Battlestage Theatrica – Details, episodes & analysis

Well Happy Frakkin Friday folks! The time has finally come, after twenty years of friendship, Steve has finally gotten Chester, famous for the "History Loves Company" podcast and Visions of the Outside World, to sit down and watch the sci-fi "classic" Battlestar Galactica '04, and then act it out! Everyone knows you cannot just sit two theatre majors down to watch a tv show without them turning it into an audition reel. Enjoy!

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"Be Pre-PAAAAAAAIRED!" for another episode of Battlestage Theatrica where Steve takes Chester on his first journey through 2004's reimagined Battlestar Galactica after he's watched it several dozen times.

This week the boys are drinking beer out of the Galactica Top Gun Stein itself and reveling in their personal victories.

Speaking of personal victories, this Sunday I'll be setting up another booth at an artisan market Wallflowr Market LA, at All Season Brewing in downtown Los Angeles. Once a Firestone Tire shop, it has been converted into a craft brewery and a skeeball joint. Come on out Sunday Aug 31 from 12 to 5 and se what all the fuss is about.

Obviously we couldn't decide between a Leelock Holmes title or a Law and Order: BSG title... so we did both.

Happy Frakkin Friday folks, as you'll soon hear, we had to watch Black Market twice. Somehow, our original recording was lost to the ether; maybe a cylon virus wiped it out? Either way, we had to watch the most downtrodden episode twice, its usually one I skip on a rewatch, and you know what.... I had a great frakkin time! So I hope you do to. The proof is in the pudding, given its our longest episode to date because we were having too much damn fun!

Yeah... you heard me. This week we get into an episode called The Farm, where Starbuck is shot in the street, abducted from her loved ones who have no idea what happened to her or if she's even alive, taken to an unknown holding facility, and held without her consent because reasons. Oh, I suppose from the Cylon point of view, she's a criminal who invaded their home illegally even though they now occupy it by means of genocide.

Wow! Good thing this is fiction, right? Frakking hell.

Anyway, and LA listeners that would like to come out and meet us, I'll have a booth for my art and woodworking via ART IN THE ALLEY on Sunday, June 22nd at Enegren Brewing.  444 Zachary St # 120, Moorpark, CA 93021 enegrenbrewing.com⁠ and on June 28th I'll have another booth with the Wallflower Market in Glendale. 10% of all vendor profits from that market go to charity, specifically those effected by ICE.

Happy Frakkin Friday Folks! Are you ready to get your frak on? Because while LA is burning through its own Resistance (Seriously, Frak ICE, deplorable sons of whores), Battlestar Galactica had its own Resistance on multiple fronts. From fighting and frakking toasters, to resisting martial law (Good gods, how is it this episode came out during this time? we recorded this in February! There's no intentional correlation! what the ever loving frak?!?!)

**sigh** this week on Battlestage Theatrica, I continue walking Chester through the show I should have made him watch when we were in our formative years. Its okay, we're still young! Though after covid, the strikes, the fires, and now The Bell Riots (yeah, I frakking said it!!) I really am starting too feel old. I shouldn't feel this old!

That's right folks, this Frakkin Friday Chester learns that Starbuck and Bo Katan are in fact played by the same actress, Katte Sackhoff, who ironically is not even this fine episode of television. Unlike Battlestar Galactica, Star Wars is something Chester watched all on his own! So he should have known better.... send your hate mail to battlestagetheatrica@gmail.com to express your profound disappointment in him!

Happy Frakkin Friday Folks! Season Two continues in this part 2 of a To Be Continued... Probably didn't need to specify that, but who cares? I'm running on no sleep!

This week we tackle Valley Of Darkness which is basically Die Hard in space only the villains have no brilliant dialogue! You hear that Jesse from Open Pike Nite... Die Hard! **mic drop**

Any Los Angeles locals listening, tomorrow, 5/30/2025, I will have a booth of all my nerdy woodworking and art set up at the Old Agoura Flea Market in the AM and the 818 Night Market in the (you guessed it) PM! come on by, mention the podcast and I'll award you with a FREE piece of BSG woodworking! just a little thank you for listening and supporting! So Say We All!!!

Happy Frakkin Friday folks! The wait is over! Commander Adama is not dead... but hes not quite back yet either. Lets see how well Colonel Tigh steers the ship and how Chester handles seeing Scatterbrained for the first time! we're back for season 2 and all I can say is Buckle Up

for my local listeners, next weekend May 31, 2025 I'll have a booth with all my woodworking and artsy wares at the Old Agoura Flea Market (in the high school parking lot) so swing by, meet us, and support small business.

also, correction, I ended up on the Nemesis episode of Greenshirt, which was still a lot of fun, but instead of singing my praises for Insurrection, I tore Nemesis apart.

"Life here began out there!" This line of dialogue transcends the generations, as it is quoted by two men who portrayed Commander Adama, Edward James Olmos and Lorne Greene.

Today, we put a spin on that quote, for our podcast here began back then. While we let Commander Adama recover from Kobol's Last Gleaming, join us on a look back at Battlestar Galactica 1978, with a special twist. Unlike most episodes that Steve has scene a dozen times, this one is just as new since he hasn't seen it since he was a kid!

If you tried listening on Friday, there was a sound issue... that I have now fixed! please carry on with your listening pleasure

You know what's better than one episode of Battlestar Galactica? TWO EPISODES OF BATTLESTAR GALACTICA... and subsequently, only one episode of Battlestage Theatrica.

Happy Frakkin Friday you fine frakkin folks, this show about remembering the past 20 years takes a slightly more fresh turn as we remember last December and the splitting hangover's we had and all the family we had the next day. Therefore, you get a double feature episode (it'll be the last one, I promise).

Join me as I watch Chester watch Boomer SHOOT COMMANDER ADAMA IN THE CHEST and then cut to black! This is like the Walking Dead all over again... well, technically TWD was BSG all over again... you get the point.

To let this scene marinate, next week we'll have a special episode where we take Chester back in time to 1978 and watch the original Battlestar Galactica 1978! stay tuned