Sunday Nights

What's your opinion about BSG being moved to Sunday nights? On the one hand, I'm glad that the show has a better time slot. It shows that it's popular enough to move, and that the producers have faith in its success. On the other hand, I'm annoyed that now I have to fight my housemates for the TV when it's on, because they're PBS junkies on Sunday nights.

Buy a TiVo. ;-)

My husband and I had been battling PBS v. Battlestar Galactica on Friday nights all through the first half of the season. This was somewhat depressing as I realized we had become total nerds! Or old or something. Anyway, I really liked Battlestar on Friday nights - Friday night is the best night of the week! Sunday night is about dreading the beginning of another work week. Although I guess BSG will take my mind off of that.

Yes, at least it will help take my mind off my workday. Of course, I'm a student, so now I have to make sure I get my homework done earlier . . .

Happens to work out better for me, because my husband has his band rehearsals on Fridays and has missed almost the whole season. I have had to keep my mouth shut and only discuss it with geeks online. Luckily, he has the 15th off, so we are planning to stock up on munchies and spend the whole day watching the marathon.

I don't like it. The Friday night Dr. Who & Battlestar thing was like a (uber geeky & cheap) date night for my husband and I. Sunday night at 10 EST - not terribly convenient overall.

Imagine! Sunday nights will allow one to watch the latest episode and then talk about it with your co-workers the next day.

We didn't care for Dr. Who, but yeah, the cheap date thing works for us too. My husband gave me the coolest T-shirt for Christmas. It was a toaster (the kind in the kitchen) with a cylon visor-like shape around it. Only BG fans would get it.

avaland - I think I've seen that T-shirt (from Television Without Pity?). It is so cute - stupidly I passed up the chance to buy it.

fannyprice,

The Cylon-toaster tees are now available, I think on a permanent basis. See glarkware.com, adult wear.

Very nice.

Last year my husband's Christmas stocking had a "Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Roslin" button in it. (This is the one that comes with a smaller, companion button: "I Welcome Our New Robot Overlords.")

One of my favorite T-shirts was a Glarkware limited edition that my friends got me a few years ago that says "NOT A ROBOT" in the BSG title font.

If the cylons look like humans now, what proof do you have that you're not really a robot? I'm not, it says so on my t-shirt. :)

I know this is sacrilegious but no matter how many episodes I watch of BG I can't help thinking it's the most over-rated show of the last few years, rather than being cutting edge drama it's actually quite cliched, that it's a sf show which is strangely anti-scientific.
But I'm willing to be proven wrong....

I personally don't find it as the most over-rated show of the last few years (that would be quite an accomplishment), but yes, it does hit deep veins of cliche every now and then.

By the way, it's so refreshing to see the word sacrilegious spelled correctly. This is one reason that I love LT.

I think that the slow really slipped after the first couple of episodes of the third season. I used to think that BG was really clever, exploring current ethical and moral dilemmas through allegory. I mean, who didn't watch the miniseries and think of 9/11? Religiously-motived terrorism, clash of cultures, ethics of warfare, ethics of science, issues of torture, occupation, resistance - BG dealt with all of these, usually in creative and interesting ways that provoked me to think a little more about current parallels. But once they (SPOILER..) got off New Caprica and the show was all Baltar's Cylon love nest and Starbuck & Apollo's love quadrangle, I was pretty sad at how things were playing out.

I really hope that the final season returns to the spirit of the first two and the mini. I had such affection for this show and it turned on me in the third season! :)

>14 fannyprice: very late response; but I agree with you, fanny (particularly the Apollo-Starbuck thing; she was engaged to his brother. Geesh). I am so afraid that I will be disappointed with the last season.

We recently rewatched the last three episodes of season 3 and, while I was never very impressed with the acting or character of Apollo, I enjoyed the courtroom drama.