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    Plan On Getting The BSG TV Movie On DVD — Or Wait A Few Months Longer

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    Image of Hammer_of_Justice Hammer_of_Justice
    09/17/09

    In reply to Plan On Getting The BSG TV Movie On DVD — Or Wait A Few Months Longer
    If they printed it on toilet paper I might make some use of it. Otherwise, not so much...
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    twDarkflame promoted this comment Hammer_of_Justice was starred Hammer_of_Justice was unstarred
    Image of njudah njudah
    09/17/09

    In reply to Plan On Getting The BSG TV Movie On DVD — Or Wait A Few Months Longer
    the cavil character has been elevated way beyond what he/they should have been. BSG went off the rails towards the end, and that whole BS thing about "Daniel is Starbuck's father" was just irritating to listen to. You can't have writers who take a "make stuff up as you go" approach when you have a serialized show like BSG.

    Woo hoo!
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment njudah was starred njudah was unstarred
    Image of SnehalMarten SnehalMarten
    09/17/09

    In reply to Plan On Getting The BSG TV Movie On DVD — Or Wait A Few Months Longer
    Hopefully we'll get much more God, Miracles and Angels in this one. Because that would make just the most perfect Science Fiction TV movie EVER.

    To those at Airlock Alfalfa: I was being sarcastic.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment SnehalMarten was starred SnehalMarten was unstarred
    Image of fletchtastic fletchtastic
    09/17/09

    In reply to Plan On Getting The BSG TV Movie On DVD — Or Wait A Few Months Longer
    Let me explain what happened.

    The writer (and I believe the showrunner) for this "movie" was Jane Epenson, who as we all know sucks and ruined the last few episodes, if not the entirety of the last season of BSG.

    This means that this "movie" also sucks.

    The point of the movie was to make money off of DVD sales, plain and simple, not to tell a story.

    Since the "movie" sucks, no one will buy the DVD of it -- if they see it first.

    So they release it on DVD first, to squeeze the last few financial drops of blood out of the loyal BSG fan base before it becomes known that the "movie" sucks.

    Frankly, the last season ruined BSG so much for me that I have no desire to see it nor do I ever want to see anything made by Jane Epenson.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment Edited by fletchtastic at 09/17/09 11:56 AM fletchtastic was starred fletchtastic was unstarred
    Image of twDarkflame twDarkflame
    09/17/09

    @fletchtastic: "The writer (and I believe the showrunner) for this "movie" was Jane Epenson, who as we all know sucks and ruined the last few episodes, if not the entirety of the last season of BSG."

    No, the lack of forward planning from s3 onwards wrecked the last eppisodes.

    Jane Epenson was just responsible for not coming up with a neat ret-con to explain away all the resurrection/new Viper/different earth/angel of death/nonsense.
    And the whole lets-all-die-out stuff.
    And the silly laughing at the end.
    And..
    well, ok, lots.
    But not -everything-.
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    twDarkflame was starred twDarkflame was unstarred
    Image of burlybax burlybax
    09/17/09

    In reply to Plan On Getting The BSG TV Movie On DVD — Or Wait A Few Months Longer
    You think SyFy would come up with a better release plan for something called "The Plan"
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    RandomFrequentFlierDent promoted this comment burlybax was starred burlybax was unstarred
    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    09/17/09

    @burlybax: Don't you mean "The Plyn"
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    Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of NotANumber NotANumber
    09/17/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: The 'y' is silent.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment NotANumber was starred NotANumber was unstarred
    Image of gorehound gorehound
    09/17/09

    @NotANumber: ahahahahaha
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    gorehound was starred gorehound was unstarred
    Image of Lassus Lassus
    09/17/09

    In reply to Plan On Getting The BSG TV Movie On DVD — Or Wait A Few Months Longer
    "Sometime in 2010."

    I think you misspelled "never".
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    Lassus was starred Lassus was unstarred
    Image of spiritkittykat spiritkittykat
    09/17/09

    In reply to Plan On Getting The BSG TV Movie On DVD — Or Wait A Few Months Longer
    Why do they do this? Does 'SYFY' even have any shows anymore? You'd think they'd want to actually have something to air on their 'network'.
     Reply
    TemporalSword promoted this comment spiritkittykat was starred spiritkittykat was unstarred
    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    09/17/09

    @spiritkittykat: They do. Wrestling and ghost shows.
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    TemporalSword was starred TemporalSword was unstarred
    Image of rotwang rotwang
    09/17/09

    @TemporalSword: ....and cookery, don't forget. Actually, you can forget that.
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    Edited by rotwang at 09/17/09 11:31 AM rotwang was starred rotwang was unstarred
    Image of gorehound gorehound
    09/17/09

    @TemporalSword: and dont forget reality shows too
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    gorehound was starred gorehound was unstarred
    Image of twDarkflame twDarkflame
    09/17/09

    @spiritkittykat: They did this to wring the gubblle fans for all their worth, duh.
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    twDarkflame was starred twDarkflame was unstarred
    Image of Kiamat Kiamat
    09/17/09

