Sorry I’m a bit late, but the August edition of the Blackjack Fairgrounds Jericho blog carnival has posted.

The theme this month is “Happenins in the Jericho Fandom.”

So mosey on over and check it out.

And remember: No guns, thieves will be strung up, and be sure to leave before nightfall!

I’ve been so far behind in my Jericho blogging that it’s not even funny.

Fortunately, the Blackjack Fairgrounds blog carnival has been resurrected and is hosted by Jane at The Monster.

So I’ll skip the articles that are in the carnival and just share other things I’ve come upon:

• Lost the link for this, but the upcoming series Crash, on Starz (based on the movie of the same name) snagged two Jerichoians for its cast. Clare Carey (Mary Bailey) plays “Christine, a mother living in Brentwood and married to a successful real estate developer” and D.B. Sweeney (Goetz – boo!)  plays “Peter Emory, a real estate developer, husband to Christine and father to a teenage daughter.” If you know the article/post this came from, please let me know and I’ll hyperlink it.

• Also lost the exact link on this, but the SunHerald.com had an article about Scrabble celebrating its 60th anniversary with a big old celebrity charity game in which Skeet Ulrich was among those who advanced to the finals. See, he has brains in real life, too.

• Brad Beyer (Stanley Richmond) and Ashley Scott (Emily) are up for doing a Jericho feature movie if the opportunity were to arise and a third season were definitely out of the question.

Photo courtesy of CBS. 

After I ended the Blackjack Fairgrounds Jericho blog carnival, Gwen over at JKI (Jericho Kansas Inc.) offered to take over ownership and I gladly accepted. So the Fairgrounds have reopened for business!

Here’s the note from Gwen about the carnival:

For those of you who have not heard of a Blog Carnival, it is a collection of links about a particular subject.

Blackjack Fairgrounds is looking for submissions that are of interest to Jericho fans. These submissions can be announcements, articles, blog entries, discussions, fan fiction, humor or anything else that might interest a Jericho fan.

As long as you can provide a link you can submit it!

The submission deadline is June 25th, and the current edition of Blackjack Fairgrounds will open on June 30th.

Submissions can be made here or you can e-mail blackjack@jerichojki.com.

Blackjack Fairgrounds is also looking for hosts. If you want Blackjack Fairgrounds to come to your corner of the Jericho fandom, then offer to host one of the road show editions. Our host for the June road show edition is The Monster.

Thanks, Gwen. Remote Access will continue to be a FOBF (Friend of Blackjack Fairgrounds), and I’ll be posting each month to let you know that it’s posted.

Photo courtesy of CBS. 

I can’t believe it’s going to be another six months — at least — before we get to see the final half of the final season of one of the best shows ever to hit the small screen.

So, sadly, this is the final So Say We All blog carnival of 2008. Sigh. This half-season went waaaay too fast, but at least it had an incredible ending.

I have more to ponder about last week’s amazing mid-season finale, but I’m not quite sure what I want to say about it yet, so I’ll just get right to this week’s submissions.

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Welcome to the weekly So Say We All: The Battlestar Galactica Blog Carnival.

An excellent penultimate episode of the first half of the last season. Wow. That was a mouthful.

Yes, I am extremely sad to say, this Friday’s episode, Revelations, is the mid-season finale. No word yet on when the second half will be aired, but conventional wisdom has it at next spring. I might have an aneurysm before then.

I don’t even know if we’ll find out the Final Cylon before the break. I don’t believe we will.

OK, I’ll stop blabbing now and share with you the carnival entries:

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So, despite the fact that I have absolutely no free time anymore, I’ve managed to find the time to ponder and come up with a totally out there Final Five theory that is probably totally wrong and is based on a guess Aaron Douglas has that he mentioned in this interview.

After my insane ramblings, stay tuned for the weekly So Say We All: The Battlestar Galactica Blog Carnival.

We’ve wondered for a while now where the whole idea of “All this has happened before and will happen again” comes from. What does it mean?

What if the Final Five are actually the Original Five?

What if the Final Five have not merely been to Earth but are from Earth?

