.
DISASTER STRIKES!!!
SWEAT CLOSEUP!
And then nothing was beautiful and everything hurts
WELL SHIIIIIIT
Go Cain helping people back to their feet.
I love the camera and sound work in this sequence. So beautiful and other-worldly.
omg this is terrifying but THIS IS SO COOL TO FINALLY SEE
THE CGIIII!! Damn these are some nice disaster effects
Awww shit the blind jump
admiral cain apparently wasn't big on chairs
Meanwhile miniseries Galactica and preColonial One have no idea what's going on yet.
Just FRAKKING DO IT, LIEUTENANT!
GOOD GOD
Don't hold back just because I've got a pulse
Love that line.
"or the impression that your daddy just gave you a Battlestar, like he was tossing you the keys to a new car" heee I like her.
Love that 'Daddy handing you the keys to a new car' line. And, um…kind of true.
Go Lee!
OH SHIT.
awwww, gina was a techie!
Is it weird that I kind of want one of those Pegasus tees?
Go Kendra being scary XO
Love the gun sequence. Excuse the language, but I must make an exception here (first and last time, I promise) – Kendra is one stone-cold bitch.
OH. I LOVE YOU MAJOR SHAW.
The fact that she and Kara don't get along is so awesome… I mean, how many times has Kara not gotten along with people (Tigh, Kat) only become like besties/siblings/same people?
I love her.
'I didn't think it was possible for you to find an XO meaner than Saul'
cain sucks
Heee "99 bottles of Ambrosia"
Kendra, ILU
It's sad seeing Cain at her best given that we know how this all ends for her.
OMG I love this relationship already.
The upside down handset for speeches! Looks like it's standard fleet practice then.
man it doesn't matter how many times i see the missiles passing through empty space where a battlestar was a second ago, i never get sick of it
Despite her flaws, you can see that Cain just cared so much about her crew.
HOSHI'S ALIVE!
Love the contrast with Adama and Roslin choosing to run in the miniseries and now Cain making the choice to fight.
and then the So Say We All moment, <3
It's an interesting contrast. Pegasus goals in the aftermath of the attack were revenge and war while Galactica's were hope and survival.
pegasus didn't have a laura roslin.
Confession – I like Cain's motivation speech better than Adama's. There, I said it and I'm not ashamed.
I bet Adama's jealous of their 'So say we all' skills.