14-02-2005 09:19									#1
	Battlestar Galatica Picked Up For Second Season Put an end to popups!

Apparently the SCI FI Channel has already given the green light for a second season. I didnt watch it the past two weeks cause of different obligations but had taped it and I must say it is way better than I would have dreamed of.

quote: SCI FI Channel has ordered a second season of its hit series Battlestar Galactica, which has aired five episodes of its first season of 13 episodes. Details of the renewal—including which cast members will return, how many episodes will be produced and when the second season will commence—were still being worked out at press time. Battlestar Galactica has been a ratings winner for SCI FI since its Jan. 14 premiere. The latest episode, Feb. 4's "You Can't Go Home Again," scored the show's best ratings yet, with 3.2 million viewers. For the show's second season, creator and executive producer Ronald D. Moore previously told SCI FI Wire that he has already been working on as many as six new scripts to resolve the multiple cliffhangers that will end season one. Moore added that he wants to delve deeper into the show's religious themes and open up the Cylon world a bit more in the coming season. Moore continues to post his thoughts on a personal blog on SCIFI.COM. Battlestar Galactica airs Fridays at 10 p.m. ET/PT, part of the channel's SCI FI Fridays lineup.

	14-02-2005 10:46									#4
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I hope that it gets picked up in syndication like StarGate did

	14-02-2005 11:14									#5
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Why's that Ted Striker? I think (though I'm not positive) that for most shows to get into syndication like that it takes around five seasons.

I'm with Sprayber though, BSG has far exceeded all of my previous expectations, though with every new episode I expect more and more out of the show. The only real problem I've had so far is that it killed me when they resorted in a string of lucky coincidences culminating with Star Buck repairing and flying the downed raider back to the Galactica; other than that it's been gritty, balanced, consistant, and interesting.

to the new season (i can't wait to finish this one up first, but i refuse to download the episodes early)

	14-02-2005 11:37									#6
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I don't have Sci Fi Channel at home.

The movie I saw on NBC freakin rocked.

	14-02-2005 11:49									#7
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Ted,

Oh I'm sorry to hear that. Do you have cable? If not you might want to consider getting Directv or Dish Network if you own your own place. I'm not trying to get your hopes up or anything but I've heard about two rumors floating around concerning NBC. The first is that NBC may rerun the season this summer if it does well enough on Scifi. The other rumor builds off of that, basically if it does well enough NBC may pick up the second season season. GE apparently owns both NBC and SciFi. The season is really good though. I know the all of the episodes are on available on the internet (illegally of course) because BSG came out in the UK first. So if you have high speed internet access you may want to check it out.

	14-02-2005 11:50									#8
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Thanks for the tips!

It looks like an awesome show!

	14-02-2005 11:52									#9
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It is

BSG
Ted Striker

	14-02-2005 12:55									#11
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Excellent. We need more quality SF gracing the airwaves.
The mini-series only just screened here last weekend and it did look fairly promising.

[ OTOH though, if they turn the cute girl playing 'Boomer' into a bad guy and kill her off I'll probably be sufficiently infuriated so as to stop watching in protest. ]

	14-02-2005 13:07									#12
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Who'd of thought anything to do with BSG could ever be thought of as quailty SciFi?

	14-02-2005 13:47									#13
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quote: Originally posted by ravagon Excellent. We need more quality SF gracing the airwaves. The mini-series only just screened here last weekend and it did look fairly promising. [ OTOH though, if they turn the cute girl playing 'Boomer' into a bad guy and kill her off I'll probably be sufficiently infuriated so as to stop watching in protest. ]

From the mini-series, you already know Boomer is a Cylon and that each model can have a number of individual units. Well, the one aboard Galactica partially realizes she is a Cylon plant, but is desperately trying to convince herself it isn't true. She manages to fight her sabotuer programming to a small degree; a glitch in her programming perhaps? They'll probably develope her further along those lines, maybe even have her revealed as a woman more Human than Cylon. We aren't really certain what the one on Caprica is up too however.

	14-02-2005 16:11									#14
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And for those of you not in the UK I can tell you that the cliffhanger at the end of season one is by far the best I have ever seen in any series.

No spoilers here though.

	14-02-2005 17:57									#15
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Sci-Fi would have been nuts to have done otherwise.

	14-02-2005 21:31									#16
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quote: Originally posted by korn469 The only real problem I've had so far is that it killed me when they resorted in a string of lucky coincidences culminating with Star Buck repairing and flying the downed raider back to the Galactica;

If you watched the OBG, you'll recognize the two episodes to which this one pays homage. The first episode was when Starbuck and Apollo used a Cylon raider (brought aboard, IIRC, by Baltar after he fled the Cylons) to sneak aboard a Base Star and return. Upon leaving Galactica Starbuck said, if our radio goes out, watch for us waggling our wings.

The second episode was the one in which Starbuck gets shot down on a planet and left behind by the fleet (his last episode). He finds a crashed Cylon raider, repairs one of the Cylons, and makes it work for him. (Later a human woman crashes on the planet, she and Starbuck have a baby, but she dies in childbirth. Then some Cylons show up, and the fixed Cylon gets destroyed, so Starbuck is alone with his son.)

