Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Battlestar Betrayal !!!

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So I plop in the third DVD of Battlestar Galactica's 2nd season last night, confident that I was about to watch the season's final episodes, and as the menu comes up I think, "Huh, that's odd, there were four episodes on each of the previous 2 discs and there are only two episodes on this one; were there only 10 episodes to the entire 2nd season? That' can't be right..." so I jump online and go over to Netflix to make sure that's all there is and yep, that's all Netflix has listed, but I think I ought to check Amazon just in case and SURE ENOUGH THERE'S ANOTHER SET OF DISCS, "SEASON 2.5", COMING OUT IN SEPTEMBER.

UUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have to wait a month and a half to watch the rest of the 2nd season now? And then I have to rush through the episodes to make sure I get through them all before the third season begins at the start of October?

SUCK.

I'm assuming Sci-Fi ran the second season in two chunks then? I'm sure all of you who've been watching the show first-run are hardly upset for me, having had to wait months yourself for new episodes whilst I've been bingeing on it night after night now, but I don't care, ME WANT.

Sigh. Anyway, as you can tell by these addled-ramblings of a psychotic, the show's got me firmly in its clutches. I'm desperate to know what'll happen! A new Battlestar! And they're about to war with each other! And Xena's a cylon? Will we see her again? And will Sharon give birth to a mini-Gaius? What did they do to Starbuck in that baby-farm? Oh the questions!!!

I did see, as I looked at the Amazon.com page for "Season 2.5", that some of the reviewers mentioned that this second half of the second season contains some shitty-ass episodes - is it true? Does the quality go donwhill? I'm not addicted to something that's gonna turn to shit, am I?
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1 comment:

Brian W said...

The finale from season 2.0 will bloooooooow your mind. It was REALLY hard for me to survive the hiatus.

But yes, it's true, there are three *major* clunkers in season 2.5--there's one episode in particular that was so dismally bad it almost made me want to stop watching the show. But the other two bad ones are bad like a bad episode of Buffy--still better than a lot of other shit, right?

Anyway, the creator dude apologized via podcast and the showrunners got their shit back together and the show SERIOUSLY rebounded pretty quickly. The end of season 2.5 is as brilliant as any of the other major cliffhangers they've done, if not even MORE ballsy. You will be *dying* again waiting for season three, promise.