Battlestar Galactica

The next episode of the best show on TV is out.

I’ll avoid spoilers, but um… darn…

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Next Episode of Battlestar Galactica is Online

Apr 12th

The next episode of Battlestar Galactica, the best show on TV is online (with limited commercial interruptions…)
I haven’t seen it yet but hope to today with Sara after she’s up…

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Best Show on TV is Back

Apr 11th

I forgot to say, the best show on TV is back! Battlestar Galactica returns for its fourth season.
Here is the full episode.

A very good episode I thought.

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Get Lost for Two More Seasons

May 5th

It apparently will be announced soon that Lost will end after two more seasons. The producers have long said the story would take 5 to 7 seasons to tell in full. ABC and the producers have reached an agreement on how long to give the story to finish out, which apparently works out to 2 more seasons (the exact number of episodes and seasons is apparently “complex,” so perhaps they’ll call it a single season with lots of extra episodes compared to normal). This is a good development. If ABC has given the green light to finish the story properly and committed to two more seasons, this means the producers can pace out the mysteries having a known end date in sight.
I have to say, I have been very impressed with Lost ever since the return from the break. They have been answering some of the longer standing questions while opening new mysteries They have also shown that the people are talking to each other off camera, answering the long standing complaint that it didn’t seem the Losties talked to one another about what was going on. The explanation is that it would be even more irritating having to watch them talk about stuff the viewers already know. Exposition on stuff the audience knows would be worse than seeing them talk, letting us know they are talking about the stuff on the island off camera at least clears up the fact they are indeed talking.
EDIT: I just saw that the return date may be delayed to 2008. That is too long a break, don’t do it ABC. I don’t care if we get all the episodes left in one big set or not, don’t make us wait until 2008.

Meanwhile Heroes, long a very good show is coming on strong as one of the best shows on TV.
Battlestar Galactica continued to be one of the best shows on TV, though with the recent developments on Lost and Heroes, it might not be #1 anymore. It however won’t return until 2008. I am not sure who’s idea that was, but it looks like it will be the last season for it, which is why the order for episodes went to a full season instead of the half(ish) season that was originally ordered. 2008 is too long a break IMHO.

I have mixed feeling on the big break, big run nature of TV seasons of late. It is nice that we don’t have to have a ton of repeats during the whole season, but a long break from October or something to February makes for a long time to wait. However, it does break the season into two or three nice chunks which works out nice as well. I think it is probably better for the networks, since during the break of one show, they can show something else, allowing for a bigger show rotation schedule. Perhaps have one show start at the “normal” season time, break and return in February and again in May (or run from late February to mid May), then have another show air during the break each season. Some shows are already mid-season starters every year, mid-season is no longer the domain of just new shows to replace failed shows, but the time to return some shows. 24′s schedule is nice in that you get all the episodes week after week without a break, but I don’t think the networks are ready to make that big a move yet for every show, however, the changing nature of the way people watch TV might make it worthwhile for them. TiVo and the other DVRs, and online viewing have changed the traditional rating model, it is just a matter of the networks moving to that rating model from the old watch it live type ratings… even Nelson Ratings have made moves to account for time shifting of shows.
The way I want to do the shows I have in my head? Each episode would be 2 hours long and you get 12 episodes a year, so you still get a full season, but each episode then is sort of a movie and is made to pace accordingly. The read trick would be having stuff to fill the time slot during the other weeks. One solution could be to have four such shows in rotation, week one of the month show A is show, then week 2 show B and so on. During any extra days, some kind of filler stuff, behind the scenes or something. Actually my plan on a couple of them was to release at theaters first, and to get the theaters to go along, I give them a far bigger cut than they normally get from a theatrical movie. This theatrical cut would be longer than the TV cut, and obviously not have commercials. A couple or few weeks later, it goes to TV, at the end of the season the DVD comes out with a longer cut than the theater had on some episodes. Hopefully the theaters could charge their “bargain” price at all showings, even those during their more expensive times, to really help pull people in. Since they get a huge cut of the ticket (for most new movies, they may only get 10% of the ticket, with the rest going to the studio, a couple weeks later they may get 20% then 25% and so on, so the longer a movie lasts the better chance they have of making something off the ticket) they may be willing to price it at bargain prices for all showings. Perhaps cut them 90% of the ticket first week, and 100% the next. Perhaps, to make the theater experience worth while it can be done in Real D, Cameron’s Fusion 3D or one of the other major digital 3D formats. (The premium to see a movie in Digital 3D has to go if the theaters really want to make Digital 3D work.)

