OT: Battlestar Galactica Final Season

[Caduceus]

Hugh:

www.televisionwithoutpity.com

has a full rundown of each episode in painful detail.

[Caduceus]

And let's be honest, Stargate hasn't been the same show for about 4 seasons. It isn't what it originally was. I watch Atlantis, but it is pretty much a "how can we make fun of McKay this week?" kind of thing, which I enjoy, but hardly memorable.

Never got into Lost. Heroes is fun. Watched 2 whole episodes of Firefly and decided it wouldn't make it (and I was right not to invest my time). Space: Above and Beyond was a fun show. Tried to watch 4400, couldn't get into it.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Thanks for the link.

[Randallw]

nice site. Maybe I should try writing for it. It's bitter in ways I couldn't bring myself to be

Lost is a prime example of something I learnt. No matter how much you love a show never forget in a year or two you may want nothing to do with it. There is always the possibility circumstances may change.

I always watched Lost in it's first year. Come the second year I sat down to watch it again. My enthusiasm lasted 5 minutes. They introduced some woman I hated on sight. Later on she shoots and kills one of the main characters. I switched off and avoided it ever since. I hear now, what, she got killed? I don't care.

Now I see ads about some new woman who's been there all along but of course on a deserted island after a few weeks/months no one has seen her before, and I don't mean the others I mean someone who was apparently on the plane. But of course now she is important to the plot she is retconned into the series. Please

Disclaimer: it occurrs to me my bitterness is perhaps through some feeling of betrayal I may feel. Sort of, I guess, how you have a girlfriend or wife you love but after the breakup/divorce you despise her.

[Atrocities]

Let me get this strait now, you don't like cowboys in space, but you do like a phone booth time traveler?

[Atrocities]

I have seen the entire Space Above and Beyond series and I have to say that it really left me feeling stupid for having wasted my time watching it. Not because it was a bad series, but because it was so horribly underfunded and poorly written.

Firefly, either you got it or you didn't. No shame in not liking one of the best Sci-Fi shows to ever hit the air waves. Besides it was good enough to piss off George Lucas, who in turn had some involvement in getting it canceled. To much like Han Solo I guess.

[Randallw]

I liked Space above and beyond. Pity it went out with such a SNAFU. But as Narf can tell you I hold little sympathy for aliens, even if they are guarding some sort of nest planet.

[Will]

Some clarification: BSG is ending after season 4 because the writers/producers of the show knew that the story needed only one or two seasons to finish when season 3 ended, and after working on season 4 a bit more, realized that it is closer to 1 than 2. If they stretched it out longer, it would become pretty crappy. See Stargate after season 7 (when the amount of crap they made up to keep the story going caught up to the writers), or Babylon 5 season 5 (where most of the story that would have been there was stuffed into season 4 because everyone thought it would be the last season).

Heroes is good. I... ahem... borrowed the episodes from... many anonymous friends. I doubt if Kring et. al. can keep it going for more than three or four seasons though.

Other than that, I haven't had much to do with TV in a long time. Whatever is there and worth watching I can usually just wait for the DVD, and skip all the ads and waiting a week or more between episodes.

[Randallw]

Atrocities said:
Let me get this strait now, you don't like cowboys in space, but you do like a phone booth time traveler?

It's a bit more complicated than that, on both sides I admit, but yes. Then again I'm not exactly known for having a mainstream line of thought. It's why they give me the government regulated drugs

[Atrocities]

I thought TV was a government regulated drug? That is why I tend to stay away from it whenever possible.