What if the Final Five were created by Earthlings in the Diaspora and set out across the Universe to find the other 12 Colonies after a huge war between the Humans and the Earth Cylons?

They’re different, and yet the same.

My view is thoroughly bleak, but it’s perfectly in keeping with the series, which has been as bleak as it’s been brilliant.

Once upon a time, Cylons were created by man. They evolved. They rebelled.

And at the end of a devastating war, the ragged remnants of humanity fled across the universe to escape the Cylons, who pursued them.

They settled on a planet called Kobol, then eventually settled in the 12 Colonies. In time, the story somehow got turned around; Earth was the lost colony and became a beacon of hope to a newly defeated humanity.

The Cylons who had pursued them somehow programmed themselves or were programmed (OK, this is where it sort of breaks down a bit) by someone to go dormant, basically become human, until such time as they needed to be reawakened.

Which is now.

So, whaddya think? Am I completely insane? Would a good, long vacation on the Mediterranean do wonders for my mental state?

With that, I bring you So Say We All, after the break.

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I am sorry to say that this edition will be the last of the Blackjack Fairgrounds Jericho Blog Carnival.

As most of you know, I’ve begged, pleaded and cajoled people every two weeks since the blog carnival was revived to send in entries. But each time, none gets sent in until the last minute and even then, there’s a mere handful. In this two-week period, exactly one entry was sent in.

I don’t blame anyone. Life’s busy. You have more important things to do with your time than remember a silly blog carnival. Heck, last time around, I didn’t have time to submit an entry! And the guest hosts — Anna, Margie & Edna and kricka — all did stellar jobs when their turn came. I even had two more guest hosts lined up.

But I fear that although the interest in reading a carnival is still there, the interest in keeping it going is not. If anyone disagrees and would like to take over ownership of the carnival, please e-mail me and I would be happy to transfer ownership of the carnival.

Anyway, there’s been no lack of articles out there about Jericho, so after the one entry for this week’s carnival, I’ll post quickie notes on all the things I’d been saving up in my drafts folder:

fanshawe shared Blood, peanuts and the future of television posted at cinemarealm.com. The article is a long, articulate look at how television needs to figure out how to adapt to the new viewing habits and Nielsen is a dinosaur that has little relevance.

And here’s the stuff I’ve stumbled across in the past couple weeks:

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Welcome to this week’s So Say We All: The Battlestar Galactica Blog Carnival, for episode six, “Faith.”

Lots of good entries this week, thanks to all contributors. As usual, it’s all in the order I received it.

I’d planned to have a whole intro musing on Kara Thrace and her non-Cylonicity, but it was so long that I made it a separate post.

So here’s your bloggy goodness, and enjoy:

David Bird time warps us with his commentary on The Road Less Traveled, in Galactica Log: The Road Less Traveled posted at David Bird, giving us my favorite description, ever, of Gaius Baltar: “the swinging bachelor messiah.”

James Newberry is in love with President Roslin and discusses how this season of BSG has dealt with our reactions toward death in Bald is Beautiful posted at NewbSpeak. (By the way, James, I am SO with you on Anders. He shoulda just jammed his hand right into that interface.)

Norman Doering ponders what drugs Katee Sackhoff could be taking to inform her performance as someone pushed so far over the edge (just read it; he explains it better) and whether Roslin had the dream about the river because she knew Emily was dying or if she was really on the river, in Faith in the Heart of Darkness, posted at A Blog from Hell.

Len Neighbors explains why the crew of the Demetrius doesn’t believe in Starbuck — they don’t know she’s a main character, as we do —in Battlestar Galactica Commentary: 4.6, “Faith,” posted at Athens Exchange.

Paul Levinson sees the distance between the “good” Cylons and the humans receding, in Battlestar Galactica 4.6: Cylon on Cylon, posted at Paul Levinson’s Infinite Regress.

Roberta is left scratching her head, pondering more questions than ever before, in BSG – WTF?, posted at CouchSlobs – A Monument To Human Idleness.

