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Atrocities said:
The only series that know of that cost near or over a $100.00 are the Star Trek ones..... trying to bilk the fan ala Paramount style.
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Farscape. Although to be fair, the production budget for Farscape was huge, bigger than the standard TV production by far, and a good deal bigger than a standard scifi TV production. It got cancelled for a combination of competition and cost, and they need to try to get their investment back.
I don't really watch TV, and haven't for four years now (since I started university), so I guess I have a little different view on the length of "seasons". As far as I'm concerned, a "season" is good in a scifi show if it has some sort of story arc that it follows, if it's multi-episode subplots have some sort of relation to the overall story (single-episode subplots are exempt, since they are usually comic relief), and if the conclusion of the "season" ties up the arc, but leaves more questions. Length, to me, is irrelevant.
I think part of the problem AT's got here is a mistake in marketing for the DVDs. If SciFi decided to call the two parts of a "season" Series A and Series B, and sold it that way, then there wouldn't be a problem, because they avoid the association everyone has with "season". I think they tried to do that by calling it "Battlestar Gallactica Season 2.0", with the second half presumably being called "Season 2.1", but that's not obvious from the start, and a lot of people probably think it's a computer software reference ("Hey, Cylons are robots, computers! Get it?!"), and the marketing team probably thought that too, but didn't think of the reaction to half of a "season" as everyone else sees it.