First look at new Battlestar Galactica Episodes 225
mikrorechner writes "GateWorld has had a look on five new episodes of the upcoming season 2 of Battlestar Galactica. Beware of spoilers. In other news, season 2 will be shown first in the US by the Sci-Fi Channel starting July 15, with UK's Sky One following in October." If only UHD would simulcast in HD this would be perfect.
Epsiodes? (Score:2)
Oh how I wish they would come out with a VR reality game for this! Imagine, a 3D game for Battlestar Galactica! :)
Re:Epsiodes? (Score:3, Funny)
Better watch out though, it'll cause hallucinations.
Re:Epsiodes? (Score:2)
You say that like it's a bad thing.
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Torrent? (Score:5, Funny)
*ducks*
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*ducks*
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*ducks*
Evidence (Score:4, Informative)
CNN [cnn.com]
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Beer, Moose, Hockey, Sex!?! (Score:2)
An inebriated Mickey Redmond walks into a bar along. The bartender says, "You look depressed." Mickey replies "I think I'm going to have a baby." Bartender asks, "So what's the problem?" Mickey replies "Well, she wants to name it Mickey Moose."
To get back on-topic, though...
Boomer walks into a bar. The bartende
Re:Beer, Moose, Hockey, Sex!?! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Torrent? (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Torrent? (Score:4, Funny)
You're dithpicable.
Re:Torrent? (Score:4, Funny)
*geese*
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Interesting (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Interesting (Score:4, Interesting)
OK, I can understand a simultaneous broadcast, but why doe the UK have to act as testers for the program, and then have to wait an additional 4 months because the test went well???
Karma be dammed, I'm going to download these episodes and boycott the TV showings. The UK are NOT second class consumers despite what the studios believe.
Re:Interesting (Score:2)
same here. I'll buy it if you want to sell me it, but I won't beg.
Re:Interesting (Score:3, Insightful)
same here. I'll buy it if you want to sell me it, but I won't beg.
Christ when will they get it. Newsflash: the intarweb makes the entire world one big market, and we laugh at the attempts to use 20th century notions of regionalism on us.
How about you try to change your models to accomodate piracy, instead of just whinge about it? 'Cause it has been amply demonstrated by now that there is no technical or legislative fix. The only way to manage piracy is by changing the demand structure, which, believ
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The networks just haven't brought their marketing department to the realization that cnosumers now have a choice in this matter now.
I'll watch the first 10 on sci fi, but after that it may well be that I'll download the rest, as I don't feel like waiting 3 months to resolv
Re:Interesting (Score:4, Informative)
The show was very expensive. To mitigate risk, SciFi asked SkyOne to split the costs with them. SkyOne said fine but we get to show it first in exchange for helping you out.
Now for season 2, SciFi is confident and probably didn't need any help funding it. As a result SkyOne gets to wait for syndication like everybody else.
Re:Interesting (Score:2)
I am sure that if SKY ONE would pony up the money they could show it at the same time.
If not just torrent it. Frankly I am surprised they do not show it at the same time. Seems a much better solution to the download problem. I mean if you can watch it before you can download it what is the point?
Re:Interesting (Score:2, Informative)
ciao
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Set your TiVos on stun... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Set your TiVos on stun... (Score:2)
No kidding! I've got every episode on my drive until it comes out on DVD. I can't believe a date still hasn't even been announced for the release of season 1 when it has been out overseas for months. I'm not pirating, I'm just impatient and want my copy now. I'm definitely anxious to get it on DVD 16:9 and free up a few gigs of space.
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It's not that easy... (Score:4, Informative)
Kjella
Re:It's not that easy... (Score:2)
+5 Insightful (Score:3, Interesting)
There is no excuse not to broadcast shows that already have a UK distributor in the UK at the same time as in the US. I'm quite happy to sit through adverts if something is worth watching; but I'm not going to wait months for a show that's available as a torrent.
Re:+5 Insightful (Score:2)
BSG season 2 is reported to be 20 episodes, just like the Stargate series. Additionally, they all premiere on the same date, July 15th, so what SciFi will do is fairly obvious. All 3 shows are going to be played together, so that they will end up going on break after the 10th episode airs, meaning that Australia/Canada/England should all end up ahead of the US at the end, just li
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Re:Set your TiVos on stun... (Score:3, Insightful)
If only... (Score:5, Insightful)
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Season 1 DVD [amazon.co.uk], or would you prefer the Mini Series [amazon.co.uk] first?
Playaholics: Play LightingPool [playaholics.com]
Oh, and this crappy capatcha system is b0rked, ffs
Re:If only... (Score:3, Funny)
DVD player that will play UK DVDs: 20 quid (guess).
