Giant Freakin Robot

This is such an obvious, and obviously good, idea for a parody that I’m surprised it hasn’t been done before now. A group of Battlestar Galactica fans have gotten together and filmed a Battlestar themed version of Cee Lo Green’s kind of awesome song “Fuck You”. Except, of course, it’s battle star so they say “Frak You!” while singing about Adama and Starbuck. It’s kind of great.

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The song is apparently sung from the viewpoint of Anders, who more than just about anyone on the ship, definitely has cause to shout “frak you!” in Starbuck’s general direction. The video is pretty well done for a first effort, which apparently this is.

Science fiction films and television programs are heavily dependent on computer generated images to convey the fantastic worlds and technology they depict. Those images, in turn, are dependent upon skilled and creative digital and effects artists who, like all artists, keep portfolios of their work. Sometimes those portfolios end up on the internet and we getting a stunning look at the work of the artists, as with Alec McClymont’s .

McClymont has served as a digital and effects artist on a number of film and television shows, ranging from The Santa Clause 2 and Chronicle to the Babylon 5 movies, and Andromeda. He hosts an online gallery with ultra-high-res, stunning images like these from Babylon 5: The Lost Tales…

When I was in High School I couldn’t watch Battlestar Galactica because my parents were too poor to afford cable. And even if I’d wanted to watch it, I was too busy working my part-time job after school so that I could afford to put gas in my beat-up 1978 Oldsmobile and buy clothes. Here’s a bunch of well-off high school kids who not only have cable, they have the resources to construct their own Battlestar Galactica, Viper flight simulator out of an old airplane cockpit in their garage. But will they be able to finish installing high-def video monitors in time for Maker Faire? Ah, rich kid problems.

My issues with envy aside, what this bunch of rich kids have going on is pretty cool. They’re on Week 23 of their project and they have 55 days left to go. Here’s an overview of what they’ve done so far along with their newest video detailing the construction of their Viper simulator…

The Viper Promo

Earlier today we showed you the amazing trailer for Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, a 90-minute pilot made for the SyFy Channel with the hopes of convincing them to turn the BSG spin-off into a series. Now that everyone is excited about the show, SyFy has wasted no time in telling us all to forget it.

The series was supposed to be a prequel to the popular, Ron Moore produced series from earlier in this decade. It would have followed the adventures of Adama as a young fighter pilot, with the callsign of Husker. But SyFy tells Deadline that they will not go forward with Blood & Chrome. It’s dead, even though thousands of people have been tweeting and asking them to make this thing happen.