MaryAnn Johanson presents ‘Battlestar Galactica’ blogging: “Faith” posted at FlickFilosopher.com.

And my insta-recap/analysis and today’s ponderance on Kara “Starbuck” Thrace.

Hosted this week by the lovely Erika/kricka on her blog, Short Story Life, the Blackjack Fairgrounds Jericho Blog Carnival continues to flourish.

Needless to say, we are quite excited by the prospect, as Erika is the funniest girl in the room and a fellow child of the ‘80s.

But we still need your help.

We have several entries already, but let’s step it up a bit, give Erika some WORK to do.

Please submit entries by clicking here and feel free to ask me any questions if you have them (in the comments below or by e-mailing me).

You can submit a blog entry, an article on a website, a forum thread link. Generally, we request that you submit only your own work, but if you see an article that you think really belongs in the carnival, submit it and just make it clear in the submission that you’re not the author so credit can be properly given.

I’m also looking for future guest hosts. Gwen at Jericho-Kansas.com is our next hostess with the mostest, coming up May 29. I’m seeking hosts for June 12 and 26.

Photo courtesy of CBS. 

It’s up and running, hosted this week by my partner in BSG crime, Len Neighbors at Athens Exchange. Enjoy.

Want to join in the fun next week? Click here to submit.

Thanks much to Anna at A Day in the Life for hosting this time ‘round.

Kansas weather, computer glitches and then real life all conspired to get in the way of getting the carnival posted by Thursday, but we finally are here to present it to you. Lots of good stuff, thanks to all for submitting articles —  yours and others’.

I may be moving the carnival to a monthly basis, and need to sort some things out about it, so stay tuned… But submissions for future carnivals can be made by clicking here.

Thanks again, Anna!

We had some amazingly in-depth analysis of this week’s Battlestar Galactica episode, “Escape Velocity.”

The title refers to the need for a spaceship to arrive at a certain speed before being able to achieve said escape velocity, i.e., what’s needed to escape the gravity of a planet and launch into space.

It’s a metaphor, I believe, for the show needing to build up some tension and exposition in order to start revealing things that are going to blow our minds.

We had: Baltar beginning to preach; Six beginning to sense something about Tigh; Tyrol beginning to allow himself to be himself; Tory beginning to be completely insane because she figures, what the hell, I’m a Cylon; the mystery of “Head” Six beginning to become even more mysterious; Tigh beginning to hallucinate his dead wife on Six’s body and beginning to want to have the pain of having killed her go away. By the end, these beginnings had achieved a sort of escape velocity and something’s gonna blow.

We had an outstanding episode this week, with “Escape Velocity” giving us not a heckuva lot of action but still giving us a heckuva lot of exposition. I was truly amazed at the depth of the analysis some folks gave the episode in entries we received this week, some from old hats at the carnival, others from newcomers.

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Thanks to Len Neighbors over at the Athens Exchange for hosting this week’s carnival.

Who doesn’t love a carnival? The funnel cake, cotton candy, Gravitron … Puking up funnel cake and cotton candy in the Gravitron …

Ah, I could go on.

But why waste your time on that, when you could be headed over to read all the Battlestar Galactica bloggy goodness in this week’s carnival?

Thanks to all for your contributions and let’s meet back here Friday night to discuss “Escape Velocity.” AndI will, once again, be your humble hostess for the next carnival (submit articles here).

Caprica Six and Tigh have some sort of meeting, so things should be interesting ………

Just a quick note:

The blog carnival has been postponed one day because the Blog Carnival website has been down and some folks haven’t been able to send in their entries.

If you are among them, feel free to e-mail me a link to your entry at avernon@lohud.com

For the rest of you, visit Athens Exchange tomorrow for the carnival, where it’ll post, rain or shine. I’ll post something here when it does go up, so check in.

Jericho’s oldest residents, Edna & Margie, so kindly agreed to host this week’s Blackjack Fairgrounds Jericho Blog Carnival, in their basement.

So please head on over there today to read what folks had to say about Jericho in the past couple of weeks and what Margie & Edna had to say about them.

