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First look at new Battlestar Galactica Episodes

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tue May 31, 2005 08:33 AM
from the are-you-ready-for-this dept.
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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.
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  • My own little pipe dream:

    Oh how I wish they would come out with a VR reality game for this! Imagine, a 3D game for Battlestar Galactica! :)

  • Torrent? (Score:5, Funny)

    by angrist (787928) on Tuesday May 31 2005, @08:37AM (#12683357)
    Ok so who has the .torrent link?

    *ducks*

  • Interesting (Score:3, Insightful)

    by taskforce (866056) on Tuesday May 31 2005, @08:40AM (#12683384) Homepage
    A sure sign of the show's success is that it is now being shown first in the US as opposed to the UK as the first season was.

    • Re:Interesting (Score:4, Interesting)

      by youngerpants (255314) on Tuesday May 31 2005, @08:48AM (#12683448)
      Why is this a sign of success?? I think this behaviour by the studios is disgusting.


      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.

      • >I'm going to download these episodes and boycott the TV showings

        same here. I'll buy it if you want to sell me it, but I won't beg.

        • 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

      • Re:Interesting (Score:4, Insightful)

        by slapout (93640) on Tuesday May 31 2005, @08:56AM (#12683522)
        Have you seen most of the junk Hollywood puts out? They seem to think that all consumers are second class.

      • Re:Interesting (Score:5, Insightful)

        by Durandal64 (658649) on Tuesday May 31 2005, @08:58AM (#12683540)
        Hey, you guys gave us the first season before it aired over here, and we'll return the favor. BitTorrent makes all this "who gets what first" bullshit meaningless.

      • Re:Interesting (Score:4, Informative)

        by wbattestilli (218782) on Tuesday May 31 2005, @09:16AM (#12683683)
        Because SkyOne and SciFi worked it out that way. Neither really care about pissing off Brits or Yanks. They only care about $.

        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.
    • Isn't this the same pattern they followed last year? The first half of the season is aired in the US first, with a break, followed by the second half. During the US break, the UK shows the whole thing.
      • No, last year SkyOne got the entire season before it started airing in the US, it started and finished in the UK before the US, we had a short break around Christmas (a week iirc) and that was it.

  • Set your TiVos on stun... (Score:4, Insightful)

    by http101 (522275) on Tuesday May 31 2005, @08:40AM (#12683386) Homepage
    They may be able to curb some of the pirating if they would just broadcast simultaneously.
    • They may be able to curb some of the pirating if they would just broadcast simultaneously.


      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.

    • It's not that easy... (Score:4, Informative)

      by Kjella (173770) on Tuesday May 31 2005, @08:53AM (#12683495) Homepage
      ...very often, to price a show, to sell a show or to evaluate purchasing a show, you need to have numbers to go on. Living in Norway, I can assure you *no* show is broadcast simultaniously with the US. They always go by first season's US figures when selling here. I'm not sure how they do it for movies, but my impression cinemas they run all the big hollywood blockbusters, and then see how many weeks to keep it on. TV shows are like a one-off airing, a bit different.

      Kjella

    • +5 Insightful (Score:3, Interesting)

      by vrai (521708)
      There's no way I'm going to wait until October to see this, and I suspect that the final few episodes will be heading the other way across the pond (if they break for three months in the US).

      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.

  • If only... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by yotto (590067) on Tuesday May 31 2005, @08:41AM (#12683397) Homepage
    I missed season 1, but should be able to catch season 2 on TV. Too bad season 1's not coming out on DVD until (apparently) after season 2 starts. Really, do they realize the benefits of releasing a DVD of a seson of a television show BEFORE the next season starts?
  • ...but I hope the captain doesn't die. he's a great character played by a good actor.

    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.
  • University of Houston Downtown [uhd.edu]? Have I been living under a rock, that I fail to instantly parse UHD? It might as well be the zcjisnx captcha below, that I may or may not get right on the first try.

    -theGreater.
    • It's Universal High Definition, SCIFI/USA/NBC's parent company's HD channel. And as with anything HD, I don't receive it on Comcast.

      UHD ran the entire first season in HD shortly after its run on Scifi.

  • spoilers!! (Score:5, Informative)

    by Cat_Byte (621676) on Tuesday May 31 2005, @08:51AM (#12683472) Journal
    Argh I read the first page and stopped. Those aren't spoilers, its a walk-through of what happens just like the overview of 'Lost' on the ABC website. Don't read it if you don't want big time spoilers. It even ruins the suspense of the cliffhanger at the end of season 1. BAH!
  • "In other news, season 2 will be shown first in the US... starting July 15, with UK's Sky One following in October."

    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.
    • I think I speak for all US Slashdotters when I say... HA HA :)


      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

  • HDTV? (Score:3, Informative)

    by carlhirsch (87880) on Tuesday May 31 2005, @08:56AM (#12683526) Homepage
    Sci-Fi channel doesn't provide an HDTV signal anywhere, right? Isn't the DirecTV signal SD?

    One of the nice things about downloading the Brit Sky torrents was the fact that they were in hi-def.

    • Re:HDTV? (Score:4, Informative)

      by vrai (521708) on Tuesday May 31 2005, @09:11AM (#12683638)
      Sky doesn't broadcast in HD TV, they won't even be shipping set-top boxes that support it until Q4 2005. The torrents were nothing but bog-standard PAL (576 lines interlaced at 50 half-fields per second).

  • An offer to help (Score:3, Funny)

    by TheHornedOne (50252) on Tuesday May 31 2005, @09:51AM (#12684009)
    If Starbuck needs help with that repopulation thing... /all I'm saying is that I'm here to help

  • Notice the Google ads? (Score:3, Informative)

    by EvilStein (414640) <spam@noSPam.pbp.net> on Tuesday May 31 2005, @10:26AM (#12684322) Homepage
    I got a block of 4 ads - all but 1 were for "Miss the show? Download it here!" sites.

    I bet the MPAA would blow an artery if they saw that. :P

  • what about the writers? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by 0111 1110 (518466) on Tuesday May 31 2005, @11:39AM (#12685022)
    Great spoilers and all (wish I hadn't read it) but who is going to be doing the writing?

    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)

    by Gorimek (61128) on Tuesday May 31 2005, @11:59AM (#12685240) Homepage
    Frome the article; Sagitaron representative Tom Zarek, played by Richard Hatch

    Is that that Richard Hatch?? Fat naked gay survivor winner Richard Hatch?
    • "How in the name of all that's holy did Star Trek Enterprise survive so many seasons while Firefly got cancelled and the excellent BSG only had 15 episodes made."

      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.

      • pity, it got better after they stopped all the exposition.

        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.

    • Re:Why must... (Score:5, Informative)

      by twoshortplanks (124523) on Tuesday May 31 2005, @09:17AM (#12683701) Homepage
      "Where is Doctor Who 2005?"

      On BBC1 every saturday night slap bang in the middle of prime time viewing?

    • "The channel should be split into two channels: SciFi Prime and SciFi Classic. SciFi Prime can show what they believe to be the best science fiction that they produce"

      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

    • I'm sorry but ... (Score:4, Interesting)

      by SpooForBrains (771537) on Tuesday May 31 2005, @09:35AM (#12683872)
      about the only things I can agree with you on are The Andromeda Strain (one of the few decent Crichton adaptations) West World (oh, look Chrichton again) and Logan's Run.

      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.

    • Why must... ...SciFi persist in making these dreary, crappy, rehashed programs when there are already ton's of decent programs out there in the SciFi vein? Where is Doctor Who 2005 for example?

      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

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