I am late to the Battlestar Galactica revival party and am trying to catch up on Netflix. Someone please help me out:

I am knee deep in Season 2 right now and am not sure what is up with season 3.
Is UniversalHD playing Season 3 from the beginning or are these new unreleased epsidoes?

Does UniHD play the first run episodes at the same time as SciFi network?


thanks

No, they do not play them at the same time as SciFi.

This Sat they will be running the "where we left off" show summing up S1&S2 and then they will run S3 from the beginning next week, catching up and overtaking SciFi, straight through to the end of S3.:D

I know others don't like the wait, but I prefer it better this way.

thanks for the assist.

So has season 3 completely aired on SciFi already or they are on hiatus/break in the middle of it?

Thanks for the clarification

No, the second half of season 3 starts on Sci-Fi this coming Sunday, the 21st.

It all depends on what you want to do. If you absolutely insist on watching BSG in HD only, then tune in on Universal HD (or DVR it) and watch the episodes there, and stay off the forums here to avoid any potential spoilers.

Some of us are watching it on both SciFi and UniHD so that we can: a) keep current with the storyline, b) go back to watch the earlier S3 episodes (in HD) to catch all the nuances that are lost from the SciFi channel version.

Not really a spoiler, but the visual effects from the episode "Exodus, Part II", should be outstanding in HD!

ok, I looked over the websites and with the help here I think I have it figured out.

SciFi has the first-run episodes airing Sundays at 10pm. The second half of Season 3 is starting up.

On UniversalHD they are airing the beginning of Season 3 starting January 27.

I would prefer to watch them in glorious HD and widescreen so I will just wait for season 3 on UnivHD.

Thanks everyone for the help!

Not really a spoiler, but the visual effects from the episode "Exodus, Part II", should be outstanding in HD!

Indeed they are. That episode is nominated for a Visual Effects Society award in the Outstanding VFX for a Broadcast Program category, and the VFX supervisor gave a presentation on it this weekend as part of the awards "bake-off".

The HD version of the show was screened on a Christie Digital Cinema projector on a screen that was at least 40' wide. Looked VERY nice. The VFX crew on that show does an amazing job. Better than a lot of feature films.

Finally got around to watching 2 recordings I made last Sat. night from what I guess is season 1. There were 2 separate 2-hour blocks with the Guide descriptions different for each listing. The episodes didn't carry a title, just a "Part 1 of two" for the first and "Conclusion" for the second.
What confuses me is that the content of each was identical. Anyone else catch these shows who can explain to me what happened? Was there a programming error by UHD, or what?

I think what you saw was one half of the pilot miniseries originally aired as two 2-hour episodes. There was a screwup in many of the programming guides.

I think what you saw was one half of the pilot miniseries originally aired as two 2-hour episodes. There was a screwup in many of the programming guides.

Yeah, but the Guide info was OK. It was the content of each 2-hour slot that was duplicated. Glad to know I wasn't delusional - or, did anyone else see it as I did?

I'm recording the new episode airing on Sci-Fi tonight, but I'm deliberating holding off to watch it on UHD. Anyone have any idea when the new episode will air? I know they are starting to air Season 3 on UHD Saturday.

VFX,
Who do you work for?

My best friend worked on the last two nominated episodes of BSG.

VFX,
Who do you work for?
My best friend worked on the last two nominated episodes of BSG.

I work for Stargate Digital. Does your friend work for Zoic or Atmosphere? Either way, spectacular work on BSG all around.

I work for Stargate Digital. Does your friend work for Zoic or Atmosphere? Either way, spectacular work on BSG all around.

Neither, he works for Mediumedge (www.mediumedge.com).:) He knows his website needs updating. He was at Zoic and did the character animation for the Doom episode (that is what I call it, as I can't remember the name). He then got a nice contract gig that I call the neverending job.:) After that, he wants to work on his game Bad, Bad Bots. When BSG went in house, he discussed working with them again doing the Cylon animation, but it went nowhere. I guess they were happy with their current guy. Judging by last nights episode, they may want to reevaluate their decision.

then they will run S3 from the beginning next week, catching up and overtaking SciFi, straight through to the end of S3.:D


WAIT A SECOND MISTER!!!

You mean to say that Universal HD's broadcast of BSG Season 3 will OVERTAKE SciFi to the end of S3?

Do you mean those of us who watch it on SciFi because we can't wait for the delay will actually at some point get to watch new eps on Universal HD?