Enjoy and the next carnival will be in two weeks (May 1) at A Day in the Life.

And thank you ever so much, ladies, for being such gracious hostesses!

An excellent carnival, with more entries than last week, a recap clip courtesy of SciFi, a cool widget you can grab for your site and lots of BSG bloggy goodness.

No favoritism! Entries are posted in the order I receive ‘em. Enjoy, comment, visit our carnival contributors’ blogs and come back next week for Volume 3!

Chase Me ponders who the final Cylon might be, in BSG & The Five? posted at Wantabetravelin’s Weblog.

Mike Moody asks an excellent question, Is Battlestar Galactica today’s Deep Space Nine? posted at SciFi Observer. Having been a fan of DS9, I think Mike makes some good points. DS9 should have gotten lots of love. Maybe the show should have had sexier robots? Hmm?

Len Neighbors’ weekly recap starts with an interesting look at ratings and how they can’t possibly represent reality, in Battlestar Galactica Commentary, Episode Two, “Six of One” posted at Athens Exchange. Amen, Len, amen.

Danijel ponders the lack of advanced technology in BSG and how that actually grounds the Colonials’/Cylons’ world more in our world and lifts it above being a mere space opera, in Looking Back: new “Battlestar Galactica” posted at CouchSlobs – A Monument To Human Idleness.

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I can’t say I was shocked that the consensus is to keep the Jericho blog carnival alive.

I can say I’m glad, though. And I appreciate all the folks who’ve volunteered to host the carnival int the coming weeks. I’m still finalizing the lineup for the next few carnivals, but the first one, of course, will be hosted by Margie & Edna, in their basement, next Thursday, April 17. The submission deadline will be 4 p.m. April 16.

Those of you who have volunteered who haven’t heard from me yet, do not fear, I’m just trying not to double-book anyone, so I’m going one at a time. I’m only on the second volunteer so far. All will get to host, and it’s much appreciated. I’ll be in touch to explain how it’ll work.

But the hard part comes next: Entries.

For those of you without blogs, we’re looking to you to help keep an eye out for good entries about Jericho. Urge those bloggers, posters, etc. to submit their entries, here. Entries don’t have to be completely about Jericho, but can also discuss the issue of television ratings, viewing habits and the like, so long as Jericho IS MENTIONED SOMEWHERE in the post.

If there’s an especially well-written or important post on any of the message boards (CBS boards, RFJ, Jeritopia, JerichoNet2, any others I’ve momentarily forgotten!), suggest that the poster submit that comment, even. If it’s on the Internet, it can be submitted. You just need a URL.

If you have any questions, send me an e-mail here or post a comment below.

Sometime last week when I wasn’t around, I got an e-mail from Blackjack Fairgrounds Jericho Blog Carnival stalwart Anna of A Day in the Life.

Even though Season 2 of Jericho is over, she asked, would the carnival continue?

Before that moment, to be honest, it hadn’t occurred to me to continue it. TV blog carnivals tend to post a few days after each new episode. During the off-season, the carnivals generally are on hiatus.

But I didn’t e-mail Anna back right away (well, four days later, when I finally got back to my e-mail), because I started thinking about it.

There’s a heckuva lot of Jericho news out there these days and a lot of interesting stuff being written.

So I’m game if you are.

Let me know in the comments under this post what you think. My main idea is that it would be every two weeks rather than every week.

But this is what I’ll need from you:

• Guest hosts. This basically entails being the host blog for the carnival each week. You have to read the submitted entries and post a sentence or two that sums them up. Check out Jane’s turn as guest host to get the idea. If you have a blog, livejournal or website of any kind, you can guest host. you’re interested, e-mail me.

• Entries! If you see an article that should be in the carnival, urge the writer to submit it. If you write an article about Jericho, submit it. I think we can expand the carnival to posts about the state of television ratings and the like, but those posts should still mention Jericho.

Share your thoughts, and if there’s enough interest, I’ll bring back the carnival. Fair?

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And here we are.

The first So Say We All: The Battlestar Galactica Blog Carnival.

