When will new Battlestar Galactica episodes resume?
The whole concept of splitting up the season seems weird to me. Well, I don’t like it any more than you do, but Sci-Fi’s been following that game plan for a few years now, and I’ve started to understand it. Partially, it’s the advertising thing, like JMB said. I think the logistics of producing a sci-fi show come into play too, though. All those composite shots and matte paintings and rotoscoping take time. By dividing up the year into alternating quarters where the show is either airing fresh or in re-runs, they’ve worked in breaks in production. This lets the actors get a rest–doing 22 episodes in a row would be grueling. It gives the crew a break. It gives Zoic more of a chance to make those pretty pretty space graphics. It lets the writers step back for a while and reevaluate how the series is going. For example, I’ve noticed that Stargate episodes are always better after the mid-season break than before it. Plus, Sci-Fi doesn’t operate like most networks. Its big 3 franchises do
