If you haven’t seen the video of him on Conan making the “wooo” noises in the racecar, you have to watch it. There’s no one video of it on YouTube, but if you watch a few of them, you’ll get the idea. Probably the funniest thing I’ve ever seen on late night TV.

Oh yeah, the reason I came here was to say that we don’t know how long the break is going to be and neither do the producers of the show. It could be one month or 10 months. And we also know that the writers have recently decided the fate of the characters.
http://www.syfyportal.com/news424122.html

He could even still be Captain James Tiberius Kirk. After being sucked into the Nexus in “Star Trek Generations” multiple versions of theKirk were materialised in various parts of the universe, minus their memory. The Kirkoids would include one who emerged a couple of hundred years previously in another quadrant of the Galaxy, to land in a barrel of cylo-goo to be hailed by the welcoming committee as Cylonicus Rex. Simultaneously another variant found himself in a Law office in Boston with his memory gone, a symptom assumed to be Alzheimers’ by his peers. So BSG Series IV can reunite these diverse threads, …and Lee Adama can get a season or two on “Boston Legal”. All this would have to be in a parallel (or is that a paralegal?) universe of course, and the Star Trek Next Gen crew would need to rescue all the dispersed Kirks. Perhaps with Data working out a “just be nice to each other” deal between the Cylons and the Colonials.

I will take my pills now.

How about a remake of “Alf” where the alien is actually terrorizing the family and the entire first season is a race for them to get out of the house while avoiding being picked off, one by one?

Or a remake of L.A. Law where the lawyers are all wacky nutjobs and William Shatner is one of the partners…(oh, wait)

http://www.dirkbenedictcentral.com/home/articles-readarticle.php?nid=5

There was talk during season one, according to the podcast/commentary on one of the “Kobol’s Last Gleaming” episodes that as Baltar enters the opera house on Kobol he comes through a dark tunner guided by a strange voice. When the lights come on, it is because someone has lit a cigar revealing Dirk Benedict who says, “Hello Gaius. I’m God.”

I’m so glad they didn’t go THAT direction!

Maybe as Starbuck’s dad or maybe as one of Tom Zarrick’s chief lieutenants who turns against Tommy Z.

In the old series Starbuck found his dad in the fleet. I think he was a gambler who abandoned Starbuck as a child but who managed to survive the attack and young Starbuck (Dirk) found dear old Dad whilst gambling in the fleet. Wikipedia has a synopsis of the episode called “The Man With Nine Lives” (here). The role was played by Fred Astaire. According to wiki, whether Fred Astaire (a.k.a. ‘The Chameleon’) was actually Pop Starbuck wasn’t ever really decided.

The whole ‘who was Starbuck’s dad’ thing seems a thread ready for exploration in Series 4. I used to think Tigh would be a good surprise dad for Starbuck. After all it’s not that far fetched to imagine a young Ellen Tigh giving up their baby for adoption whilst Tigh was away fighting the first Cylon War. Perhaps completely unaware of Ellen’s pregnancy. Ellen may even have thought someone other than Tigh was the father. This would seem a plausible approach. It would make Starbuck the first, and perhaps most important, Hylon, and the rest of the Cylon collective wouldn’t know about it as Tigh didn’t. At the same time Starbuck’s adopted mother may have been part-psychic part-seer and this ‘chose’ bubba Starbuck. And then there are the personality similarities between Ellen and Starbuck. It would also be a great way to bring Ellen back into the series even if only in historical flashbacks etc.

You laugh.

Chuck, you still got that audio I sent you way back when?

They are having trouble with Dirk Benedict’s (“Actor, Author, Director, Woodchopper, Dad”) lawyers. Series Four basically hangs around the revelation of who is the Fifth and Final Cylon.

So ipso facto quid pro quo ergo hoctor proc e pluribus unum hocus pocus a character to be played by Dirk Benedict (“Actor, Author, Director, Woodchopper, Dad”) will most likely be the Final Cylon.

My guess Dirk (“Actor, Author, Director, Woodchopper, Dad”) will be introduced as Starbuck’s long lost father.

The legal problem is probably that Dirk (“Actor, Author, Director, Woodchopper, Dad”) has signed up for a long series of personal appearances at Wizard World, along with (or so it is rumored) the original Under-dog and the original Boxie. (”The New Originals”).

So the BSG production team and the Sci-Fi Channel will just have to wait their turn. Personally I just can’t wait for them to bring back the Dirk.

More Dirk Trivia, thanks to his website: “He gave himself the last name Benedict after eating a plate of Eggs Benedict”. Thank the gods he didn’t order ham and eggs that morning…

13: Yeah, me too. Though I am an apologist for the prequels, I do think that Lucas is a better producer than he is a writer/director. He should let others play in his universe more often (I think an interesting way to do a SW tv show would be to do it as different, limited story arcs in different formats each half-season or so. Maybe have a six week arc related to secondary characters told from a gritty perspective, then another, perhaps shorter arc that’s funny, then maybe a couple of one-shots all told in different syles like animation, realistic, gritty, surreal, etc. Kind of like a televised version of the Star Wars Tales comic book. But then, I’m not a TV producer…).

