I’ve been in and out of the SciFi Channel’s website for the past couple of weeks working on my Who Wants to be a Superhero article; I’m surprised I didn’t see that Battlestar Galactica would be showing little “webisodes” leading up to the beginning of the third season on October 6th. The first one, posted yesterday, is Day 67 of the Occupation: Resistance.
If you like seeing quality science fiction on television (my likes: ST:TNG, Firefly, Babylon 5, Farscape, The Prisoner, UFO (not Project UFO), Doctor Who; dislikes: Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, X-Files), you need to be watching Battlestar Galactica. And if you love BG like I do, you’ll want to see these webisodes. And if you want the SciFi channel to focus more on quality science fiction and less on wrestling or whatever, watch their good stuff.
As long as I’m here talking about SciFi channel offerings, I want to mention Eureka. I’ve seen pretty much all of the episodes now when Turner Classic Movies isn’t running anything I want to see (and I’ll be talking more about TCM someday), and I just have a couple of questions… all to do with the premier. First, what happened to the mysterious dog? Second, why did they see themselves leaving Eureka the same time they first came into it? Third, what happened to the evil slut counselor?
The last episode I watched took today’s problems with drugs, over-diagnosing kids with behavioral disorders, and the pressure to achieve, and faced them unflinchingly and head-on by showing what would happen if some kids created a super-Ritalin that let them run five hundred miles an hour.
If ya don’t watch Battlestar Galactica, this is the sort of thing they’re gonna show. You have been warned.
Have you watched any episodes of “Dead Like Me”. It’s also pretty good and anti-corny.
I did watch some of “Dead Like Me”, and I talked about it a little at https://chasingdings.com/?p=210. It’s a great show. I was a little sad when I found out it was just a syndicated series originally shown on Showtime, though that kinda answered my questions on how far they could take the concept.
Two seasons.
I didn’t include it in my list of favorite TV SciFi because I don’t consider it SciFi, really. It’s more Kafka-esque than anything, what with death being a lot like life, except you lose everything you were.
Great show, though, one of the bright spots on the SciFi channel’s schedule.
The concept of the show is good but its the underlying themes of some of the episodes that really made me a big fan. If you watch the last two episodes of season 2 you can tell that the show still had a lot of potential and should have continued. The show’s creator and MGM had issues which eventually resulted in them canceling it. I am crossing my fingers that Scifi can bring it back into production like Stargate though I realize its a long shot. Its funny that such a standard scifi show like Stargate can get a second lease and continue for another five years after Showtime canned it.