OT: Season 3 BSG

Azselendor · #1 March 18th, 2007, 12:44 AM

Advertisers are demanding more time for their crap and paying less and less to the networks. The shows are paying the price, as a result, the long-term multi-arc series that were once scoffed have returned in force.

If you look at all the top shows, they all followed a continuing plot arc. 24, Lost (not anymore), Heros, Prision Break, and so on. Even older shows, that was once always episodic, are shifting over to the style. BSG also followed this, where each episode would lead into the next. That's how show producers and writers are answering the reduction from a 51 minute hour, to the 42 minute hour, to the 38 minute hour. Supposedly that will be cut down even more to a 32 minute hour.

The miniseries lead to 33, which in turn lead to the eventual first fuel crisis of the fleet then to kobol. Water lead to the Tom Zarek arc. That's why I maintain Resurrection Ship was where the show dropped a bit in quality, as they began a shift to more episodic format after that point.

I would've loved to see Black Market as a prelude to a big power play by Zarek to take control of the fleet from underneath everyone while trying to take control of the government. for example.

And the food crisis in season 3 could've been played out more. oh well.

Renegade 13 · #2 March 18th, 2007, 01:01 AM

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Azselendor said:
...to the 38 minute hour...

And that will be when I stop watching conventional TV, and just download all episodes from the internet

Advertisers should pay for the privledge to waste my time, rather than me paying my satellite subscription for them to waste my time. <---A rather awkward way of saying it, but the point should be perceptible.

Azselendor · #3 March 18th, 2007, 01:11 AM

The 38 minute hour is the current standard in TV, only older tv shows can get exemptions - but that's normally only to 41 minutes.

Will · #4 March 18th, 2007, 01:12 AM

Well, the only reason I have a cable subscription is because it was cheaper to get the package cable/phone/internet deal than it was to just get phone and internet separately. I never watched much TV in the first place, and the cable I get has ****ty selection. About the only thing worth turning on the tuner card for is Comedy Central for Daily Show and Colbert Report. I don't get Sci-fi for BSG. The other shows I "watch" all air in other countries, but not in the US.

But the plus side is, never need to watch commercials

AgentZero · #5 March 18th, 2007, 04:07 AM

This is why I don't bother watching TV anymore. If I download and watch say Heroes & BSG, I'm done 40 minutes before I would have finished watching them on TV. That gives me 40 minutes extra to study, do some cleaning, play some SE, do whatever, but it's 40 minutes of my life that I didn't have to spend watching the uninspired drivel that passes for commercials these days. I mean, the ads aren't even entertaining anymore!

As for product placement, it doesn't really bother me. Replace the Galactica with a giant Pepsi can, and the Colonial uniforms with Nike or Adidas gear, I don't really care, as long as the show is good, I'll watch it. On my computer. Without the extra commercials. Mwah.

Baron Munchausen · #6 March 18th, 2007, 12:00 PM

I stopped watching TV years ago. Don't even own a TV anymore. Babylon 5 was the last thing on TV that I had any interest in. Now, only when I visit someone else who still has a TV do I see any TV programming.

Renegade 13 · #7 March 20th, 2007, 05:28 PM

From what I understand, Tigh thinks he can hear through the walls of this ship that the cylons have infiltrated this ship, and are hiding behind bulkheads and the like. Remember the noise the cylon ground troops make, kind of a whirring noise? I think that's what he's hearing. As for the president, yep, cancer. Lee's going on his little "I'm resentful of daddy, so I'm gonna stick it to him by defending Baltar", in essence, having himself a little temper tantrum. As for Six, not quite sure how you got the whole mind reading part.