bsg discussion #15 (with a little dr who & stargate thrown in)

[starbuck92]

From the looks of it, it appears that SciFi is going to go ahead and proceed with its new format for airing its Friday shows. This means we'll be getting a straight shot of Battlestar Galactica (and Dr Who apparently?) from October until March (excluding four weeks for the Christmas holidays). In turn, it will mean another six months of no new

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[chiroho]

Doctor Who won't run that long, as it only has 13 episodes in a season.

Put yourself in the shoes of BBC viewers though. If you enjoy UK TV, most shows only have a season that runs for 10-13 episodes, depending on the show. They are run consecutively, and then the show will not air until around the same time the following year.

For example Spooks/MI-5, which is a show I love, usually airs for 10 weeks starting in October. You then have to wait 42 weeks for the next season to commence. Similarly, Doctor Who started in April (I think) and aired for 13 weeks. Save the Christmas Special which will air at Christmas, strangely enough, viewers have to wait 39 weeks for the next season.

Why is it such a problem to have to wait 6 months for the next season of a new show? In some ways I'd rather watch 20 episodes of BSG back to back and then wait 32 weeks, than have an episode here and there followed by some repeats, etc. When I watch 24 it runs from January through May. We then have to wait until the next January for the show to come back. That's the best part of 8 months. You just have to be able to restrain yourself from reading spoilers, that's all. :)

[starbuck92]

I never said it was a problem having to wait for the actual episodes (at least, not in this post, hee). The real problem lies with trying to avoid the spoilers that have gone from slowly trickling out to now being rampant as October rolls closer and closer. It's easy to restrain myself looking for them, but it's impossible to avoid every place they might be lurking. I hate that I have to be very mindful of every article and flist post that has the words 'Battlestar Galactica.'

I actually like the new idea of switching off the Stargates with Galactica because of the fact that it'll mean less reruns of all three shows. I tried to articulate that in the original post, but I think I came off more as worrying about the future of the Stargates with the crummy ratings.