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."
Re:Also Stargate SG1 & Atlantis! (Score:0, Insightful)
That only applies when your target audience is made of of people who have lives. Not dateless sci-fi nerds.
Re:Also Stargate SG1 & Atlantis! (Score:4, Insightful)
I think it depends on the demographic you are after. I don't think they are shooting for 18-24 year partiers;-)
Who cares? (Score:1, Insightful)
Nothing new under the sun... (Score:5, Insightful)
I wish these London playhouses would spend enough resources to bring in some truly creative people and get some new ideas rather than just rehashing the same old stories over and over and over again. I mean, really, how many more beatings can this dead horse really take?
Tape Atlantis, so you can skip the bad parts (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm waiting till about season 3, if the crew hasn't gelled by then it will be off my list completely.
Sean
Re:The classics preventing innovation? (Score:5, Insightful)
BUT (huge but)
This show is the exception. After watching this, seeing the old show would be like watching a disney version of "A Clockwork Orange". The new BSG is so much more than the old show. I'm sorry, Glen Larsen had great ideas, but the production never lived up. This is how the show should have been done from the beginning! Dramatic, epic, lots of intrigue and suspense.
And I don't think Dr. Who is a remake. More of a continuation. There have been, like, a bajillion of those guys. I think the BBC just took it out of mothballs and brushed it off. Kinda like what "Enterprise" was to "Star Trek".
Who Cares? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Also Stargate SG1 & Atlantis! (Score:3, Insightful)
(never mind that the story doesn't depend on how the spaceships move).
Give BSG a chance. It's the best SciFi that I've seen this DECADE.
Re:am i the only one? (Score:2, Insightful)
Budget (Score:2, Insightful)
It still doesn't get any better than Sci-fi Friday.
Re:Also Stargate SG1 & Atlantis! (Score:3, Insightful)
Oh, and by the way, they're thirsty too.
Re:The classics preventing innovation? (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, except Dr. Who doesn't suck.
The Weapons are realistic (Score:5, Insightful)
Oh, Babylon 5 was one of the few good ones also. The way they tracked the beam weapons and sliced things up was believable and cool.
Galactica is so good it's made me an ex-trekkie (Score:1, Insightful)
That I haved turned in my Klingon language guide, am ebaying all my Trek action figures and collectible and no longer sign in on the Trek forums. It's made me forget how bad Enerprise was.
It's that good.
Galactica is what Trek should have been.
Re:Also Stargate SG1 & Atlantis! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Also Stargate SG1 & Atlantis! (Score:5, Insightful)
So, sure, water in some form is abundant in space/planets, etc. But they need water "now", and probably dont' have facilities to collect hydrogen/oxygen to make water, or to do a "moisture vaporator thing" - they had to support some 45,000 people - they had to get it fast, and worry about being caught by cylons on top of all that.
Hell... the colonel was upset that the water they found was salty - aparently they couldn't deal with even that.
So now you're on a search for potable water - and that has to be much more rare than water in any form. And it has to be in large quantities - and somewhat accessible in a quick manner.
I mean, imagine you're just 100 people, crashed in eastern Afghanistan, and you're being hunted by Taliban. Oh yeah, and you don't have enough water to get anywhere. So, sure, you could set up all kinds of ways to collect water - even in an erid environment. But, few of those will lend themselves well to being on the run and resource-poor.
It's really not that much of a stretch.
Re:Dark and Gloomy (Score:2, Insightful)
In the show timeline they are only something like a month out from the END OF THE WORLD as they knew it. Try and put yourselves in their shoes. How much fun are you going to be having if your entire world has been destroyed, billions of people killed, and you're running for your very life from beings bent on destroying you?
This is serious TV. I was left mentally exhausted by many eposides last season. They dealt with so many issues that have relevance to many topics in present day life.
BSG is the best thing on TV, period.
Re:Dark and Gloomy (Score:2, Insightful)
There is a quote that goes something like 'the only thing new in this world is the history you don't know'...I think it's from Harry Truman.
That can be exteneded to fiction. It gives us the opportunity to think 'what if' about a number of scenarios. You get to try things out, see an example of how people might react, see how it might play out. In the case where it applies to a real world scenario, you may have already seen the effects of what not to do, and take a different path.
It's entertainment and it's educational all in one shot. How cool is that?
Re:The Weapons are realistic (Score:1, Insightful)