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Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far

Just saw on Major Nelson that Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far is available for download from Marketplace. Gamespot has a good article summing up the show as well. To quote:

When it debuted in 2003, the new Battlestar Galactica was greeted with skepticism. After all, it was a remake of a 1970-'80s series with a strong cult following produced by the Sci-Fi Channel, a cable network then infamous for its low-budget TV movies of the week.

Surprisingly, Battlestar Galactica proved the naysayers wrong. Its innovative plotlines, which were created by ex-Star Trek: The Next Generation writer Ronald D. Moore, won it critical acclaim and solid ratings. The series has also garnered a major following for its unusually gritty atmosphere. Instead of the clean-cut, sober officers of the Star Trek shows, Galactica's crew is an unkempt, hard-drinking lot whose demoralized dialogue is peppered with the fictional expletive "frak."

In 2004, the show was picked up as a full-time series. It ended its most recent season, its second, in March with one of the more shocking cliff-hangers in sci-fi television history. Such boldness helped the show win one of this year's Peabody Awards, the prestigious honor for excellence in broadcasting, which it shared with CNN, NBC Nightly News, and South Park, among others.

The third season of Battlestar Galactica is premiering in October, and the Sci-Fi channel is pulling out all the stops to promote it. It has put together a television special, titled Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far, summing up the key events of the Battlestar Galactica miniseries and its first two seasons. The special will air on all the cable stations owned by Sci-Fi parent NBC Universal, which includes Bravo and USA, as well as the West Coast affiliates of the NBC broadcast TV network.

I can't stress enough how good this show is, and what you're missing out on if you're not watching. I'll be the first to say that TV programming is mostly drek. I have friends who give me the hardest time for having the home theater I never use to watch TV (would much rather use it with movies and games). Battlestar Galactica is one of the first TV shows in a long time that I personally think is worth watching, and I'd encourage you to check out the free summary show if you're curious. That said, if you know you're going to watch it, I'd skip the summation and just get seasons 1 and 2 on DVD. I'm waiting for the recently announced HD-DVD versions - the show is filmed in high-def, and looks spectacular. No, I don't know why only the SD version is available on Marketplace - bummed by that. Sad

P.S. - Muffy the robot dog is nowhere to be seen. This is a good thing.

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Posted: Aug 28 2006, 11:24 AM by Ozymandias | 14 comments
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WiNG said:

I have seen Battlestar Gallactica here on TV recently and I also agree on being something interesting to watch. Don't obviously know about the Hi-Def version here, but the regular one they have been broadcasting here is of good image quality and should not be a minus if someone can't get the HD one. I am really hoping the new season gets dubbed and broadcasted here on Spain soon so we do not need to wait 6 months or so to watch it.

On a side note, the last chapter of Season 2 broadcasted here in Spain was DIFFERENT than the american one, so Season 3 satarting will be interesting to see...

# August 28, 2006 12:58 PM

LetsKillDave said:

We need to convince Joss Whedon to let us distribute the Firefly series via Xbox :-)

# August 28, 2006 1:13 PM

nopants727 said:

HD-DVD versions???  All the more reason to put off buying 2.5 on DVD.  I'll have to live with my dvr rips til then.  Sci-fi isn't broadcasting in HD are they?  Wonder if there is an online petition to NBC for HD broadcasts.  Also, I like your thinking Dave.  Firefly over XBL would be pretty cool.

# August 28, 2006 1:34 PM

nopants727 said:

Looks like Universal HD will be broadcasting in HD.

# August 28, 2006 1:40 PM

WiNG said:

BTW, I read somewhere (could be SciFi magazine Spain, but not sure) that there will be some webcast episodes comming soon to fill in the gap between seasons 2 and 3, unfortunately I hold no more details about that though...

# August 28, 2006 2:27 PM

Kypdurron5 said:

I completely agree!  BSG is one of the greatest sci-fi shows to come out in a long time.  I've even managed to get non-sci-fi geeks into the series.  

# August 28, 2006 3:38 PM

Ozymandias said:

To clarify, Universal HD is where I've been finding the BSG HD episodes. DirecTV currently carries Universal HD as part of their HD package. My Tivo's getting full, though - looking forward to the HD-DVDs!

# August 28, 2006 4:25 PM

Claws said:

Most of us in the States with HD don't get Galactica in HD via SciFi but we do get new episodes and repeats broadcast in HD on the Universal(NBC) HD channel.The new episodes are usually broadcast on Universal HD the week after they premier on SciFi and different repeats of older episodes air on it at various different times throughout the week.

# August 28, 2006 5:09 PM

LetsKillDave said:

>P.S. - Muffy the robot dog is nowhere to be seen. This is a good thing.

It wasn't a dog, it was a "daggit" that was injured in the initial attack and given bionic implants to fix him up.  The fact that it looked like a monkey with plastic parts attached to it is completely irrelevant.  It was NOT a dog. Hmpf.

Signed, LetsKillTheBattleStarNerdFromThe70s :-)

# August 29, 2006 4:10 PM

Ozymandias said:

Re: "It wasn't a dog, it was a "daggit" that was injured in the initial attack and given bionic implants to fix him up.  The fact that it looked like a monkey with plastic parts attached to it is completely irrelevant.  It was NOT a dog. Hmpf.

Signed, LetsKillTheBattleStarNerdFromThe70s :-)"

Before my time, my friend, before my time. ;)

# August 30, 2006 2:54 PM

WiNG said:

just found a Muffy pic... whoever designed that deserves pain and a lot

# August 30, 2006 4:39 PM

iwuzwhatiwuz said:

BSg is easly the sci-fi show on the ol' boob tube these days. My wife is so totally anti-scifi that at first she  was able to deny BSG's greatness. I have now made her into a bigger BSG fan than me! I also like Stargate: Atlantis quite a bit and to a lesser extent Stargate SG-1. Excellent Blog and keep it coming!

# August 30, 2006 10:25 PM

Aaron said:

What's with the poor quality of the Xbox Live recap episode?  It was disappointing enough that it was only going to be 480p, but it appears that it is even less that that, since the show only takes up about half the screen.  We are approaching ipod resolution here!

# August 31, 2006 9:39 AM

EricB said:

Muffet, the dagget's name was Muffet.  

On a side note, I believe one of the BSG trading cards from the original series showed the monkey that actually wore the dagget suit.

On a second side note, my 4 year old daughter found an old Imperious Leader figure I had on a shelf. He now spends time with Barbie dressed in Skipper's sundress and apron sipping tea, talking about universal domination and playing "school".

# August 31, 2006 3:43 PM