On a personal note…
Browsing through the photos on your website, I noticed a few photos of you with friends, and a DeLorean – one of them shows you, uhm, elegantly trying to get in (or out) of the legendary car. What’s the story behind that one? Do you have a fondness of cars or motorbikes?
The DeLorean was from the set of Totally Awesome, an 80’s spoof I did a few years ago. I don’t think it even made it into the movie, but we had fun channelling Marty. And despite having both a car and a motorbike, I’d say my fondness is average. My car is very practical and my motorbike is very old.
Nicki without any BSG attributes.
In an interview you mentioned a fondness of Lewis Caroll’s “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland” and director Tim Burton. Being a huge fan of both myself (in fact, one of my two cats is named Alice), there’s no need to explain to me why you like them so much. However, the people reading this might not be familiar with either, so I’m going to ask you anyway: what is it that attracts you to Alice In wonderland and Tim Burton?
I think “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and Tim Burton’s movies all question our assumptions about reality in a very creative and playful way. I love stories that explore and challenge our beliefs about the world, especially with such imaginative projections. I also enjoy the reflection of a hero’s inner struggle mirrored magically and poetically in the people and places around them. I love “The Wizard of Oz” for the same reason.
Are there any projects in the near future that you’re working on, other than the ones we’ve already discussed?
Define “projects.” Does enlightenment count?
I felt quite geeky when my first thought after that answer had to to do with window managers, but okay. In any case, let’s end the interview with a cliché question. If you won ten million dollars, what would be the first thing you’d do with it?
Hire a lawyer.
Closing words
It’s always a little odd to dive into an interview. You generally don’t know anything about the interviewee in question, other than the stuff that’s out there on the ‘net – and that’s not exactly something you want to rely on either. Even if it’s all just via email instead of face-to-face, it’s always a little exciting and weird to be prying into someone’s career and life.
It always helps when someone is clearly enthusiastic about the work they do, and are eager to tell you more about it. Nicki sure fits neatly into that category, and consequently it was a lot of fun to read up on all she’s done, prepare the questions, and of course reading the answers once they arrived in my inbox.
If only Leonardo could see this…
I’m a huge Battlestar Galactica fan, and being able to talk to a member of the cast in such a direct fashion is quite a fun experience. David is also a fan of the series, and also contributed several questions to the interview, and I’m sure he’s just as excited as I was to read the results. I hope you do as well. I know this is not strictly OSNews material, but most of you are science fiction fans, just like most of the OSNews staff, so this could surely interest you.
All that remains is a heartfelt thank you to Nicki for taking the time to answer our long list of questions (even the weirdo ones). I’d also like to wish her the best of luck and success for the future, and hopefully, we can follow up on her social networking project!
That’s… interesting…
I’m definately curious as to how OS News secured this interview, but it kind of makes sense. I’m a BSG fan and so is my Writing professor strangely enough. It is kind of surreal that the big three Sci Fi shows are all gone, but maybe the TV movie format makes more sense.
I wanted to tell you a story about private jets, expensive cars, and Cuban cigars on a tropical island, but I figured the truth would get out one way or the other.
I… Emailed her.
Nicki Clyne, beauty and talent. A good interview too, looking forward to hearing more about the social networking site for students. Keep up the great work Nicki
Honestly, the interview is a little underwhelming. That said…
SPOILERS
My take: 😉 Cally’s story is the only aspect of BSG that has made ANY. SENSE. AT. ALL. in the fourth season: the choice of the “hidden four” demonstrated conclusively that the show’s creators had completely lost their way and would chase any plot twist, no matter how ridiculous. Never mind Baltar’s anti-success in everything he does. (Does he even remember that he started the series as a scientist?!?)
Nicky’s acting has made Cally’s part all the more compelling, and even though it was depressing to see the character’s untimely end, holy cow at least it made sense. I wonder if Tyrol will ever have his questions regarding the mysterious circumstances of her death answered.
Sad, but so true. The so called creative ‘geniuses’ behind this show really turned out to be unimaginative, uncreative, and just plain boring. There is so much missed potential they could have done with this show, instead it turned out to be a very un-imaginative West Wing in space. They spent about 100x more showing lame scenes of worthless political fighting, elections, cabinet meetings, etc.. than actually exploring anything beyond some idiot debates.
