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Battlestar Galactica Season 2 This Summer
jangobongo writes "SCI FI Channel announced that the second season of its hit original series Battlestar Galactica will premiere this summer with 20 new episodes, after earlier confirming their commitment to the show. Production will resume in March in Vancouver, B.C., with the entire ensemble cast returning, along with executive producer and writer Ronald D. Moore and executive producer David Eick. Averaging over 3 million viewers per episode, the series has quickly become SCI FI's highest-rated original series. No news on when a UK premeire might occur, but with Battlestar Gallactica ranking number 9 out of the top ten most popular TV program downloads worldwide, I don't think UK fans would have to wait long in any case." They're offering the first episode of the show for viewing in a no-charge commercial free venue on the official site.
First they are going to release new episodes of Family Guy, and now this.
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(Not me, I was never a BSG fan... I was a TNG fan)
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I still can't believe you didn't know Starbuck was singular.
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"...like the whole human looking cylon deal"
Erm, you do know that is just a way to save money on special effects right?
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Should we wait to start the petition-to-save-galactica now or wait another season?
Acting stupid isn't much fun when there's someone around who knows better
thats kinda what i expected to hear from a Trekie. you probably have a signed poster of rick berman on the wall in your parents basement.
...that's insightful, funny, informative or even trollish... but I will go on record as saying this about battlestar galactica going into a second 20 ep. season this summer...
HELL YEAH!
"why don't you just slip into something more comfortable...like a coma!"
Balter is a fag
Dude, have you seen the chick he's seeing?
Chip H.
I could swear that was the building where I bought my morning coffee! :-)
:-)
It's really weird for me watching the Occupied Caprica scenes. They keep showing shots of downtown Vancouver and I keep going "But that's not an alien world! Hey, that's the building I work in!!"
The worst cog-diss was in the pilot at the Market scene. That was the AQ of my alma mater, Simon Fraser University. Nothing ruins the mood of an alien world than locating the benches you used to take naps on between classes.
Do you guys in NY and LA have the same cognitive dissonance when watching your towns subbing for other parts of the world?
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Nah, I just don't have TiVo yet.
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Really? They seemed to take a lot more killing than the originals. One shot with a laser pistol and one of the old ones was dead. The new ones can take several hits and keep coming.
No Imperious leader.
Yes, a guy made of paper mache was really intimidating.
No Lucifer.
Oh yes, flashing lightbulb head really made the Cylons seem scary...
Balter is a fag.
I think many of the women (and at least one female Cylon) in the series would disagree with this assessment...
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A lesson in economics about marginal benefit, marginal cost, total utility, marginal utility, and opportunity cost.
Opportunity cost is what you give while doing an activity. The opportunity cost of watching anime is sex. The opportunity cost of sex is watching anime. Marginal benefit is the benefit you get of an additional unit of sex or one additional unit of anime. The marginal cost is the opportunity cost of that additional unit.
If the marginal benefit is greater than the marginal cost, do it. If the marginal cost is greater than the marginal benefit, do not do it.
Utility is the feeling good points you give to an activity.
The first time you had sex with your girlfriend the marginal utility was 500. The second time, it was 450. The third time 400, and so on. As you can see, there are diminishing returns. The second time is not as good as the first. The third time is not as good as the second, etc. At this point. Your total utility of sex is 500+450+400 = 1350. If that marginal utility gets close to 0, go back to watching anime. You don't want it to get into negative. You know, sex gets boring with the same person after a while.
There is a little bit more to the microeconomic terms I gave you; look them up if you want a deeper insight. I would have told you more, but I got to go home.
He's not gay, he's just British.
Wife of a geek. :P
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The only shows they watch on "Friends" is "Days of Our Lives" and "Baywatch", and the only reason they watch DOOL is because Joey portrays Dr Drake Ramore. They never seem to watch Battlestar Galactica.
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If they based their decisions on download popularity we'd only get 24 hr porn channels.
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If they based their decisions on download popularity we'd only get 24 hr porn channels.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Dude, have you seen the chick he's seeing?
I dunno -- he keeps saying he's dating some hot chick, but I have yet to meet her; I think it's all in his head.
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Am I the only one who remembers the older, better series.
Yes. The rest of us remember the older, crappier series.
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Since all the networks seem to care about is the nielson ratings, these shows die because you aren't being counted as a watcher of the show
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