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First look at new Battlestar Galactica Episodes
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.
Ok so who has the .torrent link?
*ducks*
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.
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They may be able to curb some of the pirating if they would just broadcast simultaneously.
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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?
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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!
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...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.
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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.
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.
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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
As a rock-in-roll Physicist once said, No matter where you go, there you are.
Explain then how the UK gets Season One on DVD before the US does? Since my cable company took away my Sci-Fi channel and replaced it with Lifetime, I'm totally up a creek.
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Looks like someone wants to check Six's oil.
Better watch out though, it'll cause hallucinations.
On BBC1 every saturday night slap bang in the middle of prime time viewing?
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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 "genre".
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http://www.universalhd.com/Series/index.shtml#BATT LESTAR_GALACTICA
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.
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Well, I wouldn't count the new galactica as a "dreary, crappy rehashed program", yes the idea is old, but the series is something quite different from the old. I would welcome more scifi series like BSG and firefly, where the characters play a major part, not the "hey, let's meet planet of the day" kinda series with crappy actors, like stargate.
If Starbuck needs help with that repopulation thing... /all I'm saying is that I'm here to help
...because they probably spend their money and time hiring brainless MBAssholes who don't know anything about their target audience other than what they think their demographic reports say.
I lay copyright on the word "MBAssholes".
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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.
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I got a block of 4 ads - all but 1 were for "Miss the show? Download it here!" sites.
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I bet the MPAA would blow an artery if they saw that.
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Indeed. I will therefore be downloading it.
I might have not bothered downloading it if there was less than a month difference between US and UK.
I would even not download it if they released the season on DVD in the UK within a month of the US showings. Yes, I'd PAY FOR IT.
Let's see, I have a choice between:
waiting three months (and being spoilered to fsck)
and
three megabit per second download
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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.
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Frome the article; Sagitaron representative Tom Zarek, played by Richard Hatch
Is that that Richard Hatch?? Fat naked gay survivor winner Richard Hatch?
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Since they started showing Season 1 on UHD, they've been advertising Season 2 the entire time. They even show the last episodes cliff-hanger in the damn advertisement and it hasn't even aired yet!!