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IFC’s Portlandia once ran a classic sketch called “One More Episode,” in which Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen play Battlestar Galactica fans who become so addicted that they recruit a local man (whom they wrongly believe to be BSG writer Ronald D. Moore) and several cast members to make another installment of the show. The result is a hilarious, loving tribute, an imagined BSG with dialogue like, “I need you here! Now get out of here!” Today on YouTube, the Machinima channel, working in concert with original BSG home SyFy, premiered the first two installments of Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome, a prequel that’s been a couple of years in the works. For BSG fans and completists, the new material is an entertaining enough reminder of the old days. (The remaining webisodes will complete the “pilot” of Blood and Chrome, which will come out next year on DVD; it’s still unclear whether the project has a future as a regular series.) As an actual piece of television: let’s say it’s somewhere between actual BSG and the Portlandia version. The premise and narrative are simple and straightforward. In the early years of the Cylon War, a young William Adama (Luke Pasqualino) enlists in the war effort, eager to fly a Viper and “kill toasters.” Instead, he finds himself first assigned to “drive a bus”–flying a clunky Raptor on errand missions–in support of a war effort that is not going as well as advertised. As he reluctantly heads off on his less-than-glorious mission, we see the horrors of the war through his eyes. In a voiceover at the outset, young Adama says of the Cylons: “There’s a lot of debate about why they hate us, but in the end, does it really matter?” That captures much of the spirit of Blood and Chrome so far; unlike in BSG, the Cylon perspective is absent, and the story is much more action-oriented. Of course, in BSG, “why they hate us” mattered indeed; it was one of the things that made BSG among the most
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Posted: November 9th, 2012
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