Olympic Spanking

POSTED BY:  MaxiSpank 

Hi there folks. It's been a while but here's an update anyway. Good times...

Katee ditches Con to go fish gutting in Fiji

(No she didn’t! It just seemed like a silly headline – please don’t quote it as fact).

Katee has, however, become the latest in a series of BSG actors to cancel their appearance at the forthcoming Dragon Con. While the Spankers feel terrible for our Bunny buddies and other cyberpals that will no longer be able to hang with Bamber & Katee this time around, some of us are also quietly delirious with joy at the prospect that Katee may have signed on for some new project that is yet to be announced. While it’s obviously a big bummer if you were looking forward to actually going to the thing, it’s pretty understandable that the actors would be busy looking for new gigs, given that they finished filming BSG over a month ago – it’s time for them to move on. After being tied to a contract for 5 or 6 years, they're probably all like kids in a candy store, now that they can actually try some other stuff. Acting is their chosen profession after all, as opposed to “professional Con attendee”, so it makes a lot of sense that they'd have to prioritize their acting. Not too many Spankers were actually headed to the Con, so we haven’t heard of any random acts of Spanker self-mutilation as yet.

Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for some of the Bunnies. Bunnies, just so you know, a bottle of JB and a tourniquet always comes in handy at times like this. You’ll get over it. We’re here if you need us. Hold fast.

I guess it’d be a little unreasonable to expect an actor to give up a new job that might put their kids through university just to go to a con for a couple of hours, to provide us with some witty (and yet vaguely repetitious) anecdotes about their fellow actors’ bad habits. As much as the Spankers delight in Katee’s random, funny con behaviour, such as the Zoolander impression and the stray-hair-microphone-plucking, we’d kind of prefer to hear that she’s gonna keep acting in new stuff that we can then watch and crap on about endlessly cause we don’t have a life of our own.

If she isn’t actually gonna be doing an acting gig during the Con week, then what else could Katee possibly be up to? Spanker DJ has a theory that Katee may have decided to take a holiday to Fiji with her BF instead. Katee, if DJs theory is correct, can I just say, (speaking from personal experience), that you are gonna love it! You can rent the island where Blue Lagoon was filmed, and you can even make out under the same tree as Brooke Shields! Woohoo! Can I also recommend the snorkelling – it’s easily the best in the world - crystal clear water and lots of colourful fishies. But Katee, you mustn’t get any ideas. We know how much you love your fish gutting, but dude, there are many protected species in Fiji. Gut the wrong fish and you could end up languishing for years in a Fijian penal institution. What on Earth would the Spankers do for entertainment while awaiting your release? Katee, you must study your species thoroughly before you start wielding that knife of yours around willy nilly.

My personal theory on Katee’s whereabouts during Dragon Con hits closer to home. I believe that she has been recently watching the Olympics and that she’s basically decided to give acting the flick and take up her original career choice again. After all, her dodgy knees must have recovered by now. She must have noticed that while the US male swimmers pretty much have the game sewn up, the woman’s team is languishing. I believe that Katee feels that she has to single handedly redress this imbalance in time for the London Olympics. So there will be no more acting, bike gangs with Tricia and Trucco, or fan conventions – it’s all about the training for the next 4 years. Either that, or she just wants to get back into one of those figure hugging rubber suits, cause as she said herself , “I think I like confining wardrobe”.

 

Project Abraham

Many Spankers have become aware that Katee is involved in a new viral internet campaign for the soon-to-be released Resistance 2 video game. You can see lots of her little promo vids for it here – she’s playing a physiologist named Dr Cassie Aklin, who has to pick candidates for some weirdie experiment.

Some Spankers have been a little concerned that Katee’s involvement in this project would mean that they would not only have to buy the game, but also the entire bloody console. However, a little research on the game’s official site indicates that the main character in the actual game is some dude who Katee picks, and not her character. All I can say is ‘phew’. Cause I’d frankly be a little embarrassed if it was ever discovered that I bought a Playstation 3 and only owned one game.

Like many Spankers, I was kinda wondering why Katee would want to be involved in an advertising campaign. But when you think about it, the first Resistance game was apparently the biggest selling Playstation game ever, so it’s a pretty big thing to be attached to. There are probably more people who own that game than have ever seen BSG. Well that’s my theory, although it was probably more a case of Katee’s bro thinking it sounded cool and talking her into it. Something like that. She does owe him big time, after all, for turning his nickname into some sort of ridiculous cyber-cult. In any case, I’m personally far more pumped that Katee apparently did the commentary for the upcoming Robot Chicken DVD. I’m gonna buy that one with pride.

Other Stuff

Ok well that’s just about enough from me for now. There’s other stuff to report but since I’ve now been rambling uncontrollably for about the last 20 minutes, I should probably just stop.

As far as the TeamSpank HQ site goes, we haven’t added much lately but there is new stuff underway. We are about to add our fictional Spanker bios, which should be ridiculous. Anyone is welcome to add to the site if they are that way inclined – just send an email about it. We tend to encourage stuff that isn’t really your typical fan site type stuff – stuff with a bit of quirk or a bit of a slant. It doesn't have to have any factual basis - we don't worry about that sort of thing at TeamSpank. Artistic stuff is cool too. It doesn’t have to be funny but that helps. Oh BTW, if you are signed in as a member of the main site, there are now a couple of extra little treats to be found via the TeamSpank menu. It's our little secret (or at least it was until one sentence ago).

Just in case you don’t know, we have our own Katee forum at the TeamSpank Treehouse, where Katee fans hang out almost 24/7, although mainly just making idle, inane chat. There are many specialized topic threads, or you can just hang out and gossip with folks in the main Katee thread. (Can I just apologize in advance for the appalling language. I’m one of the worst culprits, I'm afraid).

Oh one final thing, that I'd like to address directly to Katee...

Katee, we realize that now that you have finished with BSG, you probably think you are free of your weirdie, obsessive, creeper SciFi 'fans' for all time. That may well be the case, but Katee, I really hate to burst your bubble. Cause I'm afraid to let the cat out of the bag, but dude just so you know, Spankers aren't actually SciFi fans and you can't get rid of us that easily. We're in it for the long haul. While we enjoy a bit of SciFi here and there, most of us frankly couldn't care less if we never see another spaceship, but we really wanna see what other projects you have up your sleeve.

So sorry dude - SciFi fans may come and go, but Spanking is forever!

So Much News, So Little Time

POSTED BY: MaxiSpank

Hi there. It's probably high time for a blog/update thingy, so here it is. Lots has been happening so I recommend light refreshments while reading. See you at the end.
Two Fat Ladies
This is an official, desperate plea on behalf of all Katee Sackhoff and Tricia Helfer fans that they do a US version of the 90's British hit TV show "Two Fat Ladies", which featured a couple of 60 something ladies hooning around the countryside on their motorbike, meeting with the locals in quaint little villages and cooking up a treat, before climbing back on their bike and disappearing into the sunset. Granted, Katee and Tricia aren't fat and they are 30 years too young, but that's a minor technicality. A show like that featuring Katee and Tricia would have to just about rate as the best show ever, in the history of all mankind.

Apart from the weight and age obstacle, the girls have all of the technical requirements down pat. They are bad-ass biker chicks and Katee has often boasted about her culinary skills in interviews, although TeamSpank would frankly like to see cold hard evidence of her prowess in this department. Word on the street is that Tricia is a vegetarian, so that could give the show an interesting extra edge - like it would need any edge at all other than the two of them hooning around on their motorcycles.

The reason TeamSpank have decided this is
a great idea the greatest idea ever had by anyone, is that we've been recently inundated by photos from Tricia's official blog and a video from the LA Times, (watch it below). It's just all too monumentally awesome and TeamSpank wants more. (BTW Katee, why don't you have an official blog or site, you bloody slack arse?)

Footnote: If by any chance, this brilliant idea comes to fruition, TeamSpank has decided to forgo any series concept/finder's fee (or whatever it's called). Instead, all we ask is that Katee please do a scene at the ocean-side, where she slowly and methodically guts a fish while smiling sweetly into the camera and explaining her technique in earnest detail. TeamSpank would also like to stipulate that Katee include the phrase "I love to gut my own fish", in her fish disembowelment demonstration, much as she did here.

