Battlestar Galactica Available for Download

blankgm writes "The SciFi channel has made Episode '33' (Season 1 Episode 1) of Battlestar Galactica available for free, uncut and commercial free, online at SciFi.com. Also available are deleted scenes from the series. Is this a ploy by the SciFi channel to grow a viewer base as well as loyalty, or an extremely bold move since the series isn't even out on DVD yet? Hopefully it's both. In either case, I believe this is unprecedented, especially since season 1 hasn't even concluded here in the states. Bravo SciFi. Keep 'em coming!"

Comments

Re:How free is it?

[HyperChicken]

Don't feed the trolls, sir.

Re:For download?

[Tassach]

Lending a VHS tape to a friend is illegal too,

Bullshit. It's fair use.

In your twisted view of reality, libraries would be illegal.

Mormon's in Space

[Ranger]

I watched it. I still hate the bouncing camera shots, pioneered by shows like NYPD Blue. I suspect that technique started off as an accident. The cameraman was drunk that day. So rather than reshoot, they called it art. The rest was history. And it was 'for streaming' NOT 'for download'. I talk to people all day long who are trying to download stuff from a CD to their computer. It's fucking install, you retards! It's not download. And the CPU tower is not a fucking modem or a fucking hard drive. It's the fucking computer. It has the modem and the hard drive inside. But I digress...

Anyway, I enjoyed 33. Maybe the title was a subtle reference to LP's that played at 33 and 1/3 RPM's and was showing how Hollywood can regurgitate crappy sci-fi shows like a broken record. But I digress again...

I couldn't tell from watching that one episode whether or not they kept the Mormon mythology from the original series. I did notice they modeled the new Cylons based on the premise: what if the Neocons and Al Qaeda married and had babies, turned themselves into robots, and settled a planet of their own? I liked the old Cylon's better. I miss the red eye that goes back and forth. And they would say "beedy-beedy-beedy-beedy-beedy". Oh, wait that last bit was that stupid fucking robot from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Never mind!