OT: Season 3 BSG

AgentZero · #1 November 5th, 2006, 01:02 AM

I'm interested to see how Kara & Tigh's 'new' friendship plays out, now that Starbuck seems to be pulling herself back together, while Tigh seems determined to remain in his downward spiral. 42 minutes just isn't long enough!

Atrocities · #2 November 5th, 2006, 01:10 AM

Soon it will be 38 minuts.

Networks want to know why people aren't watching their shows? Well its because they have to suffor through 18 minutes of commericals. Ten years ago the average commerical time for a show was 8 minutes. That meant that you could sit back and enjoy a 50 to 52 minute program in realative peace without all of the BS interuptions.

But tell a network that they have too much time dedicated to comericals per show, and they will sight the cost of the shows to produce, and rightfully so.

So unless they can get the costs down, 38 minute 1 hour shows are going to be here sooner rather than later. When that happpens it will be far more praticle to just buy the series on DVD and watch it all at once over the course of a long night.

AgentZero · #3 November 5th, 2006, 02:01 AM

Or, rather than waiting for the DVD to come out, people will just get sick of TV and more and more people will wind up downloading the shows worth watching. Which sucks in a way, since then the shows worth watching don't get watched as far as the network is concerned (ie: no one's watching their advertising). And sure, ideally the thing for them to do is find out why viewership is down, and reduce advertising to attract viewers. "NBC now has 15% LESS ads than ABC!" would be a pretty big draw for a lot of people.
Of course, we're not living in an ideal world, so we'll likely see 1/4 of our screen given over to advertising *during* the show, along with the usual 18 minutes of 'full-screen' advertising. Makes me glad I hardly watch TV anymore.

Azselendor · #4 November 5th, 2006, 02:26 AM

definately starbuck and tigh's new dynamic are great. They are easily stealing the show. NBC should've opted for first syndication, but because of their piss poor editing of the miniseries, it failed on the network and nbc won't be airing it.

Randallw, my comment is that the probe is supposedly from earth (I personally suspect the other 5 cylons in reality) and that earth had a tedenacy to wipe out alien civilizations with plagues and viruses. War of the worlds, martian chronicles, independence day, and so forth. I've always viewed it, in the realm of scifi, to be cliche'd plot.

Randallw · #5 November 5th, 2006, 03:10 AM

There's a probe? oh well I'll just wait till I get the latest epsiodes from my friend.

I thought the Bio weapon thing in the latest WotW was unoriginal. I mean yeah it's from the book but really I expected they'd introduce something new. It worked as an original idea 100 years ago, I just thought it was so cliched by now they'd make an effort to intorduce something new. I mean surely the aliens would be more "knowledgable" these days. I for one can't stand a story where the good guys win because the aliens are idiots,(cough) Battlefield Earth (/cough).

Until the show says otherwise I'm sticking to my idea that Earth is way more advanced and when the Fleet finds it the pursuing Cylons get annihilated in minutes.

AngleWyrm · #6 November 5th, 2006, 04:06 AM

See page two of this thread.

Randallw · #7 November 5th, 2006, 05:23 AM

I'm afraid I don't know what I'm supposed to look at. If you mean the bitTorrents, I don't want anything to do with downloading stuff from other people short of a file sent from someone I know. I like BSG and other programs but I'm not in that much of a hurry.

Edit: let me elaborate. I can see you offer the episodes and I appreciate it but I'm not comfortable with it. I also personally don't believe in things being worth downloading huge files. I don't download huge GB games and stuff because I consider it a lack of restraint to be trolling the Internet and leaving my computer on all day just to download something I don't basically need

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Renegade 13 · #8 November 16th, 2006, 06:40 PM

Roslin's cancer was cured last season by a blood transfusion from Helo and Sharon's baby.

Atrocities · #9 November 16th, 2006, 10:06 PM

The baby will be imune to the virus too and since the Cylons have the baby it would only stand to reason that they will figure this out thus making bio-weapons worthless.

Caduceus · #10 November 17th, 2006, 12:01 AM

The bioweapon/virus was a good idea, but it couldn't hang over the heads of the show for episode after episode.

Good idea, let's move on.

And I agree that the baby could probably generate a cure.