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Re: NEW TV Premiers 17 years 5 months ago #25

<br />LOL!  For some reason, the Clapper popped into my head when I read this.  "Clap on, clap off, the clapper!"<br />

<br /><br />Oh, thanks.  Now I'll have that 'ear worm" stuck playing itself in my head all the way home from work....
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Re: NEW TV Premiers 16 years 1 week ago #26

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<br />WELP - the winner in our household for the best season premier goes to......<br /><br /><br />Battlestar Galactica.<br /><br />Have to admit - it easily beat out LOST, CSI, CSINY, The Unit...<br /><br />Pretty good show but I still think they jumped the shark when they landed on the planet and spun us a full year into the future...<br /><br />I suspect LOST will gain a bunch of ground on BSG - CSI and CSINY are pretty solid - but never seem to spike much over the course of a season...<br /><br />So kudos to at least one good season premier!<br /><br /> =)<br />

<br /><br />Welp - seeing how BSG is in the final season...I think my call on them jumping the shark with the whole "New Caprica" crap stands up as a pretty good call.<br /><br />Anyone disappointed to see the show end - anyone think shows that take a year off between seasons are destined to fail or end sooner than planned?  Is this some new Hollywood strategy we should expect to see more of?  Where is that question only thread??
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Re: NEW TV Premiers 16 years 1 week ago #27

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haven't watched any BSG since the new caprica arc. They lost me as a viewer forever with that piece of crap.

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Re: NEW TV Premiers 16 years 1 week ago #28

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Yep - I could not buy that big leap over sharks!<br /><br />You know if there is something in this season that explains it - or makes the whole thing go away - that would be neat to see.  But unless BSG has a forum as popular as LOST - I doubt the writers are thinking about this.
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Re: NEW TV Premiers 16 years 1 week ago #29

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I didn't just not like it, it offended the hell out of me. The political statement they wanted to make, calling the US military and cylons equivocal made me want to puke. At the time, if I saw one of their producers in a crosswalk, I'm not sure I would have hit the brakes.

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Re: NEW TV Premiers 16 years 1 week ago #30

<br />Welp - seeing how BSG is in the final season...I think my call on them jumping the shark with the whole "New Caprica" crap stands up as a pretty good call.

<br />My understanding is that it was always planned as a 4-season run. Like Babylon 5 was always planned as five seasons
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Re: NEW TV Premiers 16 years 1 week ago #31

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ew... - well out of the first three seasons the only shark jump was the "new caprica" stunt...<br /><br />If it was always going to be a 4 season show, why not keep to the "searching for earth" plot all the way and just show the shoot em up shows we all wanted to see.  The love triangle shows and the "drama" left me thinking I was watching just another PM soap opera.<br /><br />To me the best this show had to offer was the Man VS Machine plot and trying to keep our humanity under the circumstances.  Forget the Lucas-like political carp that always comes up in "drone" wars type plots...<br /><br />I personally would have liked the show much better if there were a seasonal "quest" (food, fuel, arrow, earth) and then a smattering of shows like the one with SCAR!  That was good SCI-FI!  Don't get me wrong - I liked the new moody Starbuck junk (dealing with injury) - but to junk we had to get through while folks were inprisoned on new caprica was just junk. <br /><br />I'll sum it up this way - I own every Battlestar original episode on DVD, same for Space 1999...was even thinking BSG 1980 would be good to own for a laugh at times...but would I ever own this new BSG...nope.  (exception might be the SCAR episode).<br /><br />
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Re: NEW TV Premiers 16 years 1 week ago #32

Gary,<br /><br />You're new icon is creeping me out.  Makes me think it's an eye with red veins, looking at me......... yes, I know it is a token.  Still looks like an eye.  lolol.
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Re: NEW TV Premiers 16 years 1 week ago #33

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Sorry - it might be 2 years before I change it - if the last time is any indication...
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