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it just keeps getting better... should be interesting season two... as the first one ended rather quickly... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Tell me about it! It's a shame that they only ordered 13 eps for this season. Last I heard they've ordered eight (so far) for the next.

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Last I heard, SciFi ordered a full 20-episode season.

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Oh man, I hope you heard right!!

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Sounds like an excellent series. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Sometimes I wish I still had TV. I guess I'll see them once the DVD's come out...

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If you don't have TV, then how can you use a DVD http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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I can watch DVD's on my computer.

Actually, I do have a TV as well, but no cable or satellite service to receive anything. I have my Playstation connected to the TV.

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Kamog, you are odd dude, you know that. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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The series has turned out to be a ratings hit. I read on another forum that they had indeed ordered 20 episodes for next year.

And if rumors are accurate, they are in negociations with Viacom to pick up Enterprise for two seasons. (If they can reach a deal.)

GOD I HOPE THESE RUMORS ARE TRUE.

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I hope to God that they pick up ENT because with Sci-Fi it'd be a big hit http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Imagine a TRUE sci-friday, Andromeda (it's in it's last season right now so by time ENT reached Sci-fi it could easily take Andromeda's spot), Enterprise, BSG, Stargate SG1- Stargate Atlantis (mmmmm drools just thinking about it)

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I lost interest in Andromeda. I think it was because of the hap hazard way I have seen it. It had no set schedule in my area so I would see episodes here and there.

Its hard to follow a show like that and I can see why a show is cancelled do to poor ratings when viewing times are spread out shot gun style.

Happened to Babylon 5 in its final season, on TNT no less. TNT's schedule killed Crusaders, a very decent sequal series to B5 IMHO. And the UPN less then expected, and Lower Your Standards, handling of Enterprise has also proven this to be true. If you just lock a show into ONE time slot and do not bump it for sports or other crap, TNT, then perhaps it might blossom into a hit. Duhhhhhhhhh

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Andromeda was cool up to the 3rd season.... after that it became too confused to be fun... the only good thing is when Rhade becomes a new member of the crew... but the other actors looks like they don´t like the characters anymore, so the show falls flat...

And the storylines became too confused after the 3rd season, and looks like they don´t have more ideas so they just confuse the viewer with new tecnobabble every episode...

I still watch the show now and then, but i think it lost its steam...

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When I watch the show I get the distinct impression that it was poorly edited. It seems to rush through the story without ever really telling the story. The viewer is left to guess and wonder what they missed. Perhaps its a DVD ploy, you know, to promote the sales of the DVD's so that people will go back and watch the show to try and pick up the peaces they missed that were never really there.

I do not want the Sci-Fi channel to get their hands on an ICON from Star Trek like Enterprise. They would dog tie the production staff, cheapen the show, do to it what they have done to Stargate SG1 and Andromeda - make them appear rushed without any dedication to acting. (In otherwords the cast are just doing a job, a job that was once fun but has been morphed into a living hell.)

They would only buy 20 episodes when Star Trek set the standard at 26. (Well 24 for these last two seasons. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif)

Does it strike any one as a bit odd that Carter went from book worm scientist in all of the previous seasons of SG1 to sex symbol this season? I mean come on she is an attractive women, but you can clearly see that she is not at all happy about being pimped out like this. She is by all rights one of the more adoptive characters to be on TV in years, for her appeal as a women, both in looks as well as in intelligiance. Amanda Tapping, (Sp) has done a brillant job with the character but now that the show is on the Sci-Fi chanel, they have altered her character in a vain and very visible attempt to make her a sex symbol. That just irks me to no end.

The episodes have seemed rushed, almost hacked together at times, with the actors looking less and less like they enjoy what they are doing. In all honestly they have the appearance of people who just want to move on in life because they are bored with what they are doing and it is coming acrossed through their acting.

I love the show, and would love to see it go on for another seven years, but in all honestly, if the actors didn't need a job, I am sure they would agree that some things should be allowed to pass into history before they become less than they were.