Your post above implies that Universal HD's broadcast of S3 will at catch up to SciFi, thus allowing us viewers on SciFi to enjoy new episodes on UHD.

Please confirm. Thanks!!!

WAIT A SECOND MISTER!!!

You mean to say that Universal HD's broadcast of BSG Season 3 will OVERTAKE SciFi to the end of S3?

Do you mean those of us who watch it on SciFi because we can't wait for the delay will actually at some point get to watch new eps on Universal HD?

Your post above implies that Universal HD's broadcast of S3 will at catch up to SciFi, thus allowing us viewers on SciFi to enjoy new episodes on UHD.

Please confirm. Thanks!!!

Did you miss the big smiley he had in that statement?

So season three has just started on UHD and what the hell? No 5.1 sound? The only show UHD regularly aired with 5.1 sound is now simple stereo. Maybe 5.1 will be a bonus feature on the DVDs or something.

So season three has just started on UHD and what the hell? No 5.1 sound? The only show UHD regularly aired with 5.1 sound is now simple stereo. Maybe 5.1 will be a bonus feature on the DVDs or something.

My recording shows it to be 5.1, although I don't think there was a lot of surround action tonight due to the lack of space battles. Did you show it only as 2.0 or were your comments directed to the lack of use of the rears???

There was absolutely no center channel, except during the car commercial. Can't screw that up!

Like most networks, UHD always sends 5.1 even if the source is monophonic.

Apparently from what I've heard SciFi will be broadcasting in HD later this year so things should be broadcast at the same time come late this year.

What?? No one has mentioned/complained about the gigantic bug promoting "Jaws" during the early sequence as the former president was writing in her diary. The bug obliterated someone's name in those opening credits.

Apparently from what I've heard SciFi will be broadcasting in HD later this year so things should be broadcast at the same time come late this year.
We hear this rumor every year.

Even if SciFi went HD, it's unlikely every cable system would carry it immediately. It took years for my system to get UHD.

We hear this rumor every year.

Even if SciFi went HD, it's unlikely every cable system would carry it immediately. It took years for my system to get UHD.

I think what is different this time is that both D* and the Sci Fi channel have issued press releases saying that Sci Fi HD will be up this year.

This show needs more aeriel dogfights, and less political message.

This show needs more aeriel dogfights, and less political message.The show has always been this way.

We hear this rumor every year.

Even if SciFi went HD, it's unlikely every cable system would carry it immediately. It took years for my system to get UHD.

It's no rumor. It's planned to be launched this fall. There have been press releases from both DirecTV and Sci-Fi to that effect. DirecTV will carry it right away along with 30+ other HD channels.

This show needs more aeriel dogfights, and less political message.

What DaveFi said. You obviously don't "get it". The action sequences are stellar, and it's amazing what they've been able to accomplish on a limited basic cable budget, but the show has always been about allegory, as all great science fiction is. It's not a wiz-bang, shoot 'em up action show; it's a thinking-person's show. And there is no "message". :rolleyes: The political issues grow organically out of the desperate situation the humans find themselves, and the need for humans to band together and try to maintain some semblance of order and structure no matter how grim the circumstances. Those desires sometimes follow unpredictable lines. It's simply the most subtile and nuanced show on television, as the critics have been saying for 3 years now. I honestly feel sorry for folks who don't watch this thing.

I was hoping it would get more sci-fi, at this point its kind of lost me, the plot about who may or may not be a cyclon, is not interesting (to me, if it interests others then more power to them), I kind of like the main plot to be the scrappy underdog humans, fighting impossible odds against the mean robots.....I think the show would be better suited if they actually found Earth at some point, and Earth was advanced enough to ally with their human brethren and take the Cylons down...instead they try to make us feel for the cylons, and when it goes that way, it sort of losses the reason for the show.

Needs to be B/W, good vs Bad...end of story.

What DaveFi said. You obviously don't "get it". The action sequences are stellar, and it's amazing what they've been able to accomplish on a limited basic cable budget, but the show has always been about allegory, as all great science fiction is. It's not a wiz-bang, shoot 'em up action show; it's a thinking-person's show. And there is no "message". :rolleyes: The political issues grow organically out of the desperate situation the humans find themselves, and the need for humans to band together and try to maintain some semblance of order and structure no matter how grim the circumstances. Those desires sometimes follow unpredictable lines. It's simply the most subtile and nuanced show on television, as the critics have been saying for 3 years now. I honestly feel sorry for folks who don't watch this thing.