	14-02-2005 21:52									#17
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Brilliant show! Baltar continues to be my favorite character. My only problems with the last episode (or so) were minor. Starbuck wasnt being actually being dragged that fast by her chute so the severity of her injury was a little much. On the other hand if we assume that it was just bad luck and it somehow was a bad knee injury then when and how did she write on the bottom of the cylon spacecraft?

	14-02-2005 22:33									#18
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The series depicts the Cylons to be at an overwhelming advantage. Why do they bother with subterfuge? The whole plot line on Caprica makes no sense? Why bother trying to fool that one guy? Even if he got on a ship, he wouldn't know how to get back to the fleet. In addition, why use up Cylon plants within the fleet on suicide bombing missions? They should just figure out a way to notify the Cylons of their location. Constant attacks were coing pretty close to destroying the fleet in that first episode. Just keep it up.

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BSG rocks!

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quote: Originally posted by SpencerH On the other hand if we assume that it was just bad luck and it somehow was a bad knee injury then when and how did she write on the bottom of the cylon spacecraft?

I thought she wrote it on the top.

	14-02-2005 22:46									#21
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quote: Originally posted by pchang The whole plot line on Caprica makes no sense? Why bother trying to fool that one guy?

I think they're studying him, trying to decide if there are elements of humanity worth saving (perhaps as batteries ).

quote: In addition, why use up Cylon plants within the fleet on suicide bombing missions? They should just figure out a way to notify the Cylons of their location.

That assumes that messages travel faster than the speed of light. Better to try and destroy Galactica and then the rest of the fleet will be at the mercy of the Cylons when they are found.

	14-02-2005 23:14									#22
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They have a plan. That plan is Earth.

We know the Cylons have some perverted sense of religion and that they recognize that the Humans they are killing do too. They are almost certainly aware of the myth of the 13th Colony. If it exists, it's a threat to them as they know if they don't wipe Humanity out eventually they'll seek revenge. Why Earth has to be dragged into this, I don't know, but if the Colonial refugees find Earth then it must be destroyed. The occasional attacks keep the fleet moving ever forward as to not encourage complacency.

Starbuck's name on the Cylon Raider:
It was on the bottom, they even said it. She probably used some kind of emergency tape hidden in one of those many pockets military uniforms have. A bright color makes sense for emergency uses, and given the color of her uniform I doubt she would have more subtle colors.

Starbuck's knee:
She whacked it pretty good in that rock; a direct, straight-on hit. Given there was no breathable atmosphere, perhaps that helped to make the injury worse.

	15-02-2005 00:13									#23
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quote: Originally posted by chegitz guevara I think they're studying him, trying to decide if there are elements of humanity worth saving (perhaps as batteries ). quote: In addition, why use up Cylon plants within the fleet on suicide bombing missions? They should just figure out a way to notify the Cylons of their location. That assumes that messages travel faster than the speed of light. Better to try and destroy Galactica and then the rest of the fleet will be at the mercy of the Cylons when they are found.

Speaking of messages travelling faster than the speed of light, is the Number 6 hallucination that haunts Baltar something being trasmitted to him remotely or is it a self contained entity like "Harvey" from the chip that was planted in John Chrichtons brain in Farscape?

	15-02-2005 00:30									#24
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In the original series Starbuck had an ongoing flirtatious relationship with a "space hooker" named Cassiopeia. Does she appear in the new series?

	15-02-2005 01:03									#25
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No - no hint of any lesbian relationships.

	15-02-2005 01:06									#26
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quote: Originally posted by Geronimo Speaking of messages travelling faster than the speed of light, is the Number 6 hallucination that haunts Baltar something being trasmitted to him remotely or is it a self contained entity like "Harvey" from the chip that was planted in John Chrichtons brain in Farscape?

I think it is exactly like "Harvey" in Farscape.

	15-02-2005 02:51									#27
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Didn't think there'd be a thread about this on Apolyton anymore, the news is almost a week old by now...

Starbuck's unlikely escape off the planet in You Can't Go Home Again is IMO the only weakpoint in the entire first season, but it's excusable as a tribute to original show. And of course, if that's the low point, that says a lot about the overall quality of the show...

The season finale is possibly the best season finale ever (certainly the best one since ST:TNG's The Best of Both Worlds). The teaser of part 1 alone (it's a two-parter) has more going on then the entire first two seasons of Enterprise. And oh my, what a cliffhanger... (But I'm not gonna reveal anything about that)

	15-02-2005 02:53									#28
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grr. you're making me impatient, making me want to steal it from the internet rather than wait for each individual show. and i'm sitting here wondering why i don't do just that.

	15-02-2005 02:57									#29
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quote: Originally posted by Lorizael grr. you're making me impatient, making me want to steal it from the internet rather than wait for each individual show. and i'm sitting here wondering why i don't do just that.

At least you still have new episodes to look forward to (heck, you're only halfway through). I have to wait a whole year...

	15-02-2005 03:02									#30
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I've seen hints at the cliffhanger and ive managed to keep myself from actually reading futher. From what little i have read it seems to be a very ambitious clifhanger for the shows very first season, but then again I love the pace of the show and I loved how they actually had Starbuck in the infirmary like she actually had an injury instead of healing her for the next episode. Great show so far.