Battlestar Galactica........

[Briareos]

it sure does, dont forget to catch the webisodes online after you have seen season 2. season 3 starts in october.

With the what now?

Are these web only episodes that will lead us into season 3?

[SuperBeatBoy]

With the what now?

Are these web only episodes that will lead us into season 3?

yes, its called the resistance. you can find them on youtube. they are on the scifi website but only the yanks can watch them.

[charlesr]

Just finished watching season 2 last night, so I'm glad there's a S3! Fantastic series.

[PeteJ]

Just seen the first episode of season 3 - great stuff again! Watching part 2 now...

[Concept]

Just seen both episodes. Amazing stuff and about a thousand times more deeper than anything currently airing.

[tbm]

a sensational start to the 3rd series, BSG just never fails to deliver. it gives you that "ON FFS! C`MON NEXT WEEK!" after you finish watching an episode, i can`t wait till next saturday

[Concept]

It's certainly a huge contrast to the disappointing start to Lost's third season.

There's so much going on in BSG, the acting and writing is such high quality, not to mention the general level of the production values that not much really touches it (bar The Shield/24).

I've been watching second tier American television dramas lately and the gulf in quality between them and BSG is gigantic.

[NW2013]

I suppose it'll be start of next year before this airs on Sky One?

[Concept]

I know Sky have sorted out a deal so that the next season of 24 airs a week after the US episodes do. Perhaps a similar deal will be struck with sci-fi and it'll be aired in the UK before the end of the year.

Surprised at the lack of love for BSG here. The opening two episodes to season 3 were probably the strongest they've made since the initial extended pilot for the first series.

[NekoFever]

Yeah, I was well impressed with the start of the new season. I don't know how long the New Caprica storyline will keep going but I love the whole guerilla war they've got going on. Not to mention the fact that the team you're rooting for is using suicide bombers.

I'm going to put my neck on the line and say that

->Open Spoiler<-

those gunshots when Callie was running away from the Centurions were from the Galactica marines saving the insurgents

.

[PeteJ]

I agree with that spoiler Neko, sounds reasonable.

Concept - couldn't agree more. The first two episodes (of season3) were the best TV I've seen since season5 of The Shield. I was just watching part 2 in disbelief at how complex the relationships between each character had become. It's staggering, particularly as there are so many different characters, clones and intertwining story lines!

Can you imagine writing something like that? I wouldn't know where to begin!

[Concept]

They certainly had a high level of dramatic impetous. I didn't think they'd be able to carry off the New Caprica storyline convincingly after budget constraints were in evidence (to my mind) on Cylon-occupied Caprica in the second series (lots of bloom, lack of wide-spaced city shots, lack of scale in terms of giving over the sense of planetry invasion). I thought everything'd all be in tents. :P

They pulled it off though... the CGI, lighting and production work gaves a real sense to a colony in the making with the exterior shots and full outdoor scenes, the prop work and incidental sound effects added an extra layer of believability (especially during the Starbuck/Leo scenes), the acting was electrifying, the writing was (as you say) weaving about twenty different threads into each other within an exceptionally small space of time and doing it concisely, the music was hair raising, the cinematography was magnificiently handled, and the current day thematic content was thought provoking. It also helped that the two pieces didn't feel disjointed when placed together.

To organise all those separate elements and get them to combine effectively must have been intimidating to say the least - did anyone else get a real City 17-come-Lost Planet vibe from New Caprica?

Where the opening introduction to BSG succeeded was in providing an epic sense of events unfolding left, right and centre and the sense that humanity had it's back to the wall with a 1-1000 chance of winning. The opening to season three possessed a lot of that same dread and posed a whole host of questions spanning everything from friendship, existence, war, morality, love, lust, torture, abandonment and all the shades in between.

[gibbon]

Yeah, I was well impressed with the start of the new season. I don't know how long the New Caprica storyline will keep going but I love the whole guerilla war they've got going on. Not to mention the fact that the team you're rooting for is using suicide bombers.

I'm going to put my neck on the line and say that

->Open Spoiler<-

those gunshots when Callie was running away from the Centurions were from the Galactica marines saving the insurgents

.

or

->Open Spoiler<-

the NCP lot? I agree it definitely isnt the Cylons

Anybody bothered with the webisodes or whatever you call them?

[Concept]

Yeah, I caught them just before S3 started. They mostly detail

->Open Spoiler<-

Duck's joining of the NPC after he loses his wife, and the frictions between the resistence members and those who are thinking of 'collaborating'.

Anyone else think after

->Open Spoiler<-

Duck killed himself in the suicide blast and considering all the bodies that Jammer is a Cylon?

[Square]

Concept: Oh yes