next week is the last episode for this year, so it’s gonna be a big one. i was hoping they wouldn’t split the last half into '09
Yeah, I’m majorly bummed about that. I was also hoping they weren’t gonna split it.
its going to suck but its also going to be a part of a monster tv lineup next year. We’re going to see the return of Lost, 24 along with BSG and at the time, we will be seeing Heroes as well, so I guess thats why they split it up.
Amazing ep, heartwarming too.
After next week, the countdown to 09 is going to be long
Fuck this splitting up bullshit. It’s like a hot ass thai hooker giving me a world class blowjob and right before I cum she stops, whips out her dick, knocks me out and then I wake up in a tub full of ice with my kidney missing and a bleeding anus. :annoy:
Huh? What do these other shows have to do with BSG? They’re all on different networks too.
I’m tired of how Sci Fi splits up their seasons like this.
MONSTER.TV.LINEUP!!! Its the fact that with so many top shows on, people are going to be excited watching TV and its a prime time to cash in and grab the highest ratings. If you look at the current season right now, Lost and BSG are pulling in top ratings and part of the reason why is because Lost airs on Thursday nights, you watch that, get all excited, then you got another monster TV show that airs on Friday nights. They may be different TV shows on different networks, but that doesn’t mean it isnt the same person flipping through channels.
I am what people call, a TV nerd. Granted there are people worse than me, but you still get the picture. Here is what my show schedule used to be (and still is if the show has not ended yet)
Sunday - Cold Case
Monday - CSI: Miami, WWE Raw
Tuesday - Hell’s Kitchen
Wed - nothing
Thursday - Smallville, Lost (usually I download Lost and catch Office live since it starts after Smallville)
Friday - WWE Smackdown, Battlestar Galactica
Saturday - nothing
so you see just with this season thats quite a bit of shows and if you notice, some of those shows start after the other BUT they are on different networks. The point is that they don’t want to compete with other networks b/c their flagship shows are too high profile, so people would want to have it to where they will watch/record a show, and their favored show will be recorded next. For example, Smallville plays at 7PM. Lost plays at 8PM. Now why would ABC put Lost at 8PM timeslot and not 7PM timeslot? Because other major networks have their flagship shows at 7PM, and 8PM is a much better slot for people anyways. So people who watch top shows, like I do, will tune in to the CW at 7, and then at 8 tune into Lost.
For Battlestar Galactica, that show starts at 9PM here, and if you have been paying attention to what I was saying about timeslots, youll see that BSG is sitting after most major friday night prime-time shows. Once those shows are over, people will be more inclined to tune into Sci-Fi to watch BSG. Right now, BSG has the best timeslot but later this season, we are going to see the return of Stargate Atlantis, so BSG may be pushed back or kept the same, we don’t know.
What I do know, is that with such a huge lineup for 09, more people are going to watch TV, so its obvious to skip the summer season, go right into the midst of pretty much half of next season, and going to get shown, in a time when Stargate Atlantis would be currently running (and halfway more or less at that point) That way, people have something to watch in succession, like the old days where we had BSG, then SG-1 and SGA. It’s all about the money. Once you realize the business end, the faster youll get over being part of the fan side of things.
WTF? Why the wait?!
Sheesh they’re going to milk this damn show for all eternity…
Well I agree that the show is placed on Friday nights at 10 so it doesn’t have to compete with any other popular program but I disagree that the second half of the season is getting pushed to next year because it’ll be part of some larger block of shows.
All the shows you pointed out are from diverse genres that have nothing to do with each other. You got a reality tv cooking show, a cop show, an urban fantasy show, a mystery adventure show. These have nothing to do with a sci-fi space show. BSG viewers do not have all the same tastes. Furthermore, how does placing the show in some weekly TV line up help it? People don’t watch TV based on fall, spring and summer seasons anymore. People will watch TV whenever they want to watch it. The evidence of that is based on the wildly popular MTV and VH1 reality TV shows that air at random times of the year. If BSG airs in the summer, it only has to worry about competing shows. I’m not more likely to watch BSG because other exciting stuff is happening on TV.
The only strategy I see Sci Fi doing with the show is two things. They are milking it by cutting the season in half. You’ll get more weekly viewers if the seasons are short and spread out because people know the commitment is short and the show will not be on the air for long (that’ll be extra pressure not to miss it). Secondly, Sci Fi makes a big Friday night block of new programming so that folks have a bigger incentive to stay home. If you have three sci fi programs on Friday night, you’ll more likely stay home to watch all three instead of just one.
I don’t agree with cutting seasons in half or putting 6-12 month breaks between shortened seasons because people will lose interest (and the die hard ones will get annoyed, mad, etc) because of the sloppy decision making.
Is it split because of the strike? Probably.
But they were thinking about doing that months before the strike even happened, we even talked about it here.
And Friday nights will almost always be the worst timeslot regardless of the show.
MTV and VH1 are wildly popular because morons tune into those stations. MTV is the Madden of television, people buy into shit quality.
Seasons 2 got cut in half. Season 4 did have problems because of the strike so maybe that’s what’s likely causing the show to get split. Although I wouldn’t put it past Sci Fi to split it in order to milk it.
