Following up on yesterday's post...So last night I mentioned to a friend that I finished watching the second season of Battlestar Gallactica, and he asked me what I thought of the finale. Except that his question made no damn sense. So we talk a bit more and realize that the "Season 2.0" DVDs only contain half of the episodes from the season. My sister mentioned that this marketing gimmick has been done by Sex in the City, too.
Grr. The good news is, we're caught up with the reruns on Sci Fi, so I hopefully will catch the rest of the season on Tivo. Oh well, just thought I'd warn you, since I've been endorsing this show so much.
In case you care, here's an explanation of sorts from Wikipedia:
Following the success of the 13-episode season one, the Sci Fi Channel commissioned a full 20-episode second season. The season premiered in the U.S. on Sci Fi Channel on July 15, 2005, with the UK & Canadian premiere in January 2006. In the Fall of 2005, production on the second season halted as it was part of Sci-Fi Channel's standard production schedule normally used for its Stargate series, which was to split a 20-episode season into two parts (a "winter season" and a "summer season", to avoid heavy competition with major networks that follow a spring/fall schedule). The Sci-Fi Channel took this break as an opportunity to package the episodes aired thus far into a DVD set, calling it Season 2.0. This episode, "Pegasus," was originally 15 minutes too long for broadcast, but according to creator Ronald Moore, the production team decided to cut the episode to time rather than pad it out to fill 90 minutes, as this was deemed impractical. The longer version of "Pegasus" will appear on the Battlestar Galactica Season 2.5 DVD set when it is eventually released, which is rumored to be on September 19, 2006
2 comments:
Next season will have a much shorter break between the two halves, and they probably won't be releasing a first-half DVD set in the middle. So that's good, at least.
Yeah, definitely be sure to see all of the episodes before the third season starts, because the series takes the biggest left turn in the history of television in the finale.
I don't know...remember when the show "Sledgehammer" ended the season with a nuclear bomb going off? The next season just started with "Sledgehammer: The Early Years." Of course, it didn't last long after that.
But yeah, from what little I heard about the finale last night, it sounds like it gets crazy.
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