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Sci-Fi Channel Renews Battlestar Galactica
Chairboy writes "The Sci-Fi Channel has just announced the renewal of Battlestar Galactica for a second season. The creator of the show has announced that the second season will delve into the religious issues surrounding the Cylons in addition to opening up their society more. The latest episode had 3.2 million viewers, almost twice as many as watched the latest episode of Star Trek Enterprise." I said it before, and I'll say it again- this is the best Sci Fi program currently airing, so I'm happy to see more.
I remember whan Starbuck wasn't an overpriced coffee.
I was sure they'll cancel this show and replace it with some stupid bullshit whose target audiance can't operate p2p programs.
I don't get it, how is 3.2 millions almost twice the 2 StarTrek fans?
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
Love the new show and I'm hoping that it will once again regain a cult status with a new generation, allowing it to come to full fruition. Now with the mention of ST:ENT, I have to make a comment. If the people at the SciFi channel can make a Spin off of a spin off of the movie Stargate and revive a lond dead series, I'd like to see what they could do for ST:ENT. Then I would never have a reason to go out on Friday nights again!
Cliff Claven
K.E.G. Party Chairman
Founding Leader of: Koncerned for Egalitarin Governance
Being in the U.S. I agree with you 100%. My jaw dropped.
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
Are you using "cue" as a lazy way to write "queue"? ;-)
About frackin' time ;-)
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
So, THAT'S why Starbuck was romancing 7 women!
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
I think he meant a Q tip. You know, for cleaning vulcan ears.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Have you ever asked yourself if androids dream of electric sheep?
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1) The Galactica somehow instantaneously achieves faster-than-light velocity from a subluminal start (which besides being impossible according to our science, means that the crew gets instantly rendered into chunky salsa if the inertial dampeners ever crap the bed).
Or 2) It accelerates from subluminal start to FTL, passing through C, which means that Einstein bites them in the ass as they whiz by and everybody gets a whole lot fatter (like Americans in the Red States) as they go. And the chunky salsa danger still holds true in this case too.
No mod points, no meta-moderating/Firehose/all the other free work Slashdot wants me to do.
Okay, what's wrong with this picture:
* A Star Trek series is cancelled
* A Battlestar Galactica Series is renewed
* Jamie Foxx may win an Oscar
* William Shatner already won an Emmy, may win another
* Fox becoming the #3 network, ahead of NBC
It feels like I'm in some sort of parallel dimension. I keep expecting Rod Serling to walk out with some pithy comment about it all.
Vincent J. Murphy
Spandex Justice
Being in the UK, but without Sky tv (as I am unable+unwilling to pay Mr Murdoch any more than he already has), I have to agree that the last episode hit me like a torrent [ahem]
Except for... y'know... Battlestar doesn't suck.
I know it's whack that Adama and the president turn out tobe Cylons.
now with fighting between the ships in the convoy and the Galactica completely disabled and watching the ending as they leave the galactica behind for the Cylons to capture defenseless really pissed me off.
i can not wait for season 2!
Somday, we'll find it.
"We shall party like the Greeks of old! You know the ones I mean." - HedonismBot
"Boomer was an African-American guy."
You're just reading someone elses hype. If you had ever watched the show back in "the old days" you would know that the humans in the show were not from Earth. Boomer therefore was not from Earth. Boomer had never been to Africa or America and could not possibly have been from either location.
For someone who's so uptight about someone elses political correctness, I'm suprised how misinformed you were on that count.
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Thanks. Whenever ones raves about how great this show, it's good to remind them that it copied a character from Startrek Voyager
I must have missed the bit where Jeri Ryan's character only existed in the bald doctor's head and tried to manipulate him into betraying humanity. So sorry.
You mean she actually spoke?
Scratching your HEAD???????? Dude have you seen her?
Digital is, by definition, imperfect. Analog is the way to go.
Which is the dichotomy I was going for when I referenced Star Trek writers as "really believing it". That example of Firefly stood out because it bothered me right then, though, whereas none of the other shows really bothered me that way. (Although I've yet to watch the DVDs, so I've only seen the TV shows; I have this major mental block about watching them and running out of shows to watch. So far the rational part of my mind has not yet successfully convinced the rest of it that that is a damned dumb reason to not watch them at all.)
yes, insightful! The show DOES suck.
...with that said... the blonde cylon chick is super-hot.
I rented the first season. Turned it off after it seemed I was watching an excuse for soft-core porn... then turned it back on again after a while of having nothing else to watch. (And you know that morbid-fascination thing?) It's really abominable.
I'm glad you didn't get marked "Troll."