    In reply to Plan On Getting The BSG TV Movie On DVD — Or Wait A Few Months Longer
    What about Blu-ray!?
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    rotwang promoted this comment Kiamat was starred Kiamat was unstarred
    Image of rotwang rotwang
    09/17/09

    @Kiamat: The SyFy site has the same shipping date for the Blu-Ray version. Attempts to find a date for the Region 2 UK release have so far met with failure. Amazon.co.uk is currently only showing the Blu-Ray version as a US Import, release date also Oct 27th.
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    Edited by rotwang at 09/17/09 10:45 AM rotwang was starred rotwang was unstarred
    Image of Kiamat Kiamat
    09/18/09

    @rotwang: Whew! Now that I've gone Blu, it's hard to deal with SD discs anymore.
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    Kiamat was starred Kiamat was unstarred
    Image of edosan edosan
    09/17/09

    In reply to Plan On Getting The BSG TV Movie On DVD — Or Wait A Few Months Longer
    Wow -- why would you bother watching in on Siffy then if this comes out earlier and has more stuff?
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment edosan was starred edosan was unstarred
    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    09/17/09

    @edosan: Cuz they're hoping you'll buy this and give them cash money straight up rather than just waiting to see it "free".
     Reply
    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of edosan edosan
    09/17/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Rental.
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    edosan was starred edosan was unstarred
    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    09/17/09

    In reply to Plan On Getting The BSG TV Movie On DVD — Or Wait A Few Months Longer
    Cough new fiscal year cough.
     Reply
    Rasselas was starred Rasselas was unstarred
    Image of Alasdair5000 Alasdair5000
    09/17/09

    @Rasselas: That explains it.
     Reply
    Alasdair5000 was starred Alasdair5000 was unstarred
    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    09/17/09

    In reply to Plan On Getting The BSG TV Movie On DVD — Or Wait A Few Months Longer
    But do I wait until a new Super Mega Ultimate Complete Series is released with this included?
     Reply
    TemporalSword was starred TemporalSword was unstarred
    Image of kivel kivel
    09/17/09

    In reply to Plan On Getting The BSG TV Movie On DVD — Or Wait A Few Months Longer
    my dad used to say: After the gold is gone, some mine the dirt in hope of a last nugget. I have been told this is nothing more than rehash and a Dean Stockwell vanity project. I LOVE BSG mining the dirt just tarnishes the gold
     Reply
    rotwang promoted this comment kivel was starred kivel was unstarred
    Image of Srynerson Srynerson
    09/17/09

    @kivel: Dean Stockwell vanity project

    I believe this is the first time in human history that those four words have been used together as a phrase.
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    rotwang promoted this comment Srynerson was starred Srynerson was unstarred
    Image of Srynerson Srynerson
    09/17/09

    @Srynerson: I don't believe it, but I was wrong. A Google search for "Dean Stockwell vanity project" actually returns one hit:

    [tv.yahoo.com]
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    rotwang promoted this comment Srynerson was starred Srynerson was unstarred
    Image of Bender is my hero! Bender is my hero!
    09/17/09

    @kivel: I've got enough respect for Edward James Olmos to believe that he put his best foot forward with this (although I would not be surprised if Dean Stockwell saw it as a vanity piece). I'll give it a chance simply b/c EJO directs.
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    rotwang promoted this comment Bender is my hero! was starred Bender is my hero! was unstarred
    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    09/17/09

    @Bender is my hero!: It sounded to me more like an EJO vanity project from the beginning. I'm amazed he hasn't shoehorned himself and his kid into this movie.

    EJO has a LOT of ego, esp. about BSG. More than Dean, who's pretty mellow and very shy IRL.

    I used to respect EJO a lot, going back to the 80's, but his behavior during BSG has really turned me off.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of Alasdair5000 Alasdair5000
    09/17/09

    In reply to Plan On Getting The BSG TV Movie On DVD — Or Wait A Few Months Longer
    Hmm. Wonder if it's been punted to premier around Caprica, maybe give that a bit of a bounce? Total idle speculation though, especially as I suspect this is far more likely to be an attempt to push sales on the DVD.
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    Alasdair5000 was starred Alasdair5000 was unstarred
    Image of JRD_2 JRD_2
    06/19/09

    In reply to What Awful Sadist Demanded A Sequel To The Cell?
    I'll join the chorus-- I didn't think The Cell was all that bad. I felt no need to watch it a second time, but it didn't suck nearly so much as this post suggests.
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    JRD_2 was starred JRD_2 was unstarred
    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    06/19/09

    @JRD_2: And you think it demanded a direct to DVD sequel with another director and star?
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    Charlie Jane Anders was starred Charlie Jane Anders was unstarred
    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    06/18/09

    In reply to What Awful Sadist Demanded A Sequel To The Cell?
    The Cusp? Really his name is the Cusp? As in "a point of transition"?
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    Bill-Lee was starred Bill-Lee was unstarred
    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    06/18/09

    @Bill-Lee: He brings them to "the cusp" of dying and then revives them, again and again.
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    Charlie Jane Anders was starred Charlie Jane Anders was unstarred
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