Yeah, somehow we managed to wait until the last season to do this? Why is that, exactly?

Well, better late than never, as they say.

For a nascent carnival, we got a healthy five contributors. Anyone who wants to join in the fun next week can simply hit the “submit post” link over there on the right in the Blog Carnival icon. All are welcome (but only articles relevant to Battlestar Galactica will be posted!). The weekly deadline is 10 a.m. the Tuesday after each new episode airs.

Enough about that. Let’s get on to the good stuff!

Len Neighbors gives us his usual unique take on the situation in Battlestar Galactica Commentary: Season Four Premiere, “He That Believeth In Me” posted at Athens Exchange TV Blog. See if you catch the Ender’s Game reference. If you don’t know what Ender’s Game is, get thee to a library and look up Orson Scott Card in the sci-fi section. Now. Really, now.

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Rubber Poultry’s done it again. Take a look at the poster he created for a Jericho movie:

MaryAnn Johanson tells us why this was the start of the next American Revolution and how the show was about about the best of what makes America America, in ‘Jericho’ blogging: “Patriots & Tyrants” posted at FlickFilosopher.com.

Len Neighbors shares his usual wry recapping of the finale, emphasizing his belief that “a company this predictable and incompetent couldn’t take over the kazoo market, much less the Western United States,” and wishes the Sci Fi Channel would pick up the show, in Jericho Commentary: Episode Seven, “Patriots and Tyrants” Season Finale posted at Athens Exchange.

Myles McNutt laments what could have been if the show’s producers hadn’t been so crushed for time, if the finale, at least, could have been spread over two hours, in Series Finale – Jericho – ‘Patriots and Tyrants’ posted at Cultural Learnings.

fred really liked Season 2 (especially Hawkins kickin’ some butt!) but says he wished the end had been, perhaps, a little less happy, in Jericho: Patriots And Tyrants posted at TVoholic.com.

Terocious talks about how Skeet Ulrich made Johnston Jacob Green’s evolution over the course of 29 episodes wholly believable, in Where have you been? posted at Jericho Junction.

Doug Mataconis tells us how he loved the finale, particularly the scene in which Beck’s men tear the ASA flag badges off their uniforms, in Patriots & Tyrants: Jericho 2.7, and discusses looks at various reasons why the second season didn’t do better in the ratings, in A Jericho Post-Mortem, both posted at Below The Beltway.

Erika (kricka) refuses to eulogize Jericho in Don’t Say It’s Over!, posted at Short Story Life. She has a great new bunch of motivators posted, too, you’ve gotta check them out. Erika also points us to The Fall of Jericho over at The Grub Report — Jericho’s the show that made this snarky recapper feel, dammit!

Anna can’t believe it’s over, so she won’t and gives us links to find out more about saving Jericho, after her usual excellent recap, in Jericho 3/25: “Patriots and Tyrants”, posted at A Day In The Life. (Anna: You’re welcome, and thank you for taking part! Thanks to all of you for making this carnival a success, actually!)

Jane is so in with the In Crowd that Jennie Sword (Townsperson Jennie) sent her a photo of herself with April Parker (Darcy) at the wrap party and a lovely note. You can read all about it over at Monster Exclusive: Jennie and April posted at Jericho Monster.

Amanda decides to focus on the positive and talks about all the good stuff that happened, in Jericho 2.07: Patriots and Tyrants, posted at FADPOV.

Edna & Margie, Jericho’s oldest residents and good friends of Remote Access, share their tale of how they came to little Heather Lisinski’s defense in Margie and Edna vs. Major Beck posted at Margie and Edna’s Basement. Remind me never to get them ticked off at me. Oh, and speaking of, here’s an interview they did with yours truly, in Amy Vernon tells all!

And, don’t forget, the ladies did this week’s guest blog, here.

Finally, here’s the links to this week’s Jericho posts from yours truly: My thoughts on the cancellation. My live thoughts on the finale. My aftermath thoughts.

Don’t forget to vote for Brad Beyer/Stanley Richmond in our poll over on the right!!!