For source: http://www.hollywoodnorthreport.com/article.php?Article=1497
Kuralyov 17:09, 8 Jul 2005 (EDT)
- http://www.hollywoodnorthreport.com/article.php?Article=1756 Kuralyov 20:03, 19 September 2005 (EDT)
Director
Alan Smithee is not a real person. --Peter Farago 18:26, 16 November 2005 (EST)
- Just a joke placeholder name; other pages had "suchandsuch" and "whoisit" etc for stuff so I just put in a placeholder. Besides, Mr. Smithee has brought us such wonderful works as the excellent 1984 adaptation of "Dune" and the animated 1978 Lord of the Rings. --Ricimer 21:32, 16 November 2005 (EST)
- I think we should leave it blank until we know. What if a director really wants his name removed from an episode at some point? --Peter Farago 10:16, 17 November 2005 (EST)
- Reminds me of this Eric Idle movie "Burn Hollywood Burn"; basically, he's the director of what's going to be the biggest movie of the decade...and also the biggest flop. It's got a gigantic special effects budget (like 3 disaster movies and 3 action movies roled into one). It's called "Trio" and it stars the action 'trio' of Slyvester Stallone, Jackie Chan, and Whoopi Goldberg (I kid you not, they actually appear in this thing; yeah, a gun-toting Whoopi Goldberg). Well, the idea behind "Allen Smithee" is it's an unusual made up name no one would really have, so that when a hollywood studio so butchers a director's project that it is A) not his creative vision at all and he was completely cut off from it and B) it would be career suicide to be associated with such a flop. Eric Idle's character the director of Trio who really has no control over it whatsover as the studio writers and execs are calling the shots (they put him in charge of camerawork and little else), so when he finally sees the finished rough cut he declares "It's worse than Showgirls!" and demands for it to be an "Allen Smithee production". Problem is, through blind luck Eric Idle's character's real name is "Allen Smithee"! And according to the director's guild rules the only name you can replace as director for the film is "Allen Smithee". So he goes berserk and steals the rough cuts of the film and hides them so the film can never be shown (it was a movie-in-a-movie thing about everyone trying to get the movie back). Dear god, the descriptions of "Trio" were like sitting in on a Berman and Braga writing session; Whoopi and Jackie's characters die in the end, while Stallone's character gets a sex change. However, Jackie Chan was so adamant that in his movies his character never dies that eventually they compromised by saying that his character does die, but gets reincarnated. Sort of like the old "We can never have enough time travel or parallel universes on Star Trek!" routine they pulled on us.--Ricimer 12:17, 17 November 2005 (EST)
New Template
Oh, that thing is SAWEEET! --Watcher 18:06, 6 January 2006 (EST)
- Ain't it? Thank Joe--it was a last minute project he launched on us today. We've all been tinkering the afternoon away with it. --Spencerian 19:50, 6 January 2006 (EST)
Speculation
Could the "Resurection Ship" refer to a ship where the conciousness of Humano-Cylons are transferred into new bodies? --Deadlygopher 21:58, 6 January 2006 (EST)
- Welcome to the Wiki. I'm sorry, but we have known this for months. Please check around --23:32, 6 January 2006 (EST)
Analysis not Review
Spencerian wrote:
- "This episode fails to skip a beat from the mid-season closer. With Galactica's and Pegasus Vipers in a scary game of chicken, the level of tension borders on the "fish in a blender" scenario. Admiral Cain is clearly showing signs of stress indicate of some kind of sociopathic disorder; her orders and desire to follow the military way overshadow any compassion or understanding of the reality of her situation. She fails to understand that killing Helo and Tyrol worsens the Fleet, as she cannot simply find a suitable replacement.The star of this show, albeit briefly appearing, is Mary McDonnell's Roslin. Like her namesake Blackbird itself, Roslin shows her toughness in staring down Cain and Adama, who actually looks ashamed in his actions while Roslin reads both "the riot act." Were not for the situation, Roslin's second talk with Adama, maybe the first time that Roslin does not appear with Adama in regular clothing, very casual, and obviously ill, seemed more like two old friends. Adama does something viewers have rarely seen with Roslin--his face relaxes and shows humor, sympathy, perhaps even sadness at Roslin's illness and her strength in looking her illness in the face and denying it anyway. He offers his hand and she accepts with a squeeze before she leaves. It seems in this moment that Roslin and Adama exchanged more romantic chemistry than the writer's attempts to do the same with Adama's son and Kara Thrace.Baltar was generally neutral in this episode, playing both sides, Adama and Cain, Colonial and Cylon, to the advantage of all. His motives in saving Gina are still in doubt, and viewers are likely to see more development here.Pilot Louanne Katraine has apparently got her groove back from "Final Cut", appearing to have become the lead pilot on Galactica (with Thrace's transfer) and becoming the top bird in their game of chicken with Pegasus pilots. She's confident, flying well, and has an itchy firing trigger finger.Viewers are likely more interested not in the upcoming battle, now a more evenly matched fight between Colonial and Cylon (all things considered--basestars generate Raiders like rabbits generate offspring), but in the battle for control of the Fleet, with both Adama and Cain performing similar strategies to kill the other."
"Analysis" is for making detailed, point by point observations, criticisms, speculations etc. It is not a "Review", which is more what you wrote seems like. --Ricimer 00:13, 7 January 2006 (EST)
General Comments
Wow. Did anyone else find Kara and Cain's relationship kind of spooky? I'd like to make mention of their connection on the page but I'm not sure how to word it... --Redwall 00:24, 7 January 2006 (EST)