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I assume you're talking about season 8 of Stargate?? It's just started here (I've seen the first few episodes) and I thought it had already fallen a bit from the standard set in seasons 5-7. I could feel the difference.

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The problem is that Stargate wasn't supposed to have a season 8. They had long planned, and even partially wrote the last great story arc that was going to put the exclamation point on the end of the series and launch the Atlantis series. They didn't orignally intend to run them in parallel. Sci-fi threw enough money at them though to stick around for one more season so a lot of stuff had to be rewritten in a hurry to stretch things out. I think it shows a bit in the quality, but it's still a lot more watchable then most anything else on tv.

I think the last few episodes are going to be really awesome though. Once they can get back to the final showdown with the Ga'ould that they intended for the end of season 7.

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Dang AT your getting downright hostile over there lol, Sci-Fi is really not that bad I mean look at Battlestar it's a great series so far and that's a sci-fi original.

Andromeda can only be blamed on it's writers, it was going down hill even when it was still only on channel 2, they are going way too dang mystical on us, instead of just a captain trying to rebuild the commonwealth we now have a demi-god magi type character trying to save the friggin universe.....sorry but that's cheesy

That and how many times can the reformed High Guard be destroyed? They are up to 2 so far and in this last season they are stuck in one stupid star system so we aren't seeing what's happenin to the new commonwealth, and with only 6 episodes left to the series it makes me wonder how rushed the series finale is going to be.


And oh yeah Carter's not a sex symbol it's just that they finally let her have a love life outside of the SG1 which is good since she really needed to get out in the world http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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If you think about it, Carter has always been a sex symbol. She was just targetted to a different audience then your typical tv sex symbol. I mean, what is more attractive to the typical geeky sci-fi fan that a cute girl that could talk for hours about quantum physics. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Two cute girls that could talk for hours about quantum physics of course. Erh, perhaps drop the "about quantum physics" part. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Too true, we geeky guys like smart women that are also hot http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Andromeda's problem wasn't even the writers. A lot of it lay within Tribune who has the same mentality as UPN - except they cater to the Hercules/Xena types. Shows with one central character and a cheerleading squad to follow them around. At the end of season 3, Majel left the production and after writing like 11 episodes of season 3, RH Wolfe was fired for not being able to dumb down his work for the yokels as much as they wanted.

It also didn't help the show when Kevin Sorbo refused to sign the contracts unless he was given Executive Producer Status and forced Wolfe out.

The real sad part is that Andromeda had a lot more potential than anyone ever gave it. Like the Osiris Chronicles, Andromeda will forever burn in level of hell devoted to good ideas bastardized by idiot actors and executives.

Stargate, on the other hand, was supposed to wrap up in Season Sxi with a big Feature Film. That got pushed off to Season 7... then to season 7 finale which was to kick off Atlantis... then to season eight... then Bleh. They gave up on ending it or something.

Now if SciFi pics up Enterprise, It's be a great lead-off from Galactica or Lead-in for Stargate SG1. Hopefully the sets can be salvaged and the deal set soon. And I really hope Paramount decides to not demand full price for Enterprise, the licensng fees for star trek is insanely high. One could pay of the US National Debt faster!

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Just watched "6-degrees of Seperation" episode on my Tivo last night. Damn, this show is getting good! That was a really well-done episode! Great character stuff!

Turin

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EDIT: Deleted duplicate post(part of the posting difficulty noted in "Forum Filter?" post.)

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If you have realplayer you can now watch the first episode (33) on the website.

http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/

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Wait until you watch the final episode of the season. That one is a real good one. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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BTW, the more people who watch the first episode on the above linked to sight, the more likely Sci-fi Channel is to believe that they have a hit on their hands and buy more episodes. Just a thought.

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I had to download realplayer and didn't have the hang yet so i was about 1 third of the way through when I disconnected. Now it won't connect again. Either my problem or every one is trying to watch it.

