OT: Season 3 BSG

[Fyron]

Renegade 13 said:
"*raises hands* It wasn't me who said it was a minority opinion! "

It was not my intention to imply that you did.

Mr. Pedant said:
"*dragged"

I don't recall enabling the -pedantic flag on my post-making.

[Atrocities]

Imperator Fyron said:
Renegade 13 said:
"Heh I think everyone has a grudge against the SciFi channel for one reason or another. (They killed Stargate SG-1, the bastards!)"

Stargate SG-1 ended at season 7. Sci-fi Channel then drug its corpse through the mud for several years. It's not really a "minority opinion."

They didn't really drag it that far. I thought the new series was ok. Sure it had 3 of the old cast in it, but all in all, it wasn't that bad of a show. Fargate really did keep my interest. So I liked it.

Different topic.
The other day I put in the old TOS series DVD and watched Balance of Terror. It was just over 51 minutes long. I then watched the remastered version with the new special effects. WOW... loved it! However it was parred down to just over 40 minutes. I noticed that with a lot of shows lately, Enterprise, Fargate, Atlantis and so on, they are all right around the 40 minute mark. You can see the difference that 10 minutes makes in a show. That extra 10 minutes makes a hell of a lot of difference and I would hope that the trend to shorten shows in favor of adding more advertising reverses itself. Just think if BSG was 5 or even 10 minutes longer each episode.

The new remastered TOS episodes are quite good. I watched Dooms Day Machine and was very pleased with how they did the Special Effects. It just sucked that it was shortened by 10 minutes from the original version. They cut out a lot of stuff that shouldn't have been removed. And that seems to be the trend now a days. And the bad thing is they don't put it back in even for the DVD collections.

[Renegade 13]

Atrocities said:
Just think if BSG was 5 or even 10 minutes longer each episode.

If they were BSG episodes like the last few, I'd have to gouge my eyes out if they were longer

[Baron Munchausen]

Actually, the trend is for direct product placement so that the entire show becomes a commercial. And yet they aren't dropping the interrupting kind of commercials. Granted, this is a bit hard to do with Scifi shows. Most brands wouldn't fit in the hypothetical "future" depicted. But for television in general, that's where it's going.

[Santiago]

Sad to say the focus is on Characters and relationships and not much else.

[Tim_Ward]

Actually, I would say the series dipped right after Resurrection Ship 1 & 2 but I don't blame RDM directly, but more to the point, I blame scifi for actually giving RDM longer seasons. He seems to work better when pushed to do more with less.

Meh. Epiphans, Scar, Captain's Hand, Downloaded and Lay Down Your Burdans were all great episodes. Only Black Market and Sacrafice were a let down.