See my post above, and you would be better suited to be more tolerate of people's likes and dislikes when it comes to television, you love the show, great, but don't insult me cause I am not walking in step with your thinking.

See my post above, and you would be better suited to be more tolerate of people's likes and dislikes when it comes to television, you love the show, great, but don't insult me cause I am not walking in step with your thinking.

Oh c'mon. I'm not insulting you at all. Just pointing out that if you're looking for a video game version of sci-fi, as you implied by your post, you're looking in the wrong place. That's not what this show is all about, and as I tried to explain, that's not what great sci-fi is ever all about. You don't know the genre. And anyone who thinks it has some political "message", beyond what flows organically out of the plotline, is really missing the boat.

Think of it like opera. I saw one once and wondered why there wasn't more fighting and less singing. I didn't "get it"; and that's fine. I concluded opera wasn't for me, and wouldn't have felt insulted by anyone who told me so. Perhaps sophisticated, nuanced science fiction just isn't for you. ;)

It's no rumor. It's planned to be launched this fall. There have been press releases from both DirecTV and Sci-Fi to that effect. DirecTV will carry it right away along with 30+ other HD channels.
Unfortunately for me there is virtually no chance of my cable system carrying this channel, and Sci-Fi will probably have no more luck figuting out how to broadcast BSG with 5.1 sound than UHD does.

While the aerial dogfights make for great television (one of my favorite epis is the "Hand of God" where they have to take out the cylon base on the asteroid, the politics and ethical dilemmas these people have to figure out have moved show from merely good, in my opinion, to great.

Needs to be B/W, good vs Bad...end of story.
That is exactly the kind of comic book Sci-Fi that television has been cranking out over the years that made me give up the genre until BSG came along. If the good guys win, end of story, why even bother watching?

Exactly,

BSG is superb because things are not black and white. It's what makes it a great drama and what makes the plot lines relevant to the world we live in.

Somehow my HDTIVO missed this recording? In checking my Season Pass, it was not scheduling to record "Precipice" next week either!!??!! Are these shows on Universal HD the NEW season (that started on SciFi in SD months ago) or something else??? Have never had problem with my Tivo recording these before??????

Somehow my HDTIVO missed this recording? In checking my Season Pass, it was not scheduling to record "Precipice" next week either!!??!! Are these shows on Universal HD the NEW season (that started on SciFi in SD months ago) or something else??? Have never had problem with my Tivo recording these before??????Last night's episode on UHD was S3 EP1.

Somehow my HDTIVO missed this recording? In checking my Season Pass, it was not scheduling to record "Precipice" next week either!!??!! Are these shows on Universal HD the NEW season (that started on SciFi in SD months ago) or something else??? Have never had problem with my Tivo recording these before??????


You probably need to change the designation from UHD to 74 UHD in your season pass. The easiest way to do this is to select next Saturday's episode and create a new SP.

I see your points on it, I guess I am stuck in the "Star Wars" type Sci-fi mode, and it is probably dead-on saying I am not a sci-fi sophisticate....

Somehow my HDTIVO missed this recording? In checking my Season Pass, it was not scheduling to record "Precipice" next week either!!??!! Are these shows on Universal HD the NEW season (that started on SciFi in SD months ago) or something else??? Have never had problem with my Tivo recording these before??????

Make sure your SP is set up to record new episodes AND repeats! As the episodes on UHD have already been shown on Sci-Fi, the Tivo will not record them if all you've set to record are new episodes.
Bish

Make sure your SP is set up to record new episodes AND repeats! As the episodes on UHD have already been shown on Sci-Fi, the Tivo will not record them if all you've set to record are new episodes.
Bish

SPs are channel-specific, so the Sci-fi showings wont affect the UHD on at all. The problem with his is that sometime between last season of BSG on UHD and this season, the channel label for UHD itself changed, so the old UHD SPs won't pick up episodes on the "new" channel.

SPs are channel-specific, so the Sci-fi showings wont affect the UHD on at all. The problem with his is that sometime between last season of BSG on UHD and this season, the channel label for UHD itself changed, so the old UHD SPs won't pick up episodes on the "new" channel.

AHA!!! That seems to be the only viable explanation...THANKS!!! How was the first episode by the way??? Will they "repeat it?

arrrrgh I thought Season 3 ep. 1 was on Sunday night and forgot to program my DVR. DOH!!!
Looks like I will have to find a torrent or get it off Itunes.