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Katee Jigsaws at TeamSpank HQ
TeamSpank continue to path the way forward as far as cyber-fandom goes. Our latest innovation is the Katee Sackhoff Jigsaw Puzzle series. This isn't lightweight fluff - this is hi-tech and cutting edge (no pun intended). You can choose different shaped pieces and you can choose puzzles from 6 to about 250 pieces. You can even get the thing to put itself back-together if you can't be bothered. Reassembling Katee Sackhoff can prove a sensational, most therapeutic way to fritter away an hour or so, particularly if you are feeling a little brain dead at the time.

We have also begun a new section of the site, entitled "Katee Snippets", where you can listen to some of Katee's little audio nuggets from interviews - stuff like where she discusses studying her o-face, her juggling technique, etc. This section is brand new and there are only a few things there, but lots more is on the way. Please let us know if you can think of anything that belongs here.

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Katee knocks back her own series (and a movie is in the works)
In this article published last week, Katee mentions that she just knocked back her own series, as it was being filmed in NY and she didn't want to live away from her BF anymore. While TeamSpank acknowledges that this is none of our business, and that we are a little bummed that we won't get to see her in her own series, we find it kind of sweet and sensible that she is putting her personal happiness first before a dumb old TV show.

Katee also mentions in this article that she will be shooting a film called "The Victim" later in the year. This TeamSpanker is curious about whether this film will be an English Language remake of the Thai 2006 film, Phii khon pen, which is a bit of a psycho-multi-twist thriller. So Katee's agent, could you please get back to us to confirm that one?

Katee mentioned another movie in a previous interview "Kneel" or "Neal" or something like that, but we haven't heard a word about that since. Granted though, Katee did seem a little tipsy in that interview (which was fair enough cause it was at a party) so she might have been delirious.

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Bionic Sized Gloat by SwimSpank
In case you haven't seen it yet, SwimSpank has recently researched and published perhaps the biggest documented gloatfest of all time - "The REAL Bionic woman", a (massive) collection of official critical reviews of Bionic Woman, where Katee frankly comes out looking like the sun shines out of her arse. (I was gonna use a different expression but it would have been even more crude). We've provided a downloadable pdf version, just for for Katee's mum (MaSpank), just so she can show it off to friends and gloat at dinner parties. Cause gloating is fun, and you probably can never be too proud of your own kids.

There is plenty of other Katee S news and BSG news floating around, but I am frankly emotionally exhausted by all of the above, so I'll just leave you with this:

 

 

Two Fat Ladies Tricia And Katee Go Hooning

The Book Club - BSG Rewatch
Doh! How could I forget? Spanker Starby will be hosting an epic BSG Rewatch, here at the Treehouse, to keep us from twidding our thumbs until BSG finally hits the airwaves again, in 2014 or so. Come and join us - all are welcome.

The REAL Bionic Woman

POSTED BY:  SwimSpank 

 

***attention Katee's mother (aka MaSpank) - this link is specifically for you so you can print it out, frame it and hang it near Katee's swimming trophies).

Well Spanks have been saying for a while now that Katee Sackhoff should have been THE Bionic Woman, but then again, we’re a little biased. We also told you about how critics overwhelmingly agreed, but perhaps you think we exaggerated the critical response a bit. Well here you go. Here we offer you cold hard proof. Every snippet listed below came from a legitimate reviewer such as TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly, well-known bloggers, and newspaper critics. We didn’t even get into the fan response, which was even more overwhelmingly Katee-praising (if you can believe that after reading what the critics have to say). So enjoy, the list starts from the earliest pilot viewings and goes on to post-mortem looks back after Bionic Woman was officially cancelled (with lots of fun in between). And don’t feel too bad for Michelle Ryan, after all, as Katee said, “She’s young.. she’ll be fine”.

http://www.televisionaryblog.com/2007/06/pilot-inspektor-nbcs-bionic-woman.html
Pilot Inspektor: NBC's "Bionic Woman"
June 11 2007
We begin with the sight of a blood-covered woman in a hospital gown (Battlestar Galactica's Katee Sackhoff)… A familiar-looking blonde (Sackhoff again!) slinks out of the semi, mission accomplished… alerting Jae, installation chief Jonas Bledsoe that Sarah Corvus (Sackhoff again!) is still alive… Corvus herself has been making alterations to her own body, cutting away her humanity with a scalpel and turning herself into a machine. Which is all the more interesting because she continually seems to display human emotion, like sorrow, lust, regret, and the need for revenge. She's Number Six with a cigarette and a well-placed quip. Sackhoff's scenes with Ryan crackle with energy and she is perfectly cast as Jamie's new nemesis, the first Bionic Woman, a former military volunteer with more than a few screws loose… While Ryan is a winsome lead, she can't help but be upstaged by the visceral Sackhoff, who sinks her teeth into a role that allows her to act dangerous, crazy, and sexy all at the same time.

http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TVGuide-Editors-Blog/Trivial-Mattrs/Sam-Wild-Plus/700017938
Sam I Am Wild About! Plus: Jaime Sommers and Sarah Connor
Jun 25, 2007
Bionic Woman: Save for Miguel Ferrer (as a sort of meaner Oscar Goldman) and Katee Sackhoff (an earlier-edition BW gone horribly awry), the supporting cast sort of blended into the background for me.

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/tv/archives/118247.asp
"Bionic Woman": Gentlemen, we must rebuild her.
Jul 17, 2007
Ms. Ryan, you're no Lindsay Wagner. And you're certainly no Katee Sackhoff.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=24&entry_id=18746
Death March with Cocktails: Uh, are you excited about the fall?
Jul 20, 2007
I'll say this - If Katee Sackhoff was in it more often, it would be a lot better. She kicks ass over the other Bionic.

http://www.Chicagosuntimes.com/archives
The Chicago Sun Times
Doug Elfman
August 26, 2007
This Year Break-Out Stars: They may not get top billing, but we predict these 10 actors will be this season’s break-out stars.
This year's breakout performers stand out for creating memorable fake people, even though their shows are more mediocre than 2006's debutants …

#1. Katee Sackhoff: Sackhoff is so compelling as the bionic villain in NBC's "Bionic Woman," she steals the show. Her performance is one of those "Jack Nicholson as the Joker" moments, where you think, "Oh, this is really about the side character." This won't surprise "Battlestar Galactica" viewers, who know Sackhoff as Capt. Kara "Starbuck" Thrace. Here, she is again: tough, smart and smolderingly intense.

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-32721592_ITM
It's Alive!: Using the most promising parts of new shows, we offer a prototype for the perfect series.
Aug. 26, 2007
Maureen Ryan
No, the draw here is the baddie Corvus, another bionically enhanced woman, who's played by "Battlestar Galactica" veteran Katee Sackhoff.

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/features/article/48102/building-the-perfect-tv-show/
Building the perfect TV show
by Maureen Ryan, Chicago Tribune
7 September 2007
Several fall shows have great ideas behind them. What if we put the best of several promising fall shows together?..

The charisma (and fighting skills) of Bionic Woman‘s villain

“You’re going to have to do a little better than that,” Sarah Corvus says to a nearly vanquished Jaime Sommers in the pilot for Bionic Woman, and Corvus isn’t kidding. This NBC remake may be one of fall’s most eagerly awaited programs, but so far the main reason to tune in is not Sommers, who is played by the low-key Brit Michelle Ryan. No, the draw here is the baddie Corvus, another bionically enhanced woman, who’s played by Battlestar Galactica veteran Katee Sackhoff. Sackhoff all but walks off with the pilot and gives a few lessons in “How to Play a Villain”—with style, wit and relish. And, of course, a few well-timed kicks to her opponent’s head.

