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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kosh on December 28, 2005, 06:26:53 am
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http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1141640,00.html
And BSG made it to #1.
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Sweet! Hopefully this will propell the Nielsen ratings (or whatever that measurement of how many people are watching a show is called) through the roof, securing many more seasons of BSG goodness. :D
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What !!
Mainstream approval of a geat sci-fi series? :yes:
That I watch? :eek2:
And is still in active production? :D :D :D
With more episodes on the way soon. ;7
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- BSG - Awesome
- The Office - ****
- Weeds - Good
- The Rest - ****
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Not a bad list. Pity that 'firefly' isn't (can't be) in there.
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How can you not like The Office ?
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American Office is pure ****.
Don't know about Izzards. I'd assume that one was funny.
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I thought it was a direct re-screen of the original. Never seen the US version.
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Not a bad list. Pity that 'firefly' isn't (can't be) in there.
I went back through to 2002, but no Firefly. :(
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Doesn't surprise me at all. The best sci-fi series since Babylon 5 and it gets jacked around. Shame.
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I never really got into Firefly, perhaps its just me.
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There are some good picks on that list-- I love The Colbert Report and The Office. However, it's missing the greatest comedy ever to grace television: Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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I never really got into Firefly, perhaps its just me.
Firefly was either loved or hated by FOX viewers: people loved it because of the characters and because of its atmosphere, while other people hated it for its social commentary and political undertones. I personally loved it.
As for BSG, great work getting recognized by the mainstream. :yes:
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I watch exactly one show with any regularity, and that just happens to be BSG. I rule.
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Isn't there a FOX tradition of cancelling any sort of intelligent show, achieved by shuffling it about the schedules until it kills off any chance of picking up a regular audience?
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Well they've kept House, which I think is a pretty good show.
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Isn't there a FOX tradition of cancelling any sort of intelligent show, achieved by shuffling it about the schedules until it kills off any chance of picking up a regular audience?
Or throwing in a sports game instead of the show. Very annoying when I sit down to watch the Simpsons and see pro football instead.
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FOX is generally known as the TV Critic's Employment Network for a reason...
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BSG would have been much better if it didn't have such a massive emphasis on naked number 6.
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BSG would have been much better if it didn't have such a massive emphasis on naked number 6.
Quite right. We need more emphasis on naked Boomer.
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:lol:
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Whoo!
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BSG would have been much better if it didn't have such a massive emphasis on naked number 6.
Admiral Cain, we have a Cylon agent!
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Quite right. We need more emphasis on naked Boomer.
He's right.
<,< >,>
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Sweet! Hopefully this will propell the Nielsen ratings (or whatever that measurement of how many people are watching a show is called) through the roof, securing many more seasons of BSG goodness. :D
Correct Sandwich! The ratings for television here in the States are known as the Nielsens. However, they are inherently flawed. They still primarily rely on diaries to calculate ratings. While they also have the "Nielsen Box," it too is greatly flawed, basically because people don't use it properly. Most people can't even read the ratings properly. What doesn't matter is the actual rating, but the share of that rating, because a rating simply states how many households have their TV on at that daypart. I hope this makes things clearer now. Class dismissed. ^_^
I'd be curious as to how other countries measure TV audiences.
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Like, each and every one of you, I am just frakking amazed and glad that this show is getting the kind of attention from critics.
I can honestly say that there is no other series out there that has hit me like Galactica has. Each and every single episode, from the kick-ass mini series, to that insane mid-season 2 cliffhangar, has take grip of me by the throat and has not let go. There is no other show that has done this to me. Yeah, Firefly, DS9, TNG, B5, FarScape, SG1 all of them great sci-fi. But Galactica.... Galactica is heads and tails above the rest. There has yet to be an episode that I didn't care for. I own both the boxsets on DVD, and have each and every episode downloaded onto my laptop and computer, and I crave more. I am addict, through and through. This, folks, is TV at its finest.
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Meh, Galactica is good (say an 85% while TNG at its best is around 80% and B5 is say 90%) but I still think that despite the occasional cheesiness of B5 and the fact that someone taking a dump has to give an epic, moving, speech about the virtues of dumping it's a better show.
Galactica definately has the potential to surpass it though. Little things like the Caprica bits, (great in the miniseries, but when in the show it reeked of low budget and "wow this looks like it was Stargate last week") civilian clothing looking exactly like Earth clothing, nag me. I'm also not a fan of the scifi trend of "stealing headlines" for plots and thinking that it's some sort of uber social commentary. A solid self-consistent plot and characters can do a much better job. (ala the Adama-Rosalind skeptic/"believer" schism as opposed to Mr. Thorne Guantanmoing Boomer)
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hey hey, prison break, that's not too bad of a show, even if it has a limited story that can be told. But My GOD, Project Runway? Gack! Wonderful, Heidi, you get to parade around letting everyone know you have a baby seal inside of you.
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I always wondered that myself, particuarly in the Uk where, until recently, it was non-digital, so there was no real way of telling how many TV's were on or recieving a particular signal at any point in time. Either theres technology involved that I don't understand (which is entirely possible) or they were making it up as they went along.
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I'm also not a fan of the scifi trend of "stealing headlines" for plots and thinking that it's some sort of uber social commentary. A solid self-consistent plot and characters can do a much better job. (ala the Adama-Rosalind skeptic/"believer" schism as opposed to Mr. Thorne Guantanmoing Boomer)
Amen to that. Also, Guantanamoing = best verb out of a noun, ever.