God I hate the SciFi Channel - Page 3

geoschmo · #21 January 2nd, 2006, 08:52 PM

I don't like the 13 episode seasons and I don't like the the 8 week split in the middle of a 20 week season, and the special effects in the Scifi special movies are god-aweful. Mansquito? And what the hell was that flying dinosaur piece of crap?

But I have trouble hating SciFi channel. As far as I'm concerned anything they need to do to make money and stay on the air is fine by me. I'm old enough to remember when the only choices for science fiction on TV were 34 weekly showings of the same six Star Trek episodes, and 2am reruns of "Krull" and "The Last Starfighter" on some grainy UHF channel.

TurinTurambar · #22 January 2nd, 2006, 09:42 PM

Here, here.

sachmo · #23 January 2nd, 2006, 10:17 PM

Maybe 13 episodes fit much better onto a DVD with extras and all of that?

Colonel · #24 January 2nd, 2006, 11:29 PM

ahem AT, from the link you provided..

Quote:

The first half of Battlestar Galactica's second season left no doubts about the continuing excellence of the best science fiction TV series of 2005.

Thats from the first review a bit of the way down the page. It is just the first half of the season. trust me. The same is true for SG1 and Atlantis.

Atrocities · #25 January 3rd, 2006, 01:54 AM

The first half..... let us hope so.

El_Phil · #26 January 3rd, 2006, 07:05 PM

On the (possible) plus side. A long season means you cannot use the same writers for the entire run (no-one has that many ideas) you might get some consistency.

Something about most US tv which has always annoyed is the massive ups and downs in episode writing/plot quality. Since most of the crew will change between first and last episode the production style is going to change as well.

And finally AT you should be glad you don't live in the UK where we have 'series' of about half a dozen shows not 'seasons'.

Kana · #27 January 3rd, 2006, 07:27 PM

SciFi Inside...Battlestar Galactica last night...said that there were 10 ep of the first part of 2nd season, and there will be 10 more for the 2nd season...

Kana

Atrocities · #28 January 3rd, 2006, 10:24 PM

The thing that got me the most was that they were selling an incomplete season. 10 episodes for $40.00 is just a rip off. Normally you would pay $40.00 for the ENTIRE season, not just half of it. Its a rip off and that is what got under my skin.

What appeared to be the "complete" 2nd season of BSG, 10 episodes, might well be only half of the season. So instead of buying the entire season for $40.00 to $60.00, you now have to shell out nearly $100.00. That is just excessive greed.

Fyron · #29 January 3rd, 2006, 11:37 PM

Most of the boxed sets I have seen are 70-80 dollars a season...

Hugh Manatee · #30 January 4th, 2006, 01:20 AM

/me has aquired firefly for $23

Best bargain ever.....