Mark and Michael take a look at the ninth episode of Battlestar Galactica (1978), "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero: Part 2." From IMDB's description, "Apollo and Starbuck lead a group of convicts on a possible suicide mission to destroy the cannon, which is located on an icy planet."

If you'd like to watch the episode prior to listening to our breakdown, it can be found here.

Here are some things we mention during the episode:

• Regardless of what crazy term Michael tries to come up with for him (MICHAEL'S NOTE: "Darling" is a crazy term? I feel for Mark's wife.), yes, Donald P. Bellisario IS the creator of Quantum Leap as well as a ton of other hit TV shows: Magnum P.I., JAG, NCIS, Airwolf. Props to him for doing all that PLUS writing on BSG. Also, he created a lot of shows with initialisms in their titles.
• The debate continues: did BSG rip off Star Wars more or vice-versa? Lucas seemed to have "borrowed" a LOT of scenes from the sequels that we're seeing in BSG.
• Following up on last week’s review of Justice League (2017), initial reviews of Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021) are generally very positive.
• Michael is finally getting around to going through the MCU, and doing it in chronological/thematic (rather than release) order. Want to do the same? With few people going to the theaters, the good people at AMC apparently have more time on their hands and put together this guide, which actually came out just BEFORE everything shut down last spring so maybe they were getting a jump on what people should watch when stuck at home (MICHAEL'S NOTE: Pretty sure they "borrowed" a lot of this like they're George Lucas from this Reddit poster.). Next up in the MCU is the long-awaited Black Widow solo movie, currently scheduled for a May 7th release (after being pushed back from summer 2020 due to the pandemic). Also The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, the MCU’s 2nd TV miniseries since being acquired by Disney, is currently “airing” on Disney+ with the first two episodes now out and two left to go.
• "Surprise” actors in Captain America: The First Avenger like Hugo Weaving (Lord of the Rings, The Matrix) and Tommy Lee Jones (all sorts of movies, least notably one of the lesser Batman films mentioned in last week’s show notes, Batman Forever)
• Now that Disney is determined to oversaturate the market, lots more actors are showing up in the Star Wars universe as they’re making more movies and TV shows. Breaking Bad’s “Gus" (Giancarlo Esposito) got an Emmy nomination playing Moff Gideon in The Mandalorian, and one of Michael's favorite standup comedians, Bill Burr, played Migs Mayfield in the same Star Wars series.
• Mark is incorrect about there being 30 “headliner” actors by the time of Avengers: Infinity War. It’s actually 27 actors listed on the poster in the credits block. Which is still ridiculous.
• Jurassic Park comes up a few times. While the movie is a classic, if you never read the original book by Michael Crichton, give it a read. Like many books adapted into movies, there’s a lot more detail and interesting subplots that were excised to chop it down to a two hour movie.
• German rocket scientist Werner von Braun was so consumed with pushing rocketry technology forward that he kept doing so regardless of what uses it was put to. There’s actually an old Tom Lehrer song about him that actually captures this attitude pretty well.
• Futurama demonstrates how to avoid a space blockade. We're darned if we can remember which episode it’s in. Let us know if you remember!
• The end of this episode is basically the ending of Return of the Jedi (which--again--came out AFTER this, George, you thief) just not done as well.

The NBC app and website has foiled us again. It doesn't appear possible to watch our next planned episode, "The Magnificent Warriors." We'll try to figure it out, or you can dig out that old boxed set that you have to watch it prior to next week's episode. If our plans have to change due to NBC being garbage, we'll let you know!

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