Armando- I’m totally counting my chickens before they hatch when it comes to the SW tv shows. And hopefully they’ll hire a good mix of writers, including ones from BSG. They’re planning to start hiring writers this winter. I’m curious to see who is the show runner. George has an incredible imagination and I think when they take that and a handful of solid writers, we’ll have a fun show.

Oh, yes, in response to the last podcast and Chewie dying… LIES, all lies! And the Yuuzahn Vong bit is absolutely ridiculous (no Force?!). I wish they could wipe the slate clean from the EU. As the SNL line goes, “Don’t get me started, don’t even get me started!”

After finally encountering TWiT.tv’s vodcast known as MacBreak I would say that having a “Galactic Watercooler” would nicely complement some of the other offerings online. Of course, perhaps GWC could wind up on this station perhaps: http://www.kyouradio.com/

Let’s hold off on those Star Wars shows till they show up. They could totally suck (though I’ve heard Lucas is courting some of BSG’s writing staff as they wrap up their run, which would make for a very interesting take on Star Wars).

Timbuck- I think we’re all hoping that GWC outlives BSG. Ya know, there’s a few Star Wars shows on the way…

The Fleet will stumble across another planet previously inhabited by humans on their way to Earth. The planet known as “Fortran”. Starbuck will be sent back to Caprica by President Billy (he has been revived thanks to a Hylon blood transfusion) to retrieve the “Zipper of Zeus” which opens the “Fly of Flora” and thus the way to Earth. Admiral Kaylee and President Billy will split the fleet and civil war will erupt for the fourth time. Adama and Rosslyn have long since retired and are living together in a zero gravity love shack made out of cardboard boxes taped to the deck of the Virgon Express. Apollo and Tom Zareck now have their own Law Firm and live by raising nuisance law suits against on behalf of blinded customers of the “Tigh One On” Alcoholic Beverages Company. Baltar is still around and is now the fleet’s most famous movie producer. But just at the critical moment, when Apollo’s big Law Suit is about to send Tigh to the cleaners, in an episode tentatively entitled “Eraser”, a new BattleStar, actually a really really old one, will appear. It’s the Battlestar Monotonous, long thought lost forever during the First Cylon War. At the helm will be Starbuck’s dad (pictured here in uniform), Lord High Admiral Abel. The discovery of Abel and the Monotonous will set off all kinds of uncomfortableness in the fleet when it’s discovered that they’ve survived all these years by working with the Cylons, rubbing off all those unsightly finger marks from the toasters’ Chrome. By demonstrating that humans and Cylons can work together, and now armed with the Zipper of Zeus, the new combined fleet of Colonials and Cylons will now be psychically fit enough to reach Earth. They finally arrive and discover it’s ruled by intelligent monkeys with English accents who ride horses and answer to the name of Roddy McDowell. Stay tuned for “Planet of The Apes” (The Reimagined Series)…

More Dirk Trivia: “He gave himself the last name Benedict after eating a plate of Eggs Benedict”. And for the sake of intergalactic peace, the feministically inclined should not read this ever.

They have a plan alright. Make Watercooler stay on the job so we can keep enjoying these guys (and the cooooolest gal) month after month. They are the benchmark for no-original-material-to-comment-on yet still rock the podcast ‘verse nonetheless!

If S4.0 ends in April 08 and no more until Feb 09, that would be be like 36 extra weeks of between season commentary! That which shall not be named shall be renamed episode 4.10!

Poor Chuck! He may just do an all-fan opening to the cast out of sheer desperation. I like the fan intros!

4.5 in 09? Three words: more meet-ups!

Timbuck

Reason #0) The writers have to figure out a plan for the Cylons.

Please tell me that the 2009 thing is nothing but a nasty rumor. Don’t make me go up to Vancouver and pull out a can of One-Eyed Tigh (TM) on somebody.

In the end that whole switchover looks more like the plan of the Cylons as of season 3 than anything else…

Kirk, you should know that ALL women get sexier with age. ALL of them. (Don’t agree? Try asking your mom what she thinks.)

Why would they do this to me!! I can’t till 2009 for the end of the frakking serries. I’m loing it NOW just waiting for it to come back on air.

Hey does #1 (Three words about the women in BSG: Sexier with age.) apply to ALL the women of BSG, cause a few of them are already up there in age. Don’t think they can get sexier with age. Maybe a little more wrinklier.

“Son, when shaving you must be extremely careful. Especially when using the Cylon force. If you’re not careful you could take an ear off. And I won’t let you have a new body until you’ve learned how to be a proper force shaving Cylon so don’t even ask.”

I love this one if you couldn’t tell.

As to HD-DVD, DVD or Blue Ray, the now defunct DVDjournal.com has a great article, its farewell posting, addressing the history of DVD and the future. Indeed, I think it’s best to sit back and wait till the dust settles on the so-called format war.

Ya know, that would make sense. If the shift from analog TV to HDTV does not happen all that nicely there could be a real mess. Considering the proposed split discussed above…holding off until that craaaaaaaaaaaaap settles might not necessarily be a bad thing.

I wonder if SciFi is going to call it Season 4 and Season 5. That way, RDM could get the 5 seasons that he planned from the start. lol And at that rate, we’ll get the DVDs by the year 2012.

Who knows? Maybe all this time is being spent re-encoding the first three seasons to HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, or what have you so that a canon collection could be released once the final season concludes?