Battlestar Galactica Season 2 Premiere 492
fanblade writes "As if slashdotters needed another reason to stay home on a Friday night, the 20-episode second season of Battlestar Galactica premieres tonight at 10/9C on the Sci Fi Channel. The series, a 're-imagining' of the original 1978 TV series by the same name, made history as the highest-rated original Sci Fi Channel program ever. The first episode of the second season, 'Scattered', won't be televised in the UK until October, but I seriously doubt that will be a problem for the show that 'killed broadcast TV'. There's also excellent coverage on Wikipedia for those eager to brush up or catch up on the first season."
Also Stargate SG1 & Atlantis! (Score:5, Informative)
Podcast commentary (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Also Stargate SG1 & Atlantis! (Score:3, Informative)
But ignoring the difficulties of separating oxygen, you don't need to; water is everywhere that's not too close to a big star, abundantly, on the surface of bodies of all sizes, extending miles deep or all the way through.
Commentary podcast for this episode... (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Also Stargate SG1 & Atlantis! (Score:3, Informative)
Sounds like an ideal evening. However, at my age, I substitute "bed" for "town", and add "If I can get the toddlers to bed before 8 at the beginning".
Re:Also Stargate SG1 & Atlantis! (Score:4, Informative)
They had about 50,000 people that needed water. I don't disagree that water is common, and it could have been manufactured, but is harnessing some water from, say, one comet going to be enough for the 50,000 to replace their tanks of 60% they lost.
To quote TFS:
"Baltar: I've calculated that the rate of consumption regarding basic foodstuffs for the civilian population, this is based on information available to me at the time. The current civilian population of 45,265 will require, at minimum, 82 tons of grain, 85 tons of meat, 119 tons of fruit, 304 tons of vegetables and... 2.5 million jps of water."
According to TFS, that's per week. Galactica lost 10million jps from the explosion. I don't think comets or even manufacturing could have cured the thirst.
P.S. I don't know what a jps is, or even if it's a real term. I assume it's fake and that it's roughly equivalent to a gallon.
I think BSG SUCKS! (Score:1, Informative)
The show fucking sucks.
DVDs at Best Buy (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Friday's are throw away slots (Score:5, Informative)
Good geeks know of this mystical device called "the VCR", which can record one show while you watch another. In fact, just about everyone knows about the mighty VCR, and owns one to boot!
But even better geeks know of "BitTorrent", for those times when you forget to set the VCR. Or for catching up on shows that you didn't clue in on until the second or third season. This is how my wife and I got up to speed on West Wing, Alias, and yes - even CSI! Without BitTorrent to provide the seasons we'd missed (not big TV fans) we'd never have watched the shows on regular TV. We hate jumping into shows mid-stream.
Of course, we didn't bother with BitTorrent until BSG aired in Britain. That was the straw that broke the camel's back for us. But once we took the leap...well, there's really no going back. We watch more TV now than we have in decades. If we happen to miss an episode, so what? We can always catch it with a download and be on track again before the next week's episode airs.
No doubt the network goons will soon be kicking in my door for these public admissions. It won't matter that we watch MORE TV now, only that we've used BitTorrent in acts of "piracy"....
Max
Re:Is it on in Canada??? (Score:3, Informative)
That'll be just fine, as long as everyone on the internet promises not to talk about BSG on any forum or blog until then... okay?
Arrgh. I think BitTorrent is about to become much more popular in Canada.
Re:Proof there is life after ST- DS9 etc. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Also Stargate SG1 & Atlantis! (Score:1, Informative)
2,5 million jps for 45265 persons gives about 55 jps per person per week, or some 8 jps per day.
Leave out showers and stuff like that a person can live easily with a few litres (a gallon a day). My not-so-educated guess would be that a jps is perhaps between a 1/4th or a 1/8 of a gallon.
Re:Proof there is life after ST- DS9 etc. (Score:3, Informative)
Uh, as an actor who has done TV, movies, and radio, let me tell you that the people who do voice-only work _well_ are definately acting.
In fact, they're often far better than people who don't do VO work. why? because the people who do it are used to telling the entire story, and showing the entire range of the character with... get this!
Hard to believe, but it's true!
Just ask some real actors...
Re:Also Stargate SG1 & Atlantis! (Score:3, Informative)
That's not the point. Again, you didn't pay attention.
They needed an atmosphere to support the manual labor they needed to operate the cobbled-together systems - they didn't have the automated equipment. That is what put them in the risky political situation of having to convince the convicts to cooperate and provide a labor force to purify the water before they put it into the ship filters, which were designed only to remove human-generated pollutants.
It's not about the water per se, it's about the labor-intensive processing pipeline they were stuck with and the water being in the environment they needed into order to support that pipeline.
A Note to the "I HATE BSG" Crowd... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Podcast commentary == MP3 (Score:2, Informative)
Podcast == Audio(mp3 or aac or ogg) + XML (RSS)
The difference being that the podcast was automatically downloaded and synced to my iPod when I put it in the cradle last night.