A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" show that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Whitefont all unaired in the U.S. ep discussion, identifying it as such, and including the show and ep title in blackfont.
Blackfont is allowed after the show has aired on the east coast.
This is NOT a general TV discussion thread.
Frank, you've never been unemployed with cable, have you? Yea, verily, that's how I caught up on
Quantum Leap
reruns,
Lost in Space
reruns, and a bunch of other stuff.
Actually, as a data point on Sci Fi fame, my flatmate is into SF, but only now and then. (Really, she's a Captain Picard fan, and reads George R. R. Martin, and that's all.) She asked me the other day if I'd heard about this show Battlestar Galactica, because some of her classmates had been telling her about it.
The fact that she'd never heard of it till middle of its 2nd season says one thing (she's not hugely media-conscious outside of her predefined interests). The fact that non-SF-fan law students are telling her about the show now says another.
(I don't think it's her kind of show, in the final analysis; although she wouldn't be much bothered by the logical lapses, and would eat up the quasi-incoherent politics, the dark tone would tend to be a turnoff.)
Are the ratings for BG that much better than for FARSCAPE?
BSG is the SciFi Channel's highest rated original programming show thingie. Dunno what ratings Farscape got.
In the time of Farscape vs. Stargate, Stargate was their highest-rated program.
Galactica premiered to over 3 million viewers, and the lowest rated episodes are just above 2 million. Farscape never broke 2 million, and was usually closer to 1.
I think (Suela would know for sure) that Farscape was also very expensive to shoot; much more so than Stargate.
Me last night: "Son cursed in school today. The vice-principal said he said 'the F-word.'"
Husband, hoping against hope: "'Frell'?"
