Argh!!!

[castalia]

BSG will have a fall premiere next season.

Noooooo! WTF, October? They can't do that! I was counting on having my sci-fi friday fix this summer to get me through the thesis writing.

Wankers. Don't they realize it's far easier on people when you give them all three shows back-to-back on one night?

Comments

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

*nods* Yeah, I'm thinking the same thing. It'll have a hard time competing with certain mainstream primetime shows. Though I'm surprised the ratings are suffering now (ok, considering Black Market maybe I'm not...) when it's still getting such good reviews.

[icepixie]

Being on Friday, I guess it won't be facing as much competition from the networks (Friday seems to be second only to Saturday nights for shows which don't do well, although part of that is caused by being scheduled on Friday nights, I'm sure...), but even so. Pain.

And yeah, I was pretty surprised to hear that the ratings had been slipping. Then again, they were airing stuff in February, which is a sweeps month, so don't they usually take a hit then anyway? *shrug*

Re: Black Market...I kind of think BSG might do better as a thirteen-episodes-a-season show, so we'd get fewer mistakes like BM. Last season seemed to be more consistently outstanding, although this one has had some stand-out episodes as well.

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

As much as I like having more episodes, you're right; they had a better record when there were only 13 in the season. I hate to point to Lee as a problem, b/c I think Jamie Bamber is a good enough actor to carry an ep on his own, but so far they've not given him very good writing to work with. BM was the lowest example of that and made me really miss the conflict he had when struggling b/w loyalty to Roslin vs the military. I'm hoping that having him under command pressure will yield better writing than the drek they gave us regarding his love interests, b/c yuck.