Ahh yes, Cattlefarm Galactica. Finally archive.org has posted the files I’d uploaded a few months back. Time passes.
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Whoops, this needs some context. Cattlefarm Galactica is a parody, performed as a radio play, of the original Battlestar Galactica series. If you’ve not seen it, you may not get some of the humor.
The radio play was created by some folks from the Science Fiction club in Calgary.
A new club formed from the remnant, including Bob Gibson (the 1950s fanartist), Gordon McNab, Eric Tilbrook, and Grant Thiessen (owner of Pandora’s Books). Eric Tilbrook and Amin Bhatia produced the radio play “Cattlefarm Galactica”, and it has been popular ever since (when it appears). Amin Bhatia’s name now appears on the credits for Canadian-filmed TV series such as John Woo’s Once a Thief.
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Interestingly, they’d broken it up into a few different audio formats for different bandwidths. Cool!
Also cool — someone wrote up a review of it.
The writing is funny, and its delivery ranges from goofily amateurish through excellent. The timing is often impeccable, such as in the scene in which two characters argue about whether a gopher has fangs or canines, while their spaceships get captured by the enemy and a third character tries, more and more insistently, to interrupt.
The thread that holds it together, however, is Bhatia’s musical score, the sound effects, and the colourful ambients. There are some musical gags (such as the theme from Bonanza, in which Lorne Greene starred, replacing the usual music at one point), and not all of the score is Bhatia’s (you can hear a recurring fragment of Holst’s ‘The Planets’, for example), but the sounds are so wonderfully stitched together.
Keep a fresh change of underwear close by…enjoy!
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Bowtie! LMAO!
Yeah. Just a minute-on while I go clean the Diapers.
In its time, this was great fun in a Consuite at SF conventions. It’s a shame my copy is so poor. But, it’s better than nothing!