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Battlestar Galactica Survivor Counts on the Wiki

Oct 11th

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I still haven’t watched the Season 3 premier yet, so no comments on the episode.

However, rather then track the survivor counts myself, it looks like the Battlestar Wiki is doing a good job of it already (they don’t have the Season 3 premier count in yet, but otherwise a good count). Their Survivor Count page also includes dates and mortality rate information.

Battlestar Galactica at the Peabody Awards

Oct 5th

A video of Battlestar Galactica Executive Producers Ron Moore and David Eick’s acceptance speech.
As to why they keep talking about South Park, you have to see acceptance speech of Trey Parker and Matt Stone (creators of South Park) who mentioned Battlestar Galactica a few time (warning, the F bomb is dropped once).

Battlestar Galactica Season 3 this Friday

Oct 5th

Just a reminder, the best show on TV comes back for season 3 this Friday on Sci-Fi.
If you need to catch up on seasons 1 and 2 watch this video.
Then be sure to go to this page and watch each of the webisodes. The webisodes takes place between season 2 and 3, ~~from the looks of them, just before season 3~~. Each is just a few minutes long counting the commercial for season 3. Having watched the first act of the first episode noted below, it is apparent that not only has a lot happened between season 2 and the webisodes, a lot happens between the webisodes and season 3.
If you want to see the first act (about 12 minutes) of the season premier check this link.

Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance – Webisodes

Sep 7th

How did I miss this happening? I knew they were coming, but somehow missed them showing up. The best show on TV is going to start it’s third season soon, and to hold us over, there will be 10 mini episodes available online each Tuesday and Thursday until the show launches its new season. You can get to them here. (Actually you can get to the current episode, which is episode 2, from their front page, but if you are like me and have to back track some… then you’ll have to use that link.) Click the link for the web episodes and then when the window pops up (you may have a popup blocker, in which case holding your CTRL key will normally allow it to pop up) select which episode you want to watch. Each episode is only 2 and half minutes long or so counting the very cool previews of Season 3… at least the first 2 episodes are.
These episodes take place between Season 2 and the upcoming Season 3 and lead us right into Season 3.
Oh the excitement… “I’ll be in my bunk.”

Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far

Aug 11th

Just in case you have been missing the best show on TV and want to catch up, Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far

Here is when it can be caught:

Sunday, August 13 at 10PM NBC West Coast (following Football)
Monday, August 28 Free On Demand via SCI FI’s cable affiliates
Friday, September 15 at 12AM USA
Sunday, September 17 at 7PM Universal HD
Monday, September 18 at 9AM USA
Friday, September 22 at 8PM Universal HD
Friday, September 22 at 6PM Sleuth
Friday, September 29 at 7PM BRAVO
Saturday, September 30 at 11AM BRAVO
Saturday, September 30 at 4PM Universal HD
September SCIFI.COM’s Pulse
Friday, October 6 at 7PM SCI FI

It will also be available on iTunes and for a first, XBox Live (the online component of the XBox and XBox 360). More airings on Sci-Fi to be announced.
Galactica returns itself 9 October. Still no word on when the new prequel show, Caprica comes out. All we know for sure it seems is that it isn’t an action show.

Battlestar Galactica’s Pulse

Apr 27th

Pulse is an upcoming Broadband Internet channel from the Sci-Fi Channel. It will offer older sci-fi channel offerings as well as fresh new content. One of Pulse’s offerings (and perhaps on the Sci-Fi Channel itself, I can’t tell for sure) is a new Battlestar Galactica prequel called Caprica. Taking place around a half century before the current events in Battlestar Galactica, it follows the development of the Cylons. From the show’s announcement:

Following the lives of two families, the Graystones and the Adamas (the family of William Adama, who will one day become the commander of the Battlestar Galactica), Caprica will weave together corporate intrigue, techno-action and sexual politics into television’s first science fiction family saga, the channel announced.