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Battlestar Galactica Season 2 Premiere

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the watch-for-cylons dept.

fanblade writes "As if slashdotters needed another reason to stay home on a Friday night, the 20-episode second season of Battlestar Galactica premieres tonight at 10/9C on the Sci Fi Channel. The series, a 're-imagining' of the original 1978 TV series by the same name, made history as the highest-rated original Sci Fi Channel program ever. The first episode of the second season, 'Scattered', won't be televised in the UK until October, but I seriously doubt that will be a problem for the show that 'killed broadcast TV'. There's also excellent coverage on Wikipedia for those eager to brush up or catch up on the first season."

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  1. Favorite complaint by Magnusite · · Score: 5, Funny
    My favorite complaint about the series (I haven't seen it) came from a friend of mine the other day.

    "Starbuck is supposed to be a womanizing man, not a womanizing woman!

    1. Re:Favorite complaint by angrist · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Starbuck is supposed to be a womanizing man, not a womanizing woman!

      The problem with that change being .... ?

    2. Re:Favorite complaint by WAR-Ink · · Score: 3, Funny

      I am firmly in favor of equal rights. We should not discriminate due to race, gender or sexual preference. You should be more open minded.

      I also believe in our right to watch it on film.

      Maybe with that blonde Cylon chick...yeah...

  2. Friday night at 10?! by mapmaker · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's almost like they want us to download the torrent instead of tuning it to watch.

  3. Re:Also Stargate SG1 & Atlantis! by angrist · · Score: 4, Funny

    It works out great for me at school:

    8:00 - SG-1 starts, sit down and crack a beer
    8:30 - Commercials, order delivery for diner (mmmm dumplings), beer #2
    9:00 - Atlantis starts, food arrives, beer #3
    10:00 - BSG starts, throw leftovers in fridge, beer #4
    10:30 - Commercials, change into 'outside' clothes / brush teeth, etc. beer #5
    11:00 - Sci-Fi friday over, full stomach, nice buzz, ready to hit the town

    All in all it's not a bad routine for a friday, not that much in the party scene at school gets going before 10:30 - 11 anyway.

  4. Galactica 1980 by topgeek · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can't wait for the "reimagining" of Galactica 1980...oh wait, yes I can.

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  5. vivid memory of childhood by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That night in 1978 that Battlestar Glactica premired, they were showing the movie King Kong on another network. It was a very big night for tv when I was kid. But then disaster struck:

    They interrupted both shows because Isreal and Egypt were signing a peace agreement. And my mom sent me to bed.

    Egypt and Isreal had been fighting for hundreds of years... couldn't they have waited one more day? Think of the children.

  6. Re:The classics preventing innovation? by xstonedogx · · Score: 5, Funny

    don't know what I will do without Richard Dean Anderson's (Jack O'Neil) comedy :-(

    It's O'Neill. Two L's.

  7. Re:Also Stargate SG1 & Atlantis! by CosmeticLobotamy · · Score: 4, Funny

    That depends. Is your fiancee a robot?

    And if so, does she use her powers for good or for awesome?

  8. Re:Also Stargate SG1 & Atlantis! by millahtime · · Score: 3, Funny

    Geeks don't have social lives and tend to stay in and watch these shows. I am one of them :-)

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