I love this show, but this episode kind of highlighted the one problem I have with it. That is, I think the discord between the various human-looking cylons is too great. They are too human in their disagreements about their purpose and motives and tactics. At the begining of the series, even the human-looking cylons had a machine-like precision about their agenda - all basically pursuing the same goal like clockwork. Now they all seem to have their own point of view about everything. They've lost their appearance of having some sense of collective thought. But since they are still machines, I don't buy that their basic nature can evolve that drastically in such a short time.

Not that I want them to be mindless drones. But they were more interesting, and more scary, when they still had some robotic "otherness" about them that seemed missing in this episode.

At the begining of the series, even the human-looking cylons had a machine-like precision about their agenda - all basically pursuing the same goal like clockwork. Now they all seem to have their own point of view about everything. They've lost their appearance of having some sense of collective thought. But since they are still machines, I don't buy that their basic nature can evolve that drastically in such a short time.
As far as I've been able to tell, these models of Cylons were based on real humans and are far more human than machine. I think the real humans keep refering to them as machines because it makes it easier to kill them.

These human Cylons lived and perhaps evolved for decades without contact with real humans. The common theory is that the Cylons were unaware of what would happen to them when they lived in human societies for years. We saw last season that the Cylons Caprica Six and Boomer had developed an unexpected affection for humans and their society and proposed "saving" them instead of exterminating them. This was a learning process, not an evolving process. A "majority" of Cylons agreed with them, implying that Cylon society is more of a thinking democracy than a dictatorship of collective thought. They may mostly look the same but they don't all think alike.

As we get insights into how Cylon society works, we're seeing that maybe they're not inherently evil but are acting out of ignorance which is also a human weakness.

Watched S3 E1 last night. Very entertaining as always. It's still a little jarring that so much time has passed since the 2nd to last episode of S2. A viewer could really get lost if they missed the last episode of S2 (you'd feel like you missed an entire season). So many events have occurred that we missed out on:

Apollo/Dwala's Wedding (and apollo's weight gain - WOW, dwala must be some cook!)
Birth of Chief's Son
Tigh's Capture
Starbuck's Husband's Recovery (I guess he got some antibiotics?)

Some things I liked about the episode:
The humans' "insurgency." A little heavy-handed in metaphor, but it is thought-provoking.
The intro twist on Tigh's wife with the Cylon. It was edited to look like Tigh was dreaming of one of his past encounters with his wife...I was pretty surprised to see the cylon stand up.

Some things I didn't like:
Apollo's obesity. He got that big in 4 months? And his fat suit was a little too apparent in HD.
The cylon's infatuation with Kara (where did that storyline come from???)

FYI - My TWC DVR doesn't pick up this show as a "new episode" when I try to designate "all new episodes on this channel." I have to select "on this channel in this timeslot" in order for it to record all episodes. Here's hoping UHD doesn't decide to move it around.

Some things I didn't like:
Apollo's obesity. He got that big in 4 months? And his fat suit was a little too apparent in HD.
The cylon's infatuation with Kara (where did that storyline come from???)

The Leoben Cylon has always had a thing for Kira. Remember the interrogation episode? He seems to know an awful lot about her, and has a strange obsession with her. And, like yourself, he's undoubtedly smitten by her beauty. ;)

FYI - My TWC DVR doesn't pick up this show as a "new episode" when I try to designate "all new episodes on this channel." I have to select "on this channel in this timeslot" in order for it to record all episodes. Here's hoping UHD doesn't decide to move it around.

Mine doesn't ever schedule it on UHD either (or Firefly, for that matter) even though I've set up a season pass. Perhaps because it's not a "new" episode...? At any rate, I have to schedule a manual recording every week.

It's still a little jarring that so much time has passed since the 2nd to last episode of S2. A viewer could really get lost if they missed the last episode of S2 (you'd feel like you missed an entire season).
I saw the last episode of season 2 twice and I still felt like I missed an episode. Tigh detained and tortured? Kara a Cylon love slave? This show isn't afraid to have the viewer fill in the gaps.

I saw the last episode of season 2 twice and I still felt like I missed an episode. Tigh detained and tortured? Kara a Cylon love slave? This show isn't afraid to have the viewer fill in the gaps.

