Supanova Perth 2014 Review - Day 1

This weekend Supanova hit Perth with force and convention goers came out in droves despite the bad weather. There was plenty of cosplay, plenty to spend your money on and plenty of fun. Your Fruitless Pursuits Perth crew were there to check it out and report some of the highlights!

Follow me under the cut for a re-cap of Day 1 including Jamie Bamber (Battlestar Galactica, Hornblower, Law and Order UK), John Barrowman (Doctor Who, Torchwood, Arrow) and Katie Cassidy (Supernatural, Arrow).

Music and Television: My 10 Most Memorable Musical Moments in Television

I’ve been researching a lot of music recently and discovered that there predominantly I am exposed to new music through my television viewing rather than the radio (unless it’s local music).

Music in television has a powerful affect on the viewer and often makes a scene that could have been good absolutely brilliant.

I’ve put together a list of my 10 favourite musical moments in shows that I love. Some of these moments have been hugely emotional in their respective shows and changed the course of the plot and certainly the character development moving forward. Some are lighter moments or include credit sequences that set the mood of the show and make you excited to watch.

Many of these shows have really great musical soundtracks in case you are keen for some new music!

Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome

Oh the good times are here...

Are you ready for this?

Hail, Yeah...

Merks recent post of a video about Battlestar Galactica got me thinking.

I call him 'Merks' as if he is my best friend and I have known him all my life. I have never met Timothy, have no idea who he is really, and I'm sure he's very cool, I hear good things about him, his posts are great, but we don't know each other at all.

That's the nature of being a 'contributor' on a site like this. You are part of a whole, and on this here Internet, it can often be a whole lotta strangers. Funky, right? Not as funky as this.

I had planned to make this blog about LOST, but when I was pretty much done writing the blog, something came up before I could go in and spell-check it and put the finishing touches on it. So I took a break from what I was doing and hit the showers.

As I was soaping up, NAKED, thinking of Timothy, Luke and all the other GUYS on this site, I decided to totally change it up. I'll say what I wanted about LOST another time.

Especially since if I write that a post about Battlestar Galactica got me thinking, um...shouldn't it stand to reason that I be writing about BATTLESTAR GALACTICA?!?

So instead, I think I'll just point out that we should all take a moment on this Christmas Eve, this OH SO HOLY time of year, to remember that horrifying bullet that, thanks to Ronald Moore, we all, thankfully, dodged.



MERRY FRAKKIN' CHRISTMAS!

OUT.

Battlestar Galactica x Portlandia

Yep... we've all been there.  I think I watched the first season in one sitting in front of my computer haha. I watched up to the last few episodes but before I finished the series I introduced my partner to it and started again. I think we used to watch up to 4 eps a night after work. We would come home, cook dinner, have a shower then sit down on the couch to eat and watch BSG. I always wondered if the neighbours would get sick of hearing the intro "DUM DUM DUM DUM BRRR BRAHHHH" at 1 o'clock at night.

Oh and the hole left inside people when they finish the series! It's funny every now and then someone gets around to watching the show and you see their facebook status update to "I'm having Battlestar Galatica withdrawals are there any more eps?" and all you can reply is "Well there's Caprica... but it's not the same" 

I'm not sure what Portlandia is about though but this was a pretty good sketch