Posted on 09/27/2006 11:04:53 AM PDT by Keltik
I cannot say enough good things about BSG. Most of season 2.5 though was a downer till the final 3 episodes got their footing back. Even with the low points it was still the best show on TV with season 3 coming up in 2(3?) weeks.
If you haven't seen the show seriously check it out.
You will be hooked. My husband and I are half-way through season 3.
They won't because they can't. BOR should go back to teaching third graders.
I dumped cable about 4 years ago now... and other than big news events.. I don't miss it at all.
There are only a handful of shows worth making an attempt to see on...
The ones I make an effort to see:
My Name is Earl
Everybody Hates Chris
The Simpsons - hit or miss anymore,but still watch.
Generally will watch the Law and Order series' if they are on I'm not busy, but don't go out of way to see them.
My wife is die hard Veronic Mars fan, and frankly there is far worse on TV.
She was huge into Buffy and Angel back when they were on.
If I could just get the shows I wanted, I'd probably give that a chance, but no way in hell I'll ever have full fledged cable again.... 879 channels of crap, and frankly can't escape insanely over sexualization on cable even in the middle of the afternoon... just flipping through the channels a 3pm at a hotel and I had to turn it off.
Your list is not adjusted dollars.. that puts newer movies at a huge advantage.
A mediocre movie can make 50-100 Million today.. when in 1970 that would have been an unquestionable blockbuster.
I sure wish History Channel would back off on the "Modern Marvels" show a bit. It's not a bad show but it seems like it's all that's ever on.
They left out the best TV show...ever.....THE SHIELD. It's now five seasons of incredible TV to watch on DVD. The absolute best adult drama EVER EVER EVER on TV.
For the record, Battlestar Galactica started out as a TV-movie/series and was not originally a secont-tier movie. (It was later re-released in theatres AFTER the TV showing).
I actually thought that Wolfe's "I Am Charlotte Simmons" would play extremely well as a maxi-series. It is too involved to be a two-hour movie. I wish there'd be some way to tone down the language and bedroom/dorm scenes, but the book would work perfectly in the maxi-series format.
HBO shill wrote that garbage.
The Fox show "24" just garnered all the awards and is making zillions in boxed sets.
Rome compared to "24" ?.....you have to be kidding me.
"Unless you get the dreaded "long wait" or worse "very long wait". Which is what happened to me with the 2nd season of the series "Ghost Hunters"."
Hey, I edit Ghost Hunters. Glad to see someone here is watching!
I completely agree. I just got through 2.0 e12 and the second series was actually better than the first. One of the few sci fi series I've seen that makes the reaslistic case for war against an implacable enemy. Very timely.
Only caveat: takes a post-Starship Troopers approach to battle troops, though Katee Sackhoff makes a cracker=jane Starbuck. Light=years better than the original, IMHO.
I don't really think the popularity of these TV show DVDs marks any trouble to the movie business at all. For most of the last 25 years (with a hickup last year, though this year seems to be back on trend) attendance and/or revenue at theaters has been up. What the DVDs are a death knell for is the old model of rerun syndication. It used to be the holy grail of TV was to get 100 episodes and sell the rerun rights, these days instead of trying to convince local and second tier national stations to buy the rerun rights they now try to convince the audience to buy their own private rerun rights. We're now seeing an entire era of TV shows that will probably never be sold to syndication no matter how many episodes they produce.
I never miss Ghost Hunters - can't wait for the next season!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
There are more of us here, but I think I'm the only one who will openly admit it! :-)
"What? Me watch a show about hunting ghosts? Never! Hey, wait a sec, the show ghos....er.....the mozart opera I've been looking forward to watching on the Sci-Fi channel is coming on right now...gotta run!"
(Actually, I dont have cable tv. I used to have it up untill late 2002, but couldnt afford it anymore. So now I watch all my movies and tv shows via Netflix/Blockbuster rentals. I learned about the series from just average surfing around the internet)
I'm actually enjoying Studio 90, even if it is written by Aaron Sorkin.
"I completely agree. I just got through 2.0 e12 and the second series was actually better than the first. One of the few sci fi series I've seen that makes the reaslistic case for war against an implacable enemy. Very timely."
One of the "contriversial" episodes that really made me think was somewhere in 2.5 I think it was, may have been in 2.0. Episode dealt with Doc Cottle(sp) doing abortions among the fleet.
President Roslin, apparently a pro-choicer, had the realization thanks to Baltar that the situation they were in abortion was not an option, and harkened back to the mini-series when Adama said "they better start having babies." Tigh: Is that an order? Adama: It might be soon.
Anyway the point being that BSG really tackles some issues that are pertinant to us, but drive the story there. Rape, Murder, the black market (episode sucked but had a point), military coup, abortion, racism, politics, religion, war (of course), war crimes, and more.
Some resolutions are left leaning, some are right leaning. Overall it comes back to right/left doesn't really matter, it's how less than 50,000 people are going to survive, and that what ends up making the decision.
It's all there. BSG reimaged is a drama that happens to take place in space, where as most sci-fi is sci-fi that happens to have some dramatic elements.
As far as "bleakness" goes of course it's going to be bleak. Billions of people got whacked in less then 24 hours and the survivors mostly just happened to be in space at the time on commercial transport vessels. Galactica had no bullets, and old fighters in a museum, as she was an old ship up for decommision. Of course the show is going to be bleak, unlike the original series that almost every episode forgot that they were the only survivors and half the time everything was happy go lucky.
Anyway I'm rambling.
I completely disagree. We are living in the TRUE "Golden Age" of television! TV has never been better. Battlestar Galactica, Myth Busters, Dirty Jobs, NFL Live, House, NOVA, Modern Marvels, the Family Guy, Bones, Deadwood, etc. My Tivo usually has far more enjoyable programming stored than I can get to.
I love TV!
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