# BattleStar Galactica News....

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 5, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-news/359500 "2006-06-05T17:21:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-news/359500/21 "2006-06-06T19:39:44Z")

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[QUOTE=Ponder Stibbons]  
What do they mean by “webisode”?  
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The fact that none of the promotional announcements up to this point includes anything like a detailed description of what the “webisodes” are going to be makes me think they probably aren’t going to be especially impressive. Hand puppets, perhaps.

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**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, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-news/359500/22 "2006-06-06T19:44:23Z")

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[QUOTE=Cervaise]  
Hand puppets, perhaps.  
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Ooh! Ooh! Starbuck beating Apollo with a stick! Cool!

Frak! You didn’t fraking frak the fraker! _WHAM! WHAM!_

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**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-news/359500/23 "2006-06-06T22:36:10Z")

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Maybe they’ll sell them via iTunes and other such outlets? You can already download all the BG episodes that way anyhow, so webcasting is hardly so wild a concept anymore. My guess: If this stuff is free, it won’t have production values much higher than fanfic like Red v Blue. However, if you have to buy it, I expect something more like the better of the semi-indy content provided just prior to the release of the last two installments in the _Matrix_ trilogy in terms of quality, providing much the same value. It’ll be optional, but only just, and one might get a richer sense of the main **BG** arc if they’re in on the backstory. If they sell it, they’ll milk the fanboy money cow pretty effectively, and no need to meddle with regular airtime.

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**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 7, 2006, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-news/359500/24 "2006-06-07T00:14:51Z")

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[QUOTE=Cervaise]  
The fact that none of the promotional announcements up to this point includes anything like a detailed description of what the “webisodes” are going to be makes me think they probably aren’t going to be especially impressive. Hand puppets, perhaps.  
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Or maybe with Barbie and Ken dolls, like that one website that does soap operas?

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