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-32827023_ITM
Freaks and Geeks: New on Wednesdays
Tampa Tribune (Tampa, FL)
09-SEP-07
If you think Ryan's penetrating green eyes make her the coolest freak on TV, and wait until you see the dueling bionic women (Katee Sackhoff, of "Battlestar Galactica," is the evil one).

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-140050222.html
First Impressions A Look At What's Promising, What's Not, And A Few Shows That Could Go Either Way.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) September 11, 2007
Mcfarland, Melanie
Also the new Jaime Sommers, the lithe, cute-as-a-button Michelle Ryan can't stand toe-to-toe with Katee Sackhoff, who plays the first bionic woman.

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-32888676_ITM
Remote fantasies: Science fiction provides premise for several fall shows, but others stick with tried-and-true ideas, formulas.
Source: Gazette (Colorado Springs, CO)
16-SEP-07
"Battlestar's" Katee Sackhoff steals every scene she's in as Jaime's nemesis.

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-32984014_ITM
Humorless 'Bionic Woman' assembles the wrong parts.
Chicago Tribune 26-SEP-07
By Maureen Ryan
There are moments when "Bionic Woman," the disappointingly average remake of the Lindsay Wagner vehicle from the '70s, comes to life. They're when Katee Sackhoff (who plays Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on "Battlestar Galactica") is on the screen. The catch: Sackhoff isn't the show's star character.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/09162007/tv/building_bionic_woman.htm?page=2
Building 'Bionic Woman'
By Stephen Lynch
September 16, 2007
"Battlestar Galactica" hottie Katee Sackhoff, meanwhile, signed on to play an evil bionic woman, and was scheduled to die in the opening episode. But after stealing the show with her psychotic Sapphic superpowers, Sackhoff signed on as a recurring character.

http://www.charleston.net/news/2007/sep/16/get_ready_fall_crop_tv_shows15996/
Get ready for fall crop of TV shows
By Maureen Ryan, Chicago Tribune
Sunday, September 16, 2007
..things going for it: Name recognition and Katee Sackhoff as Sarah Corvus, the nemesis of newly created "Bionic Woman" Jamie Sommers (Michelle Ryan). The rest of the show (so far) is an exercise in mediocrity..

http://www.chicagosuntimes.com/archives
The Chicago Sun Times
'Bionic woman'
Doug Elfman
September 16, 2007
It begins with an homage to "La Femme Nikita" but poorly so. Then Michelle Ryan, as the good bionic woman, gets upstaged by the great screen presence of Katee Sackhoff, portraying an apparently evil bionic woman. Even Ryan humbly gives props to Sackhoff for making her rise to the challenge of action scenes…The show should be named "Bionic Women,"… Michelle Ryan is the new bionic woman, though her nemesis upstages her.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=663027
Counting the hours: Season's best scripted 60-minute offerings filled with imagination, fantasy
By Joanne Weintraub
Journal Sentinel TV critic
Posted: Sept. 17, 2007
Bionic Woman: … "Battlestar Galactica's" Katee Sackhoff is a big plus as a rival fembot.

http://www.slweekly.com/index.cfm?do=article.details&id=1ED0363A-D207-C93D-E34EE77FB72938F2
True TV: Chuck You, Geeks, sugar, Satan and cyborgs.
By Bill Frost 09/20/2007
Michelle Ryan’s performance in the title role is so stiff you may wonder if she’s not entirely circuitry and silicone. The best news: Matters not, because The Bionic Woman is dark, taut, action-packed and riveting every second that Battlestar Galactica’s Katee Sackhoff appears onscreen as the first bionic woman who’s gone rogue and quite insane. She’s out to kill her 2.0, and [we are all] rooting for her—I wanna see that series.

http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/iltw/2007/09/23/private_practice/index2.html
TV reviews: We will rebuild her!
Sep 23, 2007
..best of all, Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck from "Battlestar Galactica") plays the eeeeevil former bionic woman, Sarah Corvus.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07266/819444-237.stm
Tuned In: The new season
Sunday, September 23, 2007
By Rob Owen, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
…after the pair are in a car crash perpetrated by the first, evil (and more interesting) bionic woman (Katee Sackhoff)…

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/09/24/DDEJSCOKC.DTL
Reviews: 'Journeyman,' 'Chuck' and 'Bionic Woman'
Tim Goodman
Monday, September 24, 2007
The trouble lies in the casting and the concept. Ryan seems too inert, not nearly aggressive enough for the role. This becomes clear when she faces off with "Battlestar Galactica" star Katee Sackhoff, who plays the first rebuilt Bionic Woman - gone bad. Not only is Sackhoff infinitely more likable as an antiheroine, she pops off the screen while Ryan doesn't… They got the wrong bionic woman. Either that or they need to let the bad bionic woman get a whole lot more screen time. When the two do battle in the pilot, you can't help but think, "Why am I rooting for the bad girl?"

FALL TV: WEDNESDAY NIGHTS
Source: CHARLIE MCCOLLUM , Mercury News
But the high-profile ''Bionic Woman'' (9 pm) -- a dark take on the 1970s series -- had some real problems in the early going including a shaky pilot in which a secondary character (played by Katee Sackhoff of ''Battlestar Galactica'') pretty much stole the show from Jamie Sommers (Michelle Ryan).

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=666955
TV debuts du jour: Wednesday's the night for actresses to sparkle
By Joanne Weintraub
Journal Sentinel TV critic
Sept. 25, 2007
Signs of hot-blooded life, and a glint of welcome comic relief, come in the form of Sarah (Katee Sackhoff), a renegade bionic woman who does battle with Jaime. With her slicked-back hair and kissy red lips, Sarah seems to come from a different bionics lab - one with a livelier notion of robo-humanity.

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/news/article/49008/can-greys-anatomy-recover/
Can 'Grey's Anatomy' recover?
by Chuck Barney, Contra Costa Times
26 September 2007
What you can expect is a bold performance by Katee Sackhoff ("Battlestar Galactica"), who plays a bionic babe gone bad. In the opener, she locks up in a hellacious rooftop throw-down with Ryan that will have sci-fi geeks gasping in delight.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/reviews/2007-09-25-bionic-woman_N.htm
Bionic Woman' remake has serious design flaws
9/26/2007
Oh, and there's the hour's one bright spot — Katee Sackhoff, another Battlestar transfer, as a bionic woman gone bad. Alas, while it's fine to have a villain who is more colorful than your hero, it's not so fine to have a supporting actor who makes your star vanish whenever they're on screen together. It makes you think that what this remake of a spinoff really needs is a spinoff of its own.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07269/820417-42.stm
TV Review: 'Bionic Woman' dark, but intriguing
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
By Rob Owen, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
But a bigger hurdle may simply be that Sackhoff's evil character, by virtue of being more mysterious and due to her superior performance, is more intriguing than Jaime Sommers.

http://www.moviehole.net/weeksly/20070929_the_weeksly_late_edition_28090.html
The Weekly Late Edition
September 28, 2007
By the way, can I just once again say how absolutely horrible “Bionic Woman” is? I watched the pilot a while ago, and having now seen the reworked version, let me tell you – the editing didn’t help it. Honestly, I could just give less of a shit about each and every character on it, with the sole exception being Katee Sackhoff, who actually does a great job in it – I just think it would have been so much better if she was the titular character, and they get rid of all the other junk.