This will be the first TV series I have watched in some time where I will be glad it ended. What is truly sad is some idiots have given the green light for Ronald Moore to “re-image” the classic movie The Thing. Anyone want to take bets now on badly this will fail at the box office?
p.s. Any article that breaks away from this childish, idiotic flame infested fanboy OS wars is a blessing!
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“p.s. Any article that breaks away from this childish, idiotic flame infested fanboy OS wars is a blessing!”
…so what your saying is, Windows 7 is better or worse than BSG?
More importantly, is the Cylon source code publicly-available? And if so, under which license?
The number of unnecessary remakes is getting to be absurd. I can’t imagine Moore being able to improve on John Carpenter’s version. That’s almost as bad as the prospect of a remake of The Evil Dead, or the rumoured Darren Aaronofsky remake of Lone Wolf and Cub (as a western, of all things).
I’m dreading the day when someone comes with the brilliant idea of “re-imaging” A-team or Sledge Hammer.
Agh! You mustn’t say such things!
The only real consolation is that it guarantees that the Rifftrax guys will never run out of bad films to mock.
Russell Crowe IS Sledge Hammer
The A-Team is already slated for a remake. I will sandpaper my eyes in January, just enough that they may heal by Dcember, and hopefully avoid the whole sorry mess. Sheesh, I even heard BRUCE WILLIS is associated with it :-\
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/29/a_team_movie/
Oh god no. The end of days is truly upon us.
At least the people involved are a competent bunch and not Roland Emmerich or Uwe Boll.
in the re-imaged A-Team, people actually get killed and curse a lot.
I strongly disagree! Quality of episodes vary in season 4, that is true, but I wouldn’t blame writers for that. As far as story telling is concerned, I consider it being brilliant. Other thing is that directing sometimes sucks. Two last episodes were great – but the one that aired just before them – was poorly directed, and I didn’t enjoy it at all – even though it included some really dramatical elements of story.
“p.s. Any article that breaks away from this childish, idiotic flame infested fanboy OS wars is a blessing! ”
what? oh dear are you are in for a surprise. Now everyone will talk about how much BSG sucks and doesn’t make any sense.
great interview, great show — puts all the fluff on TV to shame.
Nicki was also a bit player in the first (or was it second?) episode of the second season of Dark Angel (“Bag ’em” – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0554561/ gives more info.) She played a transgenic (X6) who Max (Jessica Alba) named “Fix-it”. Oddly, there’s another link to Cally – Aaron Douglas (Chief Tyrol) was also in an episode of Dark Angel.. later in that season (“Exposure – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0554570/ for more info.)
I also loved her in Tiki Bar TV. I remember when it was released and I almost fell off my seat 🙂 Almost as odd as when Alex Albrecht was in it. Lala is still “da bomb” though :-))
Is she writing her own OS? That would make it OS News.
No, it’s not OS News. It’s sort of like charity. You got to allow the geeks that come here the chance to pretend that they talk to women once in a while. Otherwise the only contact they will have with women is their obligatory softporn desktop wallpaper.
I think it was good for a change!! I haven’t seen interesting stuff in a while!.. go go Thom!
They never should have used Windows 95 on the frakin cylons. Then again, anyone who uses octagonal paper deserves what’s coming.
This is the last place I’d expect an interview with a Galactica actress! Very well done, and she’s such a down to earth girl (and looks a bit like a girl I once dated).
I liked the way she yearned, quietly, for Chief during the early episodes – she played that whole arc so well. Galactica is one of the few shows that has gotten stronger the further it’s gone. The finale should be great.
“Define “projects.” Does enlightenment count?
I felt quite geeky when my first thought after that answer had to to do with window managers…”
That was hilarious!
This was a nice diversion from the ordinary, but I can’t believe Thom forgot to ask Clyne the ultimate question – Mac or Windows?
Other than that one glaring omission, it was a fairly good interview. Many thanks to Clyne for taking the time for the interview.
It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: BSG is dying.
It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: BSG is dying
You don’t need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict BSG’s future. The hand writing is on the wall: BSG faces a bleak future. In fact there won’t be any future at all for BSG because BSG is dying. Things are looking very bad for BSG. As many of us are already aware, BSG continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.