Plane ticket to London: 500 quid.
Seeing Season 1 of BSG before season 2 comes out: Priceless.
Re:If only... (Score:3, Funny)
Avoiding the London fog: Priceless
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Believing a hundred year old stereotype. Priceless!
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Don't reply with spoilers please... (Score:2)
if you need to kill someone, kill that alcoholic 2nd in charge. he was just a bit boring and had a slut for a wife.
Not Captain, Commander! (Score:2)
Captain Adama's his Viper pilot son, aka Apollo. Check out the character list [scifi.com] over at Scifi.
UHD? Please Expand (Score:2)
-theGreater.
Re:UHD? Please Expand (Score:2)
UHD ran the entire first season in HD shortly after its run on Scifi.
spoilers!! (Score:5, Informative)
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Shown first in the US? (Score:2, Troll)
I think I speak for all UK Slashdotters when I say... bollocks.
But seriously (and no doubt unpopularly), why? Like the US doesn't get enough of the good stuff first, now Sky's giving away one of the few programs we get to premier? Bastards.
Re:Shown first in the US? (Score:3, Insightful)
It was a tough few months not downloading those episodes. I wanted the show to survive here in the US. Though I can't understand why they won't show them in both countries at the same time considering how successful they were, unless Sci-Fi paid more to get a 'world' exclusive
Re:Shown first in the US? (Score:2)
Are you aware of how the rating system actually works? Did you call up the SciFi channel to let them know that your TV was on and tuned to their station? You should at least have let them know if you wanted to be counted. It doesn't happen automagically.
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Re:Shown first in the US? (Score:2, Troll)
Oh bollocks, What does the US get that's better than what you have in the UK? Lost? Surivivor? Fear Factor? Big Brother? There are 4 (sometimes 5) shows I watch a week. SG1, Atlantis, CSI and Battlestar Galactica. Everything else I consider trash at this point. I would much rather have access to the BBC programming than anyth
Re:Shown first in the US? (Score:2)
It's already been "ported across the pond". Both ponds, in fact: Dr Who airs on both Canadian and Australian television, and none of that 3-months-later bullshit either. At least in Canada, it's a mere two weeks behind.
Re:Shown first in the US? (Score:2, Insightful)
Indeed. I will therefore be downloading it.
I might have not bothered downloading it if there was less than a month difference between US and UK.
I would even not download it if they released the season on DVD in the UK within a month of the US showings. Yes, I'd PAY FOR IT.
Let's see, I have a choice between:
waiting three months (and being spoilered to fsck)
and
three megabit per second download
HDTV? (Score:3, Informative)
One of the nice things about downloading the Brit Sky torrents was the fact that they were in hi-def.
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The Canadian downloads have been the cleanest. They don't have that annoying SciFi logo in the lower right corner of the screen. I've seen the Sky One logo on their feeds in the upper left corner, but it's not as annoying as SciFi's.
There have been HDTV torrents of Stargate Atlantis and Battle Star Galactica, but I don't know the origin of the broadcast source.
Universal's HD channel (Score:2)
UHD.. looks like it's there (Score:3, Informative)
Re:UHD.. looks like it's there (Score:2)
UHD has been advertising Season 2 forever. (Score:3, Interesting)
An offer to help (Score:3, Funny)
Notice the Google ads? (Score:3, Informative)
I bet the MPAA would blow an artery if they saw that.
what about the writers? (Score:3, Interesting)
I hope they have axed Carla Robinson and Jeff Flaming and hopefully even Bradley Thompson and David Weddle from the writer lineup. They suck. They aren't science fiction writers and can't write. They are responsible for the only bad episodes in season one. And why in the name of god is it necessary to use a different writer for each episode? It's so fracking stupid. Obviously the episodes are going to be uneven if you do that.
David Eick, RDM, and Michael Angeli should be doing all the writing. They actually know how to write. Toni Graphia is not that bad either. I pray to the Lords of Cobol that these folks will be doing all the writing for season 2. We don't need any more filler episodes like Secrets and Lies or You Can't Go Home Again. I'd rather have fewer episodes and better writing.
Richard Hatch ? (Score:4, Funny)
Is that that Richard Hatch?? Fat naked gay survivor winner Richard Hatch?
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Get used to the American Theme Music ;) (Score:2)
Or, um, my friend says he was used to that music.
Whatever he means by that
Re:Finally some good Sci Fi (Score:2)
BSG had only 15 made because they were reluctant to commit to more without knowing if it would be a hit or not. "Star Trek" lived on a huge amount of television innertia: oddly enough, each season was better than the one before. "Firefly" I do not care about, and agree with the cancellation decision: I could barely watch 1/2 hour of the pilot.
