Talk:Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance/Archive 1

I think the Webisodes are a great idea that may expand the BSG Audience. Anyway, I can hope. --gougef 22:07, 27 May 2006 (CDT)

I really, REALLY dont like the idea of this. 'Caprica' was bad enough (but i'll begrudgingly watch it anyway cause you kinda have to) but the idea of filler really, REALLY sucks - why oh why cant RDM and Eick just put the events of whats happened into one/two/three regular episodes rather than put these up? No doubt there'll be wonderful nuggegts of info put into these eps, and references made to them in normal eps that people wont get unless they watch these little 'things'. Ron - if you're reading this - you're getting WAY too ahead of yourself - keep to writing BSG itself first, no fancy pants crap, drop Caprica cause its a dumb idea and focus on what people want more of - BSG itself, not a spinoff, not webisodes - JUST BSG!!! </rant> Grr! --Fordsierra4x4 03:47, 28 May 2006 (CDT)

Actually it might work really well, they did a similar thing with Richard E Grant voicing Doctor Who a few years back on the BBC website --Mercifull 06:38, 28 May 2006 (CDT)

The BBC is also doing the Doctor Who Confidential series in tandem with the new Doctor Who, as well as the mini Tardisodes that you can get from BBC's site. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 08:41, 28 May 2006 (CDT)

I know the Tardisodes are available - but for those of us without broadband (i will be sans broadband for a long time in the next month or so), web episodes arent a good idea. There are going to be plenty of people that dont want to be forced into watching something online, and with the Tardisodes that the BBC put up, they're totally self contained AFAIK, with no references made to them from other episodes, and they're non-important in terms of the overall storyline of DW, as well as being able to be viewed on the Digibox (digital terrestrial DVB-T or Digital Satellite set top box) by pressing 'the big red button'. BSG on the other hand, they're talking about a major part of the backstory which is hardly what i'd call trivial! Are they going to air the episodes on telly for those countries outside the US or will they just assume everyone has fast broadband and dont watch telly? --Fordsierra4x4 13:07, 28 May 2006 (CDT)

This is the future of TV within 2-3 years most if not all tv shows will have some online content similar to the webisodes. --gougef 12:14, 28 May 2006 (CDT)

I just cant see why its necessary to split up a show into loads of different segments, have some aired on telly, some on the net - it just makes everything that more annoying - why oh *why* can't TV execs just get the idea into their thick skulls that people are happy watching telly AS IT IS!!! --Fordsierra4x4 13:30, 19 June 2006 (CDT)

My guess is that it is a business decision. You can show an advertiser exactly how many viewers. Also, you get more opportunities to advertise per viewer. Due to the web, DVR's, etc., I don't see the current TV business model surviving.--gougef 13:46, 28 May 2006 (CDT)

I have the feeling that the episode "Unfinished Business" will be a clip show of the webisodes, Just a guess. --gougef 12:14, 28 May 2006 (CDT)

No, they showed that it's different stuff: "Unfinished Business" deals with stuff *before* the Cylons came, the webisodes deal with stuff after that. --The Merovingian ^{(C - E)} 20:52, 18 July 2006 (CDT)

Great more BSG content :D!! --FrankieG 21:52, 18 July 2006 (CDT)

I do hope that these get aired on telly, i really, really do :'( --Fordsierra4x4 13:29, 19 June 2006 (CDT)

This is not a bad idea at all. It's like a side project. Something that more than likely will have no tie-in to the regular series. Otherwise, why not call them teasers instead of webisodes? It's not featuring any of the main cast as far as we have been told. All the more interesting. My only regret about it is it will be something only accessed on Galactica's SciFi site, and not available on iTunes.--AJFederation 01:41, 23 July 2006 (CDT)

Add into Episode Guide template

Right now, Season 2 ends and proceeds to Season 3 in the template at the bottom of the screen: where's the page where I can add this webisode series into the succession?: I think it should be put at the beginning of Season 3 (or at least, after LDYB II clicking "next" would lead here, not season 3 proper). --The Merovingian ^{(C - E)} 18:13, 23 July 2006 (CDT)

In addition, I think the format of this page should be that of any one episode in the episode guide; that is, there won't be separate subpages linked for each of the 10 webisodes: ***Bradley Thompson, who co-wrote these, said he considers it one story, just broken up into 10 chunks, which I think is just like how a normal episode is broken up by commercial breaks. This really isn't a separate series, so much as a "special episode". It's not a separate series, but part of the series between Seasons 2 and 3 (we asked Thompson how we should consider it with that; waiting on answer). --->Originally I had thought this would be a parent series page that had episodes linked from it, but based on Thompson's comments it makes more sense just to put it in an episode format. --The Merovingian ^{(C - E)} 19:44, 25 July 2006 (CDT)

September Debut

An BSG article in the October issue of SciFi Magazine says the Webisodes will start in September. Whether the WGA actions will affect this or not is unknown. --FrankieG 20:21, 19 August 2006 (CDT)

The WGA announcement was this Wednesday. I do know they were originally planned to be aired for 10 weeks (one each week) before the season premiere...in which case they would already have started two weeks ago. I think there was foot dragging where they hoped to vaguely "have them out in September or something" but that this broke down. --The Merovingian ^{(C - E)} 20:24, 19 August 2006 (CDT)

The mag probably went to print assuming that everything will be ok, but it's not?? No word from Bradley yet?--FrankieG 20:28, 19 August 2006 (CDT)

Nothing. I'd make a big deal about it if there was. --The Merovingian ^{(C - E)} 20:36, 19 August 2006 (CDT)

I was just hoping for tidbit of the webisodes by now to feed my raging beast ;-). Thanks for being on top of it--FrankieG 20:40, 19 August 2006 (CDT)

I'm confused about the last paragraph of the Contract Disputes... section. We say "several weeks" later from August, the tapes were handed over. (I assume that means at least 3 weeks.) The WGA/NBCU dispute became public on Aug. 12 and the NLRB greviance was filed on the 18th. It doesn't seem that three weeks have passed. Can that be clarified? Also, what changed or broke the stalemate? There has been nothing announced in Variety or elsewhere, at least in regard to The Office. How can the BSG producers turn over tapes without getting in trouble with the writers guild, of which Moore and Eick are presumably members. Can anyone explain?--Elach 13:42, 28 August 2006 (CDT)

"Image"

When we do a picture for the Episode Data block and this is all done, we should take all 10 of the images and put them in a pattern so it would be a mossic image. --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 20:39, 2 September 2006 (CDT)

I like your idea, and I suggest 2 wide by 5 tall, as it must be either 1x10 or 2x5 (barring tomfoolery), and 5x2 would have unfortunate aspect ratio consequences. --CalculatinAvatar^(C-T) 00:20, 3 September 2006 (CDT)

Re-imagined Series definition: Battlestar Group ^{(TRS: "Water")}. It also doubles as an acronym for the television series itself.