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Mark_Giardina
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Battlestar Galactica, which has garnered critical acclaim, along with a loyal following, returned to the Sci Fi network January 6th. That’s the good news. The disappointment was that the first 10 minutes of last night’s program was devoted to recapping the previous episode that aired months ago. This didn’t have to happen if the network, or the show’s producers, continued on with the second season instead of placing the show on hiatus until the new year.
In all fairness Galactica isn’t the only series that does this. It has been months since a new episode of ‘The Shield’ has aired. So much time has elapsed that even faithful followers have forgotten the previous episodes and plot lines. The same goes for ’The Sopranos’ on HBO.
Now I know that FX and HBO have been airing reruns of both shows in order for the audience to catch up.(That was not the case for Galactica however which was off the air) But it wasn’t that many years ago that a TV series started in September and ran through the spring months, airing new episodes each week. Then during the summer either the show ran re-runs, or in some cases summer fill-in programs were featured in that time slot.
Maybe the philosophy behind this is to entice new viewers to the above mentioned shows. Yet the argument can be made that taking someone’s favorite show off the air for weeks, months, or in the case of ‘The Sopranos’ a year, isn’t going to make a regular viewer happy either.
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"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted and I won't be laid a hand on.
I don't do these things to other people and I expect the same from them".</P>
In all fairness Galactica isn’t the only series that does this. It has been months since a new episode of ‘The Shield’ has aired. So much time has elapsed that even faithful followers have forgotten the previous episodes and plot lines. The same goes for ’The Sopranos’ on HBO.
Now I know that FX and HBO have been airing reruns of both shows in order for the audience to catch up.(That was not the case for Galactica however which was off the air) But it wasn’t that many years ago that a TV series started in September and ran through the spring months, airing new episodes each week. Then during the summer either the show ran re-runs, or in some cases summer fill-in programs were featured in that time slot.
Maybe the philosophy behind this is to entice new viewers to the above mentioned shows. Yet the argument can be made that taking someone’s favorite show off the air for weeks, months, or in the case of ‘The Sopranos’ a year, isn’t going to make a regular viewer happy either.
<P ID="signature">______________
"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted and I won't be laid a hand on.
I don't do these things to other people and I expect the same from them".</P>