Re:Finally some good Sci Fi (Score:2)
Which, according to the commentary on the DVD, was duplicated in the first episode, as it was filmed first, and the "pilot" was done later, and that had to have exposition because it was the "pilot." So they ended up with two episodes full of exposition.
Third times the charm (Score:2)
So they ended up with two episodes full of exposition.
And we're likely to get a whole 'nother run through for the first 20 minutes of the movie. Joss must be getting tired of telling the same story, paraphrased.
Re:Finally some good Sci Fi (Score:2)
Re:Finally some good Sci Fi (Score:2, Informative)
I lay copyright on the word "MBAssholes".
Re:Why must... (Score:5, Informative)
On BBC1 every saturday night slap bang in the middle of prime time viewing?
Re:Why must... (Score:2)
I really hope they put stuff back in for the DVDs when they come out!
And don't forget the handy Sunday repeat (BB3 or 4 at 7pm).
Re:Why must... (Score:3, Insightful)
You left out an important part of SciFi's programming: made-for-TV-movies about giant bugs/worms/vermins attacking redneck towns. Mansquito, Tremors, Mant.... if it squirms or crawls, you can bet some guy in a John Deere cap is ready to shoot it in a blaze of fakey CGI bug-ichor. Seriously, the channel devotes way too much time to this "genr
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My theory is that they're ramping up to create a new MST3K. At least... one can only hope. But the majority of those Sci-Fi Original Movies fall into the "so bad they'
most science fiction is today (Score:2)
Re:Why must... (Score:2)
Because there are only 20 episodes [scifi.com] of the original? SciFi would have two choices: either run the episodes once a night every night or once a week for twenty weeks.
After you've run the episodes, then what? Repeat them?
Also, if you'll notice along the left side of the page I linked, right below the picture of Darren McGavin, there is a link from October of 2004 which says that ABC is in the process of remaking the Night Stalker series. Oh wait, that
I'm sorry but ... (Score:4, Interesting)
I mean, you're using Sliders as a basis for judging what constitiutes good sci-fi? Really? Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan, but highbrow entertainment it aint.
Personally I think it's a pretty good time for Sci-fi at the moment. The Serenity movie's coming out soon, Dr Who is on TV again (and it's awesome), I'm loving BSG so far, and lots of people are getting excited over Lost and Atlantis, not that I've watched either.
Looking back to last year, when the world looked pretty grim - no Buffy, no Angel, Firefly and Farscape cancelled and seemingly nothing rushing in to fill the void - I'm grateful for what we're getting now, and I want more.
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You're calling BSG a rehash but you're looking for more Doctor Who? This isn't a crack on Dr. Who, just a warning that if you want to crack on BSG you should at least have a reason that you don't contradict in the very next sentence.
TW
Save your energy - Buy the DVD's (Score:2)
Re:Save your energy - Buy the DVD's (Score:2)
My personal least favorite is Space: 1999. Even the premise of that show is utterly moronic, and the effects are worse. (Ok, the Eagle moon lander is a cool design, but most effects on that show sucked.) Buck Rogers maybe didn't have "thinking man's" plots, but it was fun and the effects were good for the time.
Re:Why must... (Score:2)
You did conveniently forget to mention Stargate SG-1, which started on Showtime, and has not been ruined, cancelled, or changed much at all for that matter. The ignorance of one sided Puritanism shows its ugly head again on the dot.
I like Battlestar. I like the direction they've taken it in; dark, sexy, mysterious, it's good tv any way you cut it. I would like to see more.
Re:Why must... (Score:2)
Have you even seen the show? Battlestar Galactica is anything but crappy, and rehashed. In my opinion, it's a very original show with terrific stories and high production values.
And tons of decent sci-fi out there? The vast majority of it is crap, in my opinion.
Re:Why must... (Score:2)
Yikes, thanks for the warning.
(I know I took them out of their context, but I loved the way those two fragments clashed. Of course there's room in futuristic fiction for positive and negative visions, and we can find both engaging.)
Re:Why must... (Score:2)
Actually, this goes to the point of what the grandparent was getting at: MST3k was originally on Comedy Central (actually, it was originally on KTMA but we dont need to go into that) and Scifi pretty much just ruined and cancelled it.
Re:Why must... (Score:2)
The real problem is that sometimes they showed movies that really weren't all that bad at all. If you watch, say, "I Accuse My Parents" in isolation, sure it's no Hitchcock, but it's not a bad movie either. They should have done some more weird Japanese imports.
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"This is literally the proverbial rock and a hard place".
That one got lots of raves like yours.
Re:NOT FUNNY: Proposed Plot for Next Episode (Score:2)