OT: Season 3 BSG - Page 13

Azselendor · #**121** October 21st, 2006, 03:33 AM

billy should've exited during the election scandal, that would've been a far better exit for him, and allow him to return for cameos.

I personally think the exit of pegasus would've been not because of story concerns, but because of budget.

Atrocities · #**122** October 21st, 2006, 05:01 AM

good point about the budget.

geoschmo · #**123** October 21st, 2006, 10:06 AM

I don't see why it would be a budget thing. IIRC all the ships in the new series are CG, aren't they?

Azselendor · #**124** October 21st, 2006, 01:52 PM

SciFi channel is infamous for their budget. Normally they only allocate 3/4ths the normal amount of money. RDM and Eick has both commented how scifi has been riding them on the budget since captain's hand and the declaining ratings.

Budget is a huge factor when you consider the average BSG episode runs 2-3 million dollars, and ones like pegasus, ressurection 1 & 2 , captain's hand, lay down your burdens 1 & 2, and Exodus can run as high as 3-5 million each because of all the CG shots and location shoots.

Budget was a huge factor in Enterprise (2-4 million per episode) being cancelled and Stargate SG1 (upwards of 3-5 million).

I should also point out the reason why all the corners are cut on paper and displays from BSG is an injoke about SciFi channel's insistance on cutting corners for the budget.

Pegasus's internal sets are also the sets of the Jupiter II from ost in Space

AngleWyrm · #**125** October 21st, 2006, 04:20 PM

So how much does a 30-second advertisement on BSG cost?
The last episode was 43 minutes out of 60,
which gives about 60-43 = 17 x2= 34 30-second spots.

AgentZero · #**126** October 21st, 2006, 07:23 PM

That was some good Galactica! But does anyone know the name of that episode? Was it just Exodus Part 2, or...? I don't actually get Sci-Fi where I am, so I have to rely on downloading it the next day, but this week's download didn't have an episode title for some reason.

MasterChiToes · #**127** October 21st, 2006, 07:28 PM

Yeah, it ws called Exodus P2.

AgentZero · #**128** October 21st, 2006, 07:31 PM

How strikingly original.

Azselendor · #**129** October 23rd, 2006, 10:30 AM

RDM confirmed on scifi.com that the loss of Pegasus was because of budget and the fact SciFi won't budget money for another sound stage or warehouse for BSG

Caduceus · #**130** October 23rd, 2006, 10:33 AM

Quote:

Azselendor said:
billy should've exited during the election scandal...

Billy, the actor, waited and waited and waited to sign a contract to re-up for the series, ultimitely didn't and was killed off.

EDIT: But I agree - it would have made more dramatic sense if they could have waited until during the scandal to off him.