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20058677,00.html
By Gillian Flynn
TV Review: Bionic Woman (2007)
This absence is glaring anytime she's acting opposite slick, pissy Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar), who shows up as the very first bionic woman, gone bad, determined to get badder. ''I'm cutting away all the parts of me that are weak,'' she tells Jaime, creepily, before trying to kill her. The problem is, if you're a fan of Sackhoff's throaty, chin-jutty delivery, she absolutely overpowers the callow Ryan, and if you're not a fan of Sackhoff...she still overpowers Ryan.

http://www.eonline.com/coolstuff/detail/index.jsp?uuid=b8378aad-0cfb-4527-9e17-3de2c7283aab
Starbuck, Revisited: Katee Sackhoff Kicks Ass
Thu, Sep 27, 2007
Last night, Katee Sackhoff rocked our world… One thing's for sure, though: As Sarah Corvis on NBC's reimagined Bionic Woman, Sackhoff is better, stronger and faster than ever before. Playing the first woman given artificial, superenhanced limbs, ears and eyes (she installed the left one herself), she's a little pissed that the government agency responsible for using her as a guinea pig threw her out with the rest of its obsolete Microsoft Office software… we can believe all that bad attitude. Not only is she angry, she also lets a little sadness peek through—some humanness. Corvis has been used and tossed aside, and despite her drive to settle the score with the people who made her what she is, there are moments when she isn't afraid to admit that all she wants is a little tenderness. She's the perfect antidote to Michelle Ryan's doe-eyed titular character

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/09/26/DI2007092601610_pf.html
On TV Reality, Non-Reality and Everything In-Between
Lisa de Moraes Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 28, 2007
And I'd like "Bionic Woman" better if it was just about Evil Bionic Sarah. Evil Bionic Woman, aka Older Model Bionic Woman, absolutely stole the show in the pilot episode. I'm thinking they miscast the lead role…..I’m okay with "Bionic Woman" (mostly because of Katee Sackhoff, though, so...)

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22504090-5006343,00.html
The Bionic Woman's modern facelift
September 30, 2007
While Thursday’s debut meanders through the human emotions attached to Sommer’s transformation, it also (thankfully) introduces her new nemesis, the ass-kicking fembot Sarah Corvis (Battlestar Gallactica’s Katee Sackhoff). While their future is destined to be entwined, it remains unsure as to whether the two enhanced humans will ultimately pair off to fight the forces of evil.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=3&entry_id=20828
The Streets of San Fauxcisco
October 03 2007
After a prologue that introduces Katee Sackhoff as the first (and considerably more kickass) bionic woman...…

http://media.www.dailycampus.com/media/storage/paper340/news/2007/10/05/Focus/Best-In.Show-3014866.shtml
Best In Show: A Wrap-Up Of Some Of Fall's Hottest Primetime Shows And Their Season Pilots
Daily Campus Staff 10/5/07
The show's biggest weakness is in its cast who, with the exception of Katee Sackhoff as Sarah Corvis, (the first experimental Bionic Woman,) lacks any emotional touches.

http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/iltw/2007/10/07/daisies/index1.html
I Like to Watch
Oct. 7, 2007
NBC's "Bionic Woman" is hard to ignore, thanks to Katee Sackhoff, but I hope they have something interesting planned, beyond a series of spectacular catfights.

http://www.nysun.com/arts/better-stronger-more-attractive/64192/
Better, Stronger, More Attractive: Review of: Bionic Woman, and Life
By Brendan Bernhard
October 9, 2007
…the rogue bionic woman (Katee Sackhoff) who's supposed to be dead but isn't, and is arguably a lot sexier than the bionic woman who gets top billing. (No wonder they're always fighting.)

http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/criticscorner/2007-10-09-critics-corner_N.htm
Critic's corner
Robert Bianco, USA TODAY, Oct 10, 2007
Short of rebuilding the show around Katee Sackhoff and sacking everyone else, Bionic Woman may be unsalvageable.

Published on October 10, 2007, Fayetteville Observer, The (NC)
“BIONIC WOMAN”
TV Diva By Jessica Banov
The best scenes are with Jaime and her rival, Sarah Corvus (Katee Sackhoff), and right now, there are too few of those.

http://www.modbee.com/columnists/rowland/story/91250.html
Fall TV early market outlook: bulls, bears, bores
October 12, 2007
And while British actress Michelle Ryan looks the part, she has yet to show the kind of charisma that would make her the iconic figure she should be. Also, it doesn't help that every time her bionic nemesis, Katee Sackhoff, appears, she blows Ryan off the screen, both figuratively and sometimes literally. They fight a lot.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=24&entry_id=21380
"Daisies" pushes on; the lights go out in Laughlin. It's TV Show Death Watch!
Oct 23 2007
Unless they fire everybody and give the show to Katee Sackhoff's character, i'm not coming back…

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-33282184_ITM
New shows struggle to find footing
Chicago Tribune
26-OCT-07
Katee Sackhoff is stealing the show as the vampy, bionically enhanced Sarah Corvus

http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/iltw/2007/10/28/pushing_daisies/index.html
I Like to Watch
By Heather Havrilesky
Oct. 28, 2007
Even the brilliant Katee Sackhoff, who plays the first bionic woman, Sarah Corvus, sounds a little foolish growling out her empty lines.

http://www.mywire.com/pubs/Newsweek/2007/10/29/4794379?extID=10051
What’s Worth Watching
Oct 29, 2007
Bionic Woman (sideways) Michelle Ryan is no Lindsay Wagner, but her nemesis Katee Sackhoff rocks.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/nov/24/features16.theguide
November 24 2007
Jonathan Bernstein aerial view of America
If I told you that the new BW was about a woman struggling to hold on to her humanity against the machine inside her and searching to find the drug that would save her from the virus that gives her less than a year to live, you, if you were so geekily inclined, would splooge in your pants and proclaim the new Bionic Woman a bleakly unmissable triumph. And so it would have been, had I not given you the VILLAIN'S STORYLINE. Amazingly, the bad Bionic Woman, played by the super-charismatic Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica), comes with a fully-fleshed out story and a reason for us to sympathize with her plight. Meanwhile, the actual, eponymous Bionic W is a brooding blank. Michelle Ryan is going to have some heart-rending Hollywood horror stories when she returns home. It wasn't her fault she was rendered invisible every time she had to play opposite Katee Sackhoff.

http://www.serienjunkies.de/news/bionic-woman-16874.html
Bionic Woman: Hat Katee Sackhoff die Serie verlassen?
von Mariano Glas am Dienstag, 27.November 2007 07:30 Uhr
Katee Sackhoff gilt als Garant für schauspielerisch gute Leistung, wenn es um Einsatz bei Fernsehserien geht. Kritiker bescheinigen ihr Talent und Fans lieben sie einfach nur für die Arbeit, die sie in „Battlestar Galactica“ leistet. In der Neuauflage der TV-Serie „Bionic Woman“ spielt sie regelmäßig ihre Kollegin und Hauptdarstellerin an die Wand und schon lange galt sie unter Fans als einziger Grund die Serie überhaupt noch einzuschalten. Doch das scheint nun der Vergangenheit anzugehören.

(roughly translated: Katee Sackhoff rocks, is uber talented, smoking hot, and is the only good thing about Bionic Woman)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/11/21/DI2007112102267_pf.html
On TV: Reality, Non-Reality and Everything In-Between
Lisa de Moraes Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 30, 2007
[Re: the possibility of Katee Sackhoff leaving Bionic Woman] If they are dropping the only character that had any personality, the show definitely is finished.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07341/839350-238.stm
TV Q&A with Rob Owen
Friday, December 07, 2007
By Rob Owen, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
1) Do you know if there will be any more "Bionic Woman" episodes with Katee Sackhoff? The hope of seeing her some more is the primary reason that I'm still watching.

