New Galactica Series

[gregebowman]

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.

[Suicide Junkie]

gregebowman said:
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.

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

[Atrocities]

No Comment.

[Emperor Fritsch the Dense]

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.

[Makinus]

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........

[geoschmo]

Makinus said:
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)

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.

[Nodachi]

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

[Aris_Sung]

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
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.

[Makinus]

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

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)

[Azselendor]

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