Note that the online "webisodes" over the summer also filled in a bit of the backstory of the occupation as well. They actually meant something to the overall plotline for once.

The Leoben Cylon has always had a thing for Kira. Remember the interrogation episode? He seems to know an awful lot about her, and has a strange obsession with her.

I remembered the interrogation episode, and I remembered he knew about her, but I guess I never carried that to the logical conclusion that he was obsessed with her, the way he obviously is.

And, like yourself, he's undoubtedly smitten by her beauty. ;)

Yet another reason why his obsession with her is so mystifying. :)

Btw, on the subject of her appearance...the long hair is not working *at all.* I'm thinking they want it to look not-quite-right (a wig, maybe?), so we'll be more comfortable when she inevitably goes back to the high and tight.

Oh, and "woof!" :D

Mine doesn't ever schedule it on UHD either (or Firefly, for that matter) even though I've set up a season pass. Perhaps because it's not a "new" episode...? At any rate, I have to schedule a manual recording every week.

Yeah, I guess it doesn't consider it a "new" episode, even though it is new to UHD.

Note that the online "webisodes" over the summer also filled in a bit of the backstory of the occupation as well. They actually meant something to the overall plotline for once.

Are those still available to view?

Are those still available to view?

Doubtful, but you can check the official SciFi website just to be sure; that's where they were.

Granted, I'm tiptoeing through the site because I don't want anything spoiled, but I'm not seeing 'em if they're there.

Doubtful, but you can check the official SciFi website just to be sure; that's where they were.

http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/video/index.php?cat=webisodes&vid=29339

Direct link to the first webisode.

There is a link to the right of the video with all 10 webisodes.

I just got my HD DVR, and one of my first priorities was to set BSG HD to record every week.

Exodus Part 1 is this Saturday, and like many of you, I can't wait for Part 2 to see the amazing effects in HD.

I just got my HD DVR, and one of my first priorities was to set BSG HD to record every week.

Exodus Part 1 is this Saturday, and like many of you, I can't wait for Part 2 to see the amazing effects in HD.

Agreed.
The scene where Galactica jumps into the atmosphere to quick launch the vipers, as it is plummeting to the ground, then jumps away before crashing, is simply amazing.

I may record Exodus part 2 just to watch that scene in HD. As it is, I can't wait for the HD to watch the new epis, so I have been watching on scifi in SD. It actually seems like it is less than SD, if that is possible. Man, what a horrible picture, especially for a channel for geeks who are most likely very discerning of their picture quality...

Yeah, I always thought it was just my local Comcast, but reading the forums it appears that the Sci Fi feed is pretty bad to many people. I hope the HD version is a lot better.

Episode 2 (or Part 2 of S3Ep1) Precipice was pretty good, it kind of sucks going from watching a few episodes in a row on DVD to waiting a week between them...reminds me of season 1 and 2 with LOST.

Good to see the Colonel's wife is still a slut.....but did they explain what that canker sore thing on her face is???

..................Good to see the Colonel's wife is still a slut.....but did they explain what that canker sore thing on her face is???
My guess is it is an active STD which will infect, turn out to be lethal to, and eventually kill of the entire Cylon race.
:D

My guess is it is an active STD which will infect, turn out to be lethal to, and eventually kill of the entire Cylon race.
:D

Nah. Methinks it's swirl-induced. Those skinjobs like rough sex. :eek:

I may record Exodus part 2 just to watch that scene in HD. As it is, I can't wait for the HD to watch the new epis, so I have been watching on scifi in SD. It actually seems like it is less than SD, if that is possible. Man, what a horrible picture, especially for a channel for geeks who are most likely very discerning of their picture quality...

Me too. That's the one episode I never deleted in SD. I'll want to keep that in HD for awhile.

I just looked ahead in the Comcast program guide to next weeks episode in UHD and it says "Collaborators" is airing. I can only trust that it's a mistake (it wouldn't be the first) but I'm sure I won't be the only one raising hell if it isn't and they're skipping "Exodus Pt. 2"!

EDIT: Just checked out the UHD site and it says "Exodus Pt. 2" is airing. Phew!

i can't wait for next week's episode :)

Me too. That's the one episode I never deleted in SD. I'll want to keep that in HD for awhile.Im keeping them all saved to Replay at a high bitrate (They still look pretty good on my Mits HD1000U at 70")until the Dvd set comes out...(all of Season 3 are still on my 622 and like you will keep Exodus II)