Edit: ahh, got it now. had to copy the address to the realbrowser

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You get one shot. If you DC, your IP is listed as having already been used. When your IP resets, I will bet you will be able to watch again. It is a good episode BTW.

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Umm.. actually... I'd have to say they're ALL good. I've been enjoying each one more than the last, but I'd say that's just me "getting to know the characters."

A good testament to a good ensemble cast situation.

Turin

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AT, I still want to know what kind of satellite system you have that lets you see a series before the rest of us here in the States can see it. I have DirecTV, and they're not showing BSG ahead of what Sci-Fi is showing. I hope that rumor of 20 new episodes is true. This is a great show, and you can't help getting sucked into the storyline.

As far as Stargate, I've watched a few episodes, or parts of one, over the years. But ever since I read somewhere that the original creators of Stargate wanted to do a trilogy but since Showtime got the rights to do the series, they couldn't do it. Personally, I'd rather have had them do a trilogy of films, then they could have done a series. I could have lived with that. But when I try to watch Stargate SG1, I can only think of what could have been. It may seem strange to some, but that's my opinion.

I hope someone picks up Enterprise. Maybe if Sci-Fi does pick it up, and shows it after BSG, I can finally watch it. I missed most of 3rd season, and the only episode I've seen in season 4 was when Brent Spiner appeared. Unfortunately, I missed part 2 of that one. When the dvd's come out, I'll have to buy them to see what I've missed.

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Its not the satellite system, he's got one of those Tivos to record the shows, and timeshift his viewing.
He's just hacked it to accept negative numbers http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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No Comment.

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I dont know, ive been watching it since it came out here in the states and the only episode i REALLY liked was 33. Now that episode built up the story very well. The rest i watched and i didnt feel like my time was wasted but.....i was hoping for more action. I hope they pick up the action and make alot more, there is not enough SciFi shows on TV and that makes me want to cry IRL.

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you can download it with a p2p program (and a very good connection), as all the series is already floating around in the net...

Did you know that anything aired in the open TV can be legally copied according to the laws of some countries? Brazil is one of these countries, so anything that was already aired in open TV (even it it was not a brazilian open tv) can be freely downloaded from the net and is perfectly legal (at least if you live in Brazil and some other countries), you can not ditribute it (that would be illegal), but you can download and watch it yourself without breaking any law, and you can keep copies of it for personal use and they are perfectly legal...

now i only need a good connection........

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Two points about this. First, they are talkign about watching episodes before they've been broadcast. You can do that obviously if you can find it somewhere on the net, but I'm not sure it's legal even in Brazil. I've never heard of anyone gettign in trouble for watching shows off the net after they've been broadcast. Although these days with dvd sales it might be something they'd crack down on.

Second, you might want to make certain that that law applies to shows that are only available on cable television. BG is on Scifi which is a cable only network. It's not broadcast over the air, so the law may not apply.

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It was broadcast. SkyOne in GB got it before SciFi aired it.

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This show just keeps on getting more and more interesting. It's great! And I'm glad that there is good character development. Makes the characters so much more real to me that you can almost sympathize with them...until you realize it's a TV show http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif
Hope they keep up the great story writing.

BTW, has anyone noticed that at the end of the credits those two cartoon characters always keep on fighting in new ways and take turns getting beat up/killed.

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So this would make it legal to be copied in Brazil.... as about cable tv, the law don´t allow copying of anything that is show in it, it is only legal if it was broadcast in "open tv" and cable tv is not "open tv"...

And as i stated earlier, you can only copy it for your personal use, distributing it will still be illegal, so, while theperson that copies the show for personal use is legal, but the source from that person copied from is illegal... (strange isn´t it? laws sometimes don´t make any sense)

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I haven't researched it, but that is a "vanity card" as it is called in the biz, which is usually the Paramount mountain, or MGM Lion roar or whatever production company. Those are likely to be the executive producers who apparently have more money than sense and have a rotating set of vanity cards.