Channeling the best, worst, nuttiest of television...
Dec 23, 2007
The remake no one deserved: NBC’s ‘‘ Bionic Woman’’ committed the fatal flaw that killed the ‘‘Batman’’ film franchise in ’ 90s. It made its villain, Katee Sackhoff’s sexy cybernetic warrior, more interesting than star Michelle Ryan.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1501119/story.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10490409
TV Review: Bionic Woman
February 04, 2008
By Joanna Hunkin
As for the acting, British-born Ryan is believable as a native Yank, though her overall insipidness makes her less believable as an ass-kicking protagonist. This weakness is only accentuated when she appears opposite the dynamic Katee Sackhoff, who plays Sommers' nemesis, "the first Bionic Woman", Sarah Corvus.

http://filmexperience.blogspot.com/2008/05/advice-to-casting-directors-two.html
Advice to Casting Directors: Two Undervalued Blondes
May 16 2008
Katee Sackhoff is a terrific actress. I won't lie and claim that she's undervalued on her breakout show (Battlestar Galactica)... they've leaned on her heavily and she's crafted an indomitable fan-favorite character who has evolved considerably from her first bold sketches four years back. Then, and seemingly without dropping a bead of sweat, Katee gave Bionic Woman the only fire it had as its rogue bionic. A bonfire to be more accurate. It was night and day on that show between her scenes and every one else's. Both of those shows have expired or are about to. She's a bonafide super star, if Hollywood would merely point bright lights her way to reflect. Give her a lead role and watch the magic happen. Wil Yun Lee & Katee on Bionic Woman: the only interesting relationship/subplot.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/19/DDB810OGTL.DTL&type=tvradio
Canceled shows whose lives might have been saved
Tim Goodman
Monday, May 19, 2008
"Bionic Woman" (NBC): This was supposed to be the can't-fail series of the fall. It was certainly the most hyped. Reimagined by David Eick (who has done a tremendous job with similarly reimagined "Battlestar Galactica") and Jason Smilovic (who wrote "Lucky Number Slevin" and was an executive producer on the acclaimed but short-lived series "Karen Sisco" and "Kidnapped"), how could it not work? Easy: casting. British actress Michelle Ryan never breathed any life into this role, and her bad fit was magnified when Katee Sackhoff ("Battlestar Galactica") was hired to play the first bionic woman gone bad. Infinitely more interesting, Sackhoff stole every scene she was in. This whole series imploded because they picked the wrong bionic woman.

http://www.mediablvd.com/magazine/the_news/television_reviews/2007-2008_season_post-mortem_part_1:_bionic_woman_200805221155.html
2007-2008 Season Post-Mortem Part 1: Bionic Woman
Thursday, 22 May 2008
The pilot set up a few key plot threads and introduced Sarah Corvus, the psychotic “original bionic woman” played by a deliciously unbalanced Katee Sackhoff. All things being equal, newcomer Michelle Ryan, the one playing the starring role of Jamie Sommers, couldn’t come close to the same intensity. Ryan’s struggle to find her character was apparent, and Corvus’ character arc quickly become far more interesting.

http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/story/633686.html
Stargazing | Why some TV shows have said goodbye forever
Posted on Mon, May. 26, 2008 10:15 PM
‘Bionic Woman’ (NBC) It was certainly the most hyped fall series, but British actress Michelle Ryan never breathed any life into this role, and her bad fit was magnified when Katee Sackhoff was hired to play the first bionic woman gone bad. Infinitely more interesting, Sackhoff stole every scene she was in.

http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2007/07/does-bionic-wom.html
http://www.mercurynews.com/tv/ci_9412597
A look back at the shows most of us never watched
By Lisa de Moraes
Washington Post
Article Launched: 05/29/2008 01:36:23 AM PDT
"Bionic Woman" has to be NBC's biggest disappointment. And some day we'll learn why Katee Sackhoff, of "Battlestar Galactica" fame, was cast as Bad Old Bionic Woman instead of the Hot New Bionic Woman star of this series, a role that went instead to British "newcomer" Michelle Ryan, who got totally upstaged by Sackhoff.

http://www.syfyportal.com/news425085.html
Is This The End Of New Sci-Fi?
By Alan Stanley Blair
Source: SyFy Portal
May-30-2008
Each of these cancelled shows launched with an inspiring write-up, particularly “Bionic Woman” which, after only a handful of episodes, failed to deliver anything of real substance. Katee Sackhoff’s evil Bionic Woman character brought a twisted level of symmetry to the series with some possible foreshadowing, not to mention the genuine personal natures of the stories that kept the show moving. But all of that vanished the second she took a sabbatical and the series was of course bumped from the NBC schedule and mothballed following the three-month writers strike that blotted out the vast majority of scripted television.

http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/05/30/the-what-the-bleep-were-they-thinking-award-nominees/
The What the *#@#%! Were They Thinking? Award nominees
May 30th 2008 by Joel Keller
..fans were regretting the producers didn't cast Katee Sackhoff, who played bionic-woman-gone-mad Sarah Corvus, in Ryan's role. When people are trying to replace you with someone from your own show, that's a pretty good indication that you've been miscast.

http://www.afterellen.com/blog/dorothysnarker/katee-sackhoff-goes-in-for-a-nip-tuck?&comment=508734
Katee Sackhoff goes in for a "Nip/Tuck"
By Dorothy Snarker
Her guest turn as the charismatic crazy/crazy charismatic Sarah Corvus was the best thing about Bionic Woman.

Spanks Go Con: Starby's POV

POSTED BY:  starbucklovespank 

Hey Guys! As I could not get internet in the airport waiting for my plane, I wrote this little thing about the weekend, it's not like a full recap, but it's there. Enjoy!

Here I sit about to embark on the worse sugar high of my life. Why is it that the only place that offers a respectable breakfast at 5:30 est, is dunkin donuts? Like seriously, after dunking donuts, I walked by auntie aunts, and mrs fields, than a place that offered questionable food. So, here I sit eating my two donuts, wallowing in myself. And cringing at the time on my computer as I never took it off PST (2:54am!). Last night, sleep was just not. I was finally starting to get tired about 11:30pm EST, but when I stopped talking online and went to go to bed, my brain went on overload. I had met Katee Sackhoff, like in the flesh. I kept overanalyzing what I did, what I said, what everything! (I just turned my iTunes to Black Market, this could go down hill from here) So, yea, back to not being able to sleep because of Katee. She does this to me too much, I need sleep! But in a little recaplet of the day, (as I am sure a full one will come later with the help of Swim), emotions were high, it was such a mix of feelings. I was happy, sad, concerned, estatic, overjoyed, and a whole lot of other emotions. I got to meet a fellow spanker, and Katee! It quite the little trip. A weekend trip to Philadelphia, returning with bagels to schmooze by bosses, for the fact that they allowed me to come in to work at noon (yes, I am walking off the flight than going to work, I am such as ass), than when I go into request more days off in August, this should be fun. But I mean I have the days, I don't know why I feel bad, I just do. I mean, why can't I take time to do things I enjoy? Just because my whole department are workholics, doesn't mean I have to be, it just makes me feel horrible. So back to why I a schmoozing by bosses, besides the ones stated above, I also look like hell, probably smell like beer, and forgot to have people cover like half my work for this Morning. So, I have so major ass kissing to do. So, I diverge again, back to not sleeping, I tossed and turned for a while, recalling every single second of the day, and attempting to think of ways to in improve upon this. Yes, it was my finest hour, I was standing in the convention center, in a white sun dress, and heels. While people walked to next to me in Space Trooper costumes. I swear, I had a guy in like this weird roman costume try and look up my skirt, because he was all "in character" and like slid up next to me on his knees. I quickly moved, scared out of my mind of this guy. Than as the day went on, we saw superman, spiderman, princess leia (in the gold bikini nonetheless), a whole lot of things from star wars that I didn't know, a shiny man, etc. And swarms of others in homemade costumes such as BSG flight suits, BSG tanks and cargos, darth maul face paintings, etc. It was quite interesting. So after meeting Katee, it was too much, so we went for some group therapy. Yes, the beer garden is where we went to drink ourselves to confidence. We actually meet a guy, who was there into BSG, but not even going to the Con. (He did comment that my hair he noticed, before I said anything, that it look like Starbuck Season 3 hair...yes! Mission accomplished!, this is def a highlight for me) After awhile we decided to go back to the con to see Katee off. Well, she wasn't there, and was able to get through that whole line in no time! So, we lurked on the side, just lurking. Not close of course, because we respect Katee too much. We wanted to say bye, and one last picture, but she truly looked like she was in a hurry, and we didn't want to bother her, so we watched from afar, as good little fans. Than she was whisked off to plane to go somewhere probably faboulos, which shoots all hope I had of Katee being on my flight back from Los Angeles. But I can't have my cake and eat it too. Just like that, she was gone, I quickly started plotting my next move. When would they release the guest list for Comic Con? Is Dragon*Con possible? Gods, where I am going to get the money?? But I think it will be all worth it, no matter what I do, as BSG is almost over, and Katee is no longer doing Cons (after some upcoming ones), so it's not like I would be broke forever to keep going. It would only be for like another, not even, a year. So I think I could handle that, mentally. I'll be rubbing two pennies together for awhile, if I do. I had an ex boyfriend who's motto was "Live life before it lives you" I think that's a very good motto to go by. Hey, if anything i'll have good stories, for my kids (well, maybe nieces). I mean, I can't sit on my ass never taking trips, or experiencing anything because of work or money. I know I have to write myself an interesting story in life. And I am not going to be able to do it, sitting on my ass, doing nothing.

So, all in all, my first memory of a convention was a positive one. Which makes me happy to no end. It was an amazing time. Actually ran into a family friend at the Beer Garden! She was attending the con, as well. Not for Katee, but for the actual con (how novel!). So, it was great to see her, I feel bad in my half drunken state and my Katee high, I forgot to say by to her. I will be writing her a nice long e-mail of "I am sorry!! I was caught up in the moment". 

So, I find myself at a hault, of what to say. So I think I am all wrapped up, and I am sure I will be collobrate with Swim on a wonderful detail (including pictures).

Spanks Go Con: Autograph

POSTED BY:  starbucklovespank

Will be more to come! Sneak Peak...

Katee & Spanker News Updates

POSTED BY: MaxiSpank

Howdy, here is some Katee news & site updates and other useless information...
Fats and DJ have posted the results of the TeamSpank Starbuck Awards. This is essential reading and you must not venture away from this site until you have read every syllable.

This week, we also have the startlingly tragic news that Katee has apparently blown out her Kimmel appearance for Friday night. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Katee, just so you know, you have broken one of your Spankers' hearts. StarbuckLoveSpank was all set to attend - had her tickets in her greasy, sweaty, grubby little hands - until you had to go and rain on her parade. Don't feel too guilty though Katee - she might pull through. She might get over it eventually, with a lot of love and care (and outrageously expensive councelling).

In an effort to buck Starby up, Katee, some of us suggested that she fly cross country to attend your (somewhat bizarre sounding) Wizard do next weekend. Much to our horror, she decided that was a great idea and now she's gone and bought her plane ticket. She is quite hard up for cash, and she apparently had to break into the piggybank she's had since she was 3. Katee, just so you know, if you blow out that appearance as well, you are going to have BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS. Starby will be inconsolable and you are going to leave one hell of a mess to clean up. Not that we want you to feel responsible or anything (for Starby's probable forthcoming suicide attempt). No pressure, Katee. BTW, the Wizard World advertising team would probably start practicing self-mutilation if you don't show up, also, as they seem to have based their entire advertising campaign around you. No pressure.

If by some miracle Katee doesn't cancel, then Starby and SwimSpank may actually get to meet Katee. If that's the case, they have promised to pass on my apology for the page on the site where I comment about Katee that "she apparently left her brain at the door that day" (in regards to her internationally televised LittleSpank nickname announcement). There will be no apology for the massive Last Sentinel roasting that Katee cops on this site - she deserves every word of it.

I've also asked Starby to print out my "Sentinel Shame" article and to ask Katee to sign it. That would make my (pathetic, little) world just about complete. I wonder if she'd sign it near the 'side-boob' section. That'd be kinda funny. Or the bit where I suggest that my pooch shags the sofa more enthusiastically than Katee's leading man shagged her in their 'love scene'.

In other 'hard' Katee news, she will be doing 4 epis of the show Nip/Tuck. This sounds like fun, although some of us are frankly relieved it's only 4 epis. Fats is particularly delighted, as by all accounts, Nip/Tuck is quite a racy show, so all things being equal, this should mean that Katee will have to get her gear off and maybe even flash some collarbone. Woohoo!

So Katee, when are you gonna announce a show or movie or something that will give the Spankers cause for celebration? We need some good shit to watch, although we'll still watch the bad shit, if you're in it, cause we have no self-control.

One last thing - there seem to be two fairly regular daily SpankFests these days at the Treehouse. They seem to occur early in the morning US time - like about 10am and around 11pm - midnight. Don't ask me about time zones, but if ya want to work it out, for me, in Sydney, they happen at 3am and about 3pm EST. There are always a whole bunch of Spankers randomly gossiping away, so come and join the fun. The main Katee thread is pretty much random chat interspersed with katee & BSG talk, where the other threads stay pretty strickly on-topic.

Upcoming Katee Interview & Other Crap

POSTED BY:  MaxiSpank

 

SwimSpank has just snerched some interesting news for us - Katee will be appearing on the Jimmy Kimmel show on Friday, May 23. You can get tickets if you'll be around LA then. (Bad luck if you live in Sydney).

A few months ago, Katee appeared on this show and revealed to the world that her nickname was "LittleSpank". Thus, TeamSpank was born. I wonder what pearls of wisdom she'll come out with this time. And I wonder if that Kimmel dude will perve at Katee's tits the whole time, this time around as well. Here's a little refresher...

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In other news, there's been a new addition to the Collarbone family. This one is entitled "Mutiny on 'The Ship of Sweaty Arms'". Outstanding.

For the the Treehouse Dwellers, DJ and I have been going nuts adding skins and banners, basically because we are both procratinating about doing things we actually get paid for in the real world. DJ has come up with some great banners for a few of the skins and if you ask nicely , she might add some to the ones that haven't been done yet. The imac skin is a winner. Good times. (You change them in the forum on the bottom left of your screen - there's a little select box).

If you haven't signed up to the TeamSpank Treehouse, it's about time you did. It's the place to be if you are a Katee S fan - there are people there 24/7 gossiping away about Katee and life in general. It's pretty pathetic really. No wonder Katee Sackhoff thinks her fans are a pack of freaks. I often think this to myself and when I get disheartened, I try to remind myself that this is a woman who "loves to gut fish" - then I don't feel quite so creepy. Katee seriously should be in therapy for that sicko little fetish of hers. Fish? Guts? It makes Fats' collarbone thing seem pretty fuckin' pedestrian.

BTW, if you do happen to have some bizarre, sicko Katee Sackhoff fetish, then the Treehouse is definitely the place for you. Someone came in yesterday - a straight married woman with 2 kids - and announced to the rest of us that she had a serious Katee foot fetish. (Strictly barefeet though). She backed this barefoot fetish up with hard photographic evidence. This seemed very run-of-the-mill to the rest of us, who hear riveting stories - on a daily basis - about Katee's 'intense jawline' and perfectly formed collarbone. Not to mention the 'Incredible Inflatable Cleavage' and the 'Magical Expression Zone' between Katee's eyes. Poor Katee Sackhoff, having to deal with sicko freaks like us. Don't judge us harshly Katee - remember you "love to gut fish" and you are a Natalie Portman fan-girl, so you must get it a bit.

Finally, in news of interest to no-one except perhaps my mother, I would like to report that I just removed a blackened and smoky quiche from the oven, that I completely forgot was in it. Doh! My mother is currently spitting blood in my direction, as she wanted to take it to her friend's place for lunch tomorrow. If Teamspank HQ or the Treehouse suddenly ceases to exist, this would be because my mother has murdered me in a fit of burned quiche rage, and I am dead.

CBS Doesn't Want to See Katee in CSI!

POSTED BY:  SkySpank

 

According to an article of a French TV magazine, Bruckheimer and CBS bosses refused Katee after her auditions for the new female character in CSI.
Source : TV Magazine

Link
I've tried to translate it for you :

Who'll replace Jorja Fox ?

It's hard to replace Jorja Fox (Sara Sidle) who quit during the last season of CSI. The 2 executive producers, Carol Mendelsohn and Naren Shankar thought they had find gem in the person of Katee Sackhoff, seen in Battlestar Galactica, (according to TV Guide). They admire the actress for years and thought she would be perfect for the new female character, Bryce Adams. Problem : CBS bosses and Jerry Bruckheimer, the creator of the CSI, weren't convinced by Katee's auditions. They refused her.

Katee Does Dragon

POSTED BY:  MaxiSpank

Geeks all over the net are abuzz today with the news that Katee is confirmed for Dragon Con this year - August 29th to Sept 1, in Atlanta Georgia. Am I supposed to care? I mean, I live in AUSTRALIA. Anyway it's ages off and something better will no doubt come up for Katee to do in the meantime, so she'll probably bail on it.

Why on earth would people want to congregate to celebrate dragons in any case? Dudes, they're NOT REAL. Unless the con geekers are really into Komodo dragons, in which case they should technically call the thing Lizard Con.

BTW, in case you haven't seen it, this site has a new, highly chaotic picture gallery, which now has about 1,200 pics of Katee. Frightening. (The expose thing is offline at the moment 'cause of a technical glitch on our new host).

In case anyone noticed, we've moved to a new server - no need to change your links. (You can now use teamspank.net as well as teamspank.com BTW). We were on our last server - Host Monster- for a total of 9 painful days. Never go there. Their uptime guarantee was 99.9%, to which TeamSpank says 'pffffffffffffff'.

More collarbone and other Katee observations to come in the next few days. I believe Fats is considering doing a probing essay on the parallels between Starbuck/Leoben and Clarice/Hannibal Lecter. Oh and in the TeamSpank Treehouse Forum, there are a bunch of kewl new skins, to which DJ has added some sensational banners. The iMac skin is a real winner. (Change them at the bottom left of the screen).

One last thing - CSI has long been in a rut and coasting, and I'm glad I'm not gonna have to watch it in the future. It's not worthy - of TeamSpank's time or Katee Sackhoff's.

Katee does a con

Off-Topic But Yeah, Whatever

POSTED BY:  MaxiSpank

I'd just like to take this opportunity, (in this highly, ridiculously inappropriate location), to express my utter dismay and devastation. I am completely crushed. Just moments ago I went to make my first hot chocolate of the year, only to discover that THERE ARE NO MARSHMELLOWS IN THE CUPBOARD!

OMG I want to die. Does anyone have a gun? (They are illegal in Australia but I'm sure that some of you US folks might be able to help out). I could always try auto-erotic asphyxiation I suppose. That could be a fun way to alleviate my sorrow (although it wasn't much fun trying to spell it correctly).

Forgive me for sharing my sadness with you all, but I just felt compelled to express my disappointment on a worldwide stage, such is its profound intensity. No marshmellows. I just cannot believe it. I truly want to die. I think I'd rather watch Maelstrom again and see Starbuck blow up into a zillion tiny pieces than drink a hot chocolate with NO MARSHMELLOWS. Woe is me.

I supppose I should get this pathetic ramble back on track by way of mentioning that there were happy times this week on BSG. Of course Cally croaked it, which is something that most BSG fans have been hoping for since Season 1 when she turned from a loveable rogue into an insufferable whinger in the space of one smack to the jawline. But the truly wonderous news is that there was TOTAL COLLABONE EXPOSURE. FatApolloLoveSpank has apparently been in a mad frenzy ever since and I believe she has already penned the 3rd installment to the BSG Season 4 Collarbone Companion Series, so look out for that in a couple of days. She's already done wonders this season with not a lot of source material to draw from, so one can only imagine what Fats is going to pull out of the hat since she's no longer dealing with Total Collarbone Block.

On a side note, speaking about 'worldwide stages' just reminded me to pass on that Katee Sackhoff - you are very big in Mauritius. I am able to look at the site stats for who is visiting TeamSpank HQ and yep you are a winner in Mauritius, Katee. Of course Katee is getting by far the most hits from the US, but strangely Mauritius was fourth or fifth on the list. I'll have to post all of that stuff here in a couple of days - it's very interesting. People from over 25 countries frequent the site.

I can also see which Google search terms lead people to TeamSpank HQ and frankly one or two of them made me double over in hysterics. My personal favourite was "Mary McDonnell Nude". (Just so you know, there are NO photographs of a partially clad Mary McDonnell displayed anywhere on this site).

New Stuff

POSTED BY: MaxiSpank

Here are some more updates to the site, shock horror.

• 3ripleSpank (TripleSpank) has just added some< a href="http://www.teamspank.net/teamspank/index.php?view=article&catid=75%3Apicspam&id=291%3Absg-season-4-triplepicspam-ep1&option=com_content&Itemid=9"> BSG Season 4 Starbuck Picspam.
• In case you missed it, Fats (FatApolloLoveSpank) added her 2nd installment of the BSG Season 4 Collarbone companion series a few days ago - "The Struggle For Freedom". There should be another one on the way in a couple of days. Tell ya what, we are going to be in deep shit if there is no apparent collarbone in this episode. Fats is already very fragile as a result of the Malicious Collarbone Obstruction that pervaded the last two Eps, and I think its gonna get pretty damn ugly if there is total Collarbone Block in this one as well.

Note to Katee Sackhoff: could you please, please have a heart and maybe randomly expose your collarbone at least once per episode until the show winds up? Cause honestly if you don't, then we are going to have to section Fats pretty soon. Do you really want that on your conscience? (That's a pretty dumb question hey - I mean this is the chick who cruelly inflicted "The Last Sentinel" on her poor unsuspecting fans. She is obviously some kind of fan sadist).

• DJ (LittleSpank) has added an article entitled "The Secret Language of Awesome" regarding Katee Sackhoff's golden interview technique. DJ is currently preparing an extensive list of Katee's more memorable interview quotes. I believe she has 7 pages worth so far - there is just no end to it.
• I'm actually planning on adding some soundbite/audio samples from interviews - stuff like "can I touch it?" and "I guess you now know my technique" but that would probably mean Katee's publicist would have to hunt me down and eat my first born. That should be ok though - I don't have any kids.
• DJ also has a couple of articles entitled "There goes Kara Thrace - walking through the back of the screen" that look at some of the episodes where Starbuck is grossly underused. (Anything less than 95% of screen time is completely unacceptable of course).

Oh there is some actual news - Katee Sackhoff will be apparently attending the Wizard World Philadelphia con from May 30 - June 1. I bet they're paying her a shitload. Unfortunately this news isn't much good to Spankers, who all still believe that 'con' refers to a criminal activity. Not to worry - Katee 'll probably cancel in any case.
No Spanker has ever actually attended a con, but there's always a first time for everything. Is Philadelphia near New York, because if so, Katee's collarbone might be in serious peril. Fats may well make a run at her and try to lick it. Keep that sucker under lock and key Katee.

Chops

POSTED BY:  MaxiSpank

 

Some may say that TeamSpankers are biased about Katee Sackhoff's acting ability because we are her fans and our judgement is clouded. To that I would respond that we choose to be her fans BECAUSE of her amazing acting gift and that we wouldn't be anywhere near as interested in her if she didn't blow us away with her acting. So (in the words of Katee herself) - put that in your pipe and smoke it!

The following are some TeamSpanker reflections on Katee's performances in the new BSG seasion. (Katee must not be allowed to read any of this - we wouldn't want her head to swell).

Here's a little effort by FatApolloLoveSpank, from our little watering hole, The Treehouse. I believe this was written immediately after Fats watched "Six of One" and her enthusiasm is pretty damn infectious ...

"what got me was right after adama choked her out and she was like, half-laughing half-crying...right before she did the screaming thing. oh my god. i flipped. and then at the end when adama was watching her and she was just lying there kinda sobbing "go back..." really quietly. like she was in pain. oh man. katee rocks my world. seriously. her acting chops are like.....WURD.
and, i'm sorry, that scene with her and roslin at the beginning. one of the best scenes in the show i've ever seen. it was so fucked up and katee did SUCH a good job. really. i loved it. like, that scenario could not have played out any better.
plus, she got MANHANDLED TO THE BRIG! WURD!!!!!...
...i want to marry katee sackhoff and her acting chops. fureal".

And here's a post "Six of One" reflection from SwimSpank:

i need an entire post just to say

katee sackhoff is the most brillant actor

ive ever seen

and this episode is proof

I would also like to add my own little nugget. I listened to part of the Bionic Woman commentary the other day, and David Eick (exec producer of BSG and Bionic) had this to say:

"Katee is probably pound for pound the best pure actor on Battlestar Galactica".

At TeamSpank HQ there's a lot of Katee Sackhoff piss taking going on (only cause she's so fun and also cause she's been in some really shite films that make 'taking the piss' very easy), but let's face it - no-one can deny her incredible acting gift. Phenomenal.

For more measured reflections on the new season of Battlestar, head to The Treehouse. Oh, and don'f forget, Fats' new 'Collarbone' review will be up shortly. Not that I was really paying attention in "Six of One", (cause I was swept away by the plot and Katee's amazing acting chops), but my gut tells me it's going to be dark times for Katee's collarbone this week. No shagging, no sportsbra, no pushups - ergo, no collarbone. Where are they hiding that sucker?

Updates

POSTED BY:  MaxiSpank

 

So I think we can probably move on from the birthday thing safely now, before that card on the front page drives all to the shrink and the drink.

Here are a few new site addition thingos you really need to know about:

• The Sackhoff Gold page has been updated with a particularly shameful addition.

• In other earth shattering news, FatApolloLoveSpank has announced that she will be writing an episodic, tent-pole series based on her groundbreaking Katee Sackhoff piece, "Collarbone". Fats has informed us that for each new episode of Battlestar Galactica Season 4, she will be writing a companion piece detailing the trials and tribulations of Katee's collarbone in that episode, as it endeavors to overcome that pesky flight suit and the Malicious Collarbone Obstruction that results. Dark times.

Fats' Collarbone reviews can be found in the Katee Reviews section, from the Katee menu. The first one is now posted for your viewing pleasure - that is if you are as depraved and unhinged as the rest of us and get a kick out of that sort of thing. (The Collarbone things are sick but they are bloody funny).

How is it that I am far more curious about what Katee Sackhoff would feel about Fats perving on her collarbone than I am about what happened to Starbuck after she blew into a million bits?

 

Note to Fats: I'm just a little curious about your review/s in the week/s where Katee doesn't appear in the episode at all. What will happen? That's got to be like the ultimate Malicious Collarbone Obstruction, wouldn't you say? Actually I think you need to come up with a new term for that occurrence, 'cause "Malicious" just isn't going to cut the mustard when that happens.

Shame, Shame, Shame

POSTED BY: MaxiSpank

So the momentous interview has come and gone. You can have a listen here.
So what were you dudes thinking? Are you on crack? You can't diss the poor chick with your very first (totally bogus) question. That's just all kinds of wrong. You threw Katee off her game for like the first 20 minutes of the interview. Shame, Shame, Shame.

Katee Sackhoff, just so you know, TeamSpankers have spent an unhealthy amount of time reading up on you in the last couple of weeks just cause we've been putting this TeamSpank site together. None of us have come across one shred of evidence that anyone called you 'pissy'. Cort and Fatboy are just being tools. We even did a google search for the words 'katee sackhoff pissy'. Nada. (There were a couple of references to Sarah Corvus being pissy, but only in the nicest possible way). It was probably just some loser in some obscure nerd forum frequented by 15 year old dorks with bad skin and Cort & Fatboy. They probably were just having a whinge cause they still haven't come to terms with Starbuck being a girl, but then they haven't hit puberty yet so that's understandable. So rest easy. It's a complete load of bollocks.

Dudes, you threw her off her game. Unbelievable. You're lucky she didn't hang up and run away to cry.

We'd also like to give a shout out to Katee's brother who is apparently 'thrilled' by the TeamSpank thing (Katee, were you just being sarcastic?Also, does that mean you're not thrilled? ) Katee's brother, (Eric?) , just so you know - "Spank" is a reserved word in these parts. It is reserved for you.

Oh one more thing - TeamSpankers are still beside themselves that Katee quoted from Anchorman. They are currently in a frenzy about it. Too awesome.
In other news, there have been more additions to the site:

• Katee Exposé - this is a flash gallery in the Pics & Media section. It's just getting started.
• Katee Vids - there are a lot more videos added. Many more interviews, a random vids section, a con vids section and a Thracian vids section (vids edited by a TeamSpanker).
• The Initiation - a new feature in the TeamSpank? section
• More Reviews - yeah, whatever.
• The Treehouse - the TeamSpank forum that is going off. There were over 5000 posts just in the "Katee Appreciation" thread in the first week. Dudes we have to turn off the computer and venture outside occasionally. That's just wrong.
• Sackhoff Gold - in the Pics & Media section. I'm not sure I want to mention this actually, give the current shame of Cort & Fatboy. Tsk, tsk tsk!

 

Momentous News

POSTED BY: MaxiSpank

 

In perhaps the most momentous, happiest news that TeamSpank has heard for the past 6 months, it has been announced that Katee Sackhoff will be appearing in a new radio interview with Cort & Fatboy this Friday, prior to the launch of Battlestar Galactica Season 4.

Happy times for TeamSpankers!!!

We just have a couple of simple requests - could someone please forcibly lock the Battlestar publicist in the boot of her car for the duration of this interview, so that we can enjoy Katee Sackhoff in all her unbridled splendor. Also, could we make it a long one please?

Cort & Fatboy

Honorary Lifetime Official TeamSpank Members

for services to the cause

Gentlemen, on behalf of the entire global TeamSpank constituency, we humbly thank you. We are your servants until the end of time.

Car Keys and More Vid Interviews

POSTED BY:  MaxiSpank

Yo guys - has anyone seen my car keys?

OMG I'm going to be so late! HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By the way, the third part of the EW interview, (the one with the Come FrakMeBoots, extensions, oil & cleavage) , is now online.

You can see the whole interview at the Katee Vid Interviews page on this site.
Katee Sackhoff on corsets: "I think I like confining wardrobe".
Such a funny munchkin.

Oh one more thing - we've had to activate the word censors at the TeamSpank Forum because the language has been getting a little out of hand. I think you'll find that the censored words aren't quite the ones you'd expect though. (Let's just say that the 'original' Starbuck actor doesn't get off lightly).

TeamSpank HQ - cyberhome to
the loyal, the devoted and the immature.

Great New Interview

POSTED BY:  MaxiSpank

There's a really good new print interview with Katee - From Battlestar to Bionic - in BostonNow. They rated her their No #2 entertainer of the year for 2007. (Dudes, you ripped her off).

The interview has some moments of vintage Sackhoff gold in it. Like when she's asked about the final season of Battlestar and somehow she manages to turn that into a conversation about dancing and singing around the house to an Alyssa Milano exercise video! Awesome stuff.

It's nice to hear some vintage Katee again. TeamSpankers are getting very sensitive to the fact that sometimes she obviously has her BSG publicist standing about 2 feet away ready to gag her with gaffa tape. She's so much more fun without the publicist hanging over head - an interview goldmine.

Additions to the site are coming thick and fast. There is another (Bionic) picspam by TripleSpank that's been added, a Last Sentinel review of sorts, loads of Convention related videos and quite a few other things I can't remember. Katee Sackhoff really needs to read "The Last Sentinel" review. She needs to do penance for inflicting that film on us.

There's also the brand new TeamSpank HQ Forum, which is on fire. All are welcome, but be warned - the language there is appalling. The forum admins are DJ (LittleSpank) and Fats (FatApolloLoveSpank), and they set the standard for behaviour there. Anarchy rules OK! It is excellent therapy to visit "The Last Sentinel Anti-Appreciation Thread", just to have a bit of a vent and try to get it out of your system. It's going to take us all a long, long time to get over that one. "The Katee Sackhoff Appreciation Thread III" is the main hangout though - where Spankers congregate 24/7 for random gossip interspersed with focused Katee S discussion. Come and join the fun. (Click on the last page in the thread- that's where the Spankers will be). You can have live chats in the forum as well if you click on the SpankChat link at the top right.

Oh, there is also some new stuff in "The Gutter" - which only registered users have access to, because that stuff is not fit for public consumption. A couple of the cateogies in "The Gutter" are entiteld "The Smut Receptacle" and "Too Much Information" - you get the picture.

Good spanking to you and yours,

Maxi