And what does the quality of the shows of MTV and VH1 have anything to do with their popularity? They’re just popular, regardless of when they are during the year. You can hate on them all you want, but they’re still popular. Lol.
dude you’re still not getting it. Its all about the volume of viewers, not the diverse lineup of shows. Forget about the genres of those shows for a bit. Think about how much people watch those shows. They are in the multi-millions.
Since you like to think in terms of genre and same networks somehow, then think about this. WWE Smackdown airs 7PM to 9PM and Battlestar Galactica airs at 9PM. WWE ECW fans watch on Sci-fi so they are going to be aware of content that airs on Sci-Fi. So lets say they go sit down and watch WWE Smackdown, when thats done, they KNOW Battlestar Galactica is going to hit right after it on Sci-Fi, so if they like it, they are going to tune into BSG. Do you see how 1 group of viewers have instantly turned into another group of viewers? I go on various TV show forums often and I do see other people who follow a whole variety of shows, like on Smallville boards I encounter Terminator, Veronica Mars, Lost fans and on the BSG boards I encounter other Lost fans, Stargate fans, Doctor Who fans and all sorts of people who watch these hit shows just like I do. Genre doesn’t matter.
At that time in 2009, its going to be a time where people are going to be watching television the most (due to the sheer volume of hit shows going to be playing atm), and its also the time where I predict they are going to be making the most money out of BSG. Again, stop thinking like a fan, and start thinking more like a business and you’ll start to understand. It’s all about the ratings.
exactly. Reality shows are a bit different. Reality shows can be made and released at any point in the season, so people have an easier time accessing them. Reality shows are more accessible due to pretty much having no storyline to follow, you can watch a couple episodes and instantly pick it up, versus watching BSG at this point having no idea wtf is going on.
Story shows are a lot different than reality shows. These have to be produced, shot, and post-processed, promoed and then released, not to try to draw in more viewers, but to keep the viewers they already have, while also trying to attract a would-be viewer to catch up and become a regular viewer. Story show production time also is a lot longer than reality shows, so of course, with a season split like this, its obvious that A) they are catching up from the strike, B) they are setting it up at a point in the TV season where there will be the most volume of viewers in order to generate as much advertisement cash as possible.
A lot of these major complaints that you guys have, are the reason why major TV shows are moving into the 13 episode format. Look at Lost, this is the first season for the new 13 episode format, extended to 14 for story purposes. But in effect they succeeded because not only they have released these 14 eps nearly back to back, they have set themselves up for a return in 09 thats not too long, and fans know that its not a season split, its a season finale.
Anybody catch the latest ep? I saw that shit coming, *Planet of the Apes *style. I’m pretty miffed, god knows how long we have to wait for the true final episode and to find out who the fifth really is…
total shocker for me. i didn’t expect them to hit earth until the last episode. the wait until '09 is gonna suck =/
I just began watching this show. I disregarded it for a long time solely based on the previews I saw. They always looked kinda hokey, so I never bothered tuning in. But I kept having people tell me it isn’t how it seems, to give it a shot, it’s really solid, and all that jazz.
Well, I finally did and I’m enjoying it. I’m just now finishing up Season 1, so I’m not reading too much of the thread for fear of spoilers. But you can label me a fan. I’ll probably catch up to the new season in a couple weeks. Once I start, I watch it whenever I can sneak an episode in.
Planet of the Apes indeed… the wait is gonna suck.
Still, great episode. I really thought Tigh was gonna get shoved out the airlock. I’m glad he wasn’t and I’m glad Starbuck hit Lee with some sense and he chose to co-operate in the end.
And I don’t mind admitting this, but I got all sorts of teary eyed during the whole final jump to earth sequence.
Wow. . .that was a pretty kickass episode. I’m just wondering what the heck the next 11 episodes are going to be about, considering that they’ve finally reached their goal, albeit it wasn’t quite what they were looking for.
I’m not quite sure if it is the real Earth though; didn’t the prophecies say that the dying leader would die before reaching the promised land? Strange contradiction, even though the constellations match up.
The one complaint I have about the episode is that ADAMA DIDN’T BREAK HIS SHIP MODEL AGAIN DURING HIS OUTBURST, ARRGGHHH. What a lost comedic opportunity. If he did break it, it would have been his. . .3rd or 4th time?
ok so we saw one destroyed city, its not like they checked the ENTIRE planet for life right?
someone had to make that signal to lead them there
Yeah, Tigh was ready to face his punishment like a man, he has always been one of, if not my favorite character on the show, even in his drunken, early days.
AFAIK, there’s only one episode left, and I do believe they’ve reached the real earth. The only questions left are what do they do know, and who is the final cylon?
I liked Tigh best as Sea Pirate Tigh during his New Caprica stay, complete with missing eye and full beard. I was screaming for him to get an eyepatch the entirety of the New Caprica arc, and he only got it when he shaved his beard off. Figures.
Actually, there’s 11 episodes left, making this a 21 episode season. It was originally 20 episodes long, but they pushed it to 21 (and possibly more). And they’re all airing in 2009. What a crappy 6 month wait that’s going to be.