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Amen to that. I just keep getting involved and want to know how each character is surviving. The only thing that's really missing is some slam-bam action. It looks like what they're trying to do in the first season is character development, then hopefully in the next season we'll see more action and survival situations. The only thing that bugs me about this show is Baltar and Number 6. Either have her appear in person, which she can't now since she accused Baltar of blowing up the defense computers, or show Baltar's genius at work without the distraction of having Number 6 in his mind. Don't get me wrong. I like looking at Tricia Helfer, especially when she's tantalizing Baltar. I just don't like what they're doing with her. And now that he admitted to her that he'll make sure everyone passes as human on his test, and we don't know the status of Tigh's wife, it leaves some ambiguity as to his motive to help Adama and the president. Eventually, this might blow up in his face, if Sharon or someone other unknown model who's been tested does some sabotage. I guess we'll have to wait and see, since not everyone has Skyone http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I had this idea, don't know if it will panout. I know Adama said that Earth was just made up, but they have to be going somewhere. I have this idea that after a few seasons they will discover the Earth Empire which has massive fleets easily able to wipe out cylon ships. What about it?

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God I hope they do something better than they did when the original BSG met earth.

I think the whole point will be that Earth is the catallust for "restarting" everything each time. OOOOPS Spoiler!

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Personally, I'd like the series to end with them finding out Earth is real, but they don't reach it. They just find a course or a heading, hell, Voyager 6 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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forgot to add:

Actually, the UK network went in 50/50 with scifi for the first season. As part of the contract, they get to air in the UK first.

But don't worry, I hear the QBotG running scifi made sure that clause was removed for season two. No more proper english pirating

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Are those the episodes with the super kids, camping supplies, and the fancy motorbikes? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

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Yup.. OMG they were so embarrassing to watch.

In the original series there was an episode where they picked up a radio signal from earth of the first lunar landing. Now I am not expert, but if that signal was picked up by the Galactica, albeit no one saw it, at their location, some many million light years from earth, then wouldn't it have taken that radio signal a fricking eon or so to get there? So by all rights the earth year should not have been 1981, some 11 years since the lunar landing, shouldn't have been something like 3481?

Even at light speed the fleet would not have reached earth for hundreds of years thus again proving my point. That if earth's technology was 1969 era at the time the cylons destroyed the twelve colonies, then by the time the rage tage fleet reached earth, earths technology should have been VASTLY superior to theirs. I guess they found a worm hole or something that cut the distance down by a few eons.

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I remember that episode. They thought it must be a patrol ship, not practically the first interplanetary ship. While talking about BSG:TOS. As a child I had one of those Battlestar launch toys. The ones where you pull the trigger and the rubberbands fire off rubber vipers. Haven't seen mine since I replaced the rubber bands with stronger ones and used it to fire darts at the fence. My mother confiscated it when she saw the darts being embedded in the fence http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif.

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I had one of those as well. Hell I even have a couple of those cylon raiders that fire the plastic bullet along with a couple cylon figures.

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didn't they get a bunch of bad press and those thigs were pulled because some 4 year old shot out his eyes

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The hitler broadcast would have been better in there, and if they had seen, all the better. Imagine the response once they translate and think humanity is a bunch of facists.

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By the time that the original BSG came out, I was about 15, and all those action figures didn't interest me. I'm still kicking my butt for getting rid of all of my GI Joes when I turned 13. So I didn't collect a gold mine of Star Wars action figures either. If I had only known.....

Back to the new series. I hope this last episode they aired wasn't the season finale. SPOILER ALERT: I mean, they can't just stop it with Adama getting shot by Boomer and leave it at that, not without Starbuck coming back with the arrow. The trailer looked a new episode was coming out friday, but I thought that BSG was getting a 2 episode finale like STG Alantis was getting. I'll have to watch it and see, I guess.