God I hate the SciFi Channel

Atrocities · #1 January 1st, 2006, 11:45 PM

You know, there are very few things in this world that just royally piss me off. One of those few things is the SciFi Channel.

In order to get as much money as they can get, they opted to list BSG season 2 as a 10 episode season. W T F!!!!

They have done the same thing to Stargate SG1 now and it really is a discusting depressing trend in modern tv. Instead of having 22 or even 20 episodes per year, we are now getting fewer than 13. Hell 10 now! WTF!!

I hate shows that only run 13 episodes a year, not that they are bad shows, but that there isn't enough of them. 13, now 10, is NOT A GOD DAMN SEASON OF TV!

WTF!??

Randallw · #2 January 1st, 2006, 11:51 PM

I don't really know much about it, but isn't BSG more than 10 episodes this season, they just took a break for new year, the season continues this month. Or is that classed as a new season?

Combat Wombat · #3 January 2nd, 2006, 12:23 AM

I believe its a continuation of the current season. No new season, but the break pisses me off. I want my new Stargate now!

Atrocities · #4 January 2nd, 2006, 12:48 AM

Nope, its 10 episodes long and you can buy it at amazon.com or your local best buy. The third season, 10 episodes, is starting in Jan.

Colonel · #5 January 2nd, 2006, 03:58 AM

It isn't the third season, I think people are just thinking it is because of the amount of time between the two halves of the season.

Here is a site with a list of Season 2 episodes
http://www.gateworld.net/galactica/s2/index.shtml

The thing on Scifi is a pre order of Season 2 you wouldn't get it until the episodes have premired at least somewhere be it Europe or the US.

geoschmo · #6 January 2nd, 2006, 10:16 AM

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Atrocities said:
You know, there are very few things in this world that just royally piss me off.

Really? Just a few things?

But Colonel and CW are correct. It's still season 2. I saw somewhere on the SciFi website they were calling them season 2a and season 2b for both BSG and SG-1.

You can buy a DVD with just the season 2 episodes that have already aired on Amazon, but if you read the description it's labeled as the "first half of season 2".

Renegade 13 · #7 January 2nd, 2006, 11:25 AM

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Combat Wombat said:
I believe its a continuation of the current season. No new season, but the break pisses me off. I want my new Stargate now!

Be happy! Here in Canada, we only just started Season 9 of Stargate and haven't even begun Season 2 of BSG (later this month)

Caduceus · #8 January 2nd, 2006, 02:03 PM

SciFi has split the seasons for several reasons.

1.) They get clobbered by the regular networks if they debut against "the big three (or four or five)"

2.) They probably discovered that fans would pay for a half season of BSG on DVD. There were 13 episodes in the first season, but if you add the miniseries, that brings it to around 19 (depending on how you count it). Ten episodes have aired so far for ths second half. That probably means another ten.

3.) Amanda Tapping (Col. Carter from SG-1) had a baby.

4.) These shows cost more than a million bucks each.

The season returns this Friday with the second half of the seasons. I don't know how many episodes they will have total, but if the writing stays good on BSG I am satisfied with a 20 show season.

BTW I went to a GameStop and picked up [a used] Season one of the new BSG for 20 bucks. It's a good New Year.

Cipher7071 · #9 January 2nd, 2006, 02:26 PM

Wow Atrocities. You should really start laying off the caffeine if you can get worked up over Sci-Fi Channel scheduling. May I suggest you keep some reading handy. Perhaps some classic Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, or even H. G. Wells. If those are too mundane, try some Phillip K. Dick, or Haruki Murakami.

Now, if your copy of SEIV goes bad...

Grandpa Kim · #10 January 2nd, 2006, 03:36 PM

Well, it used to be that a full season was 26 episodes. That was decades ago. These days anything from 13 to 18 constitutes a full season. Why the powers that be think this is a good thing is beyond me. I'd rather watch my favorite shows than some lame-*** made for TV movie during sweeps month. Then there is Christmas specials. A whole month of Christmas specials! If they still can't fill the docket we get reruns of the first 4 or 5 episodes. Are we cattle? Or sheep? We must be. They have been getting away with it for years and AT's rant is about the worst we hear but we certainly don't turn off that damn tube and say "To hell with them!"

Moo!