# BattleStar Galactica News.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 5, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-news/359500 "2006-06-05T17:21:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-news/359500/1 "2006-06-05T17:21:34Z")
From [http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/](http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/) > [@SciFi.com](#): > > [SCIFI.COM](http://SCIFI.COM)’s SCI FI Pulse video feature will debut Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance, a 10-episode Web series filling the gap between seasons two and three and telling the story of the birth of the human resistance movement and their determined fight against the Cylon occupation. i’m not real sure how to take this… on one hand more Galactica, on the other - I cannot see how this is considered ‘filler’ material? How much time is going to pass between end of season 2 and beginning of season 3? Secondly, I tire of “web tie ins” of exclusive (and probably needed) material and stories… ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-news/359500/2 "2006-06-05T17:22:38Z")
arrgghhh how do I fix the quote? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-news/359500/3 "2006-06-05T18:19:34Z")
> [@simster](#): > > i’m not real sure how to take this… on one hand more Galactica, on the other - I cannot see how this is considered ‘filler’ material? How much time is going to pass between end of season 2 and beginning of season 3? About a year. ---
**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-news/359500/4 "2006-06-05T19:15:02Z")
> [@John Mace](#): > > About a year. _ **Another** _ year? Jeez. On the other hand, anything they do that skips over the generic “building of the resistance movement” crap I’m dreading is probably a good thing. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-news/359500/5 "2006-06-05T19:20:54Z")
No, not another year (I assume). Sorry if I wasn’t clear. I think the last few minutes of season 2 are the prelude to season 3 and the gap is the time gap we saw in the season 2 finale itself. Does that make sense? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-news/359500/6 "2006-06-05T19:25:24Z")
Where’s the link? Where’s the !@#$%^&\* link? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-news/359500/7 "2006-06-05T19:30:33Z")
Here’s a [link:](http://www.gateworld.net/galactica/news/2006/05/newwebseriestitleditheresi.shtml) On the web? Ah, man! ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-news/359500/8 "2006-06-05T19:37:24Z")
> [@John Mace](#): > > No, not another year (I assume). Sorry if I wasn’t clear. I think the last few minutes of season 2 are the prelude to season 3 and the gap is the time gap we saw in the season 2 finale itself. Does that make sense? No… the year ‘gap’ that happened in the finale was between colonization of new caprica and the beginning of the cylon occupation thereof… so this is a new ‘gap’… so it sounds like we are going to be thrust another x period of time into the future… into the middle of the resistance fight… ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-news/359500/9 "2006-06-05T20:42:49Z")
If the web episodes are free, then I’m all for it. Are they filmed like the regular episodes, or are they animated or done with other actors, or what? –Too lazy to click the link ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-news/359500/10 "2006-06-05T20:47:30Z")
> [@simster](#): > > No… the year ‘gap’ that happened in the finale was between colonization of new caprica and the beginning of the cylon occupation thereof… so this is a new ‘gap’… > > so it sounds like we are going to be thrust another x period of time into the future… into the middle of the resistance fight… My bad. I guess my recollection of how things endes in season 2 is poor. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-news/359500/11 "2006-06-05T22:12:35Z")
Awhile back I started a thread in which I expressed my fears that “multimedia storylines” would make it impossible for a casual movie/tv viewer to follow a series. The beginning of **Revenge of the Sith** makes no sense if you didn’t catch the second Clone Wars cartoon. Now we’re gonna have to download clips, buy the special DVD, watch the HBO special, etc., etc. dammit! I have _dialup_, how am I supposed to download webcasts? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-news/359500/12 "2006-06-05T23:31:56Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > dammit! I have _dialup_, how am I supposed to download webcasts? Tell me about it. ---
**Author:** ![t-mobileguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@t-mobileguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-mobileguy)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-news/359500/13 "2006-06-06T00:11:29Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Awhile back I started a thread in which I expressed my fears that “multimedia storylines” would make it impossible for a casual movie/tv viewer to follow a series. The beginning of **Revenge of the Sith** makes no sense if you didn’t catch the second Clone Wars cartoon. Now we’re gonna have to download clips, buy the special DVD, watch the HBO special, etc., etc. dammit! I have _dialup_, how am I supposed to download webcasts? Do what I have been doing. Wait until some one at the straight dope posts a thread about what they thought was cool/sucks then ask what you missed. It sucks but that’s how I’ve been watching (or should I say following) lost. I’m so sad, I don’t have a VCR and or a tivo ☹ ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-news/359500/14 "2006-06-06T04:11:12Z")
Frak the BSG idiots who pulled the plot glitch/fatal error known as “New Caprica.” I am not watching any of it until I see a frakking battlestar. It’s called _Battlestar Galactica_ for a reason. If I wanted to see _Vichy France in Space_, I would have asked for such. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-news/359500/15 "2006-06-06T10:36:43Z")
Are we sure SciFi’s not talking about the birth of the resistance on “old” Caprica - you know, Starbuck’s boy-toy and his buddies? Incidentally, I _love_ the whole New Caprica storyline, if only because I have no idea whatsoever where this thing is going - something that almost never happens with a TV series. The one-year leap was great, too. Very literary. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-news/359500/16 "2006-06-06T12:14:19Z")
> [@cerberus](#): > > If I wanted to see _Vichy France in Space_, I would have asked for such. One wonders how Baltar will recover from this. Change sides, I guess. Still, a list of those individuals who should be defenestrated from Galactica would have him pretty high up on most folk’s list, I’ll warrant. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-news/359500/17 "2006-06-06T12:43:14Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Are we sure SciFi’s not talking about the birth of the resistance on “old” Caprica - you know, Starbuck’s boy-toy and his buddies? From the other link: > [@](#): > > The Resistance will lasting ten episodes, and will fill in the several-month gap between Season Two and the upcoming third year, during which the new Colonial home of New Caprica is under Cylon occupation. > [@Alessan](#): > > Incidentally, I _love_ the whole New Caprica storyline, if only because I have no idea whatsoever where this thing is going - something that almost never happens with a TV series. The one-year leap was great, too. Very literary. While at first I had my misgivings, I have to agree here… not knowing what;s next is the best part of what they have done. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-news/359500/18 "2006-06-06T12:48:15Z")
> [@simster](#): > > not knowing what;s next We know that Starbuck will be the best. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-news/359500/19 "2006-06-06T15:24:33Z")
OK, someone help me out here. I’ve just read blurbs from carnivorousplant’s link and I’ve got a question. What do they mean by “webisode”? Somehow, I don’t think this is going to be a full production quality TV episode that is simply broadcast over the web. Are they going to be low-quality ten minute mini-episodes? Live action, or some sort of animation? Or maybe it’ll just be text with maybe the occasional illustration? Anyone know? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-news/359500/20 "2006-06-06T17:07:01Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > Live action, or some sort of animation? You know, when you draw little pictures on the corner of the pages of a notebook and flip them real